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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all prospective grad students! 🚨

Come learn about CliMAS during our annual Prospective Graduate Student Webinar - featuring our internationally recognized on campus and online MS and PhD programs.

RSVP here to receive a Zoom link: forms.gle/CYsLWz5uoRNm....

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · 17d

Check out this promo video promoting our College, featuring Assistant Professor Joseph Trujillo-Falcón and many of our students! youtu.be/ZRgExF7r1gE?...

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: Where curiosity drives impact

YouTube video by Liberal Arts & Sciences at Illinois

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · 24d

Today, CliMAS welcomed Prof. Dan Vimont from University of Wisconsin-Madison AOS for our weekly colloquium, who discussed aerosol-related and oceanic climate dynamics

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Sep 6

The annual CliMAS graduate student – faculty volleyball match was a ton of fun!

The faculty are happy to report their clean sweep victory, the broken golden rawinsonde trophy will be on the 3rd floor of NHB.

Looking forward to next year’s match!

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today we welcomed Scott Collis from Argonne National Laboratory for our weekly colloquium

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Aug 28

Greetings from the CliMAS Fall 2025 Welcome BBQ!

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hey Illini - if you’re looking for a Gen Ed, there’s a 100% chance you’ll love ours. ☀️

Check out ATMS 100, 120, and 140!

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Aug 7

CliMAS Professor Joseph Trujillo-Falcón was featured in @BBCWorld on the importance of trust and communication during extreme weather events.

Read the article: bbc.com/future/artic...

The flood warnings that save lives

When floods hit, getting clear, timely warnings out to people becomes lifesaving, but too often these messages fail. The BBC asks disaster experts about how to get it right.

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Jul 30

CliMAS is proud to partner with Illinois Public Media to create a new podcast called Weather Realness - we’ll get real about the what’s and why’s about weather and climate and how it impacts you.

Our first episode airs on WILL-AM 580 at 11 am this Saturday, August 2 and anytime on the WILL app.

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Jul 29

25 years ago, Larry Di Girolamo watched a satellite launch carrying the MISR Instrument that he had helped build. Now, MISR is ending with a discovery that could change how we understand global weather: the jet stream is shifting and speeding up.
Link: climas.illinois.edu/news/2025-07...

A final look from above | Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | Illinois

As Larry Di Girolamo stood at Vandenberg Air Force Base in December 1999, he was a relatively new professor in what would become the Department of Climate, Meteorology, &

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Jul 18

Incoming Assistant Professor @latinwx.bsky.social quoted in this article discussing weather risk and resilience in light of the Texas floods

www.huffpost.com/entry/flood-...

Knowing The Difference Between These 3 Types Of Emergency Alerts Could Save Your Life

When you get this alert, it means "trouble will find you," one meteorologist said.

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Jun 27

Our second storm trip is back from the Plains and they saw the goods!

Hear their storm observation stories in 1071 NHB on Friday, June 27 at 9:30 am

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Jun 3

Today our undergrads measured outflow wind speeds and observed both a squall line and discrete supercell along the Texas-Oklahoma border! Tomorrow marks the final day of our May field course, then it's back home to Urbana 🏠

Danny measures outflow wind speeds using a handheld anemometer

Students standing in front of a shelf cloud

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · May 31

Yesterday marked the halfway point for our May Field Studies of Convection course! Students observed a tornado-warned supercell (and lots of blowing dust) south of Brownfield, TX.

Students and their fearless leader, Kevin, watching a storm

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · May 24

Today marked the beginning of our Field Studies of Convection course! Our undergraduate students traveled from Urbana to Colorado where they observed a supercell at sunset as well as a brief tornado

UIUC undergraduate students stand in front of a supercell at sunset

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · May 17

CliMAS congratulates the Class of 2025!

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · May 16

The UIUC School of Earth, Society and the Environment (SESE) is hosting our annual summer enrichment camp for middle schoolers again this summer! The dates are July 21st and 22nd and the camp is free!

Registration is now open and you can sign up here: earth.illinois.edu/resources/ea...

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · May 16

The UIUC School of Earth, Society and the Environment (SESE) is hosting our annual summer enrichment camp for middle schoolers again this summer! The dates are July 21st and 22nd and the camp is free!

Registration is now open and you can sign up here: earth.illinois.edu/resources/ea...

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · May 12

Congratulations to assistant professor @rshivpriyam.bsky.social on receiving the prestigious 2024 ACP Paul Crutzen Publication Award! His award-winning paper focuses on short-term climate variability.

Read more: climas.illinois.edu/news/2025-05...

Shiv Priyam Raghuraman receives award for work on short-term climate variability | Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | Illinois

In 2023, global temperatures spiked in a way that puzzled scientists, sparked headlines, and led many people to wonder whether the climate was entering an unpredictable new phase. The spike stood out ...

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Apr 28

Good morning from Morris, Illinois! Students and faculty are supporting Intensive Observing Period #1 of the CROCUS Urban Flooding Campaign.

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Apr 26

We celebrated excellence this week in CliMAS during our annual Yoshi Ogura Banquet.

Undergraduate and Graduate Student and Faculty honors were followed by a lecture by former Illinois State Climatologist Jim Angel.

📸 CliMAS Major Alyssa Shih

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Apr 25

Today, we welcomed Prof. Adam Sobel from Columbia University as our Distinguished Ogura Lecturer. He spoke on climate risk science.

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Apr 22

Congratulations to Kaitlyn Jesmonth (@wxkaitlynj.bsky.social) on the successful completion of her MS Defense, which examined the effects of terrain on precipitation type in a Northeast US winter storm. Kaitlyn is advised by Prof. Steve Nesbitt (@70dbz.bsky.social).

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Apr 18

We’re excited to share that Dr. Joseph Trujillo-Falcón will join our regular faculty as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025! He’ll continue his work on effective risk communication in weather and climate.

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CliMAS Illinois @climasillinois.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to two of our undergraduates who were awarded and honored in the recent National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship competition!

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