We are excited to announce that Prof. Robert Rauber will be giving his ESSIC Seminar on Monday November 8, 2021 at 2 PM EST. His talk is "Fine-Scale Structure of Snowstorms: Motivations for NASA IMPACTS".

Professor Rauber is Director of the School of Earth, Society and Environment in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) He previously served as Head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at UIUC from 2006-2018, and has been a faculty member at UIUC for 34 years.  Prof. Rauber is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), recipient of the Charles Franklin Brooks Award from the AMS in 2019 and former Publications Commissioner of the AMS. He recently served as Vice President of the International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation. Dr. Rauber has received the University of Illinois’s highest award for graduate teaching, the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching and the Campus Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award. He maintains active research programs in the fields of mesoscale meteorology, radar meteorology, and precipitation physics. He has been an investigator in 28 Field campaigns and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Prof. Rauber is lead author of two textbooks, Radar Meteorology, A First Course, published in 2018, and Severe and Hazardous Weather, an introduction to High Impact Meteorology, now in its 5th edition and used at over 100 universities. He is also coauthor with Dr. Steve Marshak of a third textbook Earth Science, now in its 2nd edition, and a fourth book, Natural Disasters, Hazards of the Dynamic Earth, which is in press.

In anticipation of his November 8 seminar, Dr. Rauber is generously giving away a copy of his new book, “Natural Disasters, Hazards of the Dynamic Earth”, to one lucky ESSIC Seminar attendee! His book is in press with an expected publication date of November 2021.

In order to enter the raffle, enter your email address and name below. When you join the seminar WebEx, please make sure to "Join via the Web" and enter your name as it appears here. We will be cross-referencing the attendee list with the results of this form.

Note that in order to be eligible for the prize, you MUST be present for the ESSIC Seminar during the time of the giveaway, which will occur at the end of the seminar's questions portion. If the chosen winner is not present at the time of the giveaway, we will choose another participant as the winner.

To learn more about the talk, visit the event site at https://go.umd.edu/rauber