Storm chasers land at UNL symposium
■The Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education held the
event for weather watchers.
BY SHARON KOLBET
On Saturday afternoon in a
room well-equipped with tele
vision screens and computer
monitors, a crowd gathered at
the University of Nebraska
Lincoln’s East Campus.
Many showed up wearing
the scarlet and cream, but the
reason they gathered was not to
watch football, but the weather.
The Central Plains Severe
Weather Symposium brought
professional and amateur
meteorologists to the Nebraska
Center for Continuing
Education, 33rd and Holdrege
streets.
The symposium was a
three-day event with Thursday
and Friday devoted to technical
sessions for professional clima
tologists and Saturday reserved
for a special seminar for the
public.
Inside the busy conference
exhibit area, weather watchers
of all ages viewed the latest
computer images.
Nine-year-old Ben Harris
traveled with his father Neil
Harris from Omaha for the
event.
Both expressed their love of
storm chasing. They attended
the symposium to see the latest
in weather-tracking technology.
‘The choice was easy.
As long as I can
remember, I have
always watched the
weather,
Eric Freier
junior climatology major
When asked to pick his
favorite weather season, the
younger Harris was quick to
reply “I like lightening storms!”
The Harris family was not
alone in their love of meteorolo
gy. UNL meteorology professor
Mark Anderson estimated that
about 400 people showed up
Saturday morning for the
launching of a camera
equipped weather balloon.
After the balloon ascended
out of sight, the crowd moved
into the exhibit area to hear
talks on such topics as lighten
ing strikes and tornado damage.
Participants watched storm
videos and took home weather
posters and educational mate
rials courtesy of NASA and The
Weather Channel.
When asked about his inter
est in the weather, Eric Freier, a
junior climatology major, said it
was easy to decide his course of
study once he entered college.
“The choice was easy,”
Freier said. “As long as I can
remember, I have always
watched the weather.”
Sharon KoJbet/DN
Dan Marsh, right a UNL meteorology graduate student and volunteer at the Central
Plains Severe Weather Symposium answers a question posed by Lincoln resident Dan
Horn. Weather fans from across the area gathered for the Central Plains Severe
Weather Symposium held Saturday.
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