This is eighth week of the spring 2015
semester.
ALERTS:
 TODAY is the deadline to file your graduation
application for spring 2015! You may apply for
graduation on Ozone, under the Academics
tab.
 The next Tornado Forecasting Workshop
Series with Rich Thompson takes place on
Tuesday, 3/3, at 7:30 PM in the National
Weather Center, Room 1313.
 The next Association of Geography Graduate
Students (AGGS) meeting takes place this
Wednesday, 3/4, at 5:30 PM in Sarkeys Energy
Center, Room 442. All Geography and
Environmental Sustainability graduate
students are welcome to attend.
 There will be no Walk-In Hours on Wednesday
(3/4) this week.
 Daily Savings Time begins this coming Sunday
(3/8); don’t forget to set your clocks AHEAD
one hour!
 The Countdown Continues: Just 55 days until
the gala opening of the 2015 NWC
Biennale. And don’t forget that the magnificent
Galileo exhibit opens this
fall! http://galileo.ou.edu/
Spring and Summer Degree Candidates –
Graduation Gear-Up starts tomorrow and runs through Friday
in Beaird Lounge. Take advantage of this fantastic one-shop
stopping experience for all your graduation needs!
Congratulations, Ben!
Meteorology senior Ben Toms was selected as the Student
Presentation Award Winner at the Tenth Symposium on
Societal Applications at the 2015 American Meteorological
Society’s Annual Meeting for his poster presentation,
"Development of a Black Ice Prediction Model for Emergency
Preparedness and Response." Ben’s name will soon be listed in
the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS),
along with the other student presentation award winners.
You can check out Ben’s poster abstract
here: https://ams.confex.com/ams/95Annual/webprogram/1
0SOCIETY.html#Monday1; just scroll down to the 2:30 poster
session and click on the title for all the details.
State Capitol hosts two A&GS-related
events next week
The 10th annual Oklahoma Water Appreciation Day takes
place next Wednesday, March 11th, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM on
the 4th floor rotunda of the Oklahoma State Capitol. This
annual celebration is held to demonstrate the importance of
Oklahoma’s water resources and provide information on water
management, conservation, protection, and educational
programs. There will be a number of organizations in
attendance who will be showcasing their involvement in
preserving Oklahoma’s most precious natural resource. For
more information, contact Cole Perryman at 405-530-8800 or
cole.perryman@owrb.ok.gov.
The following day…
The State Geographic Council hosts the 21st annual GIS Day at
the Capitol, on Thursday, March 12th, from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM
on the second and fourth floors of the rotunda in the state
capitol building. GIS Day at the Capitol is a unique opportunity
for the public and private sectors to highlight the uses of
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and to showcase how
the technology is being used as a decision-making tool
throughout the state of Oklahoma. This is a free event and
everyone is invited to attend. For more information about GIS
Day at the Capitol, please contact Shellie Willoughby at
shellie.willoughby@conservation.ok.gov.
If you don’t have access to a car, check your CART schedule;
there are daily buses that run from Norman to the State
Capitol.
This Week’s Seminars:
Sattar Atash Bahar, a graduate student in the Atmospheric
Radar Research Center, will present “Active Microwave Filters
Based on Negative Resistance,” on Thursday, March 5th at 1:15
PM in the Radar Innovations Lab (RIL), Room 202.
Dr. Daniel Dawson, Research Scientist for the Center for
Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) will present
Convection connections: the interplay of dynamics,
thermodynamics, and microphysics in supercell thunderstorms
on Friday, March 6th at 1:00 PM, in the National Weather
Center, Room 5600.
Marcus Johnson, master of science degree candidate in the
School of Meteorology, will present Comparison of Polarimetric
Signatures Simulated using Two-Moment Bulk Microphysics
Schemes in WRF in Idealized Supercell Storms on Friday, March
6th at 2:00 PM in the National Weather Center, Room 5600.
First ARM Summer Workshop to be Held in
Oklahoma
In an effort to promote the training of the next generation of
atmospheric scientists, the first ever Atmospheric Radiation
Measurement (ARM) Summer Workshop on observations and
modeling of aerosol, clouds, and precipitation will take place
this summer, July 13-24, in the National Weather
Center. Sponsored by the ARM Climate Research Facility, this
workshop will cater to graduate and postdoctoral students
interested in observations and modeling of aerosol, clouds, and
precipitation processes.
The summer workshop will provide theoretical and practical
training on instruments from the Southern Great Plains site
and will encourage innovative methods for using ARM facilities
to address complex scientific inquiries. Daily activities will
include two keynote lectures and discussion, followed by four
to six hour sessions of group activities. The working groups
will explore the following themes: aerosols and cloud
condensation nuclei, boundary layer structure, cloud birth and
fraction, cloud properties, cloud to precipitation transitioning,
precipitation properties, and models ability to capture clouds
Please send your application (i.e., a motivation letter, one
recommendation letter, and curriculum vitae [CV]) in a single
PDF to Jackie Marshall at jackie.marshall@pnnl.gov.
Participant applications are due by April 30, 2015.
Chrysalis Scholarship
The Chrysalis Scholarship provides up to $2000 to help fund
degree completion for women geoscience graduate students
whose education has been significantly interrupted by life
circumstances. The scholarship is sponsored by the
Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG), and is intended
to cover costs associated with completion of a
thesis/dissertation, beyond what is traditionally covered by
primary research funding. Costs may include drafting
expenses, child care, defense travel, late-state research and
analyses, or anything else to assist a candidate during those
critical final days. The deadline to apply for this year’s
scholarship is Tuesday, March 31, 2015. For more information,
see the attached flyer.
This week’s Extras
Student Success Series:
Integrity Council: How Can I Get Involved?
March 2
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Room 250
How to Struggle Successfully
March 2
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Room 250
Monday,
Wagner Hall,
Monday,
Wagner Hall,
And don’t forget:

Three job openings through CIMMS: Job requisition #s
21509, 21582, and 21662; you can apply online at
http://hr.ou.edu/
 South Central Climate Research Center (SCCSC) summer
internship deadline application is 5:00 PM Friday,
March 20th, 2015: http://goo.gl/ifHV35
 Shellberg Scholarship Applications due March
25th: http://bit.ly/1uav1mV
 The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program
(SCIPP) internships; see the attached flyer for details
ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR MM?
If you have any announcement you would like posted in
Monday Memo (e.g., meetings, seminars, jobs, internships or
just some great news) please send it to Asst. Dean Hempe
(mahempe@ou.edu) by Friday at noon to appear in the next
week’s edition.
In 1807, the U.S. Congress passed an act prohibiting “the
importation of slaves into any port or place within the
jurisdiction of the United States." Slavery continued within the
US for another 58 years, though, until it ended in 1865 with the
passage of the 13th amendment to the constitution.
In 1899, Mount Rainier National Park in Washington was
established by the U.S. Congress. Mount Rainier is the highest
mountain in Washington, with a summit of 14,411 feet. It is
also an active volcano.
In 1906, a tornado in Meridian, Mississippi killed 33 people
and caused $5 million dollars in damage (about $120 million
dollars today).
In 1925, state and federal highway officials developed a
nationwide route-numbering system and adopted the familiar
U.S. shield-shaped, numbered marker.
In 1933, an 8.4 earthquake hit 180 miles off the coast of
Japan. The quake itself didn’t do that much damage, but the
subsequent tsunami killed over 1500 people, injured
thousands more, and destroyed more than 7000 homes.
In 1949, the B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort
Worth, Texas. The American plane had completed the first nonstop around-the-world flight. She covered 23,452 miles in 94
hours and 1 minute.
In 1972, U.S. spacecraft Pioneer 10 was launched. Bolted to
the probe's exterior wall was a plaque designed by astronomer
Carl Sagan displaying a drawing of a human man and woman
and a star map marked with the location of the sun. Pioneer 10
left the solar system in June, 1983, and the next day radioed
back the first scientific data on interstellar space. It is now
more than six billion miles from Earth.
In 1986, Corazon Aquino (1933 – 2009) was sworn into office
as president of the Philippines, the first female president in
Asia. Mrs. Aquino ran for president after her husband (and
vocal Marcos critic) Senator Benigno Aquino was
assassinated. Her first public declaration was to restore the
civil rights to the citizens of her country that had been stripped
under the previous president, Ferdinand Marcos.
In 1998, images from the American spacecraft Galileo
indicated that the Jupiter moon Europa has a liquid ocean and
a source of interior heat.
In 2000, due to medical reasons, Chile's former President
Augusto Pinochet was freed from house arrest in Great Britain
and allowed to return to Chile. Pinochet grabbed power in
Chile following a United States-backed coup d'état on
September 11, 1973 that overthrew the elected president,
Salvador Allende. Pinochet was responsible for the torture,
interment, and death of thousands of Chileans during his
dictatorship, but he never had to answer for any of it. He
finally died of congestive heart failure in December, 2006.
And your parting shot:
With the spring storm season on the horizon, it’s a good time
to remind everyone of a sobering statistic: there are more
deaths due to flooding each year than from any other severe
weather related hazard. This is mainly due to the fact that
people severely underestimate the most powerful force on
earth – water. Over half of all flood-related drownings occur
when a vehicle is driven into hazardous flood water, and is
subsequently swept away. These vehicle-related flood deaths
are preventable, though. Just remember this simple
(but effective) advice: Turn Around Don't Drown®.
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