In addition to my research activities, I'm involved in education and service.
Collaboration between different organizations is a natural occurrence at the National Weather Center. I truly enjoy the variety of ways in which I get to interact with fellow engineers and meteorologists.
Learning opportunities are also abundant. I regularly attend the Advanced Radar Research Center seminar series where graduate students, faculty, and visitors present the latest on their research projects.
One particular group that relies on collaboration and continuing learning is the Radar Operations Center Data Quality Team (DQ Team). I am currently an active member of this interdisciplinary team of meteorologists and engineers. The DQ Team has members from the ROC’s Applications, Engineering, and Operations branches, the Weather Decision Training Branch, NSSL, and OU. The group deals with general data quality issues on the NEXRAD network and meets weekly at the National Weather Center.
Here is a summary of extracurricular activities that I'm currently involved in:
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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