In this edition of the Perpetual Notion Machine, new host Andy Lamia sits down with Andrea Lopez Lang to talk about polar vortexes, and how to get started in an atmospheric sciences career.

Andrea Lopez Lang is Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences at the University of Albany, where she leads a research group that studies topics like tropopause and jet dynamics, synoptic processes in troposphere-stratosphere coupling, the interaction between weather systems and stratospheric flow, dynamics of cool-season variability, and predictability and uncertainty of high-impact weather at subseasonal lead times

She is currently a Visiting Professor at the UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. You can follow her on Twitter @alopezlang.

Cover photo of typical polar vortex configuration in November, 2013. Public domain image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, obtained through Wikimedia. 

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