Martha Christino, class of 2023, was selected for the Young Alumni Ambassador program is a yearlong experience that enhances the connections between young alumni, the Penn State Alumni Association, and the University, She is a now doctoral student at the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, focusing on combining climate and energy models to advance sustainable systems through low-impact energy technologies for a sustainable and equitable world. 

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently honored Penn State's weather data center — now housed next to the Walker Building, which is home to the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science — as a 100-year weather/climate monitoring site. Penn State has gathered data since 1882, but WMO only recently began awarding the 100-year distinction.

MEMS was founded in 2019 to promote diversity within the College of Earth and

WPSU has aired a fascinating special about Weather World at Penn State over their 40 years of production.

Back when she was in high school, Katelyn Bahr attended Advanced Weather Camp at Penn State, and said it had a big impact on her life. Now a Penn State grad, she has worked as a lead counselor at the camp for three years, working to inspire the next generation of future meteorologists.

Kenneth Davis, professor of atmospheric and climate science at Penn State, will lead a team of 23 investigators from 13 research institutions in a new field campaign supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to study surface-atmosphere interactions around Baltimore, Maryland, to see how they influence the city’s climate. The new campaign, called the Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE), is expected to start in October 2024 and run through September 2025.