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Crevasse and Lakes

Bader Lectureship to Feature Renowned Climatologist

Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 6 p.m. the Rosenstiel School will host the Henri and Adele Bader Lectureship on its Virginia Key campus. The speaker will be world-renowned climatologist Dr. Konrad Steffen. A preeminent researcher known to most as “Koni”, Dr. Steffen is responsible for vital instrumentation deployed in the Arctic that helps monitor the significant changes taking place on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Without his work, human knowledge of Arctic climate, warming, and melting dynamics would be substantially diminished. The seminar-style scientific lecture titled “Changes in the Arctic Ice cover: Greenland ice sheet and surrounding oceans,” is free and open to the public. Read more…

AMS

Sky’s The Limit As Unprecedented No. of Students Recognized by AMS

Of a 45 total American Meteorological Society undergraduate scholarships and fellowships available this year, five were awarded to students studying meteorology at UM's Rosenstiel School. Given on the basis of academic merit, these scholarships are designed to attract promising young scientists to careers in the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic fields. Students who received scholarships were: Roque Cespedes, Jason Hwang, Scott Powell and Jennifer Gahtan. Angela Colbert was awarded a fellowship. Read more…