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a.m. in the studio: Tom Foster reads
the Weather World forecast.
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Morning Man
Tom
Foster thinks he is a shy young man, but when people
see him charging around the racquetball court and the
hockey rink, and find out that he teaches scores of
underclassmen every week as a teaching assistant for
an introductory meteorology course, they begin to know
better.
Foster
came to Penn State to be a TV weather forecaster, and
got to be one of a select few on-air student forecasters
for Penn State Public Broadcasting's "Weather World."
But with graduation approaching, it's graduate school
rather than a career in broadcasting that's calling
him.
An
investigation of past climates, conducted with Eric
Barron, director of the Environment
Institute in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences,
turned his head. Foster spent last summer helping run
computer models of ancient climates. He found the results
fascinating. He discovered the information gleaned from
the past can help researchers understand what sorts
of climate change may be just around the corner.
Tom
Foster is an undergraduate student in the Department
of Meteorology in the College of Earth and Mineral
Sciences at Penn State.
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