Internship Recap Meeting
1. Research
2. Private Sector
3. Public Sector/TV
2015 Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(REU) Program In Climate Science at Penn State
• Ten weeks during the 2015
summer
• 40 hours per week
• Preference will be given to rising
juniors and sophomores who
plan to go to graduate school
• March 15, 2015
• Paid
• Research activities may include
field and laboratory work
• Responsibilities include research
experimental design, data
acquisition with state-of-the-art
instruments, analyses of data sets,
and numerical modeling
• Helpful Seminars
• Get to meet other REU students
• Written report and symposia
required at end of program
• Funding to travel to conference
Air Quality Forecasting Internship
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State College, PA – Walker Building
9am – 3pm, Monday – Friday
30 hours a week
Paid
Synoptic Scale Meteorology/ Good
Forecasting Skills – Junior standing
Willing to learn about Atmospheric
Chemistry
Can work individually and on a team
Typical Day: Morning - output daily
forecasts for mid-Atlantic region,
Lunch, Afternoon – SE PA and
Delaware
Send Resume to Amy Huff
(akh157@psu.edu)
NOAA Hollings Scholarship Program
• Apply by January 30th of your sophomore year
– Two years of academic assistance (junior & senior
year)
– 10 week internship at a NOAA facility summer
between junior and senior year
– NOAA Scholarship Orientation and Final
Presentations (Silver Spring, MD)
– Funding to present summer research at a
conference
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Apply Online at: http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/scholarships/hollings.html#page=timeline
NWS Storm Prediction Center
Matthew Brothers
Mentor: Dr. Patrick Marsh
Techniques Development Meteorologist
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Assisted in the design and verification of a model that
used current tornado probability forecasts and population
data to assess the potential impacts of future severe
weather outbreaks.
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Creation of a probabilistic forecast impact scale
Model Storms
Actual Storms
• Examined storm simulation sensitivity to different grid
spacings in abnormal environments
• Results are operationally useful and give forecasters a
sense of what to look for in severe storm situations
• Worked with NSSL/SPC researchers
Matt Flournoy – mflournoy@psu.edu
Kelly Balmes
email: kab5758@psu.edu
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NOAA’s Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship Program
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Pacific Marine Environmental Lab
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Seattle, Washington
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University of Washington
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Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere
and Ocean
Cloud effects on solar and longwave
radiation from moored buoys in the North
Pacific
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Data quality for redundant sensors
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Regional and temporal variations
Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship Deadline past
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Freshmen look out for it next year (typically end
of January deadline)
Columbia University REU
 Live in New York City
 Over 20+ students all over
the nation
 Awesome mentors!
 Potential topics:
 Earth, polar, atmospheric or
oceanic sciences
Characterizing Climate Controls on Vegeta on
in the North American Southwest
Meredith
Benjamin
Cook2,
Jason
Smerdon3,
Richard
Seager3,
Park
B41K-0212
Williams3
State University, 2NASA Goddard Ins tute for Space Studies, 3Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
INTRODUCTION
The North American southwest, extending from Colorado to
Mexico and California to Texas, encompasses a diversity of
climates, eleva ons, and ecosystems. This is also a region that is
expected to experience significant climate changes in the coming
decades. This study a empts to characterize the climate
controls on vegeta on in this region to provide a baseline for
assessing the impacts of climate change.
Precipita on
Temperature
May LAI & Feb-Apr Precip
May LAI & May Temp
AVHRR MAM LAI Area Averaged Time Series
AVHRR JJA LAI Area Averaged Time Series
Time (years)
METHODS
The GIMMS AVHRR leaf area index (LAI) data (1982-2011) were
used to characterize vegeta on density and seasonality. We
compared these results against simulated LAI in the CCSM4
model historical and RCP 8.5 simula ons from the CMIP5
archive.
Jul LAI & Jul Temp
Jul LAI & Apr-Jun Precip
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Time (years)
Figure 5: A decreasing trend in AVHRR LAI is found in the spa al average me series in
both MAM (le ) and JJA (right) average LAI.
CCSM4 LAI Seasonal Peaks
AVHRR & CCSM4 Climatology
Bimodal Peak
Spring and Fall Peak
SON Peak
September, October,
November
AVHRR LAI Spa al Maximum
La tude
JJA Peak
June, July, August
MAM Peak
March, April, May
Sep LAI & Sep Temp
Sep LAI & Jun-Aug Precip
LAI Value
1Pennsylvania
Fish1,
La tude
DJF Peak
December, January,
February
Time (months)
Longitude
Figure 6. Peak season of simulated LAI
vegeta on growth across the southwest
from the CCSM4 model. Bimodality exists
only at two grid points, compared to mul ple
in the observa ons above.
Longitude
Figure 1: Maximum AVHRR LAI values. The bimodal region is located
among Arizona’s southern mountains and in regions of low LAI.
Figure 3a. Point-by-point correla ons between
three month sum precipita on and LAI.
AVHRR LAI Seasonal Peaks
Figure 3b. Point-by-point correla ons
between monthly temperature and LAI.
Bimodal Peak
Spring and Fall Peak
AVHRR LAI Climatology
Precipita on and Temperature Climatology
Precipita on (mm/month)
La tude
MAM Peak
March, April, May
Temperature (Degree C)
JJA Peak
June, July, August
LAI Value
SON Peak
September, October, November
DJF Peak
December, January, February
Longitude
Figure 2. Peak season of LAI vegeta on growth across the southwest.
Vegeta on seasonality is unimodal in most regions, but exhibits bimodal peaks
in spring and late summer/fall in some regions.
Time (months)
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Time (months)
Figure 4: Spa al monthly average between 30° N – 35° N and 102° W – 114° W of
precipita on and temperature (le ) and AVHRR LAI (right).
Figure 7: Spa al monthly average between
30° N – 35° N and 102° W – 114° W for the
AVHRR (red) and CCSM4 (blue) LAI.
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CONCLUSIONS
• Spa al varia ons in vegeta on seasonality and peak LAI are
linked to precipita on regimes across the southwest. Bimodal
vegeta on seasonality is found in regions of low LAI.
• LAI correla ons with temperature are nega ve throughout the
southwest. Although a smaller extent of correla on, May has
the strongest nega ve correla on east of Sierra Madre
Occidental mountains.
• The three month sum precipita on correla ons exhibit
widespread posi ve correla ons with LAI. The area of
significant correla on focuses and moves clockwise as the
North American Monsoon precipita on starts to occur in JJA.
• The CCSM4 spa al monthly average climatology reveals the
discrepancies within the simulated LAI compared to the
observa onal AVHRR LAI.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by NSF award AGS-1243204 (Linking Near-term Future Changes in Weather and Hydroclimate in Western North America to Adap on
for Ecosystem and Water Management) and NOAA award NA08OAR4320912 (Global Decadal Hydroclimate Variability and Change). I would also like to thank my
advisors, Ben Cook, Richard Seager, Jason Smerdon and Park Williams for all the guidance and support I received throughout this project.
How to Apply…
 http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/education/programs/
summer-internship/lamont-summer-intern-program
 2015 Program Dates: May 26th – August 4th, 2015
 Application open February 2nd to March 15th
 DO IT!!
Old Dominion University REU
• 2nd year of program
• Oceanography Department
(CCPO)
• Types of Research?
• Why location matters
Application Information:
• Deadline: February 15, 2015
• May 24 - August 1, 2015 (10
weeks)
• https://www.odu.edu/oeas/reu
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Watching Videos!
Creating a “Secret Code”
Digitizing it/Making a Database
MATALB analysis for patterns and statistics
• http://marycam.coas.oregonstate.edu/index.html
February 21st, 2014
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Kat Kobylt
Bethesda, MD
Founded in 2012
~ 20 employees
SUPER innovative
AccuWeather
State College, PA
• Newspaper and Radio Forecasts
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Get actual experience
• Forecast different weather climates
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Seminars
• Computer graphics
• Forecast Discussions
• Encourage you to find niche
• SOFTBALL!!!
JP Nicola
AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions
Wichita, KS
• Hazardous weather maps
• Isoplething!!!
• Local forecasting
• Issuing warnings
Apply Now!!!
 Accuweather.silkroad.com (just Google “AccuWeather Careers”)
 Big topics in interview:
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CWS
THON
Severe weather knowledge
Quick forecast
 Phone interview, in case that’s new to anyone.
• Commodity trading firm that exchanges physical assets and paper
contracts from natural gas to sugar and coffee
• Analyze models/perform research to provide forecasts across the
country for traders
• Build databases for analysts and traders to understand the effects of
weather patterns on power demand/supply
• Drank Coffee (LOTS OF COFFEE)
Pool Use Forecasting
• Forecast outdoor pool use for a chemical company, Axiall, through a
partnership with the Penn State Department of Meteorology based on
precipitation, temperature, cloud, dew point, and wind conditions and
created outdoor pool use maps for the CONUS using Adobe Illustrator
• Write forecast discussions complimenting the outdoor pool use maps
explaining in detail how the weather/weather pattern will affect outdoor
pool use
• Work with Bill Syrett
• http://ppg.met.psu.edu/
• http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/GFSPUI/puiloop.html
Soybean Rust Project
• Forecasted spread of soybean rust disease for a private agricultural
company, ZedX, through a partnership with the Penn State
Department of Meteorology based on wind and precipitation
conditions and created soybean rust hazard maps for the North
American continent using Adobe Illustrator
• Wrote forecast discussions complimenting the soybean rust hazard
maps explaining in detail how the weather/weather pattern will affect
the spread of the soybean rust disease
• Work with Paul Knight and Jeremy Zidek
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzNw4c07SKGFRmlMNUJyV2hpYUk
/view?usp=sharing
Tower Observations
• Record weather observations for the Walker Building weather station,
where the Penn State Department of Meteorology is located, to be
sent to the National Weather Service as part of the Cooperative
Observer Program
• Work with Bill Syrett
Weather World
• Produce weather graphics and direct a television show that is over 50
years old, Weather World, which currently airs on the Pennsylvania
Cable Network and WPSU
• Work with everyone!
Tips
• Bill will be sending out a mass email sometime later this spring
• “Summer Internship in Meteorology”
• Audition
• Look for additional email from Bill about becoming Tower Worker and
helping out with Weather World
• The hours per week all depend on how many people you are working
with
• Look for another part time job in town if you desire to work more
hours
• State College in the summer is awesome
Ryan Breton
WCVB-TV Boston
Hearst Television
• Average day: 10:30am to 7pm
• Played the role of a weather producer
for the 12pm, 5pm, 6pm newscasts
• Assisted in coverage of severe weather,
including 3 Tornado Warnings &
Hurricane Arthur
• Learned a lot about the challenges of
forecasting New England weather in
the summertime, and how to balance
TV and meteorology
Good Morning America & ABC World News
Jake DeFlitch
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Spent the summer in New York City interning at GMA & ABC!
Money money money… MONEY! But I would do it all over again.
Spent half my time with GMA.. half my time at ABC World News
ABC World News
Good Morning America
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Woke up approx. 1AM-3AM
every morning.
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Collected information on past
weather the day before for
Ginger.
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Created graphics for morning
show.
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Forecasted for certain cities
after show for next day.
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Celebrities!
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Similar to GMA.. but better
hours. Usual shift being
11AM-7PM.
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Wrote daily weather email
out to ABC personnel
discussing yesterday & today’s
weather.
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Created graphics for ABC
World News (usually Ginger)
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Social media HUGE
WTAJ-TV
Forecasting Internship
Altoona, PA
Joe Murgo, Chief Meteorologist
My Contact Info:
Bryant Sell
bds5240@psu.edu
Engineering, Scientific & Technical Intern
Nichole Marsh
Two options: Externship (unpaid) or
Internship (paid)
Follow this link for the application:
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/humanre
sources/interns/index.htm
OR
Google: PA DNCR Internship
TIPS: Select Counties with Regional
Offices
Butler, Cameron, Bedford, Bucks,
Luzerne
Questions?
Email: nwm5120@psu.edu