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Professional Talks Attended

All talks given at Millersville University unless listed.

bullet 01/31/08 Carey Lisse (John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) - Clues to the Formation and Evolution of Solar Systems
bullet 02/14/08 ??? (???) - ???
bullet 02/28/08 ??? (???) - ???
bullet 03/05/08 Rob Guarino (WTXF FOX 29 Philadelphia) - ???
bullet 03/06/08 Steve Ackerman (University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) - Observing Clouds from Satellites
bullet 03/20/08 Pamela Heinselman (National Severe Storms Lab) - Rapid Sampling of Severe Storms with the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar
bullet 04/03/08 Kyungsoo Yoo (University of Delaware Department of Plant and Soil Sciences) - Soils Move and Weather: Integrating Geochemisty with Geomorphology on Soil Covered Landscapes
bullet 04/16/08 Lance Bosart (SUNY Albany Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences) - Modern Weather Forecasting: Where Do We Stand and Where Do We Need to Go?
bullet 04/17/08 Todd Spindler (NWS/NCEP) - The Black Sea Deluge Hypothesis: the Case for or against an Ancient Cataclysm
bullet 09/11/08 - Science is as science does: Summer 2008 Student Internships in the Earth Sciences ----- James M. Kurdzo - Evolution of a Tornadic Supercell Thunderstorm, Part I: Preparation of One–Minute Phased Array Radar Measurements for Analysis ----- Alex R. Davies - Detecting Flooded Areas using Satellite Microwave Observations ----- Alan J. Auglis, Kyle Dennis, Edward Russo, Nathaniel Wardle, Adrienne Veilleux, and Megan Wise - Internships in Broadcast Meteorology ----- Samuel A. DeAlba - Interning in the Private Sector: Summer 2008 at Weather Works ----- Brittany L. Potter - Researching the Transport of Oil Pollution in the North Sea
bullet 09/18/08 - Science is as science does: Summer 2008 Student Internships in the Earth Sciences - Part II ----- MacArthur Jones - The SOARS Experience and A Statistical Comparison of Vertical Total Electron Content from Three Ionospheric Models ----- Michele Frank - Interning in Dinosaur Hall ----- Jon Poterjoy - Estimating Correlations in a Coastal Ocean Model Using an Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter
bullet 09/24/08 Ken Carey (Noblis) - A Lifetime of Growth and Success through Mentoring
bullet 09/25/08 Roger Turner (University of Pennsylvania History and Sociology of Science Department) - Weathering Heights ‐ How Aviation Transformed American Meteorology
bullet 10/08/08 Eugene Clothiaux (The Pennsylvania State University Department of Meteorology) - Graduate School Options in the Atmospheric Sciences
bullet 10/09/08 John Madsen (University of Delaware Department of Geological Sciences) - Delaware Day Benthic Mapping Project: Using Geophysical Methods to Map the bottom and Sub-Bottom of an Estuary
bullet 10/22/08 Joe Bastardi and ??? (AccuWeather) - ???
bullet 10/23/08 Gregory S. Jenkins (Howard University Department of Physics and Astronomy) - Water in the Gasoline Tank: Saharan dust, Tropical Cyclo‐Genesis, Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate
bullet 11/13/08 Charles K. Scharnberger (Millersville University of Pennsylvania Department of Earth Sciences) - “Right Coast” Seismicity and the Lamont Cooperative Seismic Network
bullet 11/20/08 James J. Gurka (NOAA/NESDIS) - Plans for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Series: A New Era in Environmental Monitoring
bullet 02/12/2009 David Vanko (Towson University Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences) - Hydrothermal alteration of some impactites and crystalline rocks in the Chesapeake Bay Meteorite Impact Structure
bullet 02/26/2009 Darrell Winner (National Center for Environmental Research) - The Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Air Quality
bullet 03/12/2009 Steven Shirey (Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Terrestrial Magnetism) - Diamonds, geological processes in the deep mantle, and the formation of continents
bullet 03/11/2009 Tom Russell and Paul Lynch (WHP-TV 21 Harrisburg) - Broadcast Meteorology
bullet 02/25/2009 Charles Doswell III (CIMMS/University of Oklahoma) - A Retrospective Look at the Relationship between Academic Achievement and a Professional Career as a Scientist
bullet 02/18/2009 Paul Kocin (National Centers for Environmental Prediction) - Winter Storms in Southeastern Pennsylvania
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Mitch McCue (Plymouth State University) - Intense Mesoscale Precipitation Bands: A Case Study of the Valentine's Day 2007 Storm
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Jennifer Belge (Plymouth State University) - Preferred Regions of Convective Development Over Northern New England as a Function of Flow regime: Southwesterly Flow Case Study
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Don Murray (Unidata) - The IDV at 5: New Features and Future Plans
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Thomas Wasula (NOAA/NWS Albany, NY) - A Storm-Scale Analysis of the 16 June 2008 Significant Severe Weather Event Across New York and Western New England
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] James Ruppert Jr. (University of Albany/SUNY) - An Analysis of the Necessary Ingredients for Moderate- and Large-Amplitude Inertia-Gravity Wave Activity that Occurred in the U.S.-Gulf Region on 7 March 2008
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Alan Srock (University at Albany/SUNY) - A Long-Lived MCS Development Influenced by the Land/Lake Thermodynamic Contrasts near the Great Lakes
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Keith Jaszka (NWS Buffalo Intern) - A Sensitivity Study on the NOAA/GLERL Wind Wave Model Used In The Graphical Forecast Editor
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Nolan Atkins and Todd Lanouette (Lyndon State College) - Are Nocturnal Bow Echos Less Damaging?
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Chris Vagasky (University of Oklahoma/Michigan Severe Weather Project) - A General Climatology of Michigan's Tornadic Activity
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] James Kurdzo (Millersville University) - Progress Report on the Evolutionary Characteristics of a Tornadic Supercell Thunderstorm: Comparisons of 1.0-min Phased Array Radar and 4.2-min WSR-88D Measurements
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Eleanor Vallier-Talbot (NOAA/NWS Taunton, MA) - Summer of the 'Spouts: Analysis of Waterspout Development along the Southern New England Coast during the Summer of 2008
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Jeffrey Frame (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) - The Non-Galilean Invariant Response to Anvil Shading in Simulated Supercell Thunderstorms
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Richard Grumm (NOAA/NWS State College, PA) - Historic East Coast Winter Storms
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] David Beachler (NOAA/NWS State College, PA) - Re-Forecasting Major East Coast Winter Storms
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Cegeon Chan (MIT) - The Stratosphere: Should We Care about What Goes on up There?
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Cindy Fitzgibbon (FOX 25 Boston, MA), Kenneth Carey (Noblis), Cegeon Chan (MIT), Pete Banacos (NWS Burlington, VT), and Steven H. (Wind firm?) - Panel Discussion
bullet 03/07/2009 [Springfield, MA] Joshua Wurman (Center for Severe Weather Research) - ???
bullet 03/08/2009 [Springfield, MA] Robert Gottlieb (Cornell University) - Analysis of Stability Indices for Severe Thunderstorms in the Northeastern United States
bullet 03/08/2009 [Springfield, MA] Chris Ander and Adam Frumkin (Plymouth State University) - Study of Sea-Breeze Interactions which can produce strong warm-season convective winds in the Cape Canaveral area
bullet 03/08/2009 [Springfield, MA] Matthew Scanlora (University of Albany/SUNY) - An Analysis of a High Impact 500-hPa Cutoff Cyclone from the 2008 Warm Season
bullet 03/02/2008 [Pittsburgh, PA] Greg Forbes (The Weather Channel) - Severe Weather 2007 - Weather Getting Wilder?
bullet 03/02/2008 [Pittsburgh, PA] Michael Allen (California University of PA) - The Effects of Temperature, Humidity, and Precipitation on Respiratory Induced Hospitalizations (1998-2006) in Allegheny and Philadelphia Counties
bullet 03/02/2008 [Pittsburgh, PA] James Kurdzo (Millersville University) - Analysis of long-term Temperature Trends in the Upper Atmosphere over Millstone Hill
bullet 03/02/2008 [Pittsburgh, PA] Jamie Rhome (NOAA/NHC) - Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season
bullet 03/02/2008 [Pittsburgh, PA] Brian Hutton Jr. (California University of PA) - The Effect of Temperature on games between the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots
bullet 03/02/2008 [Pittsburgh, PA] Joshua Eachus (California University of PA) - The Non-Blizzard Event of March 2003
bullet 03/02/2008 [Pittsburgh, PA] Robert Hamilton (NOAA/NWS Buffalo, NY) - The Lake Effect snow Event Over Buffalo, NY - October 12-13, 2006
bullet 03/02/2008 [Pittsburgh, PA] Klye Olmstead (California University of PA) - Influences of Temperature Singularities of the Lower Great Lakes and Ohio Valley from 1-Sep - 31 Dec
bullet 03/02/2008 [Pittsburgh, PA] Jonathan Jennings (California University of PA) - A Synoptic Climatology of Tornado Events in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania using the Miller's Guide [TR-200] Classification Scheme
bullet 03/02/2008 [Pittsburgh, PA] Kevin Scharfenberg (SPC) - The Future of Severe Local Storms Forecasting
bullet 09/13/07 Richard Clark and Sepideh Yalda (Millersville University of Pennsylvania Department of Earth Sciences) - Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery Transforming Meteorology Research and Education
bullet 09/20/07 - Student Internship Reports ----- Alex Davies - ----- Randy Byers - ----- Shawn Gindhart - ----- Peter Reynier - ----- Tim Runkle - ----- Kevin Tarber -
bullet 10/04/07 Edith Gallagher (Franklin & Marshall College Department of Biology) - Computer Simulations of Megaripples in the Nearshore
bullet 03/08/07 Joseph Pyle (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences) - Keystone State, Keystone of the Grenville Orogeny: Geological History of the Precambrian Honey Brook Upland and cover rocks, SE Pennsylvania
bullet 10/18/07 Felicia Bechtel (Enviroscan, Inc.) - Hey, This Geophysics Stuff Really Works!
bullet 03/22/07 Richard Gasparovic (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) - Satellite Observations of Oceanic and Atmospheric Internal Waves
bullet 11/01/07 Student Internship Reports ----- Mack Jones - The SOARS Experience and the Daily Cycle of Winds at Estacion Obispo (Mexico) during North American Monsoon ----- Jim Kurdzo - Long Term Temperature Trends in the Ionosphere ----- Danielle Turner - Public Response to Tornado Warnings ----- Daniel Valenten - A Tornado Chasing Expedition ----- Ashley Wallace - Trends and Sources of Aerosols in Alaska
bullet 04/05/07 John G.W. Kelley (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service) - NOAA's nowCOAST, a GIS Web Mapping Portal to Real-Time Coastal Observations and NOAA Forecasts
bullet 04/19/07 Toby Carlson (The Pennsylvania State University Department of Meteorology) - Some Basic Observations of Clouds and the Weather
bullet 04/11/07 John Nese (The Pennsylvania State University Department of Meteorology) - Mediarology - Toward Becoming a Better Weather Consumer
bullet 11/15/07 Sepideh Yalda, Lynn Marquez, Alex DeCaria, and Richard Clark (Millersville University of Pennsylvania Department of Earth Sciences) - Teaching with PRS (“Clickers”) in the Earth Sciences
bullet 11/29/07 Ajoy Kumar (Millersville University of Pennsylvania Department of Earth Sciences) - Are Eddies Nature's Trigger to Enhance Biological Productivity in the Bay of Bengal?
bullet 02/21/07 Bill Murtagh (NOAA Space Environment Center) - Space Weather and the NOAA Space Environment Center
bullet 01/25/07 Helen Delano (Pennsylvania Geological Survey) - Landslides in Pennsylvania , Social and Economic Costs
bullet 05/02/07 Matthew Steinbugl (NWS Stage College, PA) - Skywarn Training Session
bullet 04/18/07 Richard Spinrad (NOAA Research) - Walking the Ridge of Science and Policy: An Environmental Scientist’s Trail Guide
bullet 02/08/07 - ESCI Student Internship Reports ----- James Cipriani - Geophysical Sources of Infrasound with a Focus on Atmospheric Turbulence ----- Daniel Eipper - Satellite-Based Studies of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions off the Atlantic coast of South America ----- Eric Meyers - An Evaluation and Comparison of Microphysics Fields in Dennis (2005) at Various Lifecycle Stages ----- Kevin Tarbert and Michael Techky - Pennsylvania State Geologic Survey Internship
bullet 09/19/07 Frank Lombardo (Weather Works, Inc) - Working in Forensic Meteorology
bullet 10/17/07 Louis Uccellini (NWS/NCEP) - National Center for Environmental Prediction: Overview and Advances in Predicting Coastal Storms
bullet 11/14/07 Richard Grumm (National Weather Service State College, PA) - Overview of a Historic East Coast Snowstorm and spoke about the National Weather Service
bullet 02/22/07 Greg Trafton (Naval Research Laboratory and George Mason University Department of Psychology) - The Cognition of Forecasting
bullet 03/22/07 Alan Robock (Rutgers University Department of Environmental Sciences ) - Spoke about global warming
check 11/01/06 - Internships ----- Eric Meyers - Hurricane Research Division in Miami, Florida ----- Brian Edwards - WTAJ-TV in Altoona, PA ----- Daniel Eipper - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD ----- Jim Kurdzo - WSI in Andover, MA
check 09/07/06 Daniel O'Sullivan (United States Naval Academy Department of Chemistry) - The Influence of Convective Transport of Peroxides and Formaldehyde on Tropospheric HOx over North America
check 10/04/06 Dennis McCarthy (NOAA Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services) - Spoke about working for the National Weather Service
check 11/01/06 Dave Dombek and John Feerick (AccuWeather) - Spoke about AccuWeather internships and jobs
check 10/05/06 Peter Guth (United States Naval Academy Department of Oceanography) - Geomorphometry from Space---The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Views and Measures the Earth
check 10/19/06 Sean Hendrick (Millersville University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics) - Supernovae and Their Remnants
check 11/15/06 Erica Grow and Paul Lynch (WHP CBS 21 Harrisburg) - Spoke about broadcast meteorology
check 11/29/06 Mike Bodner (NCEP/HPC – Development Training Branch) - Use of Statistical Methods in Operational Forecasting
check 11/02/06 Richard Alley (The Pennsylvania State University Department of Geosciences) - Get Rich and Save the World: Energy, Environment, and Innovation
check 11/16/06 Stephen Reid (Lehigh University Department of Earth and Environmental Science) - Earth System Atlas - A New Data Visualization Tool
check 11/30/06 James O'Sullivan (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) - NOAA's Surface Weather Program and the Transition of the Meteorological Data Assimilation Ingest System (MADIS) into Operations