Larry Oolman, a University of Wyoming researcher who single-handedly developed a website that has become a popular weather information source for meteorologists worldwide, has received an award from a national data-sharing research and educational organization.
Worldwide, the low efficiency of wind farms is a mystery, considering it seems logical that the momentum of the wind moving from one wind turbine to the next -- much like a domino effect -- should actually increase energy efficiency.
Opportunities for students and the University as a whole were spoken about during a ribbon cutting ceremony at the NCAR Wyoming Super Computer facility in Cheyenne, Monday.
NWSC will be home to a public visitor center designed as an educational hub to engage the public and explain the NWSC’s science mission, supercomputing systems, computational science and highlights of the facility’s energy efficient design; and also convey the facility’s scientific and societal benefits.
Chen, a professor of geology and geophysics in UW’s School of Energy Resources, will make history of sorts when he becomes the first UW faculty member to conduct research at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center.