{"id":16069,"date":"2014-11-13T17:36:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=16069"},"modified":"2014-11-13T17:36:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T23:36:23","slug":"science-cafe-set-to-blow-students-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=16069","title":{"rendered":"Science Cafe set to blow students away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gradydixon.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16162 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gradydixon.jpg?resize=440%2C298\" alt=\"gradydixon\" width=\"440\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a>P. Grady Dixon, chair and associate professor of geosciences at Fort Hays State University, will present &#8220;Hail and Dear and Answers to Your Questions About Storm Chasing&#8221; as a part of the next Science Cafe beginning at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, at Gella\u2019s Diner and Lb. Brewing Co., 117 E. 11th Street.<\/p>\n<p>I love talking about weather of any kind, and I think it is always relevant and worth discussing,&#8221; Dixon said. &#8220;I am participating because I like the idea of Science Cafe, and I enjoy talking about weather.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the FHSU faculty this fall, Dixon was a nationally recognized meteorologist and storm chaser for 17 years<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The presentation will explain why, where, and when I chase severe thunderstorms,&#8221; Dixon said. &#8220;This will include info about tornado climatology, storm-chase safety and hazards, photos and videos of previous storms that I have observed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will also talk a bit about the upcoming Storm Chase course to be offered through FHSU next May or June.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Science Cafe is sponsored by the FHSU Science and Mathematics Education Institute and free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P. Grady Dixon, chair and associate professor of geosciences at Fort Hays State University, will present &#8220;Hail and Dear and Answers to Your Questions About&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3398],"tags":[3991,106,2594,2022,276,3992,1495],"class_list":["post-16069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-department-of-geosceinces","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-grady-dixon","tag-science-and-mathematics-education-institute","tag-science-cafe","tag-storm-chasing","tag-tigermedianet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16311,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069\/revisions\/16311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}