Penn State researchers were recently awarded funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a new coupled watershed-estuary model that simulates the transport and fate of major salt ions. 

Researchers at Penn State are part of a multi-university team selected to receive $6.6 million in recommended funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The group will establish a new multi-university data assimilation consortium to improve weather forecasts using enhanced numerical weather prediction systems.

Liu is an integrated undergraduate-graduate student who is pursuing both a bachelor of landscape architecture and a bachelor of science in meteorology and atmospheric science. This is the highest award for landscape architecture students.