The 2nd International Symposium on Earth-science Challenges (ISEC) was co-convened by Dr. Berrien Moore and Dr. Toshiyuki Awaji. This 3-day event was held at the National Weather Center on September 14-16, 2011.
This biannual event has the important goal of bringing together scientists and students from Kyoto University and the University of Oklahoma to enrich the long-standing and deep relationship between these institutions.
General areas of interest at the symposium were:
The 2nd ISEC was structured around a series of oral and poster scientific presentations. In addition, we planned several tours of our facilities, our radars, and our campus. As equally important, there was plenty of time for informal discussions and networking during lunches, coffee breaks, and social events.
If you want to know how I was recruited to head the organization of this important event at the National Weather Center, read this story.
The official symposium webpage is here.
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."
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.
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.
I have accepted to serve as an associate editor for the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
I have been chosen as the winner of the 2016 OU College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service.
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