Ph.D. - University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences (1995) B.S. - Penn State University, Meteorology (1989)

My research and teaching interests are in mountain weather and climate including orographic precipitation, orographically modified cyclone evolution, thermally driven flows, lake-effect snowstorms, and weather prediction over complex terrain.

I am also involved in interdisciplinary projects examining hydrologic processes over the Great Salt Lake Basin and the Salt Lake Valley urban airshed. My synoptic meteorology and mountain meteorology courses involve considerable synthesis of research and teaching. For example, students have contributed to field program data collection and analysis, including flights on the NOAA "Hurricane Hunter" research aircraft during the IPEX field program. I also serve as a fellow to the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction and chair of the Unidata User's Committee. Funding provided by the National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and National Weather Service C-STAR and COMET programs enables these efforts.

Courses

• Current
  • Meteorology 5530/6530: Synoptic Meteorology I
  • Meteorology 5810/6810: Weather Discussion
• Others
  • Meteorology 5540/6540: Synoptic Meteorology II