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Walker Ashley He completed his Master of Science in December 2000 at UNL and, started his doctorate at the University of Georgia, Atmospheric Sciences in January 2001. Research interests include synoptic and mesoscale meteorology and, in particular, the meteorological and climatological aspects of derecho-producing mesoscale convective systems (DMCSs). Other interests include isentropic meteorology -- with applications in snowfall forecasting and severe convective weather prediction. The photo at the left was taken at the Hastings NWS Office on June 3, 1999, as lead forecaster Brian Montgomery gives Walker a severe weather briefing. |
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Ken Dewey A Professor at UNL. Dr. Ken Dewey has several research interests including snow and ice studies; short-term climatic variations; severe storms meteorology and climatology, and of course storm chasing. He performs spotter training for local spotter groups while continually keeping the public and media abreast of Nebraska's severe weather. He maintains the "Nebraska Weather and Climate" web site at the High Plains Regional Climate Center. This site also has numerous severe weather climatology and meteorology sections. The photo on the left shows Ken catching up with his friend Tom Skilling from WGN TV at the Ted Fujita memorial symposium in Long Beach California in January 2000. |
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Chris Bowman Chris is a senior UNL Meteorology Climatology major. Chris produced a research project on the potential impact of a "May 3, 1999 Oklahoma" type tornado striking Lincoln, NE. He presented these results at the AMS/National Weather Association High Plains conference held in October 2000 in Lincoln. His research project can be seen at a web site within the High Plains Regional Climate Center: Tornado Damage Potential. Chris
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Christy Carlson
Christy (pictured on the far right of the photo)
was president of our student AMS Chapter during the 2000-2001 academic
year and was re-elected as president for the 2001-2002 academic
year Christy is also working with the High Plains Regional
Climate Center helping design their web sites. This coming
summer 2001, Christy has a UNL-UCARE research grant to study severe
weather (specifically hail). Some of Christy's hail research
can be seen at the following link: Hail
Climatology Angela Oder Angela was Treasurer of our student AMS chapter during the 2000-2001 academic year. Angela is in the center of the photo which was taken in our meteorology lab at UNL. Angela has been chasing for several years and will graduate this May 2001 with a B.S. in meteorology from UNL.. |
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Eric Freier Eric will be a senior meteorology major at UNL this fall. He has been storm chasing for several years. One of Eric's primary interests in chasing is photographing storm structure. Eric will also assist with our data gathering during storm chase events. |
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Jim Kaiser Jim is shown on the left with NEVIT leader John Garner on an April 6, 2001 storm chase in western Kansas. Jim is currently a graduate student in our program and graduated with a B.S. in meteorology from our program. He was also an officer in our undergraduate UNL AMS chapter. |
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Evan Kucera Evan will be a senior meteorology major at UNL this fall. He has been storm chasing for several years. He is photographed here, June 15, 2001 holding photos of his successful June 13, 2001 tornado chase. |
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Steve Peterson
Former UNL Met/Clim student, Steve currently resides
in Milford, NE. He is one of the original Nebraska storm chasers
and has a site
dedicated to providing the most complete chasing information for
this great chasing state. His experience with roads, information
gathering terminals, and, of course, storm forecasting and structure,
is a valuable resource to our team. The photo on the left
shows Steve on the right and Steve's wife and chase partner, Laura.
Walker Ashley is on the left. They were in attendance at the
Central
Plains Severe Weather Symposium in August 1999 in Omaha
and are standing in front of Doppler on Wheels 3 (DOW 3) which was
on view at the symposium. Steve's Nebraska Storm Chaser Pages: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9867/storm.html & http://www.alltel.net/~sp11603/stormchasing.html |
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Jeremy Wesely
Jeremy recently graduated (class of 2000) from the
UNL meteorology program. He has been working as a research
and forecast verification meteorologist at the Air Force Weather
Agency in Bellevue Nebraska. His work has involved extensive
verification of the AFWA MM5, MM5 coupled with the Land Surface
Model (LSM), and Multi Variant Optimal Interpolation (MVOI) initialization scheme. Jeremy still enjoys finding time after work to go storm chasing. He is photographed here, June 15, 2001 holding photos of his successful June 13, 2001 tornado chase. |