Internship Recaps!WHAT DID YOU DO THIS SUMMER?

University of Southampton Field Course• 21 June – 4 July 2015 in the Fal estuary, Falmouth, UK

• Fieldwork in: Bathymetry, biological, chemical, physical properties

• Scientific paper on offshore temporal variability in physical and biological structures • <10 yrs of course, used buoy in Plymouth to use long range

Falmouth Website

Tower Work/Weather World/PPG

• Tower Work• Observations

• Weather World• Forecast Graphics• Directing

• PPG• Forecast pool use for Axiall

Corporation

• Perks?• State College during summer• Paid during school year • You get to work with Marisa!

• And Fred!!!!!!!

WTVR CBS 6 Richmond, VA

Working For You - The Weather Authority

Chief Meteorologist Zach Daniel

Penn State Alumni & Meteorologist Mike Stone

Michael Spagnolo – Weather Intern/Summer Weather Producer

• NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) Undergraduate

Student Internship Program (USIP)

• Geared towards, but not limited to, underrepresented groups within

the sciences

• 9-week summer research program hosted at Howard University

• Each student chosen is paired up with an NCAS mentor, such as

professors from University of Maryland and Howard, or NOAA

researchers

• For example, Matt worked with a NOAA researcher to analyze the

detection and characteristics of sprite-inducing lightning

• $5200 stipend, plus additional funds for food and transportation

• Meant to provide students a pathway into NOAA and other federal

science-related positions

• More information at: http://ncas.howard.edu (applications will be

available later this fall)

Student:

Matthew Brown

Marissa Lautenbacher

Broadcast/ForecastingWeather Intern

Where? ABC27 in Harrisburg

DMA is most of south central PA including Lancaster

Who? Dan Tomaso –previous grad student here at PSU

What I did:

-Practice in front of green screen

-Make my own discussions/ forecasts/ graphics with WSI Max

-Mock Newscast with teaser, main weather, and anchor chat

-Community events- getting to know the viewers, summer fairs and festivals (free food!!), talking at scout troops and summer camps

-Filming environmental features

Ryan BretonWCVB-TV BostonHearst Television

• Average day: 10:30am to 6:30pm

• Weather producer for the

12pm, 5pm, 6pm newscasts

• Critical role in severe weather

coverage behind the scenes

• Researched Boston’s epic winter

and created “Buried in Boston”, a

series of presentations my mentor

is giving, including at AMS

• Learned a lot professionally –

how to interact with co-workers,

work in a newsroom, etc.

Penn State Air Quality Forecasting Office• Worked with Dr. Amy Huff (also Greg)• Model diagnostic/forecast discussion• Deterministic Mid-Atlantic air quality

forecast (O3, PM2.5)

Forecasting skills (weather & AQ) Scientific Writing Research Opportunity? Money

Interning at AccuWeather• Went through “Weather Forecasting 101”.

• Gained a tremendous amount of forecasting experience.

• Helped full-time forecasters and worked on various forecasting shifts.• Newspapers, Graphics, Website forecasts, Social

Media

• Worked on a Post-Analysis project• Analyzed the Houston Flooding event of 2015.

• Great people to work with (Most are PSU alums!!!)

Bermuda Weather Service Summer Job- Michael Johnston

• Meteorological Technician• Weather

Observing• METAR, SPECI,

SPECIAL, SYNOP, Wx Balloons, NOTAM, & Flight Plans

• Climate Keeping

Summer 2015 NWS InternshipFairbanks, AK, WFO Andy Stuart• Coastal flood project

• Job Shadowing

• NWS Internships possible at many offices, give them a call

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John Opatz

Weather Analytics Cyclone Tracker

Max Gawryla

● WSI (Weather Services International).

● Worked primarily on analyzing short-range forecasts-on-demand.

● Also worked a little on the Real Time Rain Alerts system and the Nowrad Unified Radar project.

● Spent almost all of my time working in MATLAB.

● Got the internship through a connection within the department.

Josh Gugel

Responsibilities

• Hourly T and Td forecasts for power plant

• 10-Day forecasts for few cities across the country

• Business Continuity daily email

• Seasonal outlook forecasts

• Advising commodity traders

• Work on independent projects

Experience

• Learn from other sectors of the energy industry

• Competitive pay (~$18/hr)

• Living stipend for those who cannot commute

• 6:00-2:30 day

• Corporate America feel

Constellation Energy

• Located in Baltimore, MD

• Deals with retail and wholesale operations of Exelon

• Provides power to Baltimore, DC, Delmarva, Philadelphia, and Chicago

Contact: David Ryan, david.ryan@constellation.com

Brad Guay

Bridgewell ResourcesThe

Company

• Based in Portland, Oregon

• Commodities trading firm with 6 divisions

• About 200 employees

Renewables Trading InternMy Job

• Training program taught us how to trade

• Solar power finance, development

• Supply chain logistics

Important to BusinessWeather Impacts

• Renewables (Wood Pellets)

• Utility Poles

• Agriculture

Army Research Lab- Adelphi, MarylandAmanda Hendrix

Paid 10 week program (turned in to 11.5 weeks)

Programming intensive- a great opportunity to learn Fortran and other programming tools (debugger, high performance computing) My project: Working with the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Environment model (ABLE)- 500 m. resolution, looking at air flow around buildings and over hills.

If you want to hear more about it, I will be presenting a poster at AMS and I am in the process of co-authoring a paper with my mentor.

Other unique opportunities: toured Aberdeen Proving Ground, outreach program with middle school students

One disadvantage: You hear back later than most internships and you have to get a security clearance.

ODU OEAS REU Zachary Wolff

• What it is: A Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) focused on coastal sea level rise. • Where: Old Dominion University located in Norfolk, VA (about 30 minutes from Virginia

Beach)• What you do: Work with professors in the Department of Oceanography on actual research. • What you learn: Research process, improved writing and speaking skills• My Experience

• Mentor: Dr. John Klinck, CCPO • Topic: Mesoscale Eddies of the Ross Sea • How: Data analysis through Python.

• Applications: TBA (Pending Funding)

Penn State REU in Climate Sciences

Paid ten week program

Coding intensive, great prep for graduate school

My project: Creating a Jet Stream Index

If you want to hear more, I will be giving a talk at AMS and we are working on publishing a paper!

Atmospheric Sciences REU at Texas A&M

• Found through NSF site, applied in January

• 8 weeks June-July - $4500 stipend

• Analyzed survey conducted after Hurricane Ike

• Assessed information sources used and how much trust respondents had in information sources

• Made a poster that was submitted for presentation at AMS Meeting

• In the process of writing report to be submitted to Weather, Climate, and Society (AMS journal)

ANNNDDDD I got to navigate a DOW!