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Virtual Career Day - Spring 2022 (March 22, 6-8 PM, via Zoom)

"What Sets the Latitudinal Precipitation Distribution?"

"Convection Initiation over Coastal Regions: Supporting Environment and Physical Causes over Coastal Texas"

6-8 pm via Zoom

"Weather Warning Outreach and Communication in the 21st Century"

"Improving a Diabatic Lagrangian Analysis Technique with Observations from Balloon-borne Sondes to Explore the Relationship Between Supercell Thermodynamics and Baroclinically Generated Circulation"

"Laboratory Measurements of Small Ice Crystal Growth Rates at Low Temperatures"

"Assessing climate model applications at multiple spatial scales"

"Examining Recent Surface Temperature Trends"

"Leveraging Rossby wave breaking to understand mechanisms generating extreme weather in past and future climates"

Improving Surface Flux and Boundary Layer Modeling with Land Surface Remote Sensing for State Air Quality Planning

Human Footprints in the Sky: Exploring the Impact of Land Use on the Boundary Layer and Beyond

Assistant Teaching Professor, Exec. Producer of Weather World

Human Influence on the Large-Scale Atmospheric Flow in Recent Decades

M.S. Graduate Student, Penn State Meteorology

The Earth System and its Many Scales: A View from Biosphere up to Atmosphere and Back Down Again

Assistant Teaching Professor

Investigating the Characteristics and Dynamics of Convective Updrafts in Tropical Cyclone Rainbands

Aerosols and Droplets: Fundamental Particles in our Evolving World

The Scale Dependent Practical Estimates of Convection Velocity in Turbulent Canopy Flows

Developments in Quantifying Uncertainty from Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks as Applied to Synthetic Passive Microwave Retrievals

Investigating the Dimensionless Parameters Controlling Horizontal Convective Roll Aspect Ratios Over Land

Lead Meteorologist

Tropical Cyclones: Climate Change, ENSO and the Tropical Pacific

Researcher, Penn State Meteorology

Weather and Climate Simulation with State-of-the-Art Physics-Informed AI Algorithms

Sharing Scientists' Stories: A Conversation with Meteorologist Biographers

Lecturer, Penn State Meteorology

Hydrologist/Hydrometeorologist

Aerosols and Their Influence on Clouds

President, Campus Weather Service

Ice Crystal Growth at Cirrus Temperatures: Measurements and New Theories

There will be no briefing on Monday, November 11th

Integration of Vantage Points, Programs, and Approaches for Space-Based Earth Remote Sensing

PhD Student, Penn State Meteorology

Assessing the Role of Parameterized Turbulence on Tropical Cyclones and the Mean Climate in the Community Earth System Model

Top-Down and Bottom-Up Development of Climate Models

Advancing Methods for Source-Specific Quantification of Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in Urban Settings

Relating Polarimetric Radar Measurements to Quasi-Linear Convective System Cold Pool Properties and Damage Potential

Assessing Urban Greening and Albedo Modification as Strategies to Mitigate Heat-Related deaths in Baltimore, Maryland

Improving the Understanding of Snow Particles in the Eyewall and Rainbands of Hurricane Dorian Using Microwave Ice Scattering Databases for Various Microphysics Schemes

Improving Mesoscale Forecasts of Winter Precipitation: Results from Stochastic Physics Experiments and Field Campaign Observations

Application and Analysis of a Novel Ice Crystal Trajectory Growth (ICTG) Model to a Tropical Cyclone Eyewall

"Application of Advancements in Observation of the Planetary Boundary Layer Using Dual-Polarization Radars"

U.S. Offshore Wind Metocean Conditions Characterization

Quatifying Electrical Discharges and Their Impacts

Evaluating and Expanding Statistical-Dynamical Downscaling Methods to Improve Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Risk Assessment

Assimilating NASA Impacts Data for 7 February 2020 Storm to Improve WRF Winter Cyclone Prediction

Hilton New Orleans Riverside

The Legacy of Dr. Warren M. Washington, the Climate Crisis, and the Changes in Late 21st Century Saharan Dust in North Africa

Can AI Weather Models Predict Out-of-Distribution Gray Swan Tropical Cyclones?

Lead Meteorologist, NWS State College

The Tornado Outbreak of May 31, 1985: Looking Back at One of Pennsylvania's Deadliest Weather Events

Graduate Student, Penn State

The JCSDA Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM)

Associate Professor, Penn State

Evaluation of Urban Atmospheric Boundary Layer Simulations with Ground-Based Doppler Lidar

Land and Ocean Contributions to United States Summertime Precipitation

The MONAN Program: Developing the Next Generation of Climate and Weather Forecasts for South America

A Hybrid Theory for the Dimensional Growth and Hollowing of Ice Crystals

Coastal Tropical Cyclone Activity Under Climate Change

Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State

The Weather of the Gettysburg Campaign

An Investigation of Subsiding Shells in Simulations of Tropical Thunderstorms

Spring Break - No Colloquium

Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NWS State College

Intra-Urban Heat Variability in Baltimore City

Projecting Future Changes in Extratropical Transition of Atlantic Hurricanes in Earth System Models

Researcher, Penn State University

Resolving Aerosole-Complexity: How Particle-Resolved Modeling Improves Aerosole-Climate Understanding

Assistant Chief Broadcast Meteorologist, AccuWeather

Senior Director, Forecast Operations, AccuWeather

Advancing Our Ability to Model the Surface-Atmosphere Interactions in Urban Environments: Model Development Informed Through Observations and High-Resolution Simulations

Low-Frequency Gravity Waves: What Are They and How Do They Affect MCSs?

Department Head, Penn State Meteorology

Anatomy of a Storm: Considering Form and Function in Tropical Cyclone Research

Assessing WRF Model Performance in Simulating Wintertime Bay Breeze Dynamics Over Baltimore

New Insight Into Atmosphere-Wind Energy Interactions Via Virtual Lidar and Multiscale Modeling

Better Understand Hail Growth in Supercell Storms Via Numerical Modeling

Leveraging Historical Observational Data and Climate Models to Understand Uncertainties in Global Climate Diagnostics and Regional Climate Impacts

Tying Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns to Mid-Atlantic Winter Extremes in CMIP6 Models using Self-Organizing Maps

Evaluating Data Assimilation and Microphysics Parameterization on the Prediction of Heavy Snowfall during East Coast Winter Storms

Exploring the Developmental Milestones of Supercell Thunderstorms from Convection Initiation to Maturity

Evaluating the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh in the Urban Boundary Layer for Use in Greenhouse Gas Inversions

Model-Data Intercomparison for the Quantification of Variability in Agricultural Soil N2O Fluxes in Central Pennsylvania

Improving Our Understanding of Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Using Data Assimilation and Ensemble Forecasts

Microscale Variability of Convective Storm Forecasting Parameters in a Numerical Simulation with a Strongly Sheared and Turbulent Environment

Convection Initiation Over Coastal Regions: Supporting Environments and Physical Causes Over Coastal Texas