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- Eight new faculty have joined MEAS since 2008
- The new president of the American Meteorological Society is an MEAS alumnus
- Recent MEAS discoveries
- oyster larvae respond to ambient marine sound
- a stone-ax found in Crete is more than 130,000 years old
- old abandoned millponds add pollution to modern streams
- surface coal mining pollutes the air
- harmful algal blooms (red tides) can be predicted
- how tornadoes get their spin
- the first 3D images of falling snowflakes
- weather information can be used to predict meningitis outbreaks in Africa
- Superstorm Sandy would be stronger if it occurred in a future climate
- More than 95 percent of MEAS graduate degree recipients find employment in their fields or go on for further graduate study
- MEAS hosts the nation’s largest program in geoscience education
- MEAS geology students go on a fall-break field trip every year — this year to Zion National Park in Utah
- MEAS Prof. Matt Parker took graduate students into the field for severe storm campaigns: VORTEX2 and PECAN
- MEAS research funding has increased in each of the past 5 years, with an overall increase of 40 percent since 2010
- MEAS faculty and students use the worlds fastest supercomputers to model the Earth system
- Since 2010 the number of students in MEAS overall has increased by 12 percent, the number of geology majors has tripled
- MEAS geology Professor Ron Fodor is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America
- MEAS meteorology Professor Gary Lackmann won the American Meteorological Society’s Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award in 2014
- Four MEAS faculty have received National Science Foundation Career Awards
