Experience Convective Storms Field Study

College of Arts & Sciences

In May of 2021, a group of Texas A&M meteorology students set out on a two-week field study to forecast, observe, and study severe weather. The Convective Storms Field Study was led by Dr. Chris Nowotarski, associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. The field study group included 20 undergraduate students traveling across the Great Plains, ranging from Hays, Kansas, to their home base in College Station. Dr. Nowotarski, Dr. Don Conlee and Dr. Erik Nielsen led the instruction…