Story by Stephen Roughton | U.S. Air Force Academy | 11.19.2024
Cadet 2nd Class Beatrice Shea’s fascination with the Arctic began long before she arrived at the U.S. Air Force Academy in the fall of 2022. Once Shea started her Meteorology core courses, she seized the opportunity to transform her interest in Earth’s northernmost region into a research project focused on using machine learning to forecast sea ice in the Arctic....