News Archive
ARRC/GCoE graduate students Andrew Byrd, Rodrigo Lebron Garcia, and Javier Ortiz have each received $5000 Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation of Excellence Awards. The award recognizes Ph.D. students who have achieved outstanding research results while encouraging them to complete their dissertations with excellence. Andrew’s dissertation is focused on signal processing techniques for transmitter/receiver synchronization and sidelobe contamination reduction in multistatic weather radar networks. Andrew is advised by Drs. Robert Palmer and Caleb Fulton. Advised by Dr. Jorge Salazar, Rodrigo’s dissertation centers around techniques and instrumentation for active phased array calibration, and Javier’s dissertation involves the analytical modeling of the effects that diffraction have on phased array antennas with emphasis on the cross-polar patterns. Congratulations to all on this outstanding achievement!
Everyone had a great time celebrating the new decade at the annual Lockheed Martin-OU Sushi Night held recently during the AMS Annual Meeting in Boston.
The ARRC hosted the Lawton-Ft Sill Working Group on Dec 6 at the Radar Innovations Lab. Important discussions took place regarding the ARRC’s involvement in Army modernization and economic development activities.
The ARRC’s recently retired Atmospheric Imaging Radar (AIR) is part of an exhibit at the National Weather Museum in Norman. In addition to the Oklahoma sites shown on the map, the AIR has also been deployed to gather severe weather data across the central plains.
Congratulations to Andrew Mahre, SoM/ARRC graduate student, for being named the recipient of the 2019 Weathernews Inc. (WNI) Scholarship. The $5000 award, established in 2017 to enhance advanced research and development of radar technology, is presented annually to an outstanding ARRC student studying weather radar, observations of the atmosphere, data analysis, and implementation. Pictured with Andrew are Chihito Kusabiraki, President & Representative Director of WNI, and Berrien Moore, Dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at OU.
ECE/ARRC graduate student Nicholas Peccarelli was awarded 2nd place in the student paper competition at the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology Conference held October 15-18 in Waltham, Massachusetts. Congratulations Nick!
Shajid Islam, ECE/ARRC graduate student, was just notified that he is the recipient of a $5000 Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award. The award is designed to reward Ph.D. students that have achieved outstanding research results and encourage them to complete their dissertations with excellence. Congratulations Shajid!
On the morning of October 3rd, Caleb Fulton, our good friend and colleague at OU, was involved in a serious motorcycle accident. He is currently at OU Medical Center fighting for his life. We have set up a GoFundMe account to help support his medical costs, as well as his wife Shannon, their son Jaxon, and their other family members during this time of need.We will also be accepting cash, gift cards, etc. at the Advanced Radar Research Center, 3190 Monitor Ave., Norman, OK 73019. You can drop them off at the security desk or give them to Ashley Hill or Jo Ann Mehl.
Congratulations to ECE/ARRC graduate student Andrew Byrd and SoM/ARRC graduate student Andrew Mahre for receiving awards at the 39th International Conference on Radar Meteorology held September 12-16 in Nara, Japan. Andrew Byrd placed third in the Oral Presentation category with his paper "Multistatic Passive Weather Radar: Development, Validation, and Latest Results", and Andrew Mahre was presented the third place award in the Poster Presentation category for his paper " Assessing the Benefits of a Rapid-Scanning Phased Array Weather Radar".