Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VAA NOT SEEN IN STLT

Published: 6 November 2025
Categories: Global Volcano Activity

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Background:

Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America’s 2nd-highest volcano.  The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater.  The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. 
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano.  The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone.  Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano.  Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian

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University Faculty Mechanical Engineering/Controls & AI

Published: 6 November 2025
Categories: Eng Jobs Academic Keys

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University Faculty Mechanical Engineering/Controls & AI

Requisition Number: F00491P

Job Description:

The Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering, Applied Science & Technology at Weber State University is accepting applications for an assistant tenure track faculty position starting fall semester, 2026. The department is planning to offer a Master degree in mechanical engineering with emphasis area in Dynamics, Robotics, Controls & AI. The ME department currently offers baccalaureate degrees in mechanical engineering, energy engineering, mechanical engineering technology and an associate in pre-engineering. Selected individual will mostly teach a variety of courses in mechanical engineering with some support teaching in the additional programs mentioned above. We are looking for a scholar/educator with expertise in system modeling, control theory, robot kinematics, and artificial intelligence for robotics and machine control.

Job Duties:

The selected candidate will contribute to both undergraduate and graduate education in Mechanical engineering,

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