Justin Minder

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Assistant Professor
Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences
University at Albany
ES 339B
(518) 437 3732
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News:

• September 2016: Justin and Ted present at the GEWEX Convection-Permitting Climate Modeling Workshop in Boulder, CO.
  
  
• August 2016: Another successful year for the UAlbany Weather & Climate Camp! Twelve bright students from around the Capital Region spent the week at UAlbany getting a hands-on introduction to the science of weather and climate. More info here. Thanks to all who helped make the camp possible!
  
  
  
  
• August 2016: Justin gives a book review of the facinating "The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic" for Friends of the Albany Public Library.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• July 2016: Ted, Adam, and Justin presented research at the AMS mountain meteorology conference . See links: here, here, here, and here.
  
  
• May 2016: Adam Massmann completes his MS degree. Congrats!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• May 2016: Ted Letcher wins the GEWEX/WCRP Early Career Researcher Video Competition! Read more here. See the winning video here.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• April 2016: Justin & Ted provided weather balloon launches and "Coriolis machine" rides for annual UAlbany Family Earth Day (Info and photos here).
  
  
  
  
  
  
• April 2016: New NOAA CSTAR grant will fund Minder group's research into numerical forecasting of severe lake-effect snow storms. (Read more: here).
  
  
• Apr 2016: Justin presents on "Weather awareness and forecasting for balloonists" at the New York State Balloon Association's 2016 Safety Seminar. (Links to weather resources are here.)
  
  
• Dec 2015: Justin and Ted present research on snow cover, the snow-albedo feedback, regional climate change over the Rocky Mountains, and coastal orographic rainfall at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting. Links: here, here, and, here.
  
  
• Sept 2015: Justin assists in training forecasters for the 2018 Winter Olympics (read more here) .
  
  
• Sept 2015: Justin presents research on snow-albedo feedback and mountain climate at the International Conference on Alpine Meteorology in Innsbruck, Austria.
  
  
• Aug 2015: UAlbany Weather & Climate Camp in the news! Links: (UAlbany News Center) (TWC News) (WNYT) (Times Union)
  
  
  
  
• Aug 2015: Minder group presents lake-effect snow research at AMS conference on Mesoscale Processes. See links: here and here.
  
  
• April 2015: Adam Massmann is awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship !!
  
  
• Nov 2014: Justin quoted in "Unraveling the mysteries of deadly 'firehose' lake-effect snow events" (read more here).
  
  
• Sept 2014: Justin gives invited talk at MTNCLIM 2014 mountain climate research conference.
  
  
• Sept 2014: Adam Massmann joins the Minder research group.
  
  
• Aug 2014: Ted and Justin presented research at the AMS mountain meteorology conference . See links: here and here.
  
  
• March 2014: Justin was awarded an NSF-CAREER grant to study the role of the snow-albedo feedback in regional climate change over mountainous terrain. The grant will also fund a summer weather/climate science camp for local urban high school students.
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• Dec 2013 -Jan 2014: Justin & grad student Ted Letcher participated in the Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) field experiment to study lake-effect snow over the Tug Hill Plateau ( read more here )




• Sept 2013: Ted Letcher joins the Minder research group.
  
  

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