Texas A&M atmospheric scientist and Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon was recently featured in news stories about the Texas drought, now considered the worst in a century, on CBS News and local television station KBTX. Nielsen-Gammon says the drought is probably more severe than anything we’ve ever had and will become the drought of record.

This Thanksgiving weekend, NASA will launch its largest and most advanced Martian rover on a mission to study the past climate of our planetary neighbor. No stranger to robotic exploration, Texas A&M atmospheric scientist Mark Lemmon is part of the team operating the Mars Science Laboratory rover, also known as Curiosity, that will touch down at Gale Crater next August.

The Texas A&M Board of Regents named atmospheric sciences professor and Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon as a Regents Professor for 2010–11. Nielsen-Gammon joins 13 professors from the Texas A&M System in winning this award.

Texas A&M University geography doctoral candidate Pablo Granados-Dieseldorff's interest in fish started as a child snorkeling in the mangrove estuaries of his native Guatemala. That interest has paid off in the form of an American Fisheries Society's Fellowship.

The weekend of Oct. 13-15 marked a crash course introduction to the Texas A&M College of Geosciences for 15 talented high school juniors and seniors. These students traveled from around Texas to participate in the third annual Investigate Geosciences, or iGeo, recruitment program.