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
Numerical weather prediction (NWP) and its use in operational forecasting, as part of my job with COMET Enhancements to WRF in support of real-time modeling Aspects of the climatology of convective forecast parameters in the US Morphology and dynamics of simulated deep, moist convection
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.
