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Jon Garner
Current managing web master of the NEVIT web site.
Jon is an upper classman meteorology major at the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln. Jon has conducted many storm chases, developed his own storm
chase home page (http://www.geocities.com/brnshr/centralplainsresources.html),
and is an officer in the student AMS Chapter here at UNL. His very
first tornado photographs are posted at: http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/iowamay16-jg-photos.html
Photo on the left was taken in the forecast lab
here at UNL.
Jon's Web Page: http://www.geocities.com/brnshr/centralplainsresources.html
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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 is also developing his own severe weather
Internet site at
www.centralplainswx.
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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
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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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Brian Fuchs
He completed his Masters in Geosciences (Met/Clim
Spec.) in May 2000 his B.S. in meteorology from UNL
in May 1997. He is now a climate resource specialist at the High
Plains Regional Climate Center. His research interest are in heavy
snowfall and the synoptic and mesoscale features associated with these
events. Past research dealt with the timing of winter precipitation
in the Midwest. When Brian can't join us on a chase he provides us
with updates on the developing weather systems from his office to our cell
phone. The photo on the left was taken in his office at the climate
center in February 2001.
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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
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http://www.alltel.net/~sp11603/stormchasing.html |
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Brian Thalken
Brian is pictured here holding his digital camcorder
standing in front of his new chase vehicle. He graduated from the
University of Nebraska - Lincoln in May of 2001. His major was computer
science and he currently is an analyst/programmer for Ameritas Life Insurance
Company. He helped his friend John Garner present the GTI (Garner-Thalken-Index,
GTI is an experimental tornado index) at the AMS/National Weather Association
High Plains conference held in October 2000 in Lincoln. In his spare
time, you'll find Brian either storm chasing with John Garner and Jim Kaiser,
or at the lake fishing.
Brian has his own chase page at: http://www.cse.unl.edu/~bthalken/ |
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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. |
