Dr. Jerry Mitrovica (Harvard University) will give a public lecture on the science of sea level rise. This is part of his public lecture tour as a recipient of the Arthur Day Prize from the National Academy of Sciences. He is available to meet with faculty and also visit classes. This event is hosted by the […]
Dear colleagues, You are invited to join the 7th NOAA AI Workshop focusing on generative AI (GenAI) in Earth and space sciences hosted by NOAA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence. This event is part of the annual NOAA AI workshop series to foster a community around AI research and applications relevant to NOAA missions. To expand engagement with […]
The American Council on Education (ACE) announced that Howard University has been officially conferred a Carnegie Classification Research Activity Designation of Research 1, often referred to as “R1.” Institutions receive this designation for “very high research productivity,” according to ACE. Howard is the only institution to be both an R1 and historically Black college and university […]
In celebration of Black History Month, NCAS-M is highlighting a journal article from Air Power History that discusses the contributions of Black Meteorologists during World War II: Tuskegee (Weather) Airmen. While [Black people] represented approximately 10 percent of the American population in 1940, they comprised just 6.2 percent of the overall Army Air Forces (AAF) […]
NCAS-M fellow, Jean Carlos Peña, received the Best Poster Award at the Numerical Weather Prediction Conference of the 2025 AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Congrats!!!
Lauren Taylor, NCAS-M Fellow, received an “Outstanding Student Oral Presentation Award” at the 105th AMS Annual Meeting. The title of her presentation was “The Fire Next Time: Investigating Wildfire Disaster Resilience in Lahaina, HI”. “Your presentation was incredibly insightful and engaging and clearly demonstrated the depth of your research and your passion for this important […]
NCAS-M fellows and faculty were involved in 35 presentations during the 2025 AMS Annual Meeting. The table below provides additional details on these presentations. Presenters Title Date Time Location Kyle J. Thiem, Z. Tolby, E. Wells, B. J. Hatchett, J. Vickery, S. M. Hoekstra, and A. T. Triplett FIREWX NOAA’s Fire Weather Testbed’s Inaugural, In-Person […]
Four (4) NCAS-M II Fellows graduated from their programs in the fall of 2024! Congratulations to the following: Andrea Belvis-Aquino, BS (UPRM) Joscelyne Guzman, PhD (UTEP) Donald Long, MS (HU) Mia Trevino, MS (UTEP)
More than 15 presentations were presented by NCAS-M students and faculty at AGU 2024.
Dr. Rosenberg and Dr. Wang visited the Beltsville campus and discussed future collaboration plans.
Driving Research for Forecast Delivery and Decision-Making (Feb 18-21, 2025) Social science is the study of people —what they think, how they feel, and how they respond—in a particular context. Recent societal impacts from hurricanes, floods, snow storms, and wildfires, shows a great need to understand the intersection of people and meteorology. The Social Science […]
Prof. Yang, a world-renowned scholar in mesoscale meteorology and precipitation areas, will visit NCAS-M and give a seminar: Taiwan-Area Heavy Rain Observation and Prediction Experiment (TAHOPE): Overview and Research Results NCAS-M HQs, Rm 221, 12pm
NCAS-M will be hosting the HBCUs & Friends Mixer event at the AMS Annual Meeting. More info will be available here soon.
Mia Trevino will defend her MS dissertation on December 9, 2024. Mia is a NCAS-M II Cohort 1 fellow at UTEP.
NCAS-M received a mobile research lab from NOAA/ARL. The mobile research lab is now at the Howard University Beltsville campus.
Save the Date: OAR and the Weather Program Office has invited NCAS-M to the first Extreme Weather Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBES) Summit from February 18th-21st at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, WV. The Weather Program Office is convening this first-of-its-kind Summit to bring together researchers, managers, practitioners, and leaders across […]
