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Tom Foster thinks he is a shy young man, but when people see him charging around the racquetball court and the hockey rink, and find out that he teaches scores of underclassmen every week as a teaching assistant for an introductory meteorology course, they begin to know better.
Foster came to Penn State to be a TV weather forecaster, and got to be one of a select few on-air student forecasters for Penn State Public Broadcasting's "Weather World." But with graduation approaching, it's graduate school rather than a career in broadcasting that's calling him.
An investigation of past climates, conducted with Eric Barron, director of the Environment Institute in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, turned his head. Foster spent last summer helping run computer models of ancient climates. He found the results fascinating. He discovered the information gleaned from the past can help researchers understand what sorts of climate change may be just around the corner.
Tom Foster was an undergraduate student in the Department of Meteorology in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State.
