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Mark Bourassa, PhD

Professor of Meteorology and Associate Director of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies

Florida State University

Forecasting, Hurricane, Meteorology

Bourassa uses on-site and remote observations as well as meteorological models to research air-sea interactions and how satellites measure what is happening on the Earth鈥檚 surface. He is an expert in surface water waves and the identification of tropical disturbances, which are possible precursors to tropical cyclones. Bourassa is also a team leader for the NASA Ocean Vector Wind Science Team.

Jeff Freedman, PhD

Research Faculty, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center

University at Albany, State University of New York

Atmospheric Sciences, Meteorology, Renewable Energy

Research Interests
As part of the Boundary Layer Meteorology and Renewable Energy Groups at ASRC, my main research focus is on renewable energy and atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) processes. This includes work on improving wind and solar power production forecasting, outage prediction modeling applications, developing instrumentation and improving modeling approaches for offshore wind energy, and using ASRC modeling and observational assets to better understand weather and climate influences on our renewable energy resource. A principal tool for my observational work is a Leosphere Windcube 100S scanning LiDAR. Of great value for my research is continuing collaboration with colleagues at ASRC, the New York State Mesonet, the Center of Excellence for Weather and Climate Analytics, and working with a very talented group of graduate students.

My previous work in the private sector (with Atmospheric Information Services and Envirolaw, companies I founded, and AWS Truepower, as Lead Research Scientist) included serving as a lead Principal Investigator for the first Wind Forecasting Improvement Project (WFIP), a three-year Department of Energy (DOE)/National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) study to demonstrate the value of additional atmospheric observations and model enhancements on wind energy production forecasts, the development of the Solar Wind Integrated Forecast Tool (SWIFT), a state-of-the-art forecasting service for Hawaii麓s electric utilities, and a LiDAR-based study of the 3D wind field over Cranberry Lake in New York鈥檚 Adirondack Mountains, and developing an early roadmap for the legal and regulatory review of offshore wind energy projects in US coastal waters.

Joseph Trujillo Falcon, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate, departments of Communication and Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Atmospheric Science, Communication, Meteorology

Dr. Trujillo-Falcón is a Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences, in partnership with the Department of Communication.

He leads the (ALERTAS) lab, which is dedicated to improving the communication of weather and climate information in multiple languages through public and practitioner engagement. His innovative, interdisciplinary work has driven significant policy changes across the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service (NWS), setting a new benchmark for multilingual communication within government agencies. These accomplishments have established him as a national leader in the weather and climate risk communication field.

Before joining the University of Illinois, Dr. Trujillo-Falcón conducted interdisciplinary research for the Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, and the NWS Storm Prediction Center. As an award-winning bilingual multimedia meteorologist, he has also worked in both radio and broadcast networks and continues to serve the public through MyRadar, a weather application accessed by 50 million individuals worldwide.

Learn more about Dr. Trujillo--Falcón's work on his website:

Meteorology, severe storms

Casey Davenport, Ph.D., is an associate professor of meteorology with research expertise in severe weather, particularly focusing on thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes.

She is particularly passionate about severe weather, which motivates her primary research interest in the dynamics of severe storms. She participated in VORTEX2, a large multi-agency field project that set out to learn more about how tornadoes and tornadic thunderstorms work. The project also inspired her current research trajectory focusing on the impact of temporally- and spatially-varying environments on storm evolution. Davenport is also interested in better understanding how changes to environments influence internal processes and storm behavior, using both observations and idealized modeling. Her proximity to the Appalachian Mountains further inspires her to investigate the interaction of thunderstorms and complex terrain.

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