The Bottom Line
My name is
, and I am a
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of
Geography at Indiana University. This
semester, I am teaching courses in severe and unusual weather, and weather
analysis/forecasting.
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, working with Dr. Bill McCaul and Dr. Kevin Knupp on understanding the behavior of convective storms. Analzying a large set of (200+) numerical simulations, we studied how storm behavior is influenced by background environmental conditions.
Present research
Climatology of high-impact weather phenomena, with emphasis on the US Morphology and dynamics of simulated deep, moist convection Numerical weather prediction (NWP) and its use in operational forecasting
Previous research
2010-2011: I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at UCAR/COMET in Boulder, Colorado, working on a set of training modules in numerical weather prediction (NWP). I also performed applied research with the WRF-EMS modeling system that is used in many NWS forecast offices. 2005-2010: I was supported by Dr. Kevin Knupp on a grant for tornado and hurricane research from the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR). From 2002-2005, I derived employment from the Convection Morphology Parameter Space Study, or COMPASS, on an NSF-sponsored research grant.
