Each semester, the graduate students in Atmospheric Sciences are required to register for the seminar class. The seminars include student presentations and discussions of reports based on literature practices, problems, or their research work. There are also special presentations by guests from outside of the university. Not only do the seminars give the students a chance to enhance their speaking abilities, it also gives them a chance to visit with their peers and colleagues about the different types of research being conducted in the Atmospheric Sciences field.

For spring 2011, students presented the following discussions. To view a PDF document of the complete extended abstracts of these seminars, please use the following link : Seminars2011

• Climatologies of Convective Flight Environments for Use in the Development of a Storm Penetrating Aircraft (Shawn Honomichl)

• 2011 South Dakota Wildland Fire Season Outlook (Darren Clabo)

• An Investigation into the Spatiotemporal Scale of Two Wind Ramp Events in Northeastern Colorado (Theresa Aguilar)

• The June 23, 2003, Coleridge, Nebraska Tornado: A Look Into the Conditions ThatContributed to the Development of the Tornado (Kathy Haselhorst)

• Mesocyclone Development, Detection and the Transition to Tornadoes. (Gretchen Berg)

• Honey Bees and Climate Change (Frances Sewell)

• Southwest Monsoon (Tyler Ulrich)

• Tornadogenesis in Supercell Thunderstorms (Daniel McKemy)

• Thunderstorms and Antimatter (Emily French)

• Improving Representation of Low-level Meteorological Fields in Forecasts and Analyses (Joshua Brewer)

• Thermally-induced Mesoscale Circulations in the Absence of Synoptic-Scale Forcing: Numerical Simulations with Land Cover Gradients (Daniel D’Amico)

• The Effects of Wind Turbines on Airflow (Chris Hammrich)

• Structure, Motion, and Genesis of Anticyclonic Tornadoes. (Heather Caye)