The Woodlands was suggested to us by several guys at my current company. Sounds like there are several who live there and work at IAH.
Third that. That's where my folks were when they lived there. I called it Spring, TX because you can find Spring on a map, but The Woodlands and Spring aren't (exactly) the same thing.
She's going back to school for meteorology. Her first degree was, like mine, in journalism, but she's always wanted to study wx...so now she is. I think Metro is the front runner right now; she's trying to get more information on the place as neither of us had ever heard of it. Certainly if any one on here knows about it, we'd love the info!
I'm an allum of Metro but never finished. Their Aviation department is virtually the only one left in Colorado and is the only in the Metro Denver area, ever. I took extra Meteorology courses as electives back in the 90s, it was an excellent program back then. Zyola, another host on our podcast just went back to schooln as an adult returning to school in later life at Metro. If you need contacts to talk to there, I can ask her.
Frankly Denver is overloaded with Meteorologists work-wise with NCAR and their proximity to Boulder (I think) tends to lean toward more hiring for a "real-job" out of CU Boulder than anywhere else later on.
As far as mixing majors goes, Denver is a highly sought after city for broadcast meteorologists, and most had to work many years elsewhere before moving here. Usually such exciting places as Omaha. You can count on one hand the number of locally grown broadcast meteorologists around here in TV and radio.
One particular TV meteorologist, Nick Carter, is an avid GA Aviation enthusiast and is originally from the Chicago area long ago. He moonlighted at Metro for a decade or more as a Meteorology professor and I had one class with him. He still flies out of a club at KAPA.
NCAR is tech-heavy with lots of Linux clusters replacing the supercomputers of old up there. Any crossover between meteorology and Computer Science/Engineering is likely to be a big plus if you want to stay here after college.
Other stuff... United ran Continental out of town on a rail when DIA was built. Continental wanted a heavy maintenance base here but couldn't afford the hangars. Denver refused to make them loans or any concessions. United owned the DIA build-out political process. This probably set the stage for the return of the new Frontier as it left Denver without a serious competitor to United. It's ironic that Southwest finally came, Frontier is barely holding their own against them, and Continental, is technically back now too. I'm fully expecting TWA to pop out of a gopher hole just to say hi, any second now.
As far as the turboprop/regional world goes, Rocky Mtn Airways owned the skies here during regulated years, along with Aspen Airways. Some of the stuff they pioneered up in the rocks was downright impressive. Continental bought Rocky and utterly screwed it up, setting the stage for both Air Wisconsin and Mesa to become the replacements for a decade. Lynx popped out of Frontier and didn't survive. Now the mountain routes are a hodgepodge with no one airline really beating the other. But things like walking onto a flight of a Twin Otter or DASH-7 at DEN (Stapleton) and being able to basically walk to the slopes from the Avon STOLPort near Vail is a thing of the past. The airports moved out of the tiny valleys and got bigger with places like Hayden and Eagle expanding to handle bigger direct flights and RJs.
So if there's one "given" in DEN it's never-ending airline turmoil with United as the anchor that never disappears at DEN. As an ex-Continental employee, it's sure been interesting to watch it come full-circle. United has "TK" here also, as you probably know... Otherwise known by mere mortals as the Flight Training Center. Have had two or three friends working there as instructors over the years. Big sims. Almost always busy.
Sure I'm forgetting something. Toss out other questions...
