Welcome!
Thank you very much for visiting our site, and a
warm welcome from our department! Over the last 60
years, we have grown into one of the leading departments
in our field of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
We have strong graduate and undergraduate programs
which are nationally recognized. We pursue research
with a combination of theory, modeling, and diagnostic
studies. We support this work with a foundation of
first-year graduate core courses, and an appealing
range of electives for both graduate and undergraduate
students. (more...)
AOS welcomes two new faculty
The Department is proud to announce the arrival of two new
Assistant Professor colleagues; Dr. Larissa Back and Dr. David Turner,
both of whom joined our faculty in August 2009. Dr. Back is
coming from a post-doctoral appointment with Prof. Kerry Emanuel at MIT
where she continued her studies of the life cycle, morphology, and
climate system impact of tropical deep convection. Dr. Turner was
previously a research scientist at CIMSS/SSEC with expertise in
ground-based remote sensing of the atmosphere in the far IR. He is a
group leader in the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation
Measurement (ARM) Experiment. Both Dr. Back's and Dr. Turner's
observational expertise will complement and extend the Department's
inquiry into the climate system on a number of levels. We are thrilled
to welcom two such outstanding scientists to our already strong
faculty.
AMS Teaching Excellence Award
Congratulations to Steve Ackerman as he is the recipient of this year's AMS Teaching Excellence
Award
2009 AOS Graduation
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from the UW-AOS 2009 graduation reception
2009 Senior Picnic
Click here to view pictures from the 2009 senior picnic at Vilas Park
2009 Student Awards
Congratulations to the following outstanding AOS students (view pictures):
- Aronne Merrelli – Schwerdtfeger Award for excellent performance in first year graduate studies
- Brett Hoover – Lettau Award for outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant
- Valerie Bennington and Amato Evan – Colloquium Student Service Award for creative dedication to the department's
intellectual life
- Dan Henz and Andrea Lang – Wahl Award for outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant
- Hannah Barnes – Horn Award for excellence in overall performance as an undergraduate
Reid Bryson honored with SAA symposium
The Society for American Archeology hosted a symposium in honor of Reid Bryson. The "Climate People and Behavior" symposium held on March 29 at the SAA annual meeting in Vancouver, BC concentrated on the development and use of Bryson's Macrophysical climate model. Congratulations Reid!
Prof. Pao K. Wang elected as a Fellow of Taiwan's Meteorological Society
Prof. Pao K. Wang was recently elected as a Fellow of Taiwan's Meteorological Society, the highest honor the society bestows upon its members. Pao is the only fellow elected this year. The citation states that the honor is to recognize Pao's outstanding contributions to the fields of cloud dynamics, physics, chemistry and model simulations, and the influence of aerosol on clouds.
Mr. Chiang-Lin Hsin, Director-General of the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan, also the President of the Meteorological Society, presents the certificate of Fellow to Prof. Pao Wang on March 28, 2008.
AOS Fall/Winter 2008 Newsletter
You can now download our most recent bi-annual newsletter in
PDF format. Read about all the recent and upcoming
events at UW-Madison AOS. Download the
Fall/Winter 2008 newsletter now.
Earlier newsletters are still available on the Alumni Page
Journal of the UW-AOS
This is an unofficial journal of working papers written by undergraduate and graduate students of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. These papers are not intended to be used as official references.
Check out their work in the Journal of the UW-AOS
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