Dr. Jon Nese is Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science. He teaches a variety of courses, including Introduction to Weather Analysis (Meteo 201), Synoptic Meteorology Laboratory (Meteo 411), Forecasting Practicum (Meteo 415), and Professional Development in the Atmospheric Sciences (Meteo 491).
He also oversees the Weather Communications Group which is responsible for Weather World, the department’s long-running weekday weather magazine show. He provides regular features for the show on Wednesday evening in a segment called “WxYz” (WeatherWhys) – in 2015, he was awarded a Mid-Atlantic Emmy for WxYz with his colleague Marisa Ferger. He also occasionally hosts the show, forecasts, and interviews Penn State faculty and prominent alumni.
Prior to joining the Penn State faculty, Dr. Nese was chief meteorologist at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia from 1998 to 2002, and from 2002 to 2005, he was an on-air storm analyst at The Weather Channel.
Dr. Nese has co-authored two books: The Philadelphia Area Weather Book (with Philadelphia television meteorologist and Penn State alum Glenn Schwartz), which was awarded the 2005 Louis J. Battan Author’s Award from the American Meteorological Society; and a college-level introductory textbook: A World of Weather: Fundamentals of Meteorology (with Penn State meteorologist Lee Grenci), now in its sixth edition.
Here’s a list of his favorite weather-related web sites.