Come hear Sciences faculty discuss their lives and research during an informal conversation with students. A pizza reception will follow in Riddick Hearth. Bill Ditto has been the dean of the College of Sciences since September 2015, coming to NC State from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is a physicist whose research focuses…

Ruoying He, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, will discuss how visualization and computer modeling can aid in the understanding and prediction of "ocean weather." He will discuss key processes driving ocean weather variability and procedures for developing ocean prediction models and visualizations. He will also provide examples of how these…

Come hear Sciences faculty discuss their lives and research during an informal conversation with students. A pizza reception will follow in Riddick Hearth. Ana-Maria Staicu is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics. She recently received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her research to develop new…

Google Earth represents an incredible resource with which to explore the surface of Earth. It is configured to be user friendly, it contains terabytes of image and topographic data of Earth, and it has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for geoscience research. Importantly, Google Earth also contains substantial data sets for the moon…