Our wonderful, amazing mentors come from many organizations throughout and sometimes beyond the OU Research Campus. Many are housed in what's call the National Weather Center, which is how we came up with our name. It doesn't do justice, however, to the full suite of organizations that contribut to this REU program. Here's a quick breakdown of most of them:

• AER = Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.
• A&GS (or CAGS) = OU College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences
• AI2ES = NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography
• ARRC = OU Advanced Radar Research Center
• CAPS = OU Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
• CASS = OU Center for Autonomous Sensing and Sampling *Note: this organization is now part of CIWRO
• CEES = OU School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science
• CIMMS = OU Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies *Note: CIMMS became CIWRO on Oct 1, 2021.
• CIWRO = OU Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations *Note: CIMMS became CIWRO on Oct 1, 2021.
• Comm = OU Department of Communication
• CS = OU School of Computer Science
• CSA = OU Center for Spatial Analysis
• DGES = OU Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
• ECE = OU School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• FEMA = Federal Emergency Management Agency
• NRC = National Research Council
• NSSL = NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory
• NWS (or NWSFO)= NOAA NWS Norman Forecast Office or NOAA NWS Tulsa Forecast Office
• OCS = Oklahoma Climatological Survey
• OEM = Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management
• RIL = ARRC's Radar Innovation Laboratory
• ROC = NOAA NWS Radar Operations Center
• SC CSC = South Central Climate Science Center
• SoM = OU School of Meteorology
• SPC = NOAA Storm Prediction Center
• SWOSU = Southwestern Oklahoma State University
• USAF = U.S. Air Force
• WDT = Weather Decision Technology, Inc.
• WDTD (was WDTB) = NOAA Warning Decision Training Division