NWS Weather Day 2025
The annual NWS Weather Day event at College Park Academy was held on April 1, 2025. Howard University successfully launched a balloon, which garnered excitement. Also, student attendees expressed interest in booths.
News & Events
NCAS-M at 2025 NOAA EPP/MSI Biennial Education & Science Forum
NCAS-M II fellows, faculty, and staff were well represented at the 2025 NOAA EPP/MSI Biennial Education & Science Forum. The theme was Educate, Innovate, Sustain: Enhancing America’s Global Competitiveness by Preparing a Future Workforce for Ocean, Coastal, and Atmospheric Challenges. NCAS-M II participants showcased impactful NOAA mission aligned research during oral and poster presentations. The […]
2025 Arthur Day Prize Lecture- March 21, 2025- Dr. Jerry Mitrovica
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 […]
The 7th NOAA AI Workshop focusing on generative AI (GenAI) in Earth and space sciences
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 […]
Celebrating Howard University’s Groundbreaking R1 Designation
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 […]
Article Highlight: Tuskegee (Weather) Airmen
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) […]
The Best Poster Award at the Numerical Weather Prediction Conference goes to Jean Carlos Peña
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!!!
The AMS Outstanding Student Oral Presentation Award goes to Lauren L. Taylor
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 Presentations at 2025 AMS Annual Meeting
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 […]
Fall 2024 NCAS-M Graduates
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)
NCAS-M fellows and faculty presented at AGU 2024 (Dec 9-13)
More than 15 presentations were presented by NCAS-M students and faculty at AGU 2024.
Dr. Duane Rosenberg (NOAA/GSL) and Dr. Carlo Wang (NCU, Taiwan) visited the HU Beltsville Campus
Dr. Rosenberg and Dr. Wang visited the Beltsville campus and discussed future collaboration plans.
NOAA/WPO Social Science
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. Ming-Jen Yang from National Taiwan University visits NCAS-M (December 9, 2024)
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
HBCUs & Friends Mixer at AMS
NCAS-M will be hosting the HBCUs & Friends Mixer event at the AMS Annual Meeting. More info will be available here soon.
MS Defense: Mia Trevino on December 9, 2024
Mia Trevino will defend her MS dissertation on December 9, 2024. Mia is a NCAS-M II Cohort 1 fellow at UTEP.
