Title: NOAA Hurricane Hunters Squadron
Host Organization/location: NOAA, MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL
USNA POC: CDR Carl Hager
hager@usna.edu
Academic internship
Required Credentials: open to all oceanography majors; will assist in reinforcing concepts learned in
SO244 – Basic Atmospheric Processes, SO345 Atmospheric Thermodynamics, SO442 – Tropical
Meteorology and SO431 Synoptic Meteorology
Security Clearance: visit request through USNA security office
US Citizens only
3rd block only
Description: The airplanes of the NOAA Hurricane Hunters are flown in support of NOAA's
mission to promote global environmental assessment, prediction and stewardship of the Earth's
environment. These versatile aircraft provide scientists with airborne platforms necessary to
collect the environmental and geographic data essential to their research. Whether studying
global climate change or acid rain, assessing marine mammal populations, surveying coastal
erosion, investigating oil spills, flight checking aeronautical charts, or improving hurricane
prediction models, the flight crews continue to operate in some of the world's most demanding
flight regimes. The focus of this internship is to provide in-flight familiarization of the research /
work conducted by the scientists and pilots in the squadron.