The New Guy

I am very happy to be a contributor to this blog. Everyone on here does a great job. Reading some of JB’s posts during summer afternoons reminds me of his days on NOAA Weather Radio in the 1980’s.

Some of you may remember me from my days on TV in Birmingham, but I was on NOAA Weather Radio a lot longer before that (starting at age 16). I now work in research at UAH, but my 9 years at the National Weather Service keep me focused on the true goal of my research, and that is to find ways to better understand the weather, and pass that information along to the dedicated NWS and TV people who forecast the weather and warn us when it gets severe.

I hope to post research-oriented items on this blog, keeping you updated on cutting-edge research going on right here in Alabama. I work in the mesoscale/severe weather group at UAH, which is headed up by Dr. Kevin Knupp. Kevin has assembled one of the most comprehensive sets of atmospheric instrumentation in the country. It usually stays in Huntsville recording data, but it is also mobile, so we can take the instruments to hurricanes, severe storms, pollution experiments, and so on. We are also in the final stages of completing the MAX (Mobile Alabama X-band radar), similar to those used in the Plains of Oklahoma. We also have many other groups doing research on satellite meteorology, radar meteorology, climate change, and other topics.

I will post and explain cool images of the atmosphere you don’t see every day, many of them from the instruments at UAH. And, I may jump in from time to time when there’s a weather situation, too.

I will be leaving for New Hampshire this weekend, where I will speak at the AMS Conference on Mesoscale Processes. I will make a 1-day stop in Washington, DC, seeing the sights and getting a tour of NCEP. I will try to post to the blog while on the trip.

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