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Alton Daley

Graduate Research Assitant, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington.

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Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle WA. Currently, I study hurricane induced surface waves using in-situ and remote sensing observations and Atmosphere-Wave-Ocean(AWO) coupled model, UWIN-CM.

Education

2022 - present University of Washington Seattle Campus DPhil in Atmospheric Sciences

2015 - 2020 University of the West Indies Mona Campus MPhil in Applied Physics (Alternative Energy)

2011 - 2015 University of the West Indies Mona Campus BSc. (Hons). Energy and Environmental Physics

Awards

2022 Fulbright Foreign Students Program, USA Embassy, Kingston Jamaica

2016 Internship, Caricom Climate Change Centre, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

2015 University of the West Indies PostGraduate Scholarship, Univesity of the West Indies

2013-2015 Physics Honours Society, Univesity of the West Indies

2015 First Place in BRIDGE in Sustainable Energy and ICT Gender Contest, BRIDGE and ICT

2014 Lime Scholarship for Telecommunication, Flow

2014 Grace Kennedy Bursary, Grace Kennedy

Publications

  1. Hall, Kashawn, Alton Daley, Shanice Whitehall, Sanola Sandiford, and Chelle L. Gentemann. 2022. “Validating Salinity from SMAP and HYCOM Data with Saildrone Data during EUREC4A-OA/ATOMIC” Remote Sensing 14, no. 14: 3375. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14143375 .
  2. Stevens, Bjorn, Sandrine Bony, David Farrell, Felix Ament, Alan Blyth, Christopher Fairall, Johannes Karstensen, et al. 2021. “EUREC4A.” Earth Systems Science Data (January). doi:10.5194/essd-2021-18
  3. Climate Studies Group Mona (Eds.). 2020. “The State of the Caribbean Climate”. Produced for the Caribbean Development Bank, Bridgetown Barbados, 200 pp.
  4. Stepan, Claudia Christine, Sabrina Schmitt, Hauke Schulz, Hugo Bellenger, Simon de Szoeke, Claudia Aquistapace, Kathrina Baier, et al 2020. “Ship and island-based atmospheric soundings from the 2020 EURECA4A field campaign.” Earth Systems Science Data. doi:10.5194/essd-13-491-2021
  5. Climate Studies Group, Mona (CSGM), 2017: State of the Jamaican Climate 2015: Information for Resilience Building (Full Report). Produced for the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Kingston Jamaica. 187 pp. ISBN 978-976-8103-69-7 (pbk)
  6. Climate Studies Group, Mona (CSGM), 2012: State of the Jamaican Climate 2012: Information for Resilience Building (Summary for Policymakers). Produced for the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Kingston, Jamaica. 47 pp. ISBN 978-976-8103-42-0.

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Presentations

2017 Assessing the Wave Energy Potential of Jamaica, a Greater Antilles Island, through Dynamic Modelling, AGU,

2018 An in-depth investigation of Jamaica’s Wave Energy Resources using Buoy, Altimetric, Modeled Data, UWI Mona Faculty of Science and Technology Conference

2021 Realizing our Solar Photovoltaic Goals Across the Caribbean Region with some Assistance from MADWRF: Using Barbados as a Pilot, CARILEC Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Conference and Trade Show Link to Presentation

Occupation

2022 - present

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle

  • Analysis of in-situ and remote sensing tropical cyclone data
  • Simulation of tropical cyclones using coupled Atmospher-Wave-Ocean model UWIN-CM

2018 - 2022 Intern, Caribbean Institute for Meterology and Hydrology

  • implementation and monitoring of the solar forecasting and nowcasting model WRF-Solar and MAD-WRF
  • delivering training to instruments technicians across the Caribbean Region
  • 3d printing and assembling automatic weather stations
  • compiling weekly reports on the PV production of PV systems installed across the island by The Ministry of Energy and Water Resources

2020 Guest Scientist, NOAA Research Vessel Ronald H. Brown, ATOMIC campaign

  • prepared, launched and analyzed data from radiosondes to aid with the development of an upper air profile of the Trade Wind Alley.

2018 Guest Scientist, National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

  • developed the knowledge and skills necessary to implement WRF-Solar and Multi-sensor Advection Diffusion component of WRF (MADWRF)

2017 - 2018 Adjunct Lecturer, The University of the West Indies, Mona

  • delivered the Energy Section of FOUN1201 Science Medicine and Technology in Society

2017 - 2018 Resident Advisor, Rex Nettleford Hall, The University of the West Indies, Mona

  • managed the sports and international student’s portfolio for the Halls of Residents

2015 - 2018 Part-time Research Assistant, Climate Studies Group Mona, The University of the West Indies, Mona

  • analysis of oceanic wave data including (significant wave height, wave period, wind speed)
  • reviewed papers that contributed to the literature review