Marangelly Fuentes MS PHD

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Marangelly FuentesMS PHDS
Cohort 2007-2009Graduate Program in Atmospheric
SciencesPhD CandidateHoward UniversityWashingto
n, D.C.
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Background and Education

• Born in Naranjito, Puerto Rico
• B.S. degree in Theoretical Physics from
• University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in May
  2004.
• Currently I am a PhD. Candidate at
• Howard University Program in Atmospheric
• Sciences, Washington, DC and will graduate
• July 2009.

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Research Experiences

• Mechanical Engineering Department (UPRM), Summer
  2003
• Numerical Simulation of Early Rainy Season
  Precipitation Over the Caribbean and Puerto Rico
  Following a Strong El Niño Event. Part I Model
  Validation
• Center for Hydrology, Soil Climatology, and
  Remote Sensing (HSCaRS), Alabama AM University,
  Summer 2004
• Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature and Heat Flux
  Using Artificial Neural Network

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Research Experiences

• Goddard Earth Science Technology Center, NASA
  Goddard Space Flight Center, Summer 2005
• Evaluation of tropical cyclogenetic processes
  into the NASA fvGCM
• Goddard Earth Science Technology Center, NASA
  Goddard Space Flight Center, Summer 2006
• Barotropic instability of the African Easterly
  Jet and its potential for development

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Current Research

• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Fall
  2006-present
• Understanding tropical cyclogenetic processes in
  Global models (NASA GEOS, NCEP GFS and ECMWF)