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My fascination with weather has guided my career, starting with my
undergraduate education in atmospheric sciences
at the
University of Washington (UW). Following my Junior year
at the UW, I was was hired
by NOAA's Pacific Marine
Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
where I
had the good fortune of working with
Drs. Jim Overland and Nick Bond,
Ms. Judy Gray, and
Mr. Allen Macklin.
I was supported by PMEL during subsequent M.S. work on topographically
forced flows at the UW.
The five months I spent aboard
a Norwegian research vessel north of the Arctic circle upon graduation
did little to quell my appetite for winter weather!
Next, I worked as a research meteorologist at the
Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. My longstanding interest in midlatitude storms and the desire to teach led me to pursue a doctorate at the University at Albany under Profs. Daniel Keyser and Lance Bosart. Research topics at SUNYA included tropical/extratropical interactions, satellite meteorology, cyclone dynamics, upper-tropospheric disturbances, and atmospheric energetics. Upon completion of my dissertation, I worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at McGill University with Prof. John Gyakum. Between August 1996 and July 1999 I held a faculty position in the Department of the Earth Sciences at SUNY, College at Brockport, where I taught courses in physical meteorology, atmospheric thermodynamics, boundary-layer meteorology, instrumentation, synoptic meteorology, and weather forecasting. In August 1999, lured by the opportunity for interaction with graduate students and the National Weather Service Forecast Office on the NCSU campus, I joined the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Science. Here, I teach graduate- and undergraduate-level synoptic-dynamic meteorology and am currently the primary advisor for seven graduate students. My research focus is synoptic-dynamic meteorology, applied to both numerical weather predication and operational weather forecasting. Aside from meteorology, my time is dedicated to my wife and two young daughters, who are learning to share my enthusiasm for extreme weather. I enjoy reading, hiking, swimming, football, music, cooking, and home brewing, although the time is never there to enjoy these to the extent I would like!
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For more information, see my Home Page.
Email: gary@ncsu.edu