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DaNa Carlis named director of NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory

Posted in News, People News on January 11, 2023 by Keli Pirtle.
DaNa Carlis

DaNa L. Carlis, Ph.D., a research meteorologist and experienced scientific leader, has been named the director of NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma. He will join the world’s preeminent research institution for…

Tags: Featured

Webinar highlights spring research activities at NSSL

Posted in News, People News, Talks and Articles on March 31, 2022 by Keli Pirtle.
Woman launching weather balloon at sunset under cloudy sky

It’s severe weather season and researchers at the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory are busy taking instruments to the storms, collecting experimental radar data, and collaborating with partners in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed to…

Tags: ATD, FACETs, Featured, HWT, PERiLS, Spring Experiment, TORUS, warn-on-forecast

Making connections between weather and UAS

Posted in News, People News on October 15, 2021 by Emily Jeffries.

Tony Segalés Espinosa says his love of small-scale aircraft began as a kid, flying model aircraft with his dad. Today, that love transfers into engineering drones for severe weather research.

Tags: Featured, Hispanic Heritage Month, UAS

Translations and beyond

Posted in News, Outreach News, People News on October 12, 2021 by Emily Jeffries.

Based on research with SPC forecasters and research with language experts, a researcher recommended a new SPC risk communication scale model in order to improve weather outreach to Spanish-speaking communities.

Tags: Featured, Hispanic Heritage Month, severe weather, Severe weather communication

WoFS at the AMS, and the 2020 Iowa Derecho

Posted in Guest Contributor, People News on February 19, 2021 by Patrick Burke.

The Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society is the largest recurring conference in our field. In January 2021, the 101st AMS took place virtually, but that didn’t stop the experimental Warn-on-Forecast System from taking center stage.

Tags: Guest Contributor, warn-on-forecast

Creator of instrumental radar techniques passes away

Posted in News, People News on June 11, 2020 by Emily Jeffries.
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 Jeffries.
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 Jeffries.
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 Jeffries.
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 Jeffries.

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

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