Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Assistant Professor Alex Anderson-Frey has a new paper in the Bulletin of Atmospheric Sciences titled “Compared to what? Establishing environmental baselines for tornado warning skill”. Read more about it in UW News. 

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The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington (UW) invites applications for a nine-month, non-tenure-track, part-time lecturer to teach undergraduate courses in climate sciences, including climate change (past, present and future), environmental justice, clean energy solutions, and the impacts of climate change. 

Congratulations to graduate student Conor McNicholas for winning first prize among oral presentations at the AMS 2021 Artificial Intelligence conference 

January 27, 2021, 5-6pm PT
Department alumni Dr. David Reidmiller is participating in a panel of speakers hosted by the Climate Impacts Group along with other experts on climate impacts science and policy. 

Friends and Alumni of the Atmospheric Sciences Department Please Join Us
Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
5pm-6pm PT (Seattle)  via Zoom link
Please RSVP for the department reception at: https://forms.gle/fzkJLNTPFQr7u4sBA
For more information about this year’s AMS Conference, please go to: https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2021/

According to the current American legislation, gambling houses can be located in the two indicated cities, specially designated Indian reservation zones, as well as in the form of floating establishments. 

Recent graduate Jonathan Weyn and Professor Dale Durran are featured in UW News for their collaborative research with Microsoft on using A.I. to produce more accurate research forecasts. 

Postdoc Robert Jnglin Wills is featured in UW News for his work on a new international study published in Science Advances. The study reveals changes to the circulation of the North Pacific and its impact on early human migration. 

Congratulations to Professor Shuyi Chen who was elected to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Council and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Board of Trustees.
The AMS Council is the principal governing body of the Society and is responsible for ensuring the objectives of the Society are accomplished. 

More than 50 UW researchers have been named to Clarivate’s annual list of Highly Cited Researchers. Among them are our very own Joel Thornton and Phil Rasch. Researchers named to this list have shown great influence through multiple highly cited papers throughout the last decade. 

Kyle Armour, associate professor in the School of Oceanography and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for his outstanding scientific contributions.