The impacts of precipitation on society are numerous, with daily news reports covering events such as damaging hail, flash floods, and crippling snowstorms. Making better forecasts requires better weather models, and observations of precipitation are needed to improve our parameterizations of related processes. This is easier said than done. Observing precipitation is challenging, especially when precipitation is of the solid variety. Five years ago, development of the Open Snowflake Camera for...

Join the photography area in welcoming Jacqueline Bates, Director of Photography at New York Times Opinion via a live zoom event in the Visual Arts Building, room E125.

“Jackie is the founding photography director of The California Sunday Magazine, the Pulitzer Prize-winning print magazine, and “Pop-Up Magazine,” the acclaimed live-magazine show. Under her direction, California Sunday won the National Magazine Award for photography in 2016 and 2017, the first title in 25 years to win in...

Jim Shrosbree earned a BFA from Boise State University and MFA from University of Montana. His work is included in Collections such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, Eli and Edyth Broad Museum, Mint Museum of Art, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.

Awards include John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (Midwest Fellowship). Iowa Arts Council, NEA/Idaho Commission for the Arts...