Carl Young awarded 2002 Sierra Pacific Fellowship to study severe storm processes
Carl Young, a graduate research assistant in DRI’s Division of Atmospheric Sciences and a student in the
Atmospheric Sciences graduate program at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), has been awarded the $15,000
Sierra Pacific Power Company Fellowship for 2002. Young is using his fellowship to study severe storm
processes, including observations of the development of tornados in the American Midwest during this past fall
storm season.
The fellowship is a one-year award selected on the basis of competitive research proposals from graduate
students. SPPC fellows are provided with an office at DRI and use of the Institute's computer and laboratory
facilities. SPPC established the fellowship program at DRI and the Center for Environmental Science and
Engineering at UNR in 1997 to enhance environmental research in Nevada’s higher education system.
Applicants for the SPPC fellowship must be a graduate student enrolling in the University of Nevada, Reno's
(UNR) Atmospheric Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Health, or Hydrologic Sciences graduate programs and
working under the direction of a faculty member from the Desert Research Institute (DRI).
A nonprofit, statewide division of the University and Community College System of Nevada, DRI pursues a
full-time program of basic and applied environmental research on a local, national, and international scale.
Nearly 500 full- and part-time scientists, technicians, and support staff conduct some 150 research projects at
DRI annually. More than 85 percent of DRI's annual $33 million operating budget consists of research grants
and contracts obtained by its scientists. The balance is received from the state of Nevada for
administrative costs.