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Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University junior Ryann Jones won two first-place honors at a recent awards event for the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists in the categories of Climate/Environmental Reporting and Weathercaster.

Every summer, thunderstorms crop up with startling intensity across Northern Arizona’s rugged terrain, bringing driving rain, high winds, flooding and lightning. It’s all part of the North American monsoon, a seasonal increase in summer precipitation that occurs between June 15 and Sept. 30 each year.

Late last month, two Meteorology undergraduates from Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University experienced a rare research opportunity.

Astronauts typically experience a gravitational force (G-force) of around three, or three times Earth’s G-force, during launch and re-entry.

From working as a military and commercial airline pilot to heading up safety programs at airlines in Australia and Canada, Billy Nolen ('07) has had a varied and eventful career in aviation.

Entrepreneur, Polaris Dawn Commander and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumnus Jared Isaacman ('11), who last year led the first-ever all-civilian space mission, visited Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach Campus to meet the next generation of aviators.

Nineteen firefighters who lost their lives in Arizona's 2013 Yarnell Hill fire were likely victims of the same type of meteorological event that caused a deadly 1985 airplane crash, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University researchers have reported.

At first glance, Dan Nyman’s first-place finish in this year’s World Gaming Forza Motorsport 7 North American Championships does not seem to correspond with his major in Meteorology at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus.