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Student photos from summer of 2019 TORUS chase. Adam Houston, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, led the TORUS project — the most ambitious drone-based investigation of severe storms and tornadoes ever conducted — chased supercells for more than 9,000 miles across five states this summer. The project, led by Nebraska's Adam Houston, features more than 50 scientists and students from four universities. The 2019 team included 13 Huskers — 10 undergraduates and three graduate students. The $2.5 million study is funded through a $2.4 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation with additional support provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. June 25, 2019. Photo provided to University Communication.

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Adam Houston, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, led TORUS project — the most ambitious drone-based investigation of severe storms and tornadoes ever conducted — chased supercells for more than 9,000 miles across five states this summer. The project, led by Nebraska's Adam Houston, features more than 50 scientists and students from four universities. The 2019 team included 13 Huskers — 10 undergraduates and three graduate students. The $2.5 million study is funded through a $2.4 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation with additional support provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. June 25, 2019. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Adam Houston, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, led TORUS project — the most ambitious drone-based investigation of severe storms and tornadoes ever conducted — chased supercells for more than 9,000 miles across five states this summer. The project, led by Nebraska's Adam Houston, features more than 50 scientists and students from four universities. The 2019 team included 13 Huskers — 10 undergraduates and three graduate students. The $2.5 million study is funded through a $2.4 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation with additional support provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. June 25, 2019. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Adam Houston, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, led TORUS project — the most ambitious drone-based investigation of severe storms and tornadoes ever conducted — chased supercells for more than 9,000 miles across five states this summer. The project, led by Nebraska's Adam Houston, features more than 50 scientists and students from four universities. The 2019 team included 13 Huskers — 10 undergraduates and three graduate students. The $2.5 million study is funded through a $2.4 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation with additional support provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. June 25, 2019. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Adam Houston, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, led TORUS project — the most ambitious drone-based investigation of severe storms and tornadoes ever conducted — chased supercells for more than 9,000 miles across five states this summer. The project, led by Nebraska's Adam Houston, features more than 50 scientists and students from four universities. The 2019 team included 13 Huskers — 10 undergraduates and three graduate students. The $2.5 million study is funded through a $2.4 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation with additional support provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. June 25, 2019. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Students with the storm chaser car. Adam Houston, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, led TORUS project — the most ambitious drone-based investigation of severe storms and tornadoes ever conducted — chased supercells for more than 9,000 miles across five states this summer. The project, led by Nebraska's Adam Houston, features more than 50 scientists and students from four universities. The 2019 team included 13 Huskers — 10 undergraduates and three graduate students. The $2.5 million study is funded through a $2.4 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation with additional support provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. June 25, 2019. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Researchers with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln take groundwater samples from the Loup River in the Sandhills of Nebraska . By sampling groundwater and determining its age, they hope to determine whether predictions for groundwater discharge rates and contamination removal in watersheds are accurate.

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Researchers with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln take groundwater samples from the Loup River in the Sandhills of Nebraska . By sampling groundwater and determining its age, they hope to determine whether predictions for groundwater discharge rates and contamination removal in watersheds are accurate.

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Researchers with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln take groundwater samples from the Loup River in the Sandhills of Nebraska . By sampling groundwater and determining its age, they hope to determine whether predictions for groundwater discharge rates and contamination removal in watersheds are accurate.

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Graduate student Alex Erwin drills a pipe that will hold an instrument cluster on Nebraska's newest storm chase vehicle. Starting this spring, 13 Huskers will be part of TORUS, a national study designed to collect data about how severe storms and tornadoes are formed. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Nebraska students (from left) Brennan Darrah and Maddy Diedrichsen install a new computer screen inside a storm chase vehicle. Each of the research vehicles include three computer stations — two in the back seats and one in the front. Along with collecting data, the computers are also used to track storms via radar and for navigation. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Nebraska students (from left) Brennan Darrah and Maddy Diedrichsen install a new computer screen inside a storm chase vehicle. Each of the research vehicles include three computer stations — two in the back seats and one in the front. Along with collecting data, the computers are also used to track storms via radar and for navigation. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Students meet with Adam Houston (center) as they prep vehicles prior to the start of the TORUS project. TORUS Storm Chasers. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Graduate student Matt Wilson reviews code in programs that are used to collect real-time storm data. All data collected is stored in computers located in the back of Nebraska's mesonet vehicles. The data is backed up daily. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Ben Schweigert, a freshman meteorology major from Omaha, tightens a bolt that holds a tower for a computer display within a mesonet vehicle. Students equipped two of the storm chase vehicles this year, one for the Nebraska team and another for Central Michigan University. The work begins as a class in the fall semester. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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The instrument cluster mounted on the front of Nebraska storm chase vehicles include devices that record data on wind vectors, air temperature, humidity and air pressure. All data collected is stored on hard drives within the vehicles and saved for study at a later date. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Nebraska students (from left) Maddy Diedrichsen and Brennan Darrah work on installing a new monitor and keyboard into the passenger seat of a mesonet (storm chase) vehicle during prep work for the TORUS project. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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A thunderhead rolls across the dust on the back window of a Nebraska storm chase vehicle. The TORUS research project, which will cover much of the Great Plains in 2019 and 2020, begins May 14. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Nebraska students (from left) Brennan Darrah and Maddy Diedrichsen discuss how to attach instrumentation to the front of a mesonet (storm chase) vehicle during prep work for the TORUS project. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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The theme for this month’s Sunday with a Scientist, at the University Nebraska State Museum, was Motion in the Ocean with Dr. Lynne Elkins from the UNL Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Visitors got to learn more about the science that goes on underneath the water's surface, while trying their hand at seafloor mapping, discovering how lava erupts on the bottom of the ocean, exploring how Earth's plates move, and to see what hydro thermal vents are like! March 31, 2019. Photo by Justin Mohling / University Communication

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The theme for this month’s Sunday with a Scientist, at the University Nebraska State Museum, was Motion in the Ocean with Dr. Lynne Elkins from the UNL Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Visitors got to learn more about the science that goes on underneath the water's surface, while trying their hand at seafloor mapping, discovering how lava erupts on the bottom of the ocean, exploring how Earth's plates move, and to see what hydro thermal vents are like! March 31, 2019. Photo by Justin Mohling / University Communication

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The theme for this month’s Sunday with a Scientist, at the University Nebraska State Museum, was Motion in the Ocean with Dr. Lynne Elkins from the UNL Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Visitors got to learn more about the science that goes on underneath the water's surface, while trying their hand at seafloor mapping, discovering how lava erupts on the bottom of the ocean, exploring how Earth's plates move, and to see what hydro thermal vents are like! March 31, 2019. Photo by Justin Mohling / University Communication

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The theme for this month’s Sunday with a Scientist, at the University Nebraska State Museum, was Motion in the Ocean with Dr. Lynne Elkins from the UNL Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Visitors got to learn more about the science that goes on underneath the water's surface, while trying their hand at seafloor mapping, discovering how lava erupts on the bottom of the ocean, exploring how Earth's plates move, and to see what hydro thermal vents are like! March 31, 2019. Photo by Justin Mohling / University Communication

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David Harwood, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, is returning to the Antarctic to drill into an ancient lake. December 5, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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