On March 2nd, 2026, Neil Crosby from Howard University Beltsville Campus (HUBC) presented at the NOAA Science Seminar Series, a NOAA initiative to integrate and distribute a list of NOAA-hosted, publicly accessible science seminars. Neil presented his research work done last summer over the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) within the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) in Norman, Oklahoma, under his NOAA mentor Dr. Jidong Gao. The title of his project is Investigating the Sensitivity of Short-Term Severe Weather Forecasts to Model Resolution and Radar Data Density with the Historic December 10, 2021 Tornado Outbreak event. This project evaluates NOAA’s Warn-on-Forecast Hybrid (WoF-Hybrid) system during the 10 December 2021 tornado outbreak, with an emphasis on how model grid resolution and observation density affect short-term severe weather forecasts. Neil Crosby is supported in the NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology II (NCAS-M II) as a Cohort 2 Graduate Fellow beneficiary of an EPP Cooperative Science Center award. Neil is earning a Master of Science in Atmospheric Sciences in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Howard University. HUBC is proud to see students like Neil showcase their work to the public.

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