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Rear Admiral David W. Titley to join Penn State Meteorology faculty to head new center on weather and climate risk solutions. Penn State Meteorology wins second straight national forecasting title. Congratulations Meteorology Spring 2013 graduates! <a href="http://www.met.psu.edu/alumni-friends">More</a> Meteorology major and Schreyer Honors Scholar, Hailey Mitchell, relays research experiences abroad and reflects on her time at Penn State. Commonwealth Campus students and their advisors should visit www.met.psu.edu/academics/commonwealth-campus-students to review the course sequencing and checksheet so they can graduate on time in four years. Researchers launch weather balloons with sondes from the roof of Walker Building in preparation for field mission in VietNam and Thailand. Penn State Probing Question: What is the jet stream? <a href="http://live.psu.edu/story/59520">More</a> Ken Davis and his research team partner with Picarro, Inc., NOAA and others to measure greenhouse emissions in Davos, Switzerland. <a href="http://www.picarro.com/community/blog/picarro_and_partners_measure_ghg_emissions_during_the_world_economic_forum_meeting_in">More</a> As part of the NIST funded INFLUX experiment, Natasha Miles and Laura McGowan perform maintenance on a Picarro, Inc. cavity ring down spectroscopy CO2/CO/CH4/H20 sensor, which is sampling the atmosphere above Indianapolis. Meteorology student Kevin Sanchez poses with a tethered sonde that is used to study vertical distribution of aerosols, ozone, and hydrocarbons. A nice crowd gathered for the Chi Epsilon Pi annual fall picnic. Penn State Meteorology research teams led by Drs. Jose Fuentes and Anne Thompson participate in a multi-institutional experiment to study air quality in the Washington DC area. What ever happened to the ozone hole? Prof. Anne Thompson and her research team prepare to launch a weather balloon to study air quality. <a href="http://www.met.psu.edu/browse-by-audience/future-students/">More</a> Explore our research opportunities. Research experiences in our program range from the oceans to the atmosphere. <a href="http://www.met.psu.edu/research">More</a> The electronic map wall casts its reflection in the donor wall at the entrance of the Joel N. Myers Weather Center. <a href="http://www.met.psu.edu/facilities/teaching-facilities/joel-myers-weather-center-1">More</a>
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Department Head Search

Department Head - Meteorology
Deadline:  8/01/2013
Work Unit:  College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
Department:  Meteorology
Job Number:  39363

The Department of Meteorology at The Pennsylvania State University invites nominations and applications for the position of Department Head. The Department is noted internationally for its teaching and research in atmospheric science, weather forecasting and communications, climate science, and cross-disciplinary research in the Earth sciences. The Department seeks a dynamic and innovative leader who is dedicated to promoting excellence in our teaching, research, and service programs. Full job description and application details can be found HERE.

Ozone masks plant's volatiles, plant eating insects confused

By A'ndrea Messer
April 2, 2013
 

striped cucumber beetle

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Increases in ground-level ozone, especially in rural areas, may interfere not only with predator insects finding host plants, but also with pollinators finding flowers, according to researchers from Penn State and the University of Virginia.

"Ozone pollution has great potential to perniciously alter key interactions between plants and animals," the researchers said in a recent issue of Environmental Research Letters.

The animal tested in this case was the striped cucumber beetle, a predator of cucurbits -- cucumber, squash, pumpkin and melons. These insects dine on the plants from the moment they emerge from the ground and when fruit forms, they eat that as well.

Read the full story on Penn State Live