The National Weather Service in Shreveport hosted two students from the NOAA Centers for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) summer program – Tony Hurt, Meteorology major and Destiny Pounds, Physics/Pre Med major from Jackson State University. Both students along with Julianna Glinskas, Chemistry major from LeTourneau and a WFO Shreveport summer volunteer, visited the NWS Southern Region Headquarters at the end of their summer internship. The students presented their summer research and other project activities to Acting Regional Director Mike Coyne and several other SRH staff members. Tony's research was on the historic Red River Flooding of 2015, and Destiny's research was a study of Mosquito Born Illnesses from 1995 to 2015 in the Shreveport/Bossier area.
NCAS is a program funded by a Department of Commerce grant through the NOAA Educational Partnership Program (EPP). The mission of NCAS is to increase the number of highly qualified, well-trained graduates from underrepresented communities in NOAA-related sciences, with particular emphasis on the atmospheric sciences, for career opportunities with NOAA, NOAA contractors, other Federal agencies, and academia. The NCAS supported universities are Howard University, Jackson State University, University of Texas El Paso, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, University of Maryland College Park, and the State University of New York at Albany.
In the photo below (l to r)… Destiny Pounds (JSU Physics/Pre Med Major), Julianna Glinskas (LeTourneau University Chemistry Major), Mike Coyne (Acting Regional Director – NWS Southern Region), Tony Hurt (JSU Meteorology Major)
