Cody Ratterman

College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences

Plants, Soils, and Climate

Cody Ratterman is a climate science student in the seventh semester of his PhD journey researching precipitation and snowpack forecasts across the U.S. He brings a background in computational physics with a love of the outdoors to solve and share pressing issues in hydroclimate, drought and climate change. As a graduate student at USU, Mr. Cody Ratterman is the primary author of two manuscripts with a third under review and co-authored on four more. He presented his latest seasonal precipitation forecast, the Weather Regime Gaussian Mixture Model, at conferences across the country. These directly led to a NOAA grant of $500,000 including $428,965 to USU to support him and a postdoc to further test and build this method as an operational model in NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Cody earned a minor in climate adaptation science, collaborating with fellow students doing interdisciplinary research on the Great Salt Lake wetlands. He is doing an internship with Apogee Instruments, founded by USU professor Dr. Bruce Bugbee, to improve noise filtering in their recent weighing precipitation gauge and create a brand-new heated precipitation detector. Off campus you can find Cody hiking, biking, skiing, rock climbing or shooting archery around the Bear River Range.