About Me
I grew up in the small village of Bloomingburg, Ohio outside of Washington Court House, Ohio. I developed a passion and love for meteorology at a young age when a tornado touched down across the street from my childhood home. This experience inspired my research career in atmospheric convection. I completed my undergraduate studies at Ohio University and graduated with a Bachelor's in Meteorology-Geography in 2013. At Ohio University, my research focused on developing and implementing a cloud-to-ground lightning jump algorithm to predict tornadogenesis.
After my undergraduate career at Ohio University, I moved to South Dakota and attended South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT) where I met my wife, Brianne. While at SDSMT, I worked under the direction of Dr. Andrew Detwiler and Dr. Donna Kliche on the storm penetration A-10 aircraft. I graduated from SDSMT with my Master's in Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences in 2015.
My wife and I then moved to Albany, NY where she began her career at Underwriter Laboratories in the Grid Solutions group and I began my Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY under the direction of Dr. Lee Harrison and collaborating with Dr. Kristen Corbosiero. My research at the University at Albany involved analysing and improving dropsonde-derived vertical velocities in tropical cyclones. My work at the University at Albany culminated into the development of a prototype pitot-venturi eXpendable Digital Dropsonde, which offers, approximately, a factor of five improvement in vertical velocity errors. In the fall of 2018, we welcomed our son, Carter, to the family.
In August 2019, we then moved to Boulder, CO. I began my postdoctoral career as a Postdoctoral Research Assosciate at the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU), where I focused on convection initiation processes and environmental conditions affecting the formation of precipitation by analyzing data from the RELAMPAGO and CACTI field campaigns as well as conducting high-resolution idealized LES modeling. Brianne then accepted a position as a researcher in the Developmental Testbed Center (part of the Research Applications Laboratory) at NCAR. While at CU, I was a Lecturer and taught Introduction to Atmospheric Physics.
In January 2021, I accepted a position at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University, where I am a Satellite Researcher and Science Coordinator at the NOAA National Weather Service Operations Proving Ground, which is based out of Kansas City, MO at the NWS Central Region Headquarters.
Outside of research, I have many hobbies including: playing guitar, writing music, photography, hiking, fishing, traveling, cooking, ultimate frisbee, soccer, and of course storm chasing.
