11 March 1959, Saint Louis, Missouri
1978-1979, 1980-1982 Laboratory Assistant, Physics Department, William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri
1982-1985 Graduate Assistant, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, New York.
1984-1985 Rapporteur, Columbia University Seminar on Global Habitability, New York, New York.
1985-1990 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.
1990-1992 National Research Council Regular Research Associate at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma.
1992 Research Associate, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, Oklahoma.
11/1992-present Research Meteorologist, National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma.
3/1996-present Head, Mesoscale Applications Group, National Severe Storms Laboratory
5/1997 Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
1/2003 Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
Part I, Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos, 1980 University of Cambridge
B.A. summa cum laude with honors in Physics 1982 William Jewell College (Physics, Mathematics)
M.A., M.Phil. 1985 Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, New York (Atmospheric Sciences Program within the Department of Geological Sciences)
Ph.D. 1990 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana (Atmospheric Sciences)
National Research Council Regular Research Associateship, 1990-1992
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies Fellow, 1994-present
Environmental Research Laboratories Outstanding Paper, 1996 (Brooks, Doswell, and Wilhelmson 1994)
Environmental Research Laboratories Outstanding Paper, 1996 (Davies-Jones and Brooks 1993)
Environmental Research Laboratories Outstanding Paper, 1999 (Stensrud, Cortinas, and Brooks 1997)
Department of Commerce Silver Medal, 2002
Member, Science Team, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, 1992-1997
Member, Subcommittee on Verification, World Meteorological Organization, 2002-Present
Member, Ph.D. committee for Thomas Hamill (Cornell University, 1997)
Member, M.S. committee for Michael Magsig (University of Oklahoma, 1996)
Chair, M. S. committee for Jeff Craven (University of Oklahoma, 2001)
Chair, M. S. committee for James W. Lee (University of Oklahoma, 2002)
Co-chair, M. S. committee for Elaine Godfrey (University of Oklahoma, 2003)
Chair, M. S. committee for Megan McHugh (University of Oklahoma, anticipated 2004)
American Meteorological Society
American Geophysical Union
Royal Meteorological Society
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Joint Chief Editor, Weather and Forecasting (2004-present)
Associate Editor, Weather and Forecasting (June 1995-2003)
Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review (January 1999-2002)
Co-covenor, Workshop on Short-Range Ensemble Forecasting, Camp Springs, MD (1994)
Chair, Program Committee, 19th AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms, Minneapolis, MN (1998)
Discussion Leader, FEMA/HUD/NOAA Tornado Preparedness Workshop, August 1998
Member, AMS Science and Technology Advisory Committee for Hydrology, January 1999-January 2002
Member, Sydney 2000 Forecast Demonstration Project Verification Group
Session Chair, AMS Conferences
17th, 18th, 19th, 20th Severe Local Storms
15th, 16th Weather Analysis and Forecasting
Fujita Symposium (2000 Annual Meeting)
Facilitator, Forum on Future of Humans in Weather Forecasting (2004 Annual Meeting>
Session Chair, other conferences
Sixth Workshop on Operational Meteorology, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1999
Eurotornado 2000 Conference, Toulouse, France, 2000
European Conference on Severe Storms, Prague, Czech Republic, 2002
National Weather Service Science Teams
Maryland Tornadoes, 2002
May 2003 Tornadoes, 2003
External Reviewer, Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, 2003-2004
UNESCO/WMO Sub-Forum on Science and Technology in Support of Natural Disaster Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland, 1999
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Congress, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2001
Weather Risk Workshop, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2001
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Workshop on Extreme Weather and Climate Change, Beijing, China, 2002
United States Agency for International Development International Lecture, SASOL Scifest, Grahamstown, South Africa, 2003
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Congress, Ottawa, Ontario, 2003
Meteorological Service of Canada Science-Operations Connection, Toronto, Ontario, 2004
Fall Semester 1999 University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology "Forecast Evaluation and Decision Analysis" (METR 5803)
Fall Semester 2001 University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology "Advanced Forecasting Techniques (Forecast Evaluation and Decision Analysis)" (METR 5463)