DAES Student Takes Flight for Science to Study Tropical Cloud Formation

DAES student Emily Paltz flies Kermit – the NOAA42 P-3 Hurricane Hunter – during the OTREC field campaign. (Photo by Brian Richards)

When a group of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth Observing Laboratory visited campus last semester, Emily Paltz jumped at the opportunity to meet and network with them.

She never imagined their conversation would lead to her climbing aboard a NOAA hurricane hunter.