Southeast Severe Storms Symposium

Mississippi State’s Department of Geosciences is welcoming some of the country’s top professionals in meteorology this week as the host of the 17th annual Southeast Severe Storms Symposium. The event is organized by the East Mississippi Chapter of the National Weather Association and American Meteorology Society, an MSU student-led organization. Keynote speakers include: Louis Uccellini, director of the National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Maryland; Erik Rasmussen, meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, and project manager for VORTEX-SE; Janice Huff, chief meteorologist for WNBC-TV in New York City; MSU alumni Aubrey Urbanowicz, chief meteorologist for WHSV-TV in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Will Simmons, a U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters ​pilot in Biloxi. The symposium begins Saturday with an 8 a.m. registration and concludes Sunday afternoon. Online registration runs through March 20 at http://www.eastmsnwaams.com/registration.html, and on-site registration also will be available Saturday morning. Click the link below for more information.