Director of US IOOS, Zdenka Willis visited the Ocean Observatories Class to commemorate the conclusion of RU29’s circumnavigation of the South Atlantic and to participate in the student’s End of Semester Research Symposium. For more information on the Challenger Glider Mission, check out the Challenger Glider Mission Website To view pictures from the Ocean Observatories End of Semester Research Symposium, view the album on our Flickr Page

Scott Glenn, Travis Miles, and Greg Seroka visited the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) in College Park, MD on Tuesday, March 22 to give a talk on their paper recently published in Nature Communications titled “Stratified Coastal Interactions with Tropical Cyclones”. The talk was part of the OneNOAA Science Seminar Series, given to many members of the Environmental Modeling Center and the Ocean Prediction Center at NCEP, and was broadcast widely to all of NOAA via telecom. Pictured here are Scott, Travis, and Greg at the Ocean Prediction Center’s operational forecast floor in front of Greg’s Visiting Scientist desk, which has been in place for the past 2 years. The talk can be viewed here