Meteorology Program at Western Kentucky University

10/23/2025

Studying Meteorology and Disaster Science at offers unique and exciting learning experiences such as decision-support for major events 🤘🏻

Three WKU graduate students working from the WKU Disaster Science Operations Center (DSOC) recently provided heat-stress monitoring and weather support at the Louder Than Life Festival, held in Louisville, Ky. and attended by nearly 80,000 people. The four-day event took place September 18-21, 2025.

02/28/2025

Meteorology continues to rise!

Dr. Zachary Suriano, an Assistant Professor in WKU Earth, Environmental, & Atmospheric Sciences was awarded a five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant for $443,791 from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

This is the first-ever NSF CAREER grant awarded to WKU since the program’s inception over 30 years ago, and it is one of only three NSF CAREER awards received by a non-R1 institution in Kentucky.

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WKU Office of Research and Creative Activity

Read More: https://www.wku.edu/ogden/news/index.php?view=article&articleid=12400

02/18/2025

Another big preview day tour for the Meteorology Program! We are super excited by the incoming class that is shaping up for Fall 2025 🙌🏻

02/05/2025

⛈It's National Weatherpersons Day!🌤

🤩What better way to celebrate than to congratulate Meteorology Alumni Meteorologist Mallory Schnell on her Rocky Mountain Regional Emmy for her team's Monsoon Special!🏆

🌟We are so proud of everything Mallory has accomplished and so glad we get to celebrate her on



📸 & info credit: Meteorologist Mallory Schnell

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