![]() The project sounded great and I would get to meet hurricane scientists, so off to Purdue I went. My advisor at Purdue recognized my background and he suggested that, considering my modeling experience and interest in hurricanes, I collaborate with some hurricane modelers from the Hurricane Research Division (HRD) looking at Tropical Storm Fay's first landfall in 2008 onto South Florida. There were more women than men in my undergraduate class at NC State, but it was just the opposite in my graduate class at Purdue University.Īs an undergrad, I worked for the State Climate Office of North Carolina, so I had the combination of weather, climate and weather modeling experience. I think it may be the work of some (FSU) Seminoles here due to our friendly rivalry to dominate the office.įemale meteorology majors were not that common just a few years ago. I think my NC State banner is getting messed with in my office it ends up on the floor a lot. Yes, and I was excited to go there since the local university actually had an emphasis on tropical meteorology, since North Carolina often gets hit by tropical cyclones. So, you're part of the Wolfpack from North Carolina State? So I chose to go to NC State University for a Meteorology degree then later continued on to Purdue University for a Masters. I'd always been good at science, but my high school environmental science teacher really influenced me when he said that (at the time) no one really understood much about the interaction of the weather and ocean and that I'd have a really interesting job to go to every day. When I finally studied the weather unit, it made more sense why the hurricane winds picked back up after the calm of the eye. It did, so I decided that I really wanted to learn about weather (hurricanes in particular) so that I could educate my family and keep them from endangering themselves during storms. If he had gone out just a few steps farther, he would have been squished! He took three steps from the deck while looking for the flashlight and-bang!-a three-foot diameter tree uproots and falls right in front of him. The deck steps were slippery so he fell and dropped his flashlight, causing it to go out. When the eye of the hurricane reached us, he went outside with a flashlight-thinking the worst was over. We had a ton of trees fall down in the yard because of the wind, and the soil being really moist. I was asleep in my room, but my Dad, who had never been through a hurricane either, was watching as it came through. We had not gotten to the weather section in school, so I didn't know anything about hurricanes. I was nine when Hurricane Fran came through central North Carolina. Did the meteorology bug strike when you were young?
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