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Professor of Brain Storming

 

For UNC assistant professor Wendi Flynn, who grew up exploring the Boundary Waters wilderness area in Minnesota and Canada, narrowing her field of study meant making a choice between geology and meteorology. With her father’s science background in physics and engineering, and regular family forays into the outdoors, her decision to study earth sciences came, well, naturally.

In college at St. Cloud State University, she chose meteorology and had an opportunity to work on research funded by the National Science Foundation. From there, she gained practical experience working as an operational forecaster, predicting weather for a wide range of purposes and events. Then she returned to earn both her master’s degree and her doctorate degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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