Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC)

I am a faculty member in the Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) at the University of Oklahoma. For 2 years (through July of 2012), I had the honor of serving as one of the ARRC's Associate Directors. This center is focused on weather radar research and education, and is a result of a significant investment by the university to accelerate research and learning in an area of great importance to Oklahoma and to the meteorological community in Norman.

"The ARRC is comprised of a growing research faculty, comprehensive test facilities, and an established, multidisciplinary education program at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Faculty members and students from the Schools of Meteorology (SoM) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and from the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) make up the ARRC and are actively engaged in collaborative research in pursuit of defining the next generation of weather radar sensors."

The Radar Innovations Laboratory (RIL) was established in March 2007 and is the ARRC's hardware design, fabrication, and test facility . The primary mission of the RIL is to support the scientific and educational goals of the ARRC through the design and fast prototyping of innovative hardware and software systems.

For more information, download this IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Newsletter article that was published on March of 2007.

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ARRC team receives second NSF award to investigate tonado debris

We recently received a second award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for our research project "Understanding the Relationship Between Tornadoes and Debris Through Observed and Simulated Radar Data."

NEXRAD class at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

This fall, I had the honor and privilege to teach an OLLI class with my friend and colleague Jami Boettcher. "NEXRAD Weather Radar: How it Works and What Those Images Tell Us" kept us busy for 5 weeks this fall.

Paper makes the cover of IEEE journal

Our paper "Bootstrap Dual-Polarimetric Spectral Density Estimator" made the cover of the April 2017 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing journal.

JTECH Associate Editor

I have accepted to serve as an associate editor for the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.

Outstanding Service Award

I have been chosen as the winner of the 2016 OU College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service.