Football interview - Troy

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09/17/2018 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the university's support of all student-athletes across all sports, and guest Adam Houston talks about research Nebraska is leading in collaboration with colleagues at other universities to better understand severe storms and enhance accuracy in warning systems.

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[00:00:00.305](smooth music)
[00:00:04.600]Welcome back.
[00:00:05.433]Yet another kickoff here on the Husker Sports Network.
[00:00:07.080]Nebraska's set to take on the Troy Trojans.
[00:00:09.280]11:01 kickoff today.
[00:00:10.930]We are joined as we are each and every week
[00:00:12.600]by University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:15.340]Last week was, I don't know how to take it, chancellor.
[00:00:18.880]I was excited to see the Huskers play.
[00:00:21.060]Liked a lot of what I saw, but then the end,
[00:00:22.840]it was, well, disappointing.
[00:00:24.305]You know, Greg, it was a great game.
[00:00:26.339]It really was, and it was great
[00:00:29.460]to see our football team get
[00:00:32.070]to play, right? (host laughs)
[00:00:33.870]After kind of the start we had the week before
[00:00:36.723]and get to that first real play of the game was exciting,
[00:00:40.465]and it was great to see the effort that they put forward,
[00:00:43.650]and the turnaround that we feel is underway.
[00:00:46.039]It was a great game.
[00:00:47.880]Disappointing loss in the end.
[00:00:50.210]Glad to see that our quarterback is
[00:00:51.992]on recovery, and so looking forward to this week.
[00:00:55.826]Alright.
[00:00:56.920]Well, I know you're extremely busy,
[00:00:58.310]but you are a big sports fan,
[00:01:00.150]and you like to get out and support
[00:01:01.766]as many of the sports teams as you can.
[00:01:05.440]You do try to keep an eye on our sports.
[00:01:07.337]Yeah, we do.
[00:01:08.220]We try to get out to as many of the events as we can.
[00:01:11.094]My wife, Jane's better at it
[00:01:13.510]than I am. (host laughs)
[00:01:14.343]She's a fixture at most Husker athletics events,
[00:01:17.040]as you know, but this fall, we not only have
[00:01:20.030]football that we're excited about today,
[00:01:21.962]but our women's volleyball team is off to a great start,
[00:01:24.775]had a big week this past week,
[00:01:26.609]our soccer team is doing really well,
[00:01:29.510]also had a big week with a big game
[00:01:31.190]in North Carolina over the weekend,
[00:01:33.159]our cross country team is active,
[00:01:35.070]and then we get into swimming and diving
[00:01:37.360]and all kinds of other sports.
[00:01:38.404]So we like to get out and support across
[00:01:40.860]all of the Husker athletics, and we're really proud
[00:01:43.982]of all of our student athletes.
[00:01:45.976]We have well over 600 student athletes here
[00:01:49.410]at Nebraska that are amongst some
[00:01:51.370]of our very best students, and I want
[00:01:53.410]to particularly today give a shout-out
[00:01:55.046]to Erika Freyhof, who was just named
[00:01:57.495]the Big Ten Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Week
[00:02:00.540]this past week.
[00:02:02.140]Erika is a sophomore with us, and she joined us
[00:02:05.620]on the cross country team last year as a freshman,
[00:02:10.280]but she also has two siblings here,
[00:02:11.875]who are members of the track and field team,
[00:02:15.150]her brother, Mark, and her sister, Audrey,
[00:02:17.610]all coming to Nebraska from the state of Michigan,
[00:02:20.210]one of our Big Ten peer states.
[00:02:22.264]Excited to count all three Freyhofs here
[00:02:24.630]as Huskers in our Husker athletics.
[00:02:27.200]That's fantastic, and I know
[00:02:28.290]the student athletes really appreciate
[00:02:29.700]when they do see you at their events.
[00:02:31.790]You mentioned cross country.
[00:02:32.691]They certainly have to race on different kinds of terrain,
[00:02:36.772]different kinds of weather that can impact their events.
[00:02:40.970]Husker Nation probably has talked more
[00:02:42.380]about the weather this September
[00:02:43.530]because of the washout we had
[00:02:45.482]on September the 1st than maybe any time I can remember.
[00:02:48.413]We have a special guest with us here today,
[00:02:50.800]associate professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
[00:02:52.805]Adam Houston, and, Adam, great to have you here with us.
[00:02:55.940]Let's talk about the university and its research
[00:02:59.314]kind of leading the way on researching storms.
[00:03:02.163]Tell us a little bit about that.
[00:03:03.381]Yeah, so we just recently had a project funded,
[00:03:06.397]NSF-funded project to study the storms called supercells,
[00:03:10.912]the very intense storms that are the parent storms
[00:03:14.580]for most of the very significant, intense tornadoes,
[00:03:17.026]and there's some gaps in our understanding,
[00:03:20.287]and we hope that by filling some of these gaps,
[00:03:22.130]we're gonna ultimately improve forecasting.
[00:03:23.623]Which, that's the goal, right?
[00:03:25.480]To help people get advance notice
[00:03:26.839]and make sure everybody's safe.
[00:03:28.387]Right, yeah, and the National Weather Service does
[00:03:31.290]a really good job of forecasting, say, six to 12 hours
[00:03:35.908]ahead of time, so the tornado watch, for example.
[00:03:38.150]Most tornado watches are pretty accurate.
[00:03:40.490]That is, a tornado watch is issued and tornadoes occur.
[00:03:43.608]Unfortunately, when you get to the warning scale,
[00:03:46.778]we'll call that a warning is when the conditions are
[00:03:50.074]not only supportive, but there's a storm
[00:03:52.560]that's active and potential to produce a tornado is high.
[00:03:54.845]The false alarm rate is really high,
[00:03:57.368]so, a lot of warnings are issued
[00:03:59.401]and no tornado occurs, which,
[00:04:01.500]it's great that no tornado occurs,
[00:04:02.850]but when you issue a warning and no tornado happens,
[00:04:05.307]it tends to desensitize people.
[00:04:07.177]People don't tend to react as they should,
[00:04:10.038]and unfortunately, if you try to bring down
[00:04:12.990]that false alarm rate, then the probability
[00:04:14.917]of detection goes down as well.
[00:04:17.150]That is, you get more tornadoes that occur without warnings,
[00:04:19.940]and so that trade-off is just a fundamental limitation
[00:04:21.835]of our ability to predict at those timescales,
[00:04:23.952]and what we hope is that by improving understanding,
[00:04:26.144]we can start to increase those numbers,
[00:04:29.400]increase the probability of detection, that is,
[00:04:31.760]and decrease the false alarm rate.
[00:04:33.810]Now, is Nebraska by themselves doing this research,
[00:04:35.952]or is there other institutions that are helping with this?
[00:04:39.088]Right, yeah, this is not something that we can do alone.
[00:04:41.526]It is highly collaborative.
[00:04:43.479]We have four different universities
[00:04:45.753]that are involved, University of Colorado,
[00:04:47.215]Texas Tech University, University of Oklahoma,
[00:04:49.810]along with the National Severe Storms Lab,
[00:04:51.630]which is a NOAA agency, or a NOAA-funded
[00:04:55.660]lab that studies severe storms.
[00:04:57.810]Talk about technology and how much
[00:04:59.610]that has, the advancement we've had
[00:05:01.770]in that over the last decade-plus.
[00:05:03.500]Yeah, that's one of the interesting things
[00:05:06.010]about this project.
[00:05:06.843]Obviously there's interest in the types
[00:05:08.760]of storms that we're sampling,
[00:05:09.820]but really we're bringing to bear a technology
[00:05:12.066]that is perfectly suited for the kinds
[00:05:15.000]of questions that we wanna answer.
[00:05:16.280]It's namely the unmanned aircraft, the drone.
[00:05:20.870]The reason it's well suited is
[00:05:22.700]that we can get observations above the ground,
[00:05:24.659]and if you think about it, most of the observations
[00:05:26.603]that we collect are at the ground.
[00:05:28.180]So we have surface stations that are at the ground.
[00:05:30.858]You have balloons that can be released,
[00:05:33.671]and they have observation, the little sensor package
[00:05:36.560]on 'em that can collect data,
[00:05:37.590]but you have no control over it.
[00:05:38.660]It goes straight up and then to the stratosphere,
[00:05:40.669]but with unmanned aircraft, you have complete control,
[00:05:43.482]and so we can collect these observations
[00:05:46.209]that you can't collect in any other way,
[00:05:49.080]and so with these observations,
[00:05:51.390]we have a unique insight into some of the structures
[00:05:53.370]that we think are important
[00:05:54.410]in these supercell thunderstorms,
[00:05:56.890]these structures we think could lead
[00:05:59.730]to tornadogenesis, and if we can demonstrate that,
[00:06:01.726]and also associate those structures to things
[00:06:04.830]that we can see with the little more crude instrumentation,
[00:06:08.723]then we start to really bridge that predictive gap.
[00:06:12.900]Adam mentioned, chancellor, the other institutions
[00:06:16.130]that are collaborating on this,
[00:06:17.644]even some former Big 12 conference members.
[00:06:20.740]How unusual or is it usual that schools work together
[00:06:24.140]in areas like this?
[00:06:25.009]No, we have lots of partnerships
[00:06:27.900]between universities all over the country
[00:06:30.831]and all over the world, for that matter.
[00:06:32.900]We certainly have a lot of partnerships
[00:06:35.585]in the former Big 12 conferences,
[00:06:37.949]our former membership there,
[00:06:39.530]as well as our Big Ten colleagues.
[00:06:42.649]I'll give you a couple of examples.
[00:06:44.850]In addition to the work that Adam was just talking about
[00:06:47.333]in severe weather, we just announced recently
[00:06:50.677]a major consortium working on antimicrobial resistance
[00:06:54.989]that involves the University of Iowa,
[00:06:57.112]the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[00:06:59.354]Iowa State University, all as partners working together
[00:07:03.114]with UNMC, with our med center here at Nebraska as well,
[00:07:07.860]working in that important area.
[00:07:09.190]We have work in math education,
[00:07:11.533]spanning a number of the Big 12 institutions.
[00:07:14.557]So we just hosted a conference here recently
[00:07:17.720]with about 100 scientists from around the country
[00:07:21.380]in laser research and laser laboratories
[00:07:24.720]that are sharing their resources
[00:07:27.008]across institutions involving work in physics.
[00:07:31.060]So you could go on and on with these kinds
[00:07:33.270]of relationships where we're changing the world every day
[00:07:35.383]through research working together across universities,
[00:07:40.460]including, of course, Nebraska.
[00:07:42.540]Very good.
[00:07:43.373]Adam Houston, great, thank you very much for chatting
[00:07:45.950]with us here today and continued success to you.
[00:07:47.480]Thank you.
[00:07:48.600]Chancellor, always great to see you.
[00:07:49.433]Great to see you.
[00:07:50.266]Go Big Red.
[00:07:51.099]Alright, we got more can out of kickoff comin' up next.
[00:07:53.350]Matt Coatney will check out the Big Ten Blitz.
[00:07:54.987]That's next.

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