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Weather Watcher Knows There’s Snow Place Like Oswego

Weather Watcher Knows There’s Snow Place Like Oswego

When Paul ’65 and Chrystal Laird Cardinali ’64 vacation in Cape Cod each spring, they hope for nice weather. Of course, “nice” is a relative term.]

No. 29 – Epic Snowfalls

No. 29 – Epic Snowfalls

With its location on Lake Ontario, Oswego is known for its legendary lake effect snow. And while every year has the potential for mountains of the white stuff, certain years saw blizzards of historic proportions.

Katie Meegan '09 holds a Siberian lynx. Meegan is an eduation specialist at the Buffalo Zoo and assistant to naturalist and TV personality Jarrod Miller '00.

10 X 10 +10: Katie Meegan ’09

Katie Meegan ’09

10×10+10

1 Graduate Of the Last Decade, 100 words about her + 10 random questions

Betsy Oberst, Oswego Alumni Association Executive Director

Oswego Matters

While I write this, the snow is still on the ground here, but the sun is out and we’re busy finalizing the plans for our special Sesquicentennial Reunion Celebration 2011, scheduled for June 10-12. A record-breaking crowd of alumni and friends is expected to return to campus to reconnect with the college and with friends to celebrate 150 years of Oswego’s rich history of education, service and making a difference.

Meteorology Professor Scott Steiger ’99 shows images of the Doppler-on-Wheels truck and the data it will collect.

NSF fuels snow hunt

An $86,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will provide SUNY Oswego meteorology faculty member Scott Steiger ’99 and his students the tools to chase the most intense snowstorms and collect first-of-its-kind data.