Doctoral student Hamed Alemohammad — who works with Professors Dara Entekhabi and Dennis McLaughlin to combine different types of satellite-derived rainfall data in order to improve the accuracy of rainstorm estimation models — has been selected as one of two student representatives serving on the Global Environmental Change Focus Group (GEC) of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The GEC was established to promote the aims and activities of the AGU across scientific disciplines dealing with the broad issue of global environmental change. The two student representatives and the executive committee of the GEC will establish a GEC student organization to encourage more student participation in the study of global environmental change.