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Creator of instrumental radar techniques passes away

Posted in News, People News on June 11, 2020 by Emily Summars.
WSR-57 radar

A member of the meteorology community, Leslie “Les” Lemon, passed away in late May. Lemon was an eminent radar meteorologist during his career and saw it as his mission to aid forecasters.

Tags: Featured, in memoriam

Q&A with Researcher Cassandra Shivers-Williams

Posted in Collaboration, People News on March 31, 2020 by Emily Summars.
Cassandra Shivers

Severe weather researchers focus on more than just storms. They also study how people interpret and react to severe weather warnings.

Tags: Behavioral Insights Group, Featured, Women of NOAA, Women of NSSL, Women's History Month

Q&A with Researcher Thea Sandmael

Posted in News, People News on March 27, 2020 by Emily Summars.
Group photo from 2019

Researchers constantly study new ways to help weather forecasters utilize the vast amount of data provided by the nation’s Doppler radar network.

Tags: Featured, radar research, Women of NOAA, Women of NSSL, Women's History Month

NOAA NSSL announces new director

Posted in News, People News on March 20, 2020 by Emily Summars.
Jack Kain speaking to someone in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed room

A collaborative leader in the meteorological community and expert in weather modeling is returning to NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, as its new director. John “Jack” Kain starts in this new position…

Tags: Announcement, Featured, Jack Kain, People News

Severe weather luminary, former NOAA NSSL director passes away

Posted in News, People News on February 24, 2020 by Emily Summars.

The weather community mourns the loss of leader and luminary Jeff Kimpel, who passed away Saturday morning. He was the NSSL director for 13 years.

Tags: Featured, in memoriam, Jeff Kimpel

Researcher awarded at international radar conference

Posted in News, People News on October 8, 2019 by Emily Summars.

The American Meteorological Society recently awarded a researcher for his contributions to the weather radar community.

Tags: AMS, award, Radar Research News

Researcher awarded by AMS

Posted in News, People News on September 30, 2019 by Emily Summars.

The American Meteorological Society announced the 2020 award and honor recipients.

Tags: AMS, award, Featured

NSSL instrumentation meteorologist retires after 47 years

Posted in News, People News on December 13, 2018 by Emily Summars.

Sherman Fredrickson retired in early December after working over 40 years. He remembers a time atmospheric measurements were made via pen and pad.

Tags: Featured, Retirement

NOAA welcomes Hollings student participants

Posted in People News on June 8, 2018 by Emily Summars.
Hollings and REU students in a board room for orientation.

This summer the National Weather Center has four visiting Hollings students and six REU students working with NOAA entities in the building.

Tags: Hollings, REU, student program

April 12th Reddit AMA: What’s On the Radar? | Talk Weather Research with NOAA

Posted in People News on April 5, 2018 by Emily Summars.
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When severe weather strikes anywhere in the United States, weather radar is one of the most important tools forecasters use to track storms and warn the public. The current system, known as the WSR-88D radar…

Tags: Featured, Reddit AMA

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