University of Iowa Engineering graduate student in chemical and biochemical engineering Negin Sobhani received First Place Student Oral Presentation for the Third Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate in January in Seattle, WA.  Her oral presentation was entitled "Performance Analysis and Optimization of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) Advection Schemes.”

The Third Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate is organized by the AMS Board on Environmental Information Processing Technologies and is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society.