Iowa State Geological & Atmospheric Sciences

This year's Midwest Geobiology Symposium will be held at Iowa State September 27th and 28th! See midwestgeobiology.org for more information and to register. @ISU_Micrograd @GeoAtmo_ISU #MWGB2024

20 seniors in meteorology presented their undergraduate theses at the annual symposium on Monday! Congratulations to all of you for your excellent work over the past year!

Come see @betsyswanner on Tuesday! @GeoAtmo_ISU

Iowa State senior Nathan Sonntag getting ready to present some early findings of his senior thesis project this morning at @ametsoc 32WAF/28NWP/20Meso.

Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Michelle Chamberlain @Astrobiomeech for winning #FINESST award from @NASA. She will work with her advisor, Dr. Swanner @betsyswanner to investigate the impacts of molybdenum and iron availability on nitrogen cycling in an ancient ocean analog

Congratulations to Dr. Wei Chen, our latest Ph.D. graduate! 🎓👏 Well done on this incredible achievement!

📢Upcoming Ph.D. defense! Wei Chen @vivid_urban, will present her defense seminar online via Webex next Monday (July 10) at 12 pm CDT. Join us with the following meeting link: iastate.webex.com/meet/chenwei.

Webex link for Travis' defense: iastate.webex.com/iastate/j.php?…

Travis Enzensperger (@TXE_WeatherGeek) , M.S. student in meteorology, will be defending his master's thesis this Thursday at 9:30 AM. He will be presenting in-person in Agronomy 3140, as well as virtually over Webex (information below).

Please join us this Wednesday! Geology Ph.D. student, Emily Ross @emilyoross, will defend her dissertation on June 21 at 9 am in Bessey Hall (Room 2226).

Our meteorology Ph.D. student is defending next Monday! Elizabeth Tirone’s (@LizzieTirone) public talk will be hybrid at 2:00 pm, Monday. 6/19. The in-person section occurring in Agronomy Hall 3140 and the meeting link for the online portion is iastate.webex.com/meet/etirone

Check out this recent article from The Conversation featuring Dr. Christina Patricola, assistant professor in meteorology, on the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season! theconversation.com/atlantic-hurri…

Our geology Ph.D. student Wei Chen @vivid_urban is one of six 2023-24 Brown Graduate Fellowship recipients across the ISU campus! Her major professor is Dr. Yuyu Zhou @Zhou_ISU. Congratulations! research.iastate.edu/news/2023-2024…

Last week, @ISUAMS hosted their annual end-of-year banquet! This event celebrates all the many accomplishments of the chapter throughout the year, while also serving as a final send-off for graduating seniors in meteorology.

We were honored to host Dr. Armin Sorooshian as our seminar speaker. His talk on visually imperceptible aerosol particles left us with a deeper understanding of their impact. Our graduate students enjoyed showing him around our campus and hearing about his academic journey.

Their collaborative work aims to improve guidance for rural utility companies in Iowa to minimize power outages, while also considering the potential impacts of climate change on weather hazards.

Congratulations to Dr. Bill Gallus and his ENDURE team for receiving the 2023 Interdisciplinary Team Research Award from the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost @IowaStateU! #interdisciplinary #collaboration #climatechange

Join us at 4:10 pm tomorrow for the kick-off of our last spring seminar series. Dr. Armin Sorooshian from the University of Arizona will be discussing the fascinating topic of atmospheric aerosols' impacts on the climate and human health, drawing on both field and lab studies.

Tomorrow's seminar will be presented in-person by Dr. Tammy Weckwerth from NCAR; her presentation will be on planetary boundary layer remote sensing and data assimilation. Looking forward to seeing you all then!