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Fact Sheet

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Jan. 26, 2010 David Rossignol
Director of Media Relations
802-427-1673

Storm Chasers picked for summer internship

What: Four Lyndon State College students have been picked to participate in Professor Nolan Atkins storm chaser internship. They will seek out bad weather to collect data from it.

Who: Toni McGee, Rachel Ducharme, Michael Michaud, and Craig Johnson who are students of Lyndon State College’s Atmospheric Sciences Department.
Where: This takes place in the mid-west from the top of Texas to the Dakotas.

When: The four students and Professor Atkins will be leaving at the end of the spring semester and will be gone for one month.

Why: Professor Atkins said “they are chasing for a reason”, noting that, “the National Weather Service fails to predict sever weather seventy five percent of the time.” The data collected during the internship is to be used by everyone in an effort to better understand and better predict its behavior.