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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.

In an exciting step towards fostering local STEM education, three members of the BLISS (Boundary Layer Integrated Sensing and Simulation) team recently visited the Norman Public Schools Aviation Academy. Tyler Bell, Lydia Bunting, and Tony Segales shared their expertise with high school students, offering insights into the applications of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) in meteorology and providing an overview of our current research initiatives.

We’re excited to announce a significant milestone in the journey of our CopterSonde technology. The University of Oklahoma has licensed the CopterSonde intellectual property to InterMet Systems, paving the way for the commercialization of this innovative platform.

Elizabeth Smith was featured in this article by Virginia Gerwin, which originally appeared in Nature as a career feature. Grassroots initiatives aim to make the discipline more inclusive of researchers from under-represented communities.

The Oklahoma State Univeristy Unmanned Systems Research Institute hosted the UAS Weather Technology Forum workshop on the OSU Tulsa campus in mid-August 2022. Three BLISS team members took the ~2-hour trip north-east to be there and share some of the work happening down here in Norman.

A team led by Dr. Elizabeth Smith, Dr. Tyler Bell, and Engineer Tony Segales are successfully deploying the Coptersonde platform at 3 locations in Mississippi as part of the PERiLS project.

We are thrilled to announce that the CopterSonde, our flagship Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) platform, has received airworthiness approval from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) UAS Division.

BLISS members Dr. Elizabeth Smith, Dr. Petra Klein, Dr. Liz Pillar-Little and Tyler Bell have collaborated to design a brand new course at the University of Oklahoma. Offered within the School of Meteorology the new course titled Advanced Observations for Lower Atmospheric Research is open for both undergraduate and graduate student enrollment.

First appeared in OU VPRP Newsroom UAS characterization of high wind damage to vegetation and rural area assessments Two distinguished research organizations at the University of Oklahoma are integrating state-of-the-art observation platforms and expertise in severe storm research.