Madeline Laesser is a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in atmospheric and oceanic sciences. She focuses on meteorology, and her academic interests include severe weather, weather in a changing climate, and tropical and extratropical cyclones. In this past year, she completed an internship at the National Weather Service (NWS) in Peachtree City, GA and a summer internship at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and Princeton University. Currently, she is an undergraduate researcher with Dr. Ali Sarhadi, where she is exploring the effect that climate change has on compound flooding caused by tropical cyclones. Madeline is the president of the American Meteorological Society chapter at GT, also known as STORM club, and she is the vice president of SGE, the Earth Science Honor Society at GT. She is also a TA and student office assistant for the EAS department. After graduating in May 2025, she plans to pursue a PhD in atmospheric science. In her free time, Madeline loves reading, playing tennis, movie and game nights with her friends, and going to the GT football games.