Student Awards

Board on the Urban Environment Student Awards

The best student papers and posters presented will be considered for awards. The papers will be judged on content and presentation by a panel selected by the conference program committee. The prize will include a monetary award, plus a certificate. Students need to indicate their intent to participate in this competition when they submit their abstract. 

 

 

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2020: 15th AMS Symposium on the Urban Environment, January, Boston, United States.

 

Oral Presentations

• Jacob Lachapelle, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

  • TUF-Pedestrian: A Three-Dimensional Microscale Model for Pedestrian Thermal Exposure in Urban Environments

• Joshua Hrisko, City College of New York, New York, NY, USA

  • Quantifying the Heat Stored in Urban Environments Using Remote Sensing Technology

• Sijie Liu, Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  • From Thermal Sensation to Thermal Effect: A Multidimensional Semantic Space to Assess Outdoor Thermal Comfort

• Joseph Ko, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  • Measurements of the Impacts of Neighborhood-Scale Cool Pavement Deployments on Albedo, Temperatures, and Pedestrian Thermal Comfort in the Greater Los Angeles Area

• William T. J. Morrison, Univ. of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

  • Atmospheric and Emissivity Corrections for Ground-Based Thermography Using 3D Radiative Transfer Modellin

• Samantha Claessens, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada

  • Airborne Observations of Thermal Anisotropy from Urban Residential Neighborhoods in Salt Lake City

 

Poster Presentations

• Jun-Seo Oh, Kongju National University, Gongju, Korea, Republic of (South)

  • Inclusion of a Subgrid Orography Drag Parameterization for Improvement of Wind Speed Prediction over a Complex Terrain Region

• Xi Xu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

  • Systematic Numerical Study on the Effect of the Thermal Properties of a Building Surface on Its Temperature and Sensible Heat Flux

 

 

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2018: Joint 14th AMS Symposium on the Urban Environment and 10th IAUC International Conference on Urban Climate, August, New York, United States.

Best Oral Presentations

• Oscar Brousse, KU Leuven, Leven, Belgium

  • Urban Climate Modelling using Local Climate Zones in Data Scarce Area. The Case of Kampala, Uganda

• Peter Crank, Arizona State University, Phoenix, United States

  • Behaviors and Risk Perceptions of Elderly Populations in the Face of Extreme Heat and Poor Air Quality -a Comparison Across Three Sunbelt Cities.

• Daniel Fenner, Technische University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • The Influence of Urban Surface Properties on Air Temperature Patterns during Hot Weather Conditions in Berlin, Germany

• Mariana B. Alfonso Fragomeni, University of Georgia, Athens, United States

  • Integrating Planning and Climate: A Collaborative Framework to Address Heat Vulnerability

• William Morrison, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

  • Longwave Radiation Fluxes Observed with Ground-Based Thermography to Model Urban Thermal Anisotropy

 

Best Poster Presentations

• Isabella Capel-Timms, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

  • An Agent-Based Model to Capture Dynamics of Anthropogenic Heat Flux

• Doo-Il Lee, Korea, Kongju National University, Gongju, Korea, Republic of (South)

  • An Urban Surface Energy Balance Model for Microscale Modeling of Real Urban Environments

• Judith Lorenz, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

  • Urban Modification of Heavy Precipitation - Observational Findings from Berlin, Germany

• Takashi Nishimoto, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  • Development and Verification of Urban Canopy - Building Energy Coupled Model Considered Multiple Building Types

• Andreas Wicki, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  • Multiple Linear Regression Analysis for the Quantification of the Urban Heat Island Distribution

 

Oral Presentations

• Rainer Hilland, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

  • The Effect of Sub-Facet Scale Geometry on Vertical Facet Temperatures in Urban Street Canyons.

• Saud Al Khaled, Arizona State University, Phoenix, United States

  • Between Aspiration and Actuality: A Systematic Review of Urban Heat Mitigation Strategies in Hot Urban Deserts

• Beatriz Sanchez, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain

  • Impact of Atmospheric Stability on Pollutants Dispersion in Urban Areas Using a CFD-RANS Model

• Vincenzo Sessa, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

  • Stable Stratification Effects in a Spatially-Developing Urban Boundary Layer

• Erin B. Wetherley, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

  • Analysis of Urban Surface Heterogeneity and Land Surface Temperature Variability across a Megacity

 

Poster Presentations

• Pak Shing Yeung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

  • Refinement of Roughness Length Value for the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model based on the understanding of Local Climate Zone

• Michael Mau Fung Wong, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China

  • Evaluation of the uWRF Performance in Hong Kong with UCPs Derived Based on WUDAPT/NUDAPT Dataset and the Guidance for Implementation

• Harold Gamarro, City College of New York, New York, United States

  • Assessment of uWRF-Solar forecasts for New York City

• Jae-Hee Hahm, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of (South)

  • Strong Wind Estimation on the Korean Peninsula and its Impacts on Urban Extreme Weather

• Edwin Alejandro Ramirez Aguilar, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil

  • Population Density and Urban Heat Island in Bogotá, Colombia

 

William P. Lowry Graduate Student Prize

• David L Miller, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

  • Gross Primary Productivity of a Large Metropolitan Region Using in Situ Measurements and Worldview-2 Satellite Imagery

 

William P. Lowry Methodology Prize

• Hongshan Guo, Princeton University, Princeton, United States

  • Sensing and Mapping to Characterize the Long-Wave and Short-Wave Infrared Urban Environment.

 

William P. Lowry African Student Travel Award

• Modest Maurus Baruti, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  • Outdoor Micro-climate and People’s Thermal Perceptions in Informal Settlements of Warm Humid Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

 

Japan Prize

• Surabhi Mehrotra, Indian University of Technology, Mumbai, India

  • An Investigation of Int tra-Urban Thermal Profile at Neighbourhood Level: A Case of Mumbai

• Ankur Prabhat Sati, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

  • Comparison of Model Simulated Meteorology in Context of Increasing Urbanization over National Capital Region, India.

• Karoline Meneguzzi Tonani, Ifes, Vitoria, Brazil

  • Odorant Gases Dispersion from Sewer Processes in Urban Environments: Mathematical Modeling and Public Perception Annoyance

 

 

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2017: AMS 13th Symposium on the Urban Environment, January, Seattle, United States.

 

Oral Presentations

• Lento Manickathan, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Conjugate Vegetation Model for Evaluating Evapotranspirative Cooling in Urban Environment
• Michael A. Allen, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
  • A Climatology of Urban Surface Heat Islands Derived from Hemispherical Radiometric Surface Temperature
• Alexandria J. Herdt, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, United States
  • Urban Microclimate Monitoring in Seoul, Korea: Fine Scale Summer Heating along the Cheonggye Stream Renewal Project

Poster Presentations

• Jiajun Gu, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States.
  • Intercomparison of Three Source Estimation Methods in a Building Downwash Environment: Applicability, Limitations and Research Needs

 

 

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2015: Joint AMS 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment and IAUC 9th International Conference on Urban Climate, July, Toulouse, France.

Best Oral Presentations

• Alex Bjorkegren, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom 

  • Calculation of the CO2 storage term in an urban environm ment: results and guidelines from Central London 

• Marco Giometto, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Large-eddy simulations to characterize the role of turbulent and dispersive production, transport and dissipation of TKE over and within a realistic urban canopy 

• Janina Konarska, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  • Transpiration of urban trees and its impact on nocturnal cooling in Gothenburg, Sweden 

• QI Li, Princeton University, Princeton, United States

  • Large eddy simulation and bulk parameterization of momentum and heat transport in urban canopies: challenges and applications 

• Michael Schmutz, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  • Seasonal and inter-annual variation of CO2 flux and concentration in Basel 

• Natalie Theeuwes, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  • A breath of fresh air in urban heat island studies

 

Best Poster Presentations

• Mikhail Varentsov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

  • Investigation of urban heat island of Norilsk and Apatity cities in Russian Arctic with usage experimental measurements and remote sensing 

• Shang Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  • Experimental study on the suitability of acrylic and copper globe thermometer for diurnal outdoor mean radiant temperature measurement 

• Yuan Shi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  • Intra-urban variability of particulate air pollution in Hong Kong - exploring the influence of building morphology in high density urban environment by using traverse measurement 

• Shi-Qi Yang, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  • Linking human-biometeorological thermal conditions with Köppen-Geiger climate classification – The example of China 

• Michael Alonzo, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

  • Mapping urban ecosystem structure and function using hyperspectral imagery and airborne lidar 

• Tom Valterri Kokkonen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  • Long-term variability of suburban energy and water exchanges in Vancouver

• Julien Le Bras, Météo France, Paris, France

  • Fast urban heat island modeling

 

Oral Presentation Awards

• Veronica Bellucco, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

  • An empirical approach to estimate the biogenic components of CO2 flux over different ecosystems 

• Maxime Daniel, CNRM-GAME/Météo-France, Paris, France

  • Watering practices and urban thermal comfort improvement under heat wave conditions 

• Cho Kwong Charlie Lam, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  • Visitor perception of thermal comfort in two contrasting public landscape gardens during extreme heat events 

• Negin Nazarian, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States

  • Pollutant Exchange and Breathability in Urban Street Canyons 

• Ayako Yagi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

  • Analysis of spacing of streaky structures within surf face layer above real urban 

• Bin Zhou, Potsdam institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany

  • Cities as urban clusters: an empirical and large sample study of urban heat island intensity 

 

Poster Presentation Awards

• Shintaro Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  • CFD analysis of urban wind environment with actual inflow obtained by Doppler lidar measurement 

• Luis Enrique Ortiz, City College of New York, New York, United States

  • Modeling New York City impacts on local and suburb ban weather during the July 2010 heat wave 

• Alexandre Philip, CNRM-GAME, Paris, France

  • The impact of vertical resolution in mesoscale model AROME forecasting of radiation fog

 

The William P. Lowry Graduate Student Prize

• Stephanie Jacobs, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  • Comparison of modelled thermal comfort during a heatwave in Melbourne, Australia

 

The William P. Lowry Methodology Prize

• Brian Bailey, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States

  • Incorporating resolved vegetation in city-scale simulations of urban micrometeorology and its effect on the energy balance

  • Understanding and eliminating instabilities and ‘rogue trajectories’ in lagrangian stochastic particle dispersion models 

 

The William P. Lowry Student Travel Award

• Jesús Gómez Velázquez, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico 

 

Japan Prize

• Patricia Drach, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Effects of urban form and atmospheric stability on local microclimate 

• Chaaruchandra Korde, Green Bam Solutions, New Delhi & Airef Engg. Pvt Ltd., India

  • Bamboo structures: A perspective for climate change mitigation 

• Shweta Bhati, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India

  • The impact of land use/land cover on WRF model performance in a sub-tropical urban environment

 

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2014: AMS 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment, February, Atlanta, United States.

 

Oral Presentations

• Paul Schmid, Modeling the Influences of Local Urban Aerosols on a Derecho in Birmingham, AL. Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States.

• Negin Nazarian, CFD Simulation of Urban Environment: Thermal Effects of Geometrical Characteristics and Surface Materials. University of California-San Diego, Mechanical Engineering, San Diego, United States.

• Eric Scott Krayenhoff, Parameterization of drag and turbulence for urban neighbourhoods with trees. Urban Climatology and Micrometeorology, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA.

• Matthew Overby, Simulating Radiative Transport for Vegetation in Complex Urban Environments with Green Infrastructure. University of Minnesota, Computer Science, Minneapolis, United States.

Poster Presentations

• Gantuya Ganbat, An idealized numerical study of the interactions of urban breeze circulation with mountain slope winds. Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea.

• Daniel C. Alexander, Development and Testing of a Spatially Resolved Urban Land Surface Model Utilizing Parallel Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, United States.

• Estatio Gutierrez, Improvements to the latent heat calculations in WRF multilayer urban parameterization. City College of New York, Mechanical Engineering, New York, United States.

 

 

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2012: Joint AMS 10th Symposium on the Urban Environment and IAUC 8th International Conference on Urban Climate, August, Dublin, Ireland. 

 

• Patrick Wagner, University Of Duisburg, Applied Climatology and Landscape Ecology, ESSEN, GERMANY. 

• Eric Scott Krayenhoff, Urban Climatology and Micrometeorology, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA.

• Jonas Allegrini, EMPA, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, SWITZERLAND

• Yuan Chao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, School Of Architecture, Hong Kong, CHINA.

• Kevin L. Lau, School Of Architecture, The Chinese University Of Hong Kong, SHATIN, Hong Kong, CHINA. 

• Jamie R. Young, Tel Aviv University & Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, SRAEL.

• Cecile deMunck, Meteo France, CNRS, Toulouse, FRANCE