More than fifty years after graduating from the Department of Meteorology at Penn State, and following a long rewarding career of operational experience as a Naval Reserve weather officer, retired LCDR Roger R. Watkins (1950 B.S. Meteorology) teamed up with Professor George Young to write a paper for the National Weather Digest. The paper, titled "A Synoptic Climatology for Heavy Snowfall Events Spanning the East Coast Megalopolis: Insights from Northeast Snowstorms," appears in Vol. 30, pp 45-48 of the Digest.
 
Roger Watkins is a retired National Weather Service forecaster and Naval Reserve weather officer (LCDR) with 35 years of operational experience. He served in the WBAN Analysis Center from 1951 to 1954 and the Hydrometeorological Section of the Office of Hydrology from 1954 to 1986. During his career, he has watched the East Coast weather prediction evolve from a science of pattern recognition to one increasingly dominated by numerical and statistical guidance.
 
George S. Young is a professor of meteorology at Penn State with research interests in synoptic, mesoscale, and boundary layer meteorology as well as the applications of artificial intelligence to pattern recognition and statistical weather prediction. George received his B.S. in 1979 and M.S in 1982 in meteorology from Florida State University and his Ph.D. in 1986 in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University.