Research

• Florida Department of Environmental Protection

  • Modeling Streamflow Using Gauge-Only Versus Multi-Sensor Rainfall [m.s. thesis]

  • Modeling Streamflow Using Gauge-Only Versus Multi-Sensor Rainfall [thesis seminar]

  • Hydrologic Modeling Using WAM and High Resolution WSR-88 Precipitation Data [research project]

  • Maps of Monthly Precipitation Sums from MPE Radar/Gauge Product - Black Creek Basin [side project]

  • Incorporating a High Resolution Historical Precipitation Database for Florida into GIS [see paper below - undergraduate DIS project]

  • FSU & NWS MPE Archive [data]

• COMET Partners

  • Monthly Precipitation Frequency Maps for the NWS Southern Region [undergraduate research topic]

• NASA

  • Analysis of Data from INTEX-A and B in Support of Aura and Aqua Validation [website and field mission support]

Papers

• Modeling Streamflow Using Gauge-Only Versus Radar-Derived Rainfall *preliminary results* [88th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting]

• Description and Use of Florida State University's High Resolution Historical Precipitation Database [86th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting]

• Creating an Accessible GIS Database from a Research Multisensor Precipitation Estimator   [Adobe PDF Format]

• Storm Surge: A Deadly Impact of Tropical Cyclone Landfall - short undergraduate paper   [Adobe PDF Format]

Presentations

• Modeling Streamflow Using Gauge-Only Versus Radar-Derived Rainfall *preliminary results*   [Adobe PDF Format] - presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, December 2007) and the 22nd Conference on Hydrology at the 88th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting (New Orleans, January 2008)

• Development of a GIS-accessible High-resolution Precipitation Database for Black Creek Basin, Florida   [Adobe PDF Format]

Course Projects

Note: Powerpoint files may be large due to images.

MET5534 - Tropical Meteorology II

• East Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Track Variability and Relations to the Continental United States   [Adobe PDF Format]

• East Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Track Variability and the U.S. Mainland   [Microsoft Powerpoint Presentaion]

MET5471 - Remote Sensing

• Exploration of Differences between Land and Ocean Rainfall Accumulations with the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission   [Adobe PDF Format]

• Exploration of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)   [Microsoft Powerpoint Presentaion]

MET6155 - Modeling the Climate

• Verification of a Coupled Atmosphere-Land/Ocean Moist Radiative-Transport Climate Model and its Proposed Effects of Doubling Carbon Dioxide   [Adobe PDF Format]

• Verification of a Coupled Atmosphere-Land/Ocean Moist Radiative-Transport Climate Model and its Proposed Effects of Doubling Carbon Dioxide   [Microsoft Powerpoint Presentaion]

• Simplified Coupled Atmosphere-Land/Ocean Moist Radiative-Transport Climate Model with Carbon Dioxide Adjustment Effects   [C source code]

• Land Surface Processes and Hydrology: Forming an Intimate Relationship with Weather and Climate   [Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation]

About Me

• My Resume   [Adobe PDF Format]

• I graduated from the FSU Meteorology program under Dr. Fuelberg in 2008 with a Master of Science. My focus was in meteorology/hydrology/GIS. Prior to that, I graduated from FSU in the Spring 2005 semester with a B.S. in Meteorology and minors in Computer Science, Math, and Physics. I like to do a lot with the computing aspects of the field. I am particularly interested in using GIS in meteorology or related environmental sciences. I enjoy solving and understanding important problems related to meteorology through focus on the applied realm. I am fascinated by the effects of mesoscale features on everyday life, especially through rainfall (flooding/drought), lightning, and wind.

• I enjoy incorporating the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in order to create better meteorological products; and to solve meteorological and hydrological problems.   The visual interpretation of the science is an area that is lacking, and will be discovered thoroughly now that meteorologists have improved computational abilities (with more powerful computers).

Other Links

• National Weather Service: Tallahassee Weather Office

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