Spring 2024 Events
Weekly:
On Fridays at 12:00pm meet in Bessey 105 (the lab) for a weather discussion led by the Synoptic Class with Dr. Van Den Broeke and Devon Healey!
Calendar:
SEAS Coffee Hour: April 26 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Stout Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Stout Lecture: April 26 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Jason Eleason
Topic: CSS: Flop for Failure? A technical evaluation of recent commercial Carbon Capture and Storage projects
Journal Club: April 30 from 12:00-1:00pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey once every other week on Tuesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week's article is: Storm-Scale Polarimetric Radar Signatures Associated with Tornado Dissipation in Supercells. Jacob Segall et al., 2022. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-21-0067.1
Department Trivia: May 1
See Doug Pellatz's email for more information
SEAS Coffee Hour: May 3 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Stout Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Stout Lecture: May 3 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Daniel Vecellio
Topic: Critical environmental limits to extreme heat tolerance and implications in a warming world
Past Spring 2024 Events
Coffman Lecture: January 29 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Kathleen Bennison
Topic: Salt minerals on Earth and Mars as proxies for past environments, climates, and life
Journal Club: January 30 from 12:00-1:00pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey once every other week on Tuesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week's article is: http://nwafiles.nwas.org/jom/articles/2013/2013-JOM19/2013-JOM19.pdf
Stout Lecture: To Be Rescheduled
Speaker: Ashley Poust
Topic: Swimming into the Pleistocene: Santa Cruz Island and how the unique geology of Southern California opens a window into the origins of modern coastal ecosystems
Stout Lecture: February 2 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Brandon McElroy
Topic: Natural (and Unnatural) History of the Lower Mississippi River Delta
Journal Club: February 13 from 12:00-1:00pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey once every other week on Tuesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week will be led by Ben Schweigert and the topic is "Polarimetric Signatures in Supercell Thunderstorms. Matthew Kumjian and Alexander Ryzhkov 2008." https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JAMC1874.1
SEAS Coffee Hour: February 16 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Stout Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Stout Lecture: February 16 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Jack Scheff
Topic: Climate change and water scarcity: what do we know?
SEAS Coffee Hour: February 23 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Coffman Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Coffman Lecture: February 23 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Nora Noffke
Topic: Cyanobacteria Mats Preserved in the Sedimentological Record
Coffman Lecture: February 26 from 3:30-4:30 VIRTUAL
Speaker: Glenn Sharman
Topic: Opportunities and Challenges in using Zircon U-Pb Geochronology to Constrain the Maximum Depositional Age of Sedimentary Sequences
Journal Club: February 13 from 12:00-1:00pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey once every other week on Tuesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This weeks topic will be: Low-Level ZDR Signatures in Supercell Forward Flanks: The Role of Size Sorting and Melting of Hail. Dawson et al. 2014, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0118.1
SEAS Coffee Hour: February 28 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 219
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Coffman Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Coffman Lecture: February 28 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Amy Weislogel
Topic: TBD
SEAS Coffee Hour: March 1 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Stout Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Stout Lecture: March 1 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Jana Houser
Topic: Wait, tornadoes form how? Revisiting the Spatio-temporal evolution of tornadoes using rapid scan mobile radar observations.
SEAS Coffee Hour: March 8 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Coffman Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Coffman Lecture: March 8 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Nicole Gasparini
Topic: TBD
SEAS Coffee Hour: March 18 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 219
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Coffman Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Coffman Lecture: March 18 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Tammy Rittenour
Topic: Secrets from under the Ice: Evidence for an ice-free interval in NW Greenland at 400ka and implications for the future
Journal Club: March 19 from 12:00-1:00pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey once every other week on Tuesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week's article is: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0354.1
SEAS Coffee Hour: March 22 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Coffman Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Coffman Lecture: March 22 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Majie Fan
Topic: Late Paleogene Loess in the Western USA and Its Significance
SEAS Coffee Hour: March 25 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 219
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Coffman Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Coffman Lecture: March 25 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Barbara Carrapa
Topic: TBD
SEAS Coffee Hour: March 29 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Stout Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Stout Lecture: March 29 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Selby Hearth
Topic: Geologists and knowledge production: confronting colonial legacies in mineral collections
Journal Club: April 2 from 12:00-1:00pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey once every other week on Tuesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week's article is: Tornado Formation and Intensity Prediction Using Polarimetric Radar Estimates of Updraft Area. Michael French and Darrel Kingfield, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-21-0087.1
SEAS Coffee Hour: April 5 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Stout Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Stout Lecture: April 5 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Andrew Winters
Topic: Regieme-Dependent Predictability of Cold Season Precipitation Events in the St. Lawrence River Valley
SEAS Coffee Hour: April 12 from 2:30-3:30 Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before Stout Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
Stout Lecture: April 12 from 3:30-4:30 in Bessey 117
Speaker: Adriane Lam
Topic: She sieves sea shells from the sea floor: Plankton fossils reveal oceanic evolution and dispersal processes
AMS/SEAS Department Picnic: April 20th from 11:00am-2:00pm at Oak Lake Park
Come hang out at the end of year department get together! We'll be eating food, playing football and frisbee, and putting on lots of sunscreen!
Fall 2023 Events
SEAS Coffee Hour: September 8 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before STOUT Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
STOUT Lecture: September 8 at 3:30pm
Speaker: Ross Dixon, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Topic: The Impact of Low-Level Clouds on the Timescale of ITCZ Shifts
EAS Deptartment Social Event: September 11 at 3:30pm in the Bessey Lecture Hall (117)
Journal Club: September 13 from 1:45-2:45pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey one a week on Wednesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week's article is: Insights into Supercells and Their Environments from Three Decades of Targeted Radiosonde Observations.
SEAS Coffee Hour: September 15 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before STOUT Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
STOUT Lecture: September 15 at 3:30pm
Speaker: Lynn Elkins, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Topic: Systematic numerical modeling of uranium-series disequilibria in mid-ocean ridge basalts
Association for Women Geoscientists Social: September 15 from 4:45-6:00pm in Bessey 219
Come eat ice cream with our first Woman in Geosciences Stout Lecturer, Dr. Elkins, and help AWG plan for future activities!
SEAS Coffee Hour: September 22 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before STOUT Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
STOUT Lecture: September 22 at 3:30pm
Speaker: Douglas Hallum, Conservation and Survey Division, School of Natural Resources
Topic: Collecting observation data to improve understanding of stream-ground water interaction in the lower South/North Platte River watersheds, west-central Nebraska
Journal Club: September 27 from 1:45-2:45pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey one a week on Wednesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week's article is: Simulated Supercells in Nontornadic and Tornadic VORTEX2 Environments. Brice E. Coffer and Matthew D. Parker. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-16-0226.1
All Majors Mandatory Meeting: October 2 at 5:00pm in Bessey 104
A meeting led by Dr. Houston to make sure all Meteorology-Climatology majors know about research opportunities and grad-school information as they move through undergrad.
SEAS Coffee Hour: October 6 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before STOUT Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
STOUT Lecture: October 6 at 3:30pm
Speaker: Sorab Panday, GSI Environmental
Topic: TBD
Resume and Cover Letter Workshop: October 9 from 3:00-3:45 in Bessey 219
Come learn about what information you should have on your resume, how to format a resume, and how to write a cover letter with UNL Career Coaches.
Journal Club: October 11 from 1:45-2:45pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey one a week on Wednesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week's article is: The Influence of Environmental Low-Level Shear and Cold Pools on Tornadogenesis: Insights from Idealized Simulations. Markowski and Richardson. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0159.1
SEAS Coffee Hour: October 11 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before STOUT Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
STOUT Lecture: October 11 at 3:30pm
Speaker: Christian Hübscher, University of Hamburg
Topic: Looking into the earth with marine geophysics: Fundamental earth processes in a single complex sedimentary basin
SEAS Coffee Hour: October 20 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before STOUT Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
STOUT Lecture: October 20 at 3:30pm
Speaker: Jere Lipps, University of Berkley
Topic: Evolution and Extinction in the Pelagic Realm
Journal Club: October 25 from 1:45-2:45pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey one a week on Wednesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week's article is: The Influence of Lifting Condensation Level on Low-Level Outflow and Rotation in Simulated Supercell Thunderstorms. Matthew Brown and Christopher J. Nowotarski. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0216.1
SEAS Coffee Hour: October 27 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before STOUT Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
STOUT Lecture: October 27 at 3:30pm
Speaker: Ellis Adams, University of Notre Dame
Topic: Why Should a Married Man Fetch Water? Household Water Insecurity, Masculinities, and Embodiment in Africa's Slums and Informal Settlements
SEAS Halloween Social: October 27 at 5:00pm in Bessey 203
Come hang out with other majors from our department as we decorate mugs and vote on t-shirts. This is a great chance to get to know people from different majors and different grades!
SEAS Coffee Hour: November 3 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before STOUT Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
STOUT Lecture: November 3 at 3:30pm
Speaker: Zachary Handlos, Georgia Institute of Technology
Topic: Atmospheric Science Education Research: Recent Progress and How to Get Involved
Journal Club: November 8 from 1:45-2:45pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey one a week on Wednesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week's article is: The Influence of Convection Initiation Strength on Subsequent Simulated Supercell Evolution. Matthew Flournoy and Erik Rasmussen. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0069.1
SEAS Coffee Hour: November 10 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before STOUT Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
STOUT Lecture: November 10 at 3:30pm
Speaker: Wei Zhang, Utah State University
Topic: Characterizing Two Hydroclimates in the Contiguous United States: One Parched and One Soaked
Journal Club: November 29 from 1:45-2:45pm in Bessey 105
Meet with Devon Healey one a week on Wednesdays to discuss a journal article and get more comfortable with reading atmospheric science literature. This week's article is: The Relative Importance of Updraft and Cold Pool Characteristics in Supercell Tornadogenesis Using Highly Idealized Simulations. Fischer and Dahl 2020. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0126.1
SEAS Coffee Hour: December 1 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
A Coffee Hour hosted by SEAS (the EAS student organization) before STOUT Lectures to meet the speaker and other EAS students and faculty.
STOUT Lecture: December 1 at 3:30pm
Speaker: Samson Hagos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Topic: Influences of surface-atmosphere interactions in the propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and implications for the landfalling atmospheric rivers
SEAS Cookie Potluck: December 8 at 2:30pm in Bessey 109
"Next week, on December 8th, we will be holding a Cookie Potluck during the normal Coffee Hour time! It will start at 2:30pm in Bessey 109. Please bring cookies and sweets! There will be coffee, tea, and hot chocolate provided! Please come and celebrate the end of the semester and unwind before finals week!"