A biweekly virtual coffee chat, has spawned dozens of interactions between students and GEMS board members.
A biweekly virtual coffee chat, has spawned dozens of interactions between students and GEMS board members.
Penn State alumnus Joe Gofus remembers precisely when he knew that he wasn’t going to become a weather forecaster.
NBC Connecticut Names Ryan Hanrahan Chief Meteorologist
Blackadar served as department head from 1967 to 1981 and was professor emeritus prior to his passing in January 2015.
GEMS is launching a formal college mentoring program, designed to provide advice and a welcoming network to graduating seniors.
Long after his retirement as a scientist, Paul Mark Tag (PSU METEO 1966) would continue thinking about the concept of weather modification.
"Since the Paris talks, a lot of attention has gone to mitigation of carbon dioxide, but this won't always work," said Gregory Garner, postdoctoral fellow in Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Eight Penn State alumni have been selected to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, the University's highest award for an individual.
Congratulations Anne Thompson and Richard Somerville!
PSU Meteorology alumna (B.S. 2004)
Just a few years ago, airlines got their weather reports by telex. Pilots pored over reams of paper and compared the forecasts with their flight plans. Once airborne, they depended on radio communications and rudimentary radar to avoid bad weather.
Fuqing Zhang and a team of weather modelers at Penn State University have created an improved method of hurricane forecasting
Residents of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states will experience increased rainfall and floods if data analysis by a Penn State meteorologist and long-term projections by a fisheries biologist, with a specialty in surface water pollution, are accurate.
UNIVERSITY PARK — Bill Syrett counted down, and more than 40 pairs of eyes turned to the clouds.
There is nothing controversial about the work of climatologist Michael Mann, director of Penn State’s Earth System Science Center.
The summer seas around the North Pole could be ice-free in 15 years. Rear Admiral David Titley was given the task of working out what that meant for the US Navy. He talks with Elizabeth Finkel.
A report released Tuesday from an advisory group of retired U.S. military leadership echoes the findings of other recent reports on climate change: It is real, it is already happening and it poses major threats to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
A graduate of meteorology and his wife recently pledged $250,000 to the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Department of Meteorology to support faculty contributions to teaching, research and public service.
Professor Daniel Keyser ('75, '77, '81 Penn State Meteorology) is the 2014 recipient of the Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award from the American Meteorological Society
Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching.
And while her study abroad experiences have taken her around the globe, from Switzerland to South Africa, jet-setting isn't Hailey's favorite memory from her time at Penn State. "The memories that I have at 2 a.m. in the weather station, joking around with my colleagues – those have been the best times," Hailey said.
University Park, Pa. -- William Brune, distinguished professor of meteorology and his wife, Mary Jane, recently committed $50,000 to establish the Brune Fund for Weather and Climate Risk Forecasting and Communication
Ronald J. Stouffer (’76, '77g, Earth and Mineral Sciences) senior research climatologist and head of the Climate and Ecosystems Group at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was honored with the lifelong title of Penn State Alumni Fellow.
Class of 1988, Meteorology
Two meteorologists who contribute to Penn State's long-running Weather World show have been nominated for an Emmy by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.