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Contact KU Atmospheric Science with questions or comments at:Atmospheric Science Program Weather Lab: (785) 864-4329 |
Lindley Hall, home of the Atmospheric Science Program--take a look around. |
Fall Advising Schedules
Oct. 19-23
Oct. 26-30
Nov. 2-6
If you would like to get better at weather forecasting, the WxChallenge is a very good opportunity. The WxChallenge is a national forecast contest administered by the University of Oklahoma, which allows you to compete against some of the best collegiate forecasters in the country.
Contestants make 24-hour forecasts for pre-selected cities across the country (somewhat like ATMO 605, for those of you that have taken that). Contestants may be anyone from freshmen to faculty to alumni. Contestants may participate for Fall, Spring, or the whole year. Awards are given on both an individual and a team basis (must have 5 students from to be eligible for team stuff, but anyone can earn individual awards).
I would like to try to get a team together from KU, so please send me (nlock@ku.edu) an e-mail if you are interested. The deadline to register for the Fall contest is Sept. 27, so try to let me know soon if you would like to participate. I will mention it again at the AMS Info Night on Sept. 22 (an e-mail with more details about that event will be sent out soon).
More details about the WxChallenge may be found at www.wxchallenge.com, and you can e-mail me if you have questions.
Noah Lock
nlock@ku.edu
Congratulations to Atmo major Anne Alexandra Glanville on her C.E. Spahr Scholarship in the Sciences, John P. Feighner Scholarship and Veta B. Lear Memorial Award. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas honored 73 students with more than $77,000 in scholarships and awards this spring. All the scholarship recipients and most award winners are attending classes at KU this fall. The scholarships and awards, which are made possible by gifts to KU Endowment from alumni and friends, were awarded based on merit, need or both. “These students represent the most talented young scholars in the College. I am grateful that we are able to offer this support to foster their success,” said Interim Dean Gregory B. Simpson.
Congratulations are in order for Dave Mechem who received the J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award for 2008-2009 in the Natural Sciences Division of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences!
Congratulations to our 2009 Geography and Atmospheric Science Graduates!
Congratulations to Kees van der Veen on his promotion to Full Professor.
See who came to the Atmo Reunion, May 8, 2009
Congratulations to Ava Dinges and Andrew Oberthaler who have won American Meteorological Society Undergraduate Scholarships! Congratulations also to Sylvia Davison who has won an AMS Minority Scholarship and plans to come to KU.
ATMO undergraduate student Jesse Lundquist was selected for the prestegious National Weather Service Student Career Education Program (SCEP). This is a paid internship with the National Weather Service.
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Congratulations to the Atmospheric Science Program on receiving the Cooperative Observer Award from the National Weather Service for the University's weather station near Lindley Hall. The station is one of the oldest of Kansas' stations. Pictured, left to right, are Richard McNulty, Johannes Feddema, Curtis Hall, Bill Newman of the National Weather Service, David Mechem, Donna Tucker and Terry Slocum. To read more, please click here. |
