http://www.kansas.com/2013/05/23/2814840/spirits-shadowworks-a-technology.html

(There’s a picture with Kodi Caster in it too!)

Last week our section hosted a Pizza Party for the WSU SWE section. Thank you to all the professional and collegiate members who attended and thank you to Cassie Schroeder for planning this fantastic event! Good Luck on your finals WSU SWE!

Have a fantastic week and don’t forget to renew your SWE membership!

~Allison Wright
FY13 Wichita SWE President

Follow this link to apply and sign up by May 30. There are a wide range of opportunities and levels of commitment available.

http://www.levoleague.com/office-hours-recaps/warren-buffett-levo-league-office-hours-recap

Submit your answer by June 5. All correct entries will be entered into the drawing for a $5 QT gas card!

Be sure to renew your membership before the fiscal year ends!

http://news.yahoo.com/14-old-scientist-makes-groundbreaking-discovery-000009850.html

What is climate change?  What are the myths and the facts?  How does it affect me?  Come interact with a climatologist to better understand this issue affecting us.

As the state climatologist, Mary Knapp occupies a unique position in the Department of Agronomy. She is responsible for establishing and maintaining a statewide network of equipment for gathering of weather data, and answering questions on climate and weather matters. She also maintains the web site that provides a constant update and complete archive of weather-related data for Kansas.
Her degree is in Agronomy from K-State, but her career path back to the department was not entirely straightforward. The Weather Data Library started at K-State in 1976 in the Physics Department. Mary started working at K-State after a stint in the Peace Corps in Dominican Republic as a rice specialist. After a number of years as a research assistant in Entomology, she joined Computer Information Systems in Extension, working with the State Climatologist Dean Bark. When Dr. Bark retired, she became acting state climatologist. The Weather Data Library moved to Agronomy in 2002.
The best part of being state climatologist is being able to travel the state frequently, checking on weather data collection stations and giving talks. She also enjoys the interaction with other weather and climate specialists in the region and nationwide. She is especially proud that K-State recently received a 50-year recognition from the National Weather Service for continuous weather observations during that time.
She advises students interested in meteorology or climatology to take as many courses as possible in mathematics and statistics, and in communications. The courses in math and statistics will help students interpret and understand data throughout their lifetimes, she says. And the courses in communications are vital to any professional position, and always will be, she adds.

When: May 15, 7:00 pm

Where: Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center   1100 North Plum   |   Hutchinson, Kansas

This event is FREE to the public, no advanced reservations required.

In March 2013, Amazon.com Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he and his team of undersea experts had recovered many prime pieces of the historic F-1 engines from Project Apollo. The expedition recovered enough major components to fashion displays for two flown F-1 engines, and shortly after their recovery, the Cosmosphere’s conservation team, SpaceWorks, began the process of stabilizing the engine pieces.

The Apollo F-1 Conservation Project will be, arguably, the most complex and difficult conservation of a space artifact performed to date.