For the week: March 6 — March 12, 2006
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Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week due to Spring Break. The Department's weekly colloquium schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Ankur Desai, Monday, March 13 at 9:00 a.m. in 529 Walker Building. The title of Ankur's talk is "Scaling regional land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide with mesoscale observations networks: Impacts of land cover, management and disturbance." Five prospective graduate students will be visiting the week after Spring Break.
Next Monday, March 13 is Birthday Monday. If you have a birthday in March, contact Rhonda Spychalski so she can add you to the birthday list (rfs14@psu.edu). The Meteorology Spring Banquet has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at the Ramada Inn. Details will be forthcoming. Chi Epsilon Pi spring initiation will be held on Wed., March 29 at 7:00 p.m. in 105 Walker. all current Chi Epsilon Pi members and new initiates are invited to attend. Pizza, pop, chips, and cake will provided. A fun game will follow after dinner. An international field campaign (MILAGRO) is taking place from March 1 - 30 to conduct measurements of pollutants and other trace gases, aerosol particles, and to study the atmospheric processes leading to the formation of secondary aerosols from precursor gases, and the transport and transformations of these gases and aerosols on local, regional, and global scales. Anne Thompson and Robert Long are currently stationed in Mexico City as part of the INTEX-B campaign of MILAGRO. Brett Taubman is stationed in Houston, TX with Penn State's mobile trailer containing a scientific laboratory. INTEX-B will focus on the long-range transport of pollution, global atmospheric photochemistry, and the effects of aerosols and clouds on radiation and climate. The campaign will include observations from two aircraft, a DC-8 and a C-130, as well as satellites. The larger DC-8 aircraft, which will house Bill Brune's instrumentation, will provide comprehensive observations of chemistry and aerosols using both direct air sampling and laser remote sensing. More information on the MILAGRO campaign can be found by visiting: http://www.joss.ucar.edu/milagro/ Nels Shirer has been recently elected to the Faculty Senate for the term 2006-2010. He will be serving as one of the representatives from EMS. Faculty Fellowship Program: The Advanced Study Program at NCAR is now accepting applications for visits that occur between 1 June 2006 and 31 May 2008. For more info visit www.asp.ucar.edu/ffp. Alumnus George Bryan ('96, '98, '03) has been selected as a recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award for 2006 in honor of his professional accomplishments. This University-wide award is a permanent title authorized by the Board of Trustees. George has been invited back to Penn State on April 6 and 7 to share his experiences with students, faculty, and staff. Judges sought for the Twenty-first Annual Graduate Exhibition. Those faculty and students willing to participate as judges for this year's Exhibition will need to complete an online judging form. The deadline for judges' registration is Tuesday, March 7, 2006. For all the details, view the following announcement. (This link will open in a separate window.) [View full Announcement] The Meteorology Department will be phasing in a new
required three-credit course, Principles of Atmospheric Measurement,
Meteo 440W, beginning in the Fall '06 semester. Meteo
440W will replace the two 1-credit courses, Meteo 445 and Meteo
446, but the total number of credits to graduate (121) will
not change. Please view the announcement regarding the prerequisites
and who should register for it and when. (This link will open
in a separate window.) [440W
Course Announcement].
Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week due to Spring Break. The Department's weekly colloquium schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Ankur Desai, Monday, March 13 at 9:00 a.m. in 529 Walker Building. The title of Ankur's talk is "Scaling regional land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide with mesoscale observations networks: Impacts of land cover, management and disturbance."
Earth and Mineral Sciences Library Spring 2006 Video Series (held Wednesdays at 12:15 in 105 Deike. [View List] Buy an EMS Dining Card and support the EMS
United Way campaign. Cards cost $10 each and are good for freebies
and/or discounts at a variety of restaurants and
"Taking it to the Extreme" -- PSU meteorology student, Brian Clark, climbs to new heights with internship at the Mt. Washington Weather Observatory [Read Article] Penn State's NWP group provided the forecasts for the Winter Olympics! The numerical weather prediction (NWP) group in the Dept. of Meteorology at Penn State produced realtime, high-resolution MM5 numerical weather forecasts for the 2006 winter Olympics in northern Italy. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~deng/mm5/ Congratulations to Mahlon Rambukkange and his wife who are the proud parents of a new baby girl! Priscilla Nirmalie Rambukkange was born on Feb. 24, 2006 at 7:35 a.m. and was 20 1/2 inches and 6 lbs. and 8 ozs. The NWS in State College has moved to their new offices. Please note their new address and phone: National Weather
Service PAID RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS NEEDED. The Vision, Memory, and Computational Neuroscience Laboratory is looking to recruit PAID research participants for experimental studies of the interaction of vision and memory. You must have normal or corrected-to- normal vision and memory, and unencumbered use of both hands. You must be at least 18 years of age to participate. YOU CANNOT HAVE PARTICIPATED IN ANY OF OUR PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTS ON PERCEPTUAL LEARNING! The experiments involve viewing simple visual patterns and making simple judgments (e.g., present/absent). The experiments typically require 10-15 1 hour sessions, and you will be paid $8 per hour for your time. If you are interested, please contact JACQUELYN PATRICK, VMCN Laboratory Manager, jfp5002@psu.edu. George Young has recently co-authored a book published in June 2005 by the Department of Commerce/NOAA, the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, and the Office of Research and Applications. The book titled, High Resolution Wind Monitoring with Wide Swath SAR: a User's Guide, is co-authored by Robert C. Beal (Editor), George S. Young, Frank M. Monaldo, Donald R. Thompson, Nathaniel S. Winstead ('95, '99), and Carven A. Scott. Alumnus Elliot Abrams ('69, '71) will participate in the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary's Celebration of Franklin's 300th birthday. [View Press Release] Fifty years after Charles Hosler and his group of graduate student researchers, Richard Hallgren, D. C. Jensen, and L. Goldshlak, studied the dynamics of ice surfaces, it has become an active research topic. Research studies conducted by Hosler's group are referenced on p. 52 in the December 2005 issue of Physics Today in an article titled "Why Is Ice Slippery?" [View Article] Archived News: The weekly news is archived. See the link at the bottom of the page to access the archives.
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Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week due to Spring Break. The Department's weekly colloquium schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Ankur Desai, Monday, March 13 at 9:00 a.m. in 529 Walker Building. The title of Ankur's talk is "Scaling regional land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide with mesoscale observations networks: Impacts of land cover, management and disturbance." Judges sought for the Twenty-first Annual Graduate Exhibition. Those faculty and students willing to participate as judges for this year's Exhibition will need to complete an online judging form. The deadline for judges' registration is Tuesday, March 7, 2006. For all the details, view the following announcement. (This link will open in a separate window.) [View Full Announcement] Graduate Exhibition 2006! This year's Graduate Poster Exhibition will be held at the HUB on Sunday March 26, 2006 and open to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Next Monday, March 13 is Birthday Monday. If you have a birthday in March, contact Rhonda Spychalski so she can add you to the birthday list (rfs14@psu.edu). The Meteorology Spring Banquet has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at the Ramada Inn. Details will be forthcoming. Chi Epsilon Pi spring initiation will be held on Wed., March 29 at 7:00 p.m. in 105 Walker. all current Chi Epsilon Pi members and new initiates are invited to attend. Pizza, pop, chips, and cake will provided. A fun game will follow after dinner. Five prospective graduate students will be visiting the week after Spring Break.
Mark your Calendar for Meteorology Career Days 2006. We've set the dates for Wed. April 5 and Thurs. April 6. Don't delay--prepare your resume now! Writing Assistance for Graduate Students: Although he doesn't tutor graduate students in writing, Joe Schall, the EMS undergraduate writing tutor, has prepared a list of writing resources for graduate students. The list of writing resources is also linked from the Meteorology graduate program web page. [Writing Assistance for Graduate Students] Next Monday, March 13 is Birthday Monday. If you have a birthday in March, contact Rhonda Spychalski so she can add you to the birthday list (rfs14@psu.edu). 9th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium at Penn State to be held March 17 & 18, 2006. This student-run symposium is aimed at fostering interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration between environmental researchers at Penn State and local Universities. Poster and oral sessions are open to graduate and undergraduate students. For more information visit: http://www.essc.psu.edu/CECG_symposium Deadlines and Important Dates:
NEW!
FALL 2006 COURSES
 Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week due to Spring Break. The Department's weekly colloquium schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html "Taking it to the Extreme" -- PSU meteorology student, Brian Clark, climbs to new heights with internship at the Mt. Washington Weather Observatory [Read Article] Next Monday, March 13 is Birthday Monday. If you have a birthday in March, contact Rhonda Spychalski so she can add you to the birthday list (rfs14@psu.edu). The Meteorology Spring Banquet has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at the Ramada Inn. Details will be forthcoming. Chi Epsilon Pi spring initiation will be held on Wed., March 29 at 7:00 p.m. in 105 Walker. all current Chi Epsilon Pi members and new initiates are invited to attend. Pizza, pop, chips, and cake will provided. A fun game will follow after dinner. GEOTIMES Internship: Geotimes, the monthly news magazine of the earth sciences, is now accepting applications for its 2006 summer internship. (Deadline for application is April 7.) Candidates interested in science writing and journalism with an earth sciences background are encouraged to apply. The 12- week long internship is based at the American Geological Institute in Alexandria, VA and includes a $3,500 stipend. The announcement can be found by visiting: http://www.geotimes.org/internship.html Congratulations to Stephen Nicholls who won the "Best Undergraduate Paper" award at the AMS 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere at the AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA last week. The talk was titled "Tropical Dendritic Cumulus: An Observational Analysis," by Nicholls and Young. Struggling with your Meteo classes? Your fellow students are here to help. We also have a tutor for calculus (Math 140/141) See the [Meteorology Tutoring List for Spring 2006.] Please remember to complete a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) application by April 15 in order to be eligible for need-based scholarships. Students who wish to be eligible for College scholarships should also complete the scholarship application on the EMS website: http://www.ems.psu.edu/students/application.html The Northern and Central New Jersey Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) is a professional organization consisting of professionals interested in the environmental air and waste fields. For the third year, this chapter of the A&WMA is offering undergraduate scholarships. The deadline for scholarship application is March 9, 2006. To be eligible, you must be a resident of New Jersey within the chapter area (Northern and Central New Jersey) or be attending a college or university within the chapter area. Please visit the website for more details on this scholarship. [http://www.mass-awma.net/NCNJ/scholarship.html] If you are doing internship this semester or this summer and need a letter from the Department to the company hosting the internship, please see Rhonda Spychalski in 502 Walker. She can provide you with the letter you need. National Weather Service Student Volunteer program in Sterling, VA is looking for participants. During a student’s time at our office, they will be exposed to the operational side of meteorology as well as the research opportunities within a forecast office. Each student will work with a forecaster on a research project for our forecast area. Most of these projects involve data collection and analysis. Other projects involve web design and other computer programming elements. Students are also encouraged to have experience with Microsoft Word and Excel. Please visit the following web site for full details about this program. http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/news/nws_student_volunteer_VA.html The American Meteorological Society is now publishing on their website meeting summaries for PSUBAMS. You can find the first installment under "December 2005" on the AMS Local Chapter News page found at http://www.ametsoc.org/amschaps/news.html. Two meteorology undergraduate students, Joshua Walker and Amber Ortega, have been accepted into the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program (also known as the McNair Scholars Program). This program is designed to prepare minority students in all disciplines for a Ph.D. program and was established in memory of Ronald E. McNair, the African-American astronaut who died in the Challenger space shuttle accident. This internationally-renowned program is available to students at nearly 200 universities and consists of GRE preparation, summer research, and a chance to network with thousands of other Ph.D.-bound students. Congratulations to Joshua and Amber on their acceptance into the McNair Scholars program. [More about the McNair Scholars Program.] The Undergraduate Exhibition will be held Wednesday, April 5, 2006, in the HUB-Robeson Center at University Park. This annual event is open to all Penn State undergraduate students, with entries judged in seven categories: Arts and Humanities (including Visual Arts), Engineering, Health and Life Sciences, Performance, Physical Sciences, Public Scholarship, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. 9th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium at Penn State to be held March 17 & 18, 2006. This student-run symposium is aimed at fostering interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration between environmental researchers at Penn State and local Universities. Poster and oral sessions are open to graduate and undergraduate students. For more information visit: http://www.essc.psu.edu/CECG_symposium Mark your Calendar for Meteorology Career Days 2006. We've set the dates for Wed. April 5 and Thurs. April 6. Don't wait to the last minute--start preparing your resume now! The University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) welcomes applications from students interested in participating in their Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Biosphere-Atmosphere studies. Students will get "hands-on" experience and training in field biology, atmospheric chemistry, and atmosphere-ecosystem interactions. Students who will be juniors or seniors in Fall of 2006 are eligible to apply. For more information [click here]. Become a student member of the AMS: NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship Program: Applications for this scholarship (only in it's second year) are due in May. Relatively few students apply for these scholarships, so when Penn Stater's apply, they have a fairly good success. Up to $28,425 is available per student: Up to $8,000 of academic assistance per year for full-time study during the junior and senior years; a 10-week, paid ($650/week) internship during the intervening summer; housing subsidy during the internship; round-trip travel to the internship site; and travel expenses to the Hollings scholarship program conference. Last year, three Penn State Meteorology students were awarded this scholarship. Junior and senior students are eligible. For more information visit: http://www.orau.gov/noaa/HollingsScholarship/ Deadlines and Important Dates:
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