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Weather Camp 201 7! University of Nebraska - Lincoln Monday The first day the campers were welcomed to Weather Camp by the instructors. They started the day with their first weather discussion followed by visiting LI- COR and traveling to the


  1. Weather Camp 201 7! University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  2. Monday The first day the campers were welcomed to Weather Camp by the instructors. They started the day with their first weather discussion followed by visiting LI- COR and traveling to the Nebraska State Capitol Building to measure pressure changes with height.

  3. Sabrina’s Pressure Gradient

  4. Observations

  5. Can Crushing Experiment

  6. LI -COR

  7. Nebraska State Capitol Building

  8. Tuesday Campers spent their second day of Weather Camp in Omaha on field trips to Offutt Air Force Base where they toured the base and learned about the importance of forecasting for military missions and aerospace. They also visited Raytheon where they learned about high resolution radar and forecasting and the basics of storm chasing.

  9. Offutt Air Force Base

  10. Raytheon

  11. Raytheon

  12. Wednesday Wednesday was a busy day for the campers. After their third weather discussion, Martha Shulski came and talked about her life’s work as a climatologist. After that campers walked over to Memorial Stadium where they studied microclimates by taking the temperatures of various surfaces around the stadium. Rusty Dawkins also came to Bessey and gave a talk on his work, and camp instructor Bryan Petersen gave a presentation on climate.

  13. Martha Shulski

  14. Memorial Stadium Microclimate Study

  15. Rusty Dawkins

  16. Bryan Petersen’s Climate Presentation

  17. Fronts & Mid -Latitude Cyclones with Maddy

  18. Thursday Severe weather briefing

  19. Hail simulation

  20. NWS talk

  21. Mesonet with Dr. Houston

  22. NWS Hot seat

  23. NWS Hot Seat. Campers got to play a game in which they had to forecast storms correctly before the storm spotters located the storms. They got to see the Meteorology Lab in Bessey room 105. This room is filled with computers and TV monitors which display current radar and satellite images, and the current forecast models.

  24. Capstone practice

  25. Friday Weather discussion and Capstone preparation

  26. Weather observations

  27. Green screen!

  28. 201 7 Weather Camp Staff Director: Dr. Dewey Student Director: Maddy Diedrichsen 201 7 Weather Camp Instructors Instructors: Cody Frederick Dalton Van Stratten Bryan Petersen Alex Carne Sabrina Jauernic Tech: Max Burgess Levi Van Peursem

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