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Welcome From The Director

Welcome to the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma! SoM is the largest program in the nation, with more than 280 undergraduate and 110 graduate students. It is ranked No. 1 in the nation in mesoscale and severe storm research and is among the top seven of the nearly 100 institutions that grant degrees in atmospheric science. The school also offers the nation's only true interdisciplinary weather radar educational program between meteorology and engineering.

What's Happening at SoM

ARRC

Atmospheric Radar Research Center students work in the laboratory

Benefit Bash

SoM students participate in the annual Benefit Bash

AGS Student Awards

Undergraduate scholarship recipients from the 2009 AGS Awards Ceremony

Visiting Students Weekend

Prospective graduate students participate in the annual VSW

OWL

Members of the student-run Oklahoma Weather Lab

AMS Annual Meeting

Graduate student Kim Klockow presents at the AMS Annual Meeting

National Weather Festival

SoM students help run the 2008 National Weather Festival

OU Student Chapter of the AMS

OUSCAMS students volunteer in OU's Big Event 2008

VORTEX2

Graduate student Terra Thompson in the field for VORTEX2

VORTEX2

Dr. Biggerstaff being interviewed by The Weather Channel for VORTEX2

OU-PRIME

OU-PRIME - the highest resolution, dual-pol, C-band, research radar in the world

Senior Capstone

SoM seniors present their Capstone research

SMART-R

A collaborative radar effort involving OU, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, and NOAA

Career Fair

SoM students participate in the 2008 career fair

Alumni Profiles

Dustin Williams - B.S. 2006, M.S. 2008

My name is Dustin Williams. I grew up in North Carolina and attended the University of Oklahoma from 2002-2008, earning a B.S. in 2006 and an M.S. in 2008, both in Meteorology. I work for Atmospheric Technology Services Company, a Norman-based company, at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Kwajalein Atoll is located about halfway between Hawaii and Australia in the beautiful equatorial central Pacific. My day-to-day duties include taking hourly surface observations and issuing aviation and public weather forecasts and weather warnings for lightning and high winds .....