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  VORTEX2 - The hunt begins! Tune into The Weather Channel and take a 5 week ride with The Weather Channel's Mike Bettes and scientists from around the world as they hit the roads in search of tornadoes all in the name of science. Watch our students in videos like these from The Weather Channel:

• Vortex2: To Chase or Not to Chase
• Vortex2: What is a StickNet?
• Vortex2: Hurry up and Wait

• West Texas Mesonet Team Receives Award from National Weather Association
  The West Texas Mesonet team received the the 2008 Larry R. Johnson Special Award from the National Weather Association presented during a luncheon at the National Weather Association Conference in Louisville on Oct. 15.

• The Answers are Blowing in the Wind:  Texas Tech Hurricane Research Team Defies Nature to Gather Data
  Texas Tech’s Hurricane Research Team has become intimately acquainted with the personalities of these tempests and the damage and destruction these storms created during the past decade.

• Texas Tech Receives $1 Million from Workforce Commission to Develop Wind Energy Program
  Texas Tech University received a $1 million Workforce Investment Act Statewide Activity Fund grant from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) to support the creation of the Texas Wind Energy Institute.
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• Tech Researchers Receive Funding for Sign-Related Wind Testing
  The International Sign Association gave Tech's Wind Science and Engineering Research Center an initial $60,000 in funding to determine the wind load capacity of signs, such as the ones in front of restaurants or gas stations.

• New Storm Shelter, Safe Room Construction Guidelines Will Increase Safety
  A new set of construction guidelines will increase public safety for people evacuated to storm shelters and those who use safe rooms in their homes during hurricanes and tornados.

October 2, 2008, Senator Cornyn visits the Wind Science and Engineering Research Center

(from right to left)  Dr. Erik Petersen, Risoe Labs, Denmark;
Chris Pattison, Wind Science & Engineering Ph.D. student;
Jason McNeill, Wind Science & Engineering Ph.D. student;
Dr. Sukanta Basu, Assistant Professor, Geosciences

Spring 2009 Newsletter

2007 Annual Report
 

Brochure - Ph. D. in Wind Science and Engineering

The McDonald-Mehta Lecture Series 2008-2009