UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Over the summer, three Penn State graduate students, Aara'L Yarber, Maria Morales-Caez and Stephanie Lin, participated in a workshop focused on the planetary boundary layer (PBL).

Kelly Núñez Ocasio, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science student, has received an Alfred P. Sloan Minority Graduate Scholarship.

Congratulations Kelly.

Researchers with RELAMPAGO-CACTI will track severe thunderstorms in South America's Pampas region.

Penn State meteorology graduate student Jesus Ruiz-Plancarte loves hands-on research.

Penn State graduate student Kelly Nunez Oscasio is studying how tropical cyclones form.

22nd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State has announced the creation of a new center designed to bring together the University’s many strengths in all aspects of national, homeland and global security. The new Center for Security Research and Education (CSRE) incorporates 10 Penn State colleges, schools and research units to focus a broad range of academic endeavor on society’s most critical threats.

A few months into her graduate studies at Penn State, meteorology student Caroline Normile attended a presentation by alumnus Jonathan Petters that would inspire her for years.

The Hertz Foundation invites applications for Fall 2016 Graduate Fellowships in Applied Physical, Biological, or Engineering Sciences. Application deadline: October 30, 2015.

The Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship-for-service Program fully funds undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide range of technical areas, including all fields of Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Mathematics. 2015 Application Deadline: December 31, 2015.

Fuqing Zhang and a team of weather modelers at Penn State University have created an improved method of hurricane forecasting

Residents of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states will experience increased rainfall and floods if data analysis by a Penn State meteorologist and long-term projections by a fisheries biologist, with a specialty in surface water pollution, are accurate.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Bill Syrett counted down, and more than 40 pairs of eyes turned to the clouds.

Six Things Michael Mann Wants You to Know About the Science of Global Warming

— posted on Jun 26, 2014 09:23 AM

There is nothing controversial about the work of climatologist Michael Mann, director of Penn State’s Earth System Science Center.

Battle stations for an ice-free Arctic

— posted on Aug 11, 2014 09:20 AM

The summer seas around the North Pole could be ice-free in 15 years. Rear Admiral David Titley was given the task of working out what that meant for the US Navy. He talks with Elizabeth Finkel.

A report released Tuesday from an advisory group of retired U.S. military leadership echoes the findings of other recent reports on climate change: It is real, it is already happening and it poses major threats to the U.S. and the rest of the world.

THON dancers and chairs featured on ABC World News

— posted on Mar 07, 2014 04:01 PM

Penn State's Water Polo team will be featured on ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer. Allison Lederer (senior Meteorology) and THON fundraising chair will be interviewed

Featured guest on WeathBrains is Dr. Yvette Richardson, Associate Professor at Penn State University.

A graduate of meteorology and his wife recently pledged $250,000 to the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Department of Meteorology to support faculty contributions to teaching, research and public service.

"The AMS is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting applications for the 2014 AMS fellowship and scholarship programs and the 94th AMS Annual Meeting travel opportunities."

The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship, now offered in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and New Jersey, seeks to attract talented, committed individuals with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) backgrounds into teaching in high–need secondary schools.

Southeast Atmosphere Study (SAS): Unlocking Air Pollution Secrets and the Impacts on Climate Change

— posted on Jun 16, 2015 09:26 AM

SAS, a joint project among the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, Penn State University, and 30 other US and International Research Institutions, is the largest U.S. air quality study in decades

Climatologist Ronald Stouffer honored with Penn State Alumni Fellow Award

— posted on Feb 27, 2013 01:47 PM

Ronald J. Stouffer (’76, '77g, Earth and Mineral Sciences) senior research climatologist and head of the Climate and Ecosystems Group at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was honored with the lifelong title of Penn State Alumni Fellow.

26th AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms

Penn State Meterorology students awarded 2011 American Meteorological Society scholarships/fellowships

— posted on Oct 01, 2012 12:13 PM

Four Penn State students awarded American Meteorological Society scholarships/fellowships

Our own, Maria Cazorla (Ph.D. 2010), was the recipient of this award in 2010! Deadline is April 15, 2011. The award carries a $1500 prize.