Contact Information
1301 W Green St
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
I joined the Department of Atmospheric Sciences in Fall 2021 as a master's student being co-advised by Drs. Stephen Nesbitt and Robert (Jeff) Trapp working on overshooting convection. My current research focuses on understanding the relationship between environmental parameters and overshooting tops.
I earned my bachelor's degree in June 2021 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Environmental Sciences. While there, I was an undergraduate student researcher in the Saide group working on improving quantification of burned area from satellite active fire detections. Additionally, I was a Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) intern at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA working on pyroconvective (wildfire-induced convection) processes. During the summer of 2019, I was also a member of the forecasting team on the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) field campaign.
Research Interests
Severe thunderstorms and related hazards
Fire weather
Remote sensing
Education
M.S. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (in progress)
B.S. Atmospheric, Oceanic and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (June 2021)
Awards and Honors
Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA), American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 Meeting
Recent Presentations
Berman M., P. Saide, X. Ye, L. Thapa, D. Peterson, E. Hyer, A. Soja, Quantifying Burn Area of Wildfires from Satellite Active Fire Detections. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, virtual, 9 December 2020, Abstract B044-04, Fire–Vegetation Interactions and Ecosystem Resilience in a Warmer World I (talk).
Berman M., X. Ye, L. Thapa, D. Peterson, E. Hyer, A. Soja, E. Gargulinski, I. Csiszar, C. Schmidt, P. Saide, Quantifying Burned Area of Wildfires from Satellite Active Fire Detections. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 17 Dec 2021, Abstract U55A-08, Student Engagement to Enhance Development: Outstanding Student Presentation Award Winners from Fall Meeting 2020 V.
Berman M., D. Peterson, W. Julstrom, M. Fromm, R. Servranckx, E. Hyer, J. Campbell, P.Saide, Quantifying the Impact of Intense Pyroconvection on Stratospheric Aerosol Loading with a Multi-Year Inventory. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 17 Dec 2021, Abstract A52F-02, Remote Sensing of Fire Processes and Biomass Burning Emissions I.