The Meteorology Program at SUNY Oswego is involved in several research projects. The following are past and current grants:

National Science Foundation Grant:

"Research Experiences in Meteorology - Science, Mathematics, and Technology (REM-SMT)"

This grant involves training teachers to do meteorological research in their high schools. For details go to: REM-SMT Web Site

MM5 Output

National Science Foundation Grant:

"Study of the Structure and Dynamics of Great Lakes Winter Storms"

This grant involves modeling lake-effect snow storm events using the PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model MM5. We adjust the physics to get the best simulations.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) funds Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training grants. Ours is:

"Improving Operational Forecasting of Lake Effect Snowstorms in the Eastern Great Lakes"

This grant is run in cooperation with the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices in Buffalo and Binghamton. We run MM5 twice a day over the eastern Great Lakes and send the output to NWS to help them in forecasting lake-effect snow. An example of today's run is at MM5 Model Output

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) funds the following grant:

"Operate the Bennett Bridge, NY National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) Monitoring Site"

In this grant we collect rain samples weekly and dry deposition samples every eight weeks, perform preliminary chemical analysis on the rain samples and send all the samples to a central lab where they do further analysis.

For a photo and description of our site see: Bennett Bridge site

For more information on NADP see: NADP Home Page

The Federal Aviation Administration through Rutgers University:

"Determine the effect of Anti-Icing Fluids under Different Weather Conditions"

Different aircraft anti-icing fluids were tested on the roof of Piez hall under different snow, temperature and wind conditions to simulate their effect on aircraft. 

Students have been hired to work on all of these projects.