Maura Hahnenberger and Julie Kiefer

Maura is currently a Ph.D. Candidate and Associate Instructor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah studying dust storms in the eastern Great Basin of Utah. She is also an intern at the University of Utah Office of Sustainability, where she is updating the University's Climate Action Plan to become carbon neutral by 2050. She received a M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the U of U in 2008 with a thesis studying the structure and development of temperature inversions in the Arizona Meteor Crater.