Welcome everyone to the new version of THE HUMAN METAR! I have moved my operations from blogger to wordpress, and am temporarily feeding off a domain that kpdostie owns. Let’s all thank kpdostie by adding his website count and visit his blog.
Once I have gained enough money over winter break I hope to get my own domain (hopefully humanmetar.com) and move operations there and unveil THM 2.0
Right now the site will be going through a few changes, as I get used to word press. And I keep saying I will try and update more. Hopefully this time I mean it.
I do have a post coming later tonight about the wonderful features of GEMPAK
I for once have free time to sit down and write something (even though it’s 11:15pm).
An update on my life. Grad school is chugging along. It has been a lot of work, but nothing I can’t handle (even though I have pulled some hair here and there). I have been trying to balance my work with my social life. It’s been hard, but manageable. Got through the midterms a few weeks ago (99 on the straight forward one and 80 on the not-so-straight-forward), and now I’m focusing on a few projects here and there (when they are done I’ll update them on my website) .
There also has been a lot of drama going on, and thoughts have been running through my head recently. But usually writing them down in a notebook has been helping me keep it together. I am not going to go into gory details (of course if you would like the three hour lecture let me know), but what I would like to say this: Everything works out…somehow
As for some other grad school news, I am officially announcing on this blog that I will be joining the Plymouth State Convective Wind Research Project. For all the details, please go here. I’m not 100% sure what I’ll be working on, but it may have something to do with the new Dual-Polar Doppler they recently installed. I do not plan to focus more on this until winter break, as I will have a ton of time to start thinking about my thesis then. Nonetheless, being able to say I worked in Oklahoma and Florida sounds pretty good on a resume.
So to sum up, I am going to be crazy busy until pretty much Dec 23rd, then home to relax over the holidays, then it’s back to Plymouth to start doing thesis work over the break. And to prevent this blog to being all text I give you this:
THE TORNADOCANE!!!!
(Source: Storm Prediction Center)
Hey guys
So after a fast summer, I am back in Plymouth for Graduate School. Sorry for not posting in a while. Things just have been going crazy. Hopefully more posts will come once school starts next week
According to the latest Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Source), the amount of recipients of the Bachelor degree in Meteorology has increased 47% between 1994 and 2004. One can only speculate that it has increased over the past four years as well (including myself ^__^)
What is frightening though is that the article goes on to say that during the same time frame the amount of jobs in the meteorology field has increased only 12 %. All in all the article goes on to say the following:
“If current trends in undergraduate meteorology enrollment and employment in the United States continue, there will be far more degreed meteorologists than jobs in meteorology during the next decade” (Knox 2008)
This has been one of the reasons why I decided to go to graduate school. I have heard from numerous people that within the next few years, the Bachelors degree in Meteorology will become obsolete. More and more employers (at least in non-broadcasting fields) will start to hire students who have Masters degrees over students with only Bachelors.
However I am willing to bet that within the next few years more and more jobs will be created in parallel with ongoing trends (such as global warming, air quality, etc). However if you have the need for learning (like I do), then you should just “keep on chugging” and go for that masters.
Well after four long (yet so quick) years of hard work, I have received my undergraduate degree in Meteorology at Plymouth State. I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a GPA of what should become 3.59. I am really excited that it is over, but I am more excited for graduate school.
However I will be back home working at Tufts University for the next three months. My free time will let me post a lot more in this blog, so check back very soon!
