![]() As he launches the 13th iteration of Weather and Storms, the associate professor of civil and environmental engineering says the course is still evolving. Teaching a course to liberal arts undergraduates, engineering graduate students and everyone in between is an ongoing challenge for Jacobson, ’87, MS ’88. The material is definitely raising questions.” “But said a couple of things about the ozone layer that I didn’t know. “I know the basic physics,” says the first-year graduate student in civil and environmental engineering. “She thinks is really cool and wishes she could sit in on it.”Ī couple of rows over from Alfred, Lucas Morton, ’02, was jotting down an equation for the height of mercury in a thermometer and puzzling over how carbon dioxide is emitted anthropogenically as well as naturally. “When I was younger, I used to watch the Weather Channel with my mom, to see how storms form, stuff like that,” the prospective psychology major says. On the first day of class this fall, she returned-sitting forward in her seat in Mark Jacobson’s classroom, eager to find out all about the composition of the atmosphere, jet streams and pollutant transport. ![]() Sophomore Mary Alfred checked out Civil and Environmental Engineering 63: Weather and Storms last year, but couldn’t fit it into her schedule. ![]()
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