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Built, operated and maintained by the University at Albany on behalf of New York State after Superstorm Sandy, the NYS Mesonet last year celebrated 10 years of watching the skies over New York.

Student teams from each institution are launching weather balloons during active storm events to collect data that can help improve understanding of atmospheric rivers and other high-impact weather systems.

The initiative, called the North American Forecasting Weather, Outage, Load & Damage Initiative, will create a scalable outage-prediction model to forecast system failures across the United States and Canada.

UAlbany's Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences partnered with the Journalism Program to host a roundtable discussion featuring UAlbany alumni and current students who are now working as broadcast meteorologists in the Capital Region.

Early-career STEM researchers shared their work as part of the Graduate Pathway for Scholars program at a presentation and awards ceremony held last week. The growing program aims to encourage students who receive their PhDs in STEM fields at UAlbany to return as faculty members later in their careers.

Sara Lombardo has focused their time high up in the clouds since joining the University at Albany.

After earning meteorology degrees, conducting postdoctoral research and joining the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, she began studying CS at UAlbany.

The University at Albany is featured in season 15 of The College Tour, a groundbreaking series from Emmy-nominated producers Alex Boylan and Lisa Hennessy, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.