VORTEX Projects - Partial List of Scientists and Crew

Partial List of Scientists and Crew

The complete team comprises about 50 scientists and is supplemented by students. A complete listing of principal investigators (PI's) is at http://vortex2.org. An alphabetical partial listing of VORTEX2 scientists and crew:

  • Dr. Jeffery Frame, Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, expert in severe convection.
  • Dr. Nolan Atkins, Scientific PI, Professor Lyndon State College
  • Dr. Michael Biggerstaff, Scientific PI, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma, expertise is in polarimetric radars, mobile radars, cloud physics and electrification, hurricanes, severe local storms, storm dynamics. His specialty is in large-scale systems, and with radar meteorology. He is an associate professor of meteorology.
  • Dr. Howard Bluestein, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, Professor University of Oklahoma specializes in violent weather phenomena and provides expertise with doppler weather radar. He is a professor in meteorology
  • Don Burgess, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, Scientist at CIMMS
  • Dr. David Dowell, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • Dr. Katja Friedrich, Scientific PI, Associate Professor, University of Colorado
  • Dr. Karen Kosiba, Scientific PI, is a senior research meteorologist at the Center for Severe Weather Research
  • Timothy P. Marshall, P.E. is a damage analyst and civil engineer who has worked in meteorological studies.
  • Dr. Paul Markowski, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, associate professor in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, specializes in severe storm dynamics.
  • Dr. Matthew Parker, Scientific PI, Mobile Soundings Coordinator, Associate Professor of Meteorology at North Carolina State University. Specializes in the dynamics of convective storms, including tornadic supercells and mesoscale convective systems (MCSs).
  • Dr. Erik Rasmussen, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, VORTEX2 co-PI, Scientist, Rasmussen Systems
  • Dr. Yvette Richardson, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, associate professor in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, specializes in severe storm dynamics.
  • Dr. Glen Romine, Scientific PI, Project Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • Paul Robinson is a senior research meteorologist at the Center for Severe Weather Research.
  • Dr. Roger Wakimoto, Scientific PI, Director National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • Dr. Chris Weiss, Scientific PI, Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
  • Dr. Lou Wicker is a research scientist with a specialty in modeling of severe storm dynamics. He was also a co-team leader in VORTEX1., National Severe Storms Laboratory.
  • Dr. Joshua Wurman Steering Committee, Scientific PI, VORTEX2 PI, president at the Center for Severe Weather Research with a specialty in mobile doppler weather radar, invented and leads the Doppler On Wheels (DOW) program.

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