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Aug 18, 2015

Summer Projects: Building a Tool for Easy Mapping

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. This post was written by Rachel Bobyak, a senior in meteorology at North Carolina State University. Have you ever wondered what is happening behind the scenes on a website? It’s often a hodgepodge of programming languages, ranging from…

Aug 12, 2015

Summer Projects: Behind the Scenes of Drought Measurement

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s student research assistants. The author, Jessica Miller, recently entered the PhD program in Statistics at NC State University. Do you remember when North Carolina first found itself in a state of drought earlier this summer? The climatological phenomenon received more attention…

Dec 9, 2014

CCMMS Interns Investigate Pumpkin Growth Potential

This fall, the State Climate Office invited three students from Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School to learn more about weather and climate and complete a research project similar to those done by SCO’s scientists. The three students were eight-graders Ribhi Triesh and Savannah Mosley, and sixth-grader Zach Flatt. The students met every Monday for two…

Sep 25, 2014

Summer Projects: The New and Improved Drought Page

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. The author, Emma Scott, is a sophomore in Meteorology at NC State University. Have you ever worried about the rising cost of groceries, a parched lawn, or the impending threat of water usage restrictions? Earlier this week we…

Sep 23, 2014

Summer Projects: SPEI, a Drought Index Based on Water Balance

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. The author, Jessica Miller, is a senior majoring in Applied Mathematics at NC State University. Have you ever driven by a crispy-looking cornfield or lugged extra water out to your wilting garden and wondered how scientists measure drought?…

Sep 18, 2014

Summer Projects: Impacts of Weather on Aviation Delays

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our offices’ undergraduate research assistants. The fifth part of this series is by Andrew Martin, a senior majoring in Meteorology at NC State. Have you ever been delayed at the airport because of weather? According to the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA),…

Sep 16, 2014

Summer Projects: Downscaled Climate Projections Search Tool

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. This post is by Samuel Roback, who is currently a junior in the meteorology program at NC State University. Global climate models produce projections of the climate which can be especially useful in helping to plan for the…

Sep 11, 2014

Summer Projects: Tropical Cyclone Impacts in SC and GA

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. This part of this series is by Melissa Mainhart, who is finishing her degree in Meteorology at NC State University. When you think about summer, what comes to mind? Family vacations? Community swim team practices? For many people…

Sep 4, 2014

Summer Projects: Soil Temperature Quality Checking

This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. This part of this series is by Madeline Pope, who is finishing her degree in Environmental Science and a minor in Meteorology at NC State University. Farmers till it. Baseball players slide in it. Golfers put divots in…