For the week: February 20 — 26, 2006
Did You Know?
The
Antarctic ice sheet is almost twice the size of the United States.
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Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week. The Department's weekly colloquium schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html Penn State's NWP group is providing the forecasts for the Winter Olympics! The numerical weather prediction (NWP) group in the Dept. of Meteorology at Penn State is producing realtime, high-resolution MM5 numerical weather forecasts for the 2006 winter Olympics in northern Italy. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~deng/mm5/ 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. PSUBAMS will be holding a group bowling outing on EMEX Saturday, February 25 at 3:00 p.m. We will be bowling at Northland Bowl, 1244 Mayberry Lane, State College, PA 16801. The cost is $6.50 and covers two games and shoes. Everyone is welcome to attend, including prospective EMS students and other guests. However, I do need to have a count of the number of people who will be coming prior to the event. A sign-up sheet will be posted in the 6th floor Walker Weather Station outside Marisa's office. Please indicate your intent to go by noon on Thursday, February 23. Also, we need people who will be willing to drive as well as a count of people who will need rides. If you are able to drive, please indicate that you can. Also, if you need a ride, please indicate that as well. Questions, please contact Zack Byko at zmb102@psu.edu. PSUBAMS T-shirt Design Contest is going on now! The design should include one or two colors (one preferable) and somehow reflect PSUBAMS. Submit design as a JPEG file to either elr140@psu.edu or rab333@psu.edu by February 27. The winner receives a $25 gift certificate to a downtown restaurant. 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. The Department's weekly colloquium schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html
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
The NWS in State College has moved to their new offices. Please note their new address and phone:
PSUBAMS T-shirt Design Contest is going on now! The design should include one or two colors (one preferable) and somehow reflect PSUBAMS. Submit design as a JPEG file to either elr140@psu.edu or rab333@psu.edu by February 27. The winner receives a $25 gift certificate to a downtown restaurant. PAID
RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS NEEDED. The Vision, Memory, and
Computational Neuroscience Laboratory is looking to recruit PAID
research participants for experimental studies of the A gallery showing of selected works by artist Kurt Herrmann (who is also the husband of graduate student, Maria Herrmann) will be held from January 24-March 2, 2006 in the HUB Gallery. 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] Two meteorology students, Ankur Desai and Julie Malingowski, take awards at the inaugural EMS Museum Photo Contest. [Photos & More info] 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] View the photos from the Fall 2005 Graduation Reception on December 17th. [View the Photo Gallery]. 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. The Department's weekly colloquium schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html PSUBAMS will be holding a group bowling outing on EMEX Saturday, February 25 at 3:00 p.m. We will be bowling at Northland Bowl, 1244 Mayberry Lane, State College, PA 16801. The cost is $6.50 and covers two games and shoes. Everyone is welcome to attend, including prospective EMS students and other guests. However, I do need to have a count of the number of people who will be coming prior to the event. A sign-up sheet will be posted in the 6th floor Walker Weather Station outside Marisa's office. Please indicate your intent to go by noon on Thursday, February 23. Also, we need people who will be willing to drive as well as a count of people who will need rides. If you are able to drive, please indicate that you can. Also, if you need a ride, please indicate that as well. Questions, please contact Zack Byko at zmb102@psu.edu. PSUBAMS T-shirt Design Contest is going on now! The design should include one or two colors (one preferable) and somehow reflect PSUBAMS. Submit design as a JPEG file to either elr140@psu.edu or rab333@psu.edu by February 27. The winner receives a $25 gift certificate to a downtown restaurant. 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 deadline to submit an application and abstract for the Exhibition has been extended until February 17. 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] Penn State NWP group is providing the forecasts for the Winter Olympics! The numerical weather prediction (NWP) group in the Dept. of Meteorology at Penn State is producing realtime, high-resolution MM5 numerical weather forecasts for the 2006 winter Olympics in northern Italy. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~deng/mm5/ Graduate Exhibition 2006! Next 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. 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. The Department's weekly colloquium schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.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.] PSUBAMS T-shirt Design Contest is going on now! The design should include one or two colors (one preferable) and somehow reflect PSUBAMS. Submit design as a JPEG file to either elr140@psu.edu or rab333@psu.edu by February 27. The winner receives a $25 gift certificate to a downtown restaurant. Penn State NWP group is providing the forecasts for the Winter Olympics! The numerical weather prediction (NWP) group in the Dept. of Meteorology at Penn State is producing realtime, high-resolution MM5 numerical weather forecasts for the 2006 winter Olympics in northern Italy. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~deng/mm5/ PSUBAMS will be holding a group bowling outing on EMEX Saturday, February 25 at 3:00 p.m. We will be bowling at Northland Bowl, 1244 Mayberry Lane, State College, PA 16801. The cost is $6.50 and covers two games and shoes. Everyone is welcome to attend, including prospective EMS students and other guests. However, I do need to have a count of the number of people who will be coming prior to the event. A sign-up sheet will be posted in the 6th floor Walker Weather Station outside Marisa's office. Please indicate your intent to go by noon on Thursday, February 23. Also, we need people who will be willing to drive as well as a count of people who will need rides. If you are able to drive, please indicate that you can. Also, if you need a ride, please indicate that as well. Questions, please contact Zack Byko at zmb102@psu.edu. Attention seniors looking for jobs that make a difference: opportunities for graduating seniors in the public interest and social change fields! ON-CAMPUS INFORMATION SESSION SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26TH AT 7:30PM IN FERGUSON 003. The State PIRGs (the Public
Interest Research Groups), a nation-wide network of public interest
advocacy groups, are hiring 150 graduating college students to
determine where this country is going: to solve our energy problems;
to protect our national forests; to reform the campaign finance
system; to clean up our air; to safeguard individuals from identity
theft; and make an impact on many other public interest issues.
If you are interested in this kind of work, you should: 1) Contact
me to find out more 2) Come to our on-campus information session,
Sunday February 26th at 7:30pm in Ferguson
003. I'll be visiting your campus on February 26th and
27th to let you know about jobs with the PIRGs and to interview
candidates. As a little background on myself, I work entirely
on environmental issues for the state PIRGs in Pennsylvania, doing
a combination of lobbying, grassroots organizing, research, and
media outreach. Working for the State PIRGs has given me the
opportunity to put all of my efforts into the issues that I care so much about, and it has been an incredibly rewarding experience. Right now, my main priorities are energy conservation, reducing pollution from cars and open space preservation. For more information about the State PIRGs check out www.pirg.org/jobs or send me an email at srogness@pennenvironment.org. Stephen Rogness, Legislative Associate The State PIRGs, 1015 N Front St Suite A, Harrisburg, PA 17102. Tel: (717) 230-9710 srogness@pennenvironment.org 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. NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop: If you are interested in participating in the Undergraduate NCAR Leadership Workshop (http://www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/ulw/), please see Rhonda Spychalski. 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 If you are interested in helping to man tables for EMEX (Saturday, February 25) , please use the sign-up sheet outside Marisa Ferger's office. If you are interested in helping to conduct tours for EMEX, please see Ryan Sobash. 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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