EPFLJul 21, 2025

🏔 🌨️ Alexis Berne, an expert in precipitation and weather radars, has no qualms about setting off on research expeditions to the Antarctic. And his extended absences don’t seem to bother his students either, as they named him best teacher for the environmental sciences and engineering section for 2024.

#WeatherRadars #EnvironmentalSciences #ResearchExpedition

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“I realized that, in Switzerland, you don't give students a zero!"

Alexis Berne, an expert in precipitation and weather radars, has no qualms about setting off on research expeditions to the Antarctic. And his extended absences don’t seem to bother his students either, as they named him best teacher for the environmental sciences and engineering section for 2024.

ALAug 21, 2023

Live #bird #migration maps

https://birdcast.info/migration-tools/live-migration-maps/

This is just cool; at Cornell Lab of #Ornithology they are tracking #nocturnal bird migration using our #weatherRadars around the country.
This site is plotting the data and showing it in video. Pick you day and see what is happening at night.

Live bird migration maps - BirdCast

See real-time analysis maps of intensities of actual nocturnal bird migration, as detected by the US weather surveillance radar network between local sunset to sunrise. Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produces these maps.