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BLISS researchers joined The Weather Channel live to discuss deploying advanced UAS platforms ahead of severe weather.

The Wall Street Journal featured BLISS CopterSonde work on bridging boundary-layer observation gaps for severe weather forecasting.

OETA’s Oklahoma News Report featured the patented CopterSonde and the team’s vision for a 3D Mesonet.

KFOR-TV’s Wicked Weather 2025 special showcased BLISS drone technology for improving severe weather warnings.

Dr. Elizabeth Smith appeared on Impact X Nightline (ABC News/Hulu) to explain microburst dynamics and the role of boundary-layer observations.

The CopterSonde team was supported by a CIWRO Director’s Discretionary Research Fund grant to develop a prototype system that could support the rapid conceptual trialing of automated landing and charging of UAS.

This story first appeared on OMAO’s News. CopterSonde take off Since 1980, the United States has sustained over 387 one-billion dollar weather and climate disasters. As the new movie “Twisters”—which features fictionalized extreme weather events— hits the big screen this July, the United States has already experienced 15 real-world billion-dollar weather events (as of July 9).

National outlets featured BLISS and partners on the real science behind Twisters — from mobile radars and UAS trucks to tornado research on screen and in the field.

The BLISS (Boundary Layer Integrated Sensing and Simulation) research team recently had the exciting opportunity to welcome a group of K-5 students from Norman’s First Baptist Church summer weather camp. This visit, organized by Emily Lenhardt, a PhD Candidate at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Meteorology, was part of the first weather camp hosted by Norman First Baptist.

We’re excited to announce that Elizabeth Smith, a researcher with the BLISS (Boundary Layer Integrated Sensing and Simulation) team, recently participated in the prestigious 2024 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Summer Policy Colloquium in Washington, D.