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Quarterly Newsletter
August 03, 2023
2023 Summer Intern Projects
GSL hosted 14 interns this summer! Four graduate and seven undergraduate students were funded by a GSL and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Professional Research Experience Program (PREP-GSL/CIRES). This is the second year of PREP-GC and the first year to host interns in person! Three undergraduate student...
July 26, 2023
GSL announces Ligia Bernardet as new EPAD Chief
GSL is proud to announce Ligia Bernardet as our new Chief of the Earth Prediction Advancement Division!Ligia has been part of GSL for more than 20 years serving in various positions. She joined GSL (then the Forecast Systems Laboratory, FSL) as a postdoctoral scientist in the field of forecast verification. She subsequently took a position in 19...
July 05, 2023
New Threats-in-Motion tackles erratic storms
On May 4, 2022, a destructive long-track supercell thunderstorm was moving northeast near Lockett, Texas, while NOAA National Weather Service Meteorologist Vivek Mahale was on duty. The tornado then took a dramatic left turn into the town, and its motion changed to the north and then to the northwest.With current software, the forecaster draws a...
June 22, 2023
GSL/CIRES scientist receives an Energy Systems Integration Group LifeTime Excellence Award
GSL/CIRES scientist Stan Benjamin received a LifeTime Excellence Award from the Energy Systems Integration Group at a ceremony in June. Benjamin was honored for “sustained contributions to atmospheric modeling and weather prediction for improved forecasting of renewable energy.” The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) is a nonprofit organiz...
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June 05, 2023
NOAA names first manager of new Fire Weather Testbed
Zach Tolby, formerly a Senior Forecaster and Incident Meteorologist (IMET), at the Reno, Nevada Weather Forecast Office, was recently selected to be the first Manager and Lead Scientist of the Fire Weather Testbed, which is housed in the Global Systems Laboratory’s Boulder, Colorado offices.Tolby has over 12 years of operational forecasting expe...
April 19, 2023
MADIS data system moves to full operations
The NOAA National Weather Service and the greater meteorological community rely on high-quality observations to better understand the atmosphere, improve weather forecasts, and support warnings for hazardous weather events. GSL recently transferred the final versions of the flagship observation system, the Meteorological Assimilation and Data In...