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Ron Stenz, Ph.D. student in Atmospheric Sciences, has been awarded an Alternate Sponsored Fellowship (ASF) at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Throughout this fellowship he will be hosted by Zhe Feng (UND ’06, ’11) in the Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate. This award recognizes […]

Atmospheric Sciences M.S. graduate student, Aaron Scott, has been selected to attend the Intensive Summer School in Computing from Environmental Sciences program sponsored by NASA and the University of Virginia. After the summer school, Aaron will intern at the NASA Langley Research Center’s Atmospheric Science Data Center where he will help develop and implement software […]

Atmospheric Sciences M.S. graduate student, Aaron Scott, has been selected to attend the Intensive Summer School in Computing from Environmental Sciences program sponsored by NASA and the University of Virginia. After the summer school, Aaron will intern at the NASA Langley Research Center’s Atmospheric Science Data Center where he will help develop and implement software […]

Professors Xiquan Dong, Aaron Kennedy and Matt Gilmore recently received a grant award from NOAA entitled “Improvement of Convective/Severe Weather Prediction through an Integrative Analysis of WRF Simulations and NEXRAD/GOES Observations over the CONUS”. This work will be funded under the NOAA Research to Operation (R2O) program. This is a 2-year grant funded for $491,707, […]

Ted McHardy and Jared Marquis, graduate students in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, have been selected as interns for the 2015 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP). NREIP provides an opportunity for students to participate in research at a Department of Navy (DoN) laboratory during the summer. The goals of NREIP […]

February 25, 2015 Dr. Robert Kelley President University of North Dakota After what will be 16 ½ years as the Dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, I have decided to retire effective June 30, 2016. I know this is somewhat early to make this announcement, but it is made in consideration […]

Calling all snowflakes! We want you to be a star. All you have to do is land in Mark Askelson’s very cool snowflake house. Lined with sensors that’ll get a good look at you, the box helps Askelson and his students get a closer handle on your marvelous six-pointed, infinitely variable molecular structure. This is […]

Dr. Xiquan Dong and Dr. Baike Xi from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences have received a Group Achievement Award from NASA. The award was to the CERES Clouds Team “For sustained excellence and innovation in developing and validating the Cloud Retrieval Systems for CERES Editions 2 and 4 Climate Data Records.” CERES (Clouds and the […]

Atmospheric Sciences – “Midlatitude Deep Convective Transport to the Upper-Troposphere and Lower-Stratosphere” – $290,966

Dr. Gretchen Mullendore, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, has received a grant award in the amount of $290,966 from the National Science Foundation entitled “Midlatitude Deep Convective Transport to the Upper-Troposphere and Lower-Stratosphere.” Deep convection, such as the severe thunderstorms observed throughout the central United States in the summer months, is an efficient vertical transporter […]