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Penn State honored for 130-year commitment to weather data

— posted on Dec 11, 2023 03:58 PM

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently honored Penn State's weather data center — now housed next to the Walker Building, which is home to the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science — as a 100-year weather/climate monitoring site.

K-12 programs highlight opportunities to connect with Penn State

— posted on Sep 01, 2023 01:26 PM

The annual weeklong camp is held by the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science in partnership with Penn State Conferences and Institutes. This year 37 students from 16 different states attended the program, which launched in 2001.

Students pursue research passions through NOAA’s Hollings Scholarship

— posted on Aug 25, 2023 02:58 PM

Four Penn State students in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences — Bridget Reheard, left, Mallory Wickline, Jackie Kiska and Asha Spencer — were recently awarded the Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to advance their research ambitions.

Penn State scientists join Pacific field campaign to study extreme rainfall

— posted on Sep 01, 2022 04:51 PM

The researchers are participating in the Prediction of Rainfall Extremes Campaign in the Pacific (PRECIP), a $6 million field campaign in Taiwan and Japan funded by the National Science Foundation to improve our understanding of the processes that produce extreme precipitation.

Carbon flow through inland and coastal waterways, implications for climate

— posted on Apr 07, 2022 11:11 AM

A recent study by an international team of scientists including Raymond Najjar, professor of oceanography at Penn State, found that the flows of carbon through the complex network of water bodies that connect land and ocean has often been overlooked and that ignoring these flows overestimates the carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems and underestimates sedimentary and oceanic carbon storage.

Increased storminess may give rise to North Atlantic’s ‘cold blob.’

— posted on Feb 01, 2022 11:14 AM

While climate change is making much of the world warmer, temperatures in a subpolar region of the North Atlantic are getting cooler. A team of researchers report that changes in the wind pattern, among other factors, may be contributing to this “cold blob.”

The Chesapeake Bay is a ‘sink’ for plastic pollution

— posted on Oct 15, 2021 09:44 AM

The vast majority of plastic pollution that makes its way into the rivers of the Chesapeake Bay stays in and along local waters and is not, as researchers put it, “exported” to the ocean.