Skip Navigation

People of Weather Ready Nation: Mark Ray

NOAA’s Weather–Ready Nation initiative is about building community resilience in the face of increasing vulnerability to extreme weather and water events. In People of Weather–Ready Nation, we sit down with some of the people responsible for building a Weather­Ready Nation. We recently talked to Mark Ray, Director of Public Works/City Engineer for the City of Crystal, MN.

More Alumni Notes

Michael Anderson ’05, MS’09, PhD’11 and Jie Liu ’09, MS’11 celebrated 14 years of marriage in November 2025. They met in 2009 while working for different Wisconsin professors at CERN in the city of Meyrin, Switzerland. Michael was a research assis...

Save Some Green Thru Black Friday – Shop the UW Alumni Store and enjoy FREE shipping on orders of $49.99 or more now through Friday, Nov. 28. Use promo code: UWFRIDAY25