{"id":49,"date":"2019-09-23T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:58:20","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n\t\tAbout Us\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<p>The Indiana State Climate Office, hosted at Purdue University, serves as the primary scientific Extension resource for weather and applied climate science for Indiana through climate monitoring, resources, and outreach. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monitor and assess Indiana climate conditions and impacts<\/li>\n<li>Provide unbiased climate data, derived information, and data summaries<\/li>\n<li>Translate observational data into value-added information for decision makers<\/li>\n<li>Manage a research-grade weather observational network across Indiana for monitoring, research, and public safety<\/li>\n<li>Conduct applied research on climate-related issues that impact Indiana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/INSCO_FactSheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>IN-SCO Fact Sheet<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n<h2>\n\t\tOur History\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/weatherstation-509x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Purdue Weather Station\" height=\"1024\" width=\"509\" title=\"weatherstation\" \/>\n\t<p><em>Purdue Mesonet Station<\/em><\/p>\n\t<b>1954<\/b>\nIn 1954 Dr. Helmut Landsberg of the Weather Bureau Climatological Division announced in Climatological Services Memorandum No. 45 that the Section Centers of the Bureau would be discontinued. In its place would be the State Climatologist and the Area Climatologist program.\n<b>1955-56<\/b>\nDuring 1955-1956, the era of federally run state climatology programs across the country began. The Indiana State Climate Office was established in 1956 with the mandate to document and study the climate of Indiana . This mission includes responding to the requests of many individuals and user groups in businesses and government. Requests for assistance originate primarily from the agriculture, legal, construction, environmental monitoring, forensics, government, insurance, news media, research and eduction, and utility sectors.\n<b>1973<\/b>\nAs a federally funded program, the State Climatology program was terminated effective April 16, 1973. However, the individual states were given the opportunity to take over these programs and support them with their own state funds. At this juncture, Purdue University accepted and funded the Indiana State Climate Office as an extension function. Since 1956 to present, the department of Agronomy at Purdue University, West Lafayette, has housed the Indiana State Climate Office.\n<b>2005<\/b>\nOver the years the Indiana State Climate Office has served the needs of Indiana with a very small staff. Today, the office is growing significantly, evolving into an active office that continues to serve as a vital resource of climate information to various sectors and industry throughout the state of Indiana .\n<h2>\n\t\tIndiana state climatologists from inception to present:\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"647\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>1956 \u2013 1982<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Lawrence Schaal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>1982 \u2013 1987<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>James Newman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>1988 \u2013 2005<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Kenneth Scheeringa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>2005 \u2013 2018<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dr. Dev Niyogi (State Climatologist)<br \/>\nKen Scheeringa (Associate State Climatologist)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>2019 \u2013 present<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Dr. Beth Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/climate-maps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/climatemaps-w.png\" alt=\"climatemaps-w\" height=\"492\" width=\"491\" title=\"climatemaps-w\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/climate-maps\/\" title=\"CLIMATE MAPS\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\tCLIMATE MAPS\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/data\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/datalogo-w.png\" alt=\"datalogo-w\" height=\"492\" width=\"491\" title=\"datalogo-w\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/data\/\" title=\"DATA\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\tDATA\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/tools\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/toolslogo-2.png\" alt=\"toolslogo-2\" height=\"492\" width=\"491\" title=\"toolslogo-2\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/tools\/\" title=\"TOOLS\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\tTOOLS\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us The Indiana State Climate Office, hosted at Purdue University, serves as the primary scientific Extension resource for weather and applied climate science for Indiana through climate monitoring, resources, and outreach. \u00a0 Our Mission Monitor and assess Indiana climate conditions and impacts Provide unbiased climate data, derived information, and data summaries Translate observational data&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/2340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}