Project 7 – Integrate Artificial Intelligence

Enhancing Kentucky’s Storm Resilience Through AI: Dr. Manmeet Singh Joins CLIMBS

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CLIMBS continues to expand Kentucky’s storm resilience toolkit. One of those tools, grounded in Project 7 – Integrating Artificial Intelligence, is AI-driven weather and climate modeling, with the potential of high-resolution forecasting down to street level. Disaster scientist Dr. Manmeet Singh recently joined Western Kentucky University with EPSCoR support, bringing this tool to the project, …

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Predicting the Future: CLIMBS Meteorology Student Wyatt Crutcher’s Work to Update Kentucky’s Storm Response Protocols

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By Avi Judd “I need a forecast in two minutes. What do you have?”   Wyatt Crutcher is used to being put on the spot by his meteorology professor, Joshua Durkee. A storm encroaches his campus’ football game. High lightning proximity, six miles from the stadium. Within moments Crutcher assesses the impending storm and relays the …

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Suriano Awarded Prestigious NSF CAREER Award, a First at WKU

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Since 1986, KY NSF EPSCoR Track-1 funding has supported hundreds of new faculty hires across Kentucky institutions. These faculty have helped build Kentucky research infrastructure, leading to innovations in energy, agriculture, advanced manufacturing, and most currently, climate hazard resilience through the CLIMBS project.  Many of these researchers, after an initial support boost through their Track-1, …

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