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News and Announcements
 
Announcements:
Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Student Seminar
Thursday, March 21, 2013
2:30-3:30pm 
Refreshments and meet the speaker at 2:15pm
Room 110 INSCC
Speaker: Dr. Justin Minder
Title: "Mountain meteorology in the Caribbean: The dynamics of trade wind flow and rainfall over Dominica"
Abstract
 
 
Scholarship Opportunities:
Rio Tinto Kennecott Scholarships
Rio Tinto Kennecott will award seventeen, $6,000 scholarships in the 2013-2014 academic year. These scholarships are renewable and must be reapplied for each year. Finalists will be contacted for an interview in mid-February. In addition, Rio Tinto Kennecott scholarship recipients will receive high priority for a paid internship for the summer of 2014. Click here to view eligibility requirements and the application form.

 

AMS fellowship and scholarship programs
AMS is currently accepting applications for the 2013 AMS fellowship and scholarship programs and the 93rd AMS Annual Meeting travel opportunities. The scholarship and fellowship programs are supported by AMS members, corporations, and government agencies nationwide. The information and applications are available on the AMS web site.

 

Department News:
Professor Tim Garrett and Research Associate Cale Fallgatter will be speaking about the Multi Angle Snowflake Camera they use to photograph snowflakes on Thursday, March 21 at REI in Salt Lake City. Event is free and open to the public. Please see details here.
 

Professor Jim Steenburgh's research appeared on the front page of the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper February 20, 2013. Click here for more.

 

Professor Jim Steenburgh was quoted for an article in Atmos News from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Click here for the full article from January 24, 2013.

 
 
spacer Professor Dr. Ed Zipser and two of his graduate students Gabe Susca-Lopata and Jon Zawislak have been working with NASA on an unmanned  aircraft that can keep an eye on storms. Click here to learn more!
Photo courtesy of Joe Fudge, Daily Press / September  20 , 2012 

  

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 Ph.D. student Allison Charland has has just been notified that she is the 2012 recipient of  the AMS's Robert Leviton award for "the best student paper on the development or evaluation of atmospheric instrumentation or unique measurement techniques". Her paper, entitled "Application of a Portable Doppler Wind Lidar for Wildfire Plume Measurements", was prepared when she was an MS student at San Jose State University and was presented at the 2012 AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA in January 2012. The award from the AMS Committee on Measurements was approved by the AMS Council and came with a certificate and cash prize. Congratulations to Allison!

  

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Associate Professor, Dr. Thomas Reichler's research is highlighted in the University of Utah News Center
Click here to learn more!

 

 

 

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Congratulations to Professor Dr. C. David Whiteman, recipient of the 2012 Mountain Meteorology Award from AMS! 

 

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