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Ron Stenz, PhD student in Atmospheric Sciences, has been selected to receive the prestigious Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship for the school year 2016-2017.   Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the award includes a stipend, a tuition allowance and an allocation of 50,000 node hours –  equivalent to 800,000 core hours. Ron will be harnessing Blue […]

Travis Toth, Ph.D. graduate student in Atmospheric Sciences, presented a poster that was judged as one of the top 3 graduate posters at the American Meteorological Society Annual Student Fair. His poster was titled “Assessing CALIPSO Version 4 Attenuated Backscatter 532 nm Calibration with NASA LaRC Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar Measurements. Congratulations, Travis!

Tim See, M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences graduate student, has received a research funding award for the spring 2016 semester from the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC). The main ojbective of the NDSCG is to provide and support opportunities for our students to pursue research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and prepare […]

Nick Gapp and Blake Sorenson, Atmospheric Sciences undergraduate majors, have been awarded internships by the Department of Navy for summer 2016. They will be working at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, California as part of the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP). The goals of NREIP are to encourage participating students to pursue science and […]

Dr. Xiquan Dong, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, has received a $200,780 grant sub-award through the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) for the proposal entitled “Evaluation of NCAR CAM5 simulated MBL Cloud Properties Using a Combination of Satellite and Surface Observations”. Prof. Dong will provide the Department of Energy (DOE) ARM Azores ground-based observations and […]

Small UAS Detect and Avoid Requirements Necessary for Limited Beyond Visual Line of Sight Operations” – $399,992

Janelle Hakala, Junior Atmospheric Sciences student, has been awarded a STEM Ambassador position with The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC). The main objective of the NDSGC is to provide and support opportunities for students that prepare them for careers that support NASA’s goals and the high-tech workforce development needs of North Dakota. Ambassadors assist […]

Dr. Gretchen Mullendore, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, has received a grant in the amount of $168,182 from the National Science Foundation entitled “Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Big Weather Web: A Common and Sustainable Big Data Infrastructure in Support of Weather Prediction Research and Education in Universities”. Under this award, Gretchen will be working with scientists […]

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. “We studied thunderstorm anvils, sampling the clouds up to an altitude of 40,000 ft,” said David Delene, associate research professor and principal investigator on this mission. The storm […]

Adam Gill has been accepted as an intern with the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire. Adam is a 2015 B.S. graduate of UND Atmospheric Sciences and is looking forward to spending time on Mount Washington, which has a reputation for some of the world’s worst weather. Interns in this program typically assume duties such […]