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The UND Citation II Research Aircraft, dubbed UND Cloud One, returned to Grand Forks earlier this week after a two week mission over the skies of Florida. The flights were sponsored by U.S. Navy as a key element of a project called CAPE2015. “We studied thunderstorm anvils, sampling the clouds up to an altitude of […]

Regional Weather Information Center – “UAS Test Flight Research and Execution for Evaluation of UAS and Associated Ground Control Systems” – $53,525

Assistant Professor Aaron Kennedy, Atmospheric Science, will have weather photography on display at Dakota Harvest Bakers April 28 to June 29. Encompassing work from the past decade, photos range from images taken during storm chases across the central United States to tranquil scenes in the local community. He will be present during the June 20 […]

Atmospheric Sciences – “UTC Fall 2015 Flight Testing” – $105,007

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 […]