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	Naval Weather Service Association Scholarship NWSA offers several annual scholarship grants, ranging from $1000 to $3000. The program’s purpose is to assist students who plan a career in the fields of Meteorology, Oceanography or Aerospace Engineering. Applications may be submitted after January 1, 2010 through April 15, 2010.
	Freshman has been providing weather site for Hingham, MA since 2005 "Anyone interested in Hingham weather can go online and get up-to-the-minute data -- as long as the site's meteorologist isn't in class at the time."
	GEMS Alumni Achievement Award Winner - Stephen Corfidi
	State College snowfall makes national news in Australia
	New record set for earliest snowfall It’s official. According to the National Weather Service in State College, the earliest local snowfall in recorded history has a new mark -- Oct. 15, 2009.
	Two Meteorology faculty named AMS Fellows
	Penn State's Fancy Weather Center Penn State editor, Tina Hay, makes a nice blog post about her visit to the Joel N. Myers Weather Center during Parents and Families Weekend 2009.
	Meteorology senior, Drew Anderson, delivers ESPN Game Day forecast Kudos to meteorology senior, Drew Anderson, who delivered the ESPN Game Day forecast "live" for the Penn State vs. Iowa game.
	How to get rich off the weather After all, a recent study at Penn State pitted two groups against each other in a weather-trading simulation to see which would be more successful. According to the study's press release, "the results so far show the market to be far more profitable for traders who are studying meteorology than those who are studying business."
	AccuWeather founder pledges $2 million for Penn State weather center Joel N. Myers, the founder, president and chairman of AccuWeather Inc. and current Penn State trustee and alumnus, has committed $2 million to help ensure Penn State’s continued international leadership in meteorology, University President Graham B. Spanier announced at the Board of Trustees meeting today (Sept. 11).
	National Weather Association Meteorological Satellite Applications Award for Undergraduates The 2010 Meteorological Satellite Applications Scholarship, a great opportunity for undergraduate students to demonstrate scientific excellence in satellite meteorology. The winner receives a $500 scholarship and a chance to present their work at the 2010 NWA Annual Meeting in Tuscon, AZ in October 2010. The deadline for submission of papers is June 16, 2010.
	Participate in the WxChallenge! WxChallege is a forecasting challenge hosted by the University of Oklahoma in which you forecast temperature, wind, and precip for different cities across the country. You will compete with other students at Universities across the country to see who is the best individual forecaster and the best school as a whole. All students are invited to participate regardless of class standing.
	Oceanography: The dark side of marine carbon By Raymond Najjar. The fate of sinking particulate organic matter in the world ocean is a key source of uncertainty in the global carbon cycle. Model simulations suggest that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations depend critically on the depths that these particles typically reach.
	Astronaut Scott Carpenter to present Tyler McCandless with $10,000 scholarship Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter will present senior Tyler McCandless with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and ceremony at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18 in 22 Deike Building on Penn State's University Park campus. The award ceremony will coincide with a presentation by Carpenter during which he will share his experiences as an original Mercury 7 astronaut and what it was like to be the second American to orbit the Earth. Carpenter’s lecture will be the keynote address at a special symposium, "The Earth -- Within and Beyond."
	Forecast discussions slated for Fridays during fall semester
	Mel Goldstein ('67 BS) "weathers the storm" and plans to release Connecticut Climate Book in September 1967 alumnus and WTNH daytime weatherman, Dr. Mel Goldstein, to release new Connecticut Climate Book in September.
	Nature article estimates Atlantic hurricanes and climate over the past 1,500 years "Mann, working with Jonathan D. Woodruff, assistant professor of geosciences, University of Massachusetts; Jeffrey P. Donnelly, associate scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Zhihua Zhang, postdoctoral assistant, Penn State, reconstructed the past 1,500 years of hurricanes using two independent methods. They report their results in the Aug. 13 issue of Nature."
	Meteorologist -- the 15th best job per survey noted in Wall Street Journal article In new ranking of best and worst occupations in the U.S., meteorologist takes spot number 15.
	Tornado season puzzles scientists Assistant professor Yvette Richardson, one of the leaders of the Penn State team that is part of Vortex2, said the year was an anomaly when it came to tornadoes.
	Alumnus Erica Grow (BS '02) talks at Math Options for Girls summer camp at Penn State Abington "Action News meteorologist Erica Grow, '02 Penn State graduate, was on campus July 16 to speak to a group of teenage girls attending the Math Options for Girls camp."

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