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Chairman O'Kelly's Last News Brief
This is my final edition of Departmental news. It has been a privilege to serve as chair. I will be moving to University Hall on Monday, but I hope to continue to hear from you as studies and…
Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
I am pleased to announce that Darla Munroe has accepted the position of Interim Chair of the Department of Geography for a one year term beginning July 1. Darla will be returning from Sweden…
Congratulations to Stephen Shield
We are pleased to report that Stephen Shield successfully defended his thesis this morning. Thesis is titled, “Predictive Modeling of Thunderstorm-Related Power Outages”. Committee…
Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
I propose and start a new occasional feature of these updates: brief mention of geographical areas that we may want to learn more from (send me your own examples!)
A look at a country you…
ASP Alumni Discuss Dropsondes and Hurricane Forecasting on WU
Atmospheric Sciences Program alumni Mike Bettes, host of the show Weather Underground and Kevin Petty, Chief Science Officer at Vaisala discus the use of real time data to improve hurricane…
Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
We have signed a large number of GTA/GRA renewals, and grads should watch for these in docusign. Thanks to Caitlin Naber for the careful work that goes into getting these letters lined up and sent…
Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Our global reach is very prominent this week
Darla Munroe is currently in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, attending the annual meeting of the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) of the Global Land…
ASP alumnus Michael Davis gets tenure.
Congratulations to our alumnus Michael Davis.
Michael has been awarded tunure at Kutztown University.
Dr. Davis did a PhD with us in the Atmospheric Sciences program in 2011.
Jialin…
Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Madhu Dutta’s paper titled ‘‘Becoming’ factory workers: Understanding women’s geographies of work through life stories’ was accepted for publication in Gender, Place and Culture. Madhu’s co-edited…