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Earth, Space and Science News interviewed Dr. Jana Houser, Assistant Professor of Geography at Ohio University, for a story headlined “Before Canadian Scientists Can Study Tornadoes, They Have to Find Them.” Jana Houser, an assistant professor of meteorology at Ohio University, studies how tornadoes form and how topography affects them. She’s […]

Utah Public Radio interviewed Dr. Jana Houser, Assistant Professor of Geography at Ohio University, for a piece headlined “UnDisciplined: The Atmospheric Scientist And The Environmental Economist.” This week on UnDisciplined, we’re talking about climate, but at two very different scales. First, we’ll talk to Jana Houser, a researcher who has […]

Research by Dr. Jana Houser showing tornadoes forming from the ground up, with implications for tornado predictions, was featured in several prestigious news outlets. Houser presented new research at the American Geophysical Union’s conference that showed the commonly-held theory that tornadoes spawn from the clouds down is likely incorrect. In […]

Research Demonstrates Existing Hypothesis of Top-Down Tornado Formation Is Incorrect From Compass Weather forecasters may be looking in the wrong place when working to issue tornado warnings, new research led by Ohio University’s Dr. Jana Houser has demonstrated. Historically, there have been a wide number of conflicting theories about how […]

Dr. Jana Houser, Assistant Professor of Geography, received NSF funding to examine topographic effects on tornado formation and intensity. Houser has spent much of her early career using radar data to examine the internal dynamics of tornado formation. Her research on the rapid development and evolution of tornadoes and associated storm-scale […]

Eighteen meteorology students from Ohio University packed their bags and headed west to the Central and Southern Plains’ Tornado Alley. On the trip, students directly observed deep, moist atmospheric convection and its associated phenomena, including single-cell, multi-cell, and supercell storms, which can produce squall lines, hail, lightning, and tornadoes. The […]

Science Café presents Dr. Jana Houser on “Tornadoes: Unraveling the Mysteries of one of Earth’s most Powerful Storms” on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room Coffeehouse. Houser, Assistant Professor of Geography at Ohio University, spent the past 10 years studying tornadoes through the use […]