Conference Presentations, Seminars and Posters

September 2013
Investigating the factors responsible for secondary eyewall formation in an ensemble of high-resolution hurricane simulations, 16th Cyclone Workshop, Sainte-Adele, Quebec, Canada.


January 2013
Verification of thunderstorm occurrence using the National Lightning Detection Network, Sixth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, Austin, Texas.

Tropical Cyclone Lightning Characteristics as Revealed by the World Wide Lightning Location Network, Sixth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, Austin, Texas.

May 2012
Verification of thunderstorm occurrence using the National Lightning Detection Network, 25th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

April 2012
Vortex Rossby waves and secondary eyewall formation in a high-resolution simulation of Hurricane Katrina (2005), 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Investigating the factors responsible for secondary eyewall formation in an ensemble of high-resolution hurricane simulations, 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Vortex Rossby waves and secondary eyewall formation in a high-resolution simulation of Hurricane Katrina (2005), Cornell University Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences seminar, Ithaca, New York.

November 2011
Verification of thunderstorm occurrence using the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN), 13th Northeast Regional Operational Workshop, Albany, New York.

April 2011
The impact of recurving eastern Pacific tropical cyclones on the downstream North American flow pattern, 15th Cyclone Workshop, Monterey, California.


February 2011
The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN): Network overview, evaluation and application to tropical cyclone research, Texas A&M Department of Atmospheric Sciences Seminar, College Station, Texas.

January 2011
Verification of thunderstorm occurrence using the National Lightning Detection Network, Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, Seattle, Washington.

Tropical cyclone lightning characteristics as revealed by the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), Fifth Conference on The Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, Seattle, Washington.

May 2010
The distribution of helicity and intense convection in tropical cyclones, 29th
Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Tucson, Arizona.

Recurving eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones,
29th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Tucson, Arizona.

June 2009

Verification of a daily thunderstorm probability forecast contest using the National Lightning Detection Network, 23rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Omaha, Nebraska.


May 2009

The contribution of eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones to the warm season rainfall climatology of the southwest United States, Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar, California Institute of Technology.

September 2008
Recurving eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones, 14th Cyclone Workshop, Sainte-Adèle, Québec, Canada.

June 2008
Cloud microphysics impact on hurricane track as revealed in idealized experiments, Ninth Annual WRF Users Workshop, Boulder, Colorado.


May 2008

Inner core structures and intensity change simulated with the Advanced Hurricane WRF model, 28th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Orlando, Florida.


February 2008

Investigating tropical cyclone structure and intensity change with the Advanced Hurricane WRF model, IGPP seminar, UCLA.


December 2007

Inner core structures and intensity change simulated with the Advanced Hurricane WRF model, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.


September 2007

The contribution of eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones to the warm season rainfall climatology of the southwest United States, Fourth Symposium on Southwest Hydrometeorology, Tucson, AZ.

June 2007

Advanced research WRF high resolution simulations of the inner core structure of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma (2005), Eighth Annual WRF Users Workshop, Boulder, CO.

February 2007
The inner core structure and intensity change of Hurricane Elena (1985), Small Scales and Extreme Events: The Hurricane, UCLA IPAM workshop.

October 2006
Recurving eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones, 13th Cyclone Workshop, Monterey, California.

July 2006
Climate and Weather: The Two Go Together, Girl Scouts at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Seventh International Conference on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education, Boulder, CO.

May 2006
The contribution of eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones to the warm season rainfall climatology of the southwestern United States, 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Monterey, California.

September 2005
The structure and evolution of a hurricane in vertical wind shear: Hurricane Elena (1985), MMM seminar series, NCAR, Boulder, CO.

March 2003
Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones and the North American Monsoon, 28th Northeast Storm Conference, Saratoga Springs, New York.

April 2002
The relationship between storm motion, vertical wind shear and convective asymmetries in tropical cyclones, 25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Diego, California.


March 2002
Can the environment of maritime tropical cyclones support supercell thunderstorms?, 27th
Northeast Storm Conference, Saratoga Springs, New York.

March 2001
The distribution of rainfall in landfalling tropical cyclones, 26th
Northeast Storm Conference, Saratoga Springs, New York.

May 2000
Convective asymmetries in tropical cyclones: The effects of vertical wind shear and storm motion, 24th
Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.