For the week: June 6 — 12, 2005

Did You Know?

Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week. The Department's weekly colloquia schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html

Alumnus Paul Tag (‘66, ‘68, ‘77) has recently completed his first novel, which was published by iUniverse. The novel, titled Category 5, is an espionage thriller that revolves around meteorology, and in particular, hurricane modification. Some of the background and action in the story takes place at Penn State during the early 1980s since the protagonist is a meteorologist and a Penn State graduate. Four years ago Paul retired from his career as a research meteorologist at the Naval Research Laboratory in order to write fiction. Interested alumni can read more about Paul and the novel by visiting: www.paulmarktag.com or www.category5thenovel.com.

Altoona Curve Game Outing: PSUBAMS officers are planning a department outing to an Altoona Curve game on Thursday, September 1 (7:05 p.m.). Please email Zack Byko (zmb102@psu.edu) as soon as possible if you would like to attend so he can order seats. Tickets will be approx. $5-8 depending on where the seats are purchased. You will need to tell him in the email how many seats you need.

Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week. The Department's weekly colloquia schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html

Fletcher Byrom EMS Library: Did you know that you can access a plethora of free databases by visiting the EMS library's website from a Penn State IP address? The EMS library's online database system provides useful info such as complete authoritative medical information (MD-Consult), complete online versions of software manuals and books (Safari), and even full online articles from many newspapers. Visit http://www.libraries.psu.edu/emsl/default.html and click the databases tab at the top to see what's available.

Penn Stater Magazine Seeks Stories on Random Encounters Between Alumni: Remember the time you bumped into some travelers at a roadside stop in Austria who turned out to be fellow Penn Staters? The Penn Stater wants to hear from you...[More]

University Announces Change to Fall 2005 Semester Calendar. Beginning fall semester 2005, the first day of classes (August 30) will follow a TUESDAY class schedule. But, the Tuesday before the Thanksgiving holiday (November 22) will follow a FRIDAY class schedule. [See full announcement.]

Virtual Tour of Walker Building: Meteorology students, Thomas Harrington, Kira Altmann, and Stephanie Miller prepare a video tour of Walker Building as part of Meteo 483. [Take the Virtual Tour]

Archived News:  The weekly news is archived.  See the link at the bottom of the page to access the archives.

Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week. The Department's weekly colloquia schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html

Altoona Curve Game Outing: PSUBAMS officers are planning a department outing to an Altoona Curve game on Thursday, September 1 (7:05 p.m.). Please email Zack Byko (zmb102@psu.edu) as soon as possible if you would like to attend so he can order seats. Tickets will be approx. $5-8 depending on where the seats are purchased. You will need to tell him in the email how many seats you need.

Alumnus Paul Tag (‘66, ‘68, ‘77) has recently completed his first novel, which was published by iUniverse. The novel, titled Category 5, is an espionage thriller that revolves around meteorology, and in particular, hurricane modification. Some of the background and action in the story takes place at Penn State during the early 1980s since the protagonist is a meteorologist and a Penn State graduate. Four years ago Paul retired from his career as a research meteorologist at the Naval Research Laboratory in order to write fiction. Interested alumni can read more about Paul and the novel by visiting: www.paulmarktag.com or www.category5thenovel.com.

Deadlines:

June 13 Monday—applications for fall semester tuition grant-in-aid due in 313 Kern Bldg.

June 17 Friday—last date for a summer graduate to submit a draft of the doctoral thesis or eTD to the Thesis Office for format review

June 17 Friday—last date for a summer graduate to activate the intent to graduate on eLion

June 20 Monday—last date for a summer graduate to submit a draft of the master’s thesis to the Thesis Office for format review

FALL 2005 COURSES

Meteo 418W: Topics in Mesoscale Meteorology (P. Knight) [More]

Meteo 480W: Radar Observations and Analysis (P. Markowski and Y. Richardson) [More]

Meteo 532: Chemistry of the Atmosphere (A. Thompson) [More].

Meteo 597B: Advanced Oceanography: The Ocean's Role in Climate Change (D. Seidov) [More]

Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week. The Department's weekly colloquia schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html

Alumnus Paul Tag (‘66, ‘68, ‘77) has recently completed his first novel, which was published by iUniverse. The novel, titled Category 5, is an espionage thriller that revolves around meteorology, and in particular, hurricane modification. Some of the background and action in the story takes place at Penn State during the early 1980s since the protagonist is a meteorologist and a Penn State graduate. Four years ago Paul retired from his career as a research meteorologist at the Naval Research Laboratory in order to write fiction. Interested alumni can read more about Paul and the novel by visiting: www.paulmarktag.com or www.category5thenovel.com.

Altoona Curve Game Outing: PSUBAMS officers are planning a department outing to an Altoona Curve game on Thursday, September 1 (7:05 p.m.). Please email Zack Byko (zmb102@psu.edu) as soon as possible if you would like to attend so he can order seats. Tickets will be approx. $5-8 depending on where the seats are purchased. You will need to tell him in the email how many seats you need.

Class Picture Online: The class picture that was taken at graduation can be viewed by visiting the main Meteorology web site (http://www.met.psu.edu) and clicking on the image in the middle of the page, or by visiting the "Alumni" section of the Meteorology website and clicking the "Photographs" section on the right.

Geotimes Fall Internship: Geotimes Magazine, the newsmagazine of the earth sciences, is now accepting applications for its fall internship. The internship is 12 weeks long and includes a $3500 stipend. You may view more information about this internship opportunity by visiting: http://www.geotimes.org/internship.html. The deadline for applications is June 13, 2005.

Deadlines:

Late Drop Deadline: Thursday, June 16

FALL 2005 COURSES

Meteo 418W: Topics in Mesoscale Meteorology (P. Knight) [More]

Meteo 480W: Radar Observations and Analysis (P. Markowski and Y. Richardson) [More]

Meteo 532: Chemistry of the Atmosphere (A. Thompson) [More].

Meteo 597B: Advanced Oceanography: Ocean's Role in Climate Change (D. Seidov) [More]


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