Presentations
Presentation list since 1988. Last revised 13 March 2008
Invited
1988-1990
- January 1988 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe
Weather Coordinator Workshop (Montreal, QB) "Use of storm-scale models
in forecasting" and "Helicity in forecasting tornadoes"
- January 1989 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe
Weather Coordinator Workshop (Winnipeg, MB)
- February 1990 University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
- February 1990 National Severe Storms Laboratory (Norman, OK)
- August 1990 Research Experience for Undergraduates (Norman, Oklahoma)
1993
- January 1993 National Severe Storms Forecast Center (Kansas City,
MO) "Role of Mid-tropospheric Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
- February 1993 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe
Weather Coordinator Workshop (Kelowna, BC) "Role of Mid-tropospheric Winds
in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
- March 1993 NEXRAD Operational Support Facility Training Branch (Norman,
OK) "Role of Mid-tropospheric Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
- April 1993 Saint Louis University (Saint Louis, MO) "Role of Mid-tropospheric
Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
- April 1993 Saint Louis local chapter of the American Meteorological
Society "History of Tornado Theories"
- July 1993 Project ATMOSPHERE high school teachers (Norman, OK) "Tornadoes
and Severe Thunderstorms"
1994
- February 1994 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe
Weather Coordinator Workshop (Alliston, ON) "Flash Flood Forecasting"
- February 1994 SOO Severe Convection Workshop (Norman, OK) "Role
of Mid-tropospheric Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
- March 1994 NWSFO Norman, OK Severe Convective Workshop "Conceptual
Model of Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
- July 1994 Earthstorm Teachers Workshop (Norman, OK)
- September 1994 Gage (OK) High School gifted program (Earthstorm)
- October 1994 McGill University (Montreal, QB) "Effect of Mid-tropospheric Winds on Supercell Behavior"
- October 1994 Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) "Probability in Weather Forecasting"
Flash Flood Forecasting Course (2 days), NWS Training Center (Kansas
City, MO)
- May 1994
- February 1995
- July 1995
- October 1995
- June 1996
- November 1996
1995
- February-March 1995 Fifth AES/CMOS Workshop on Operational Meteorology
(Edmonton, AB) "Challenges for Technology Developers"
- March 1995 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe
Weather Coordinators Workshop (Edmonton, AB) "Human Forecasters in the
Future of Summer Severe Weather Forecasting"
- March 1995 University of Oklahoma "The Future Role of Humans in
Weather Forecasting"
- June 1995 NWSFO (Saint Louis, MO) "The Future Role of Humans in
Weather Forecasting", "Ensemble Forecasting", and "Role of Mid-tropospheric
Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
- October 1995 Frontiers of Science Foundation (Oklahoma City, OK)
"Tornadoes"
- November 1995 Ontario Weather Centre (Downsview, ON) "The Future
Role of Humans in Weather Forecasting"
- November 1995 Atmospheric Environment Service Headquarters (Downsview,
ON) "Designing a New Public Weather Service"
- December 1995 Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) "VORTEX: Preliminary
Results"
1996
- March 1996 Northeast Illinois Skywarn Advanced Spotter Training
(Wheaton, IL)
- March 1996 Norman, OK Severe Convection Workshop "Role of Mid-Tropospheric
Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
- March 1996 Norman, OK Severe Convection Workshop "Preliminary Results
from VORTEX: Applications to Operational Forecasting"
- April 1996 Saint Louis local chapter of the American Meteorological
Society "VORTEX: What We've Learned So Far"
- April 1996 NWSFO (Saint Louis, MO) "Preliminary Results from VORTEX:
Applications to Operational Forecasting" and "Distributions-Oriented Verification
of Temperature Forecasts"
- June 1996 NWSFO (Pleasant Hill, MO) "Preliminary Results from VORTEX:
Applications to Operational Forecasting" and "Distributions-Oriented Verification
of Temperature Forecasts"
- October 1996 New England/Southeastern Canada Operational Meteorologists
Training Symposium (Taunton, MA) "The NWSFO/SPC/NSSL Triangle"
- October 1996 Penn State University (University Park, PA) "Eye of
the Beholder: Cloud-Scale Resolution and the Future of NWP"
1997
- March 1997 Central Illinois Severe Weather Spotters Training (Bloomington,
IL): Recent Advances in Science: Implications for Spotters
- May 1997 NWSFO (Valley, NE) "Preliminary Results From VORTEX: Applications
to Operational Forecasting"
- May 1997 Omaha-Offutt local chapter of the American Meteorological
Society "Two Millenia of Tornado Theories"
- June 1997 Environment Canada Regional Center Toronto (Downsview,
ON) "Short Range Ensemble Forecasting and Operational Forecasters"
- July 1997 Search and Rescue/Disaster Response '97 (Nashville, TN)
"Severe Weather"
- September 1997 Environment Canada Ottawa Regional Centre, "Preliminary
Results from VORTEX", "Short-Range Ensemble Forecasting", "Weather Forecast
Verification"
- September 1997 Northern High Plains and Intermountain Workshop (Great
Falls, MT) "Flash Flood Forecasting", "Preliminary Results from VORTEX",
"Weather Forecast Verification"
- September 1997 Centers for Disease Control and Prediction (Atlanta,
GA) "Hazardous Weather Research at the National Severe Storms Laboratory"
1998
- January 1998 AMS Short Course on Forecast Verification (Phoenix,
AZ) "Applications"
- January 1998 AMS Conference on Probability and Statistics (Phoenix,
AZ) "Future Directions for Forecast Verification" (Panel member-invited)
- February 1998 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe
Weather Coordinators Workshop (Downsview, ON) "Potpourri"
- April 1998 Texas Severe Storms Association Annual Meeting (Plano,
TX) "2000 Years of Tornado Theories and Observations"
- April 1998 National Weather Service Forecast Office, Lacrosse, WI
"Preliminary Results from VORTEX"
- April 1998 National Weather Service Forecast Office, Minneapolis,
MN "Preliminary Results from VORTEX"
- June 1998 1998 Workshop on Model Forecast Verification (Boulder,
CO) "New Approaches to Forecast Verification"
1999
- February 1999 NWS Central Region Sub-regional SOO Workshoop (Kansas
City, MO) "Verification"
- April 1999 College of DuPage Severe Weather Conference for Undergraduates
(Glen Ellyn, IL) "Issues in the Climatology of Severe Thunderstorms" and
"SPC Experimental Probabilistic Outlooks"
- April 1999 Fermilab Tornado Seminar (Batavia, IL) "In Search of
Tornado Alley"
- May 1999 Congressional Staff Seminar (Washington, DC) "Societal
Impacts of the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornado"
- July 1999 WMO/UNESCO Sub-Forum on Science and Technology in Support
of Natural Disaster Prediction (Geneva, Switzerland) "Severe Local Storms
and Tornadoes"
- July 1999 Atmospheric Sciences ETH (Zurich, Switzerland) "The 3
May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornado: Science and Societal Impacts"
- July 1999 Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (Norman,
OK) "Issues in the Climatology of Severe Thunderstorms"
- August 1999 Workshop on Ensemble Prediction (Boulder, CO) "Through
a Glass Darkly: Mesoscale Ensemble Forecasting"
- December 1999 Sixth AES Workshop on Operational Meteorology (Halifax,
NS) "Forecast Verification" (Workshop-presented twice)
2000
- January 2000 Fujita Symposium, AMS Annual Meeting, "Societal Impacts
of the 3 May 1999 Outbreak"
- January 2000 VORTEX Symposium, AMS Annual Meeting, "VORTEX: Does
What We Do Matter?"
- January 2000 VORTEX Symposium, AMS Annual Meeting, "Recent Work
in Severe Thunderstorm Climatology: The NSSL Hazards Project"
- March 2000 Central Rockies Severe Weather Workshop (Cheyenne, WY)
"Climatology of Severe Thunderstorms"
- March 2000 Central Rockies Severe Weather Workshop (Cheyenne, WY)
"Societal Impacts of the 3 May 1999 Outbreak"
- April 2000 Fermilab Tornado Seminar (Batavia, IL) "Images and Impacts
of the 3 May 1999 Tornado Outbreak"
- June 2000 Oklahoma Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(Norman, OK) "Recent advances in severe thunderstorm climatology"
- October 2000 University of Dallas Physics Department (Dallas, TX) "The
What, Where, and When of Severe Thunderstorms"
- October 2000 University of Oklahoma Psychology Department (Norman,
OK) "Decision-Making and "Good" Weather Forecasts"
- November 2000 International Association of Emergency Managers Annual
Meeting (Austin, TX) "Tornadoes and Tornado Deaths in US History"
- November 2000 Risk Prevention Initiative (Bermuda) "Rare Events in
Tornado Climatology"
- December 2000 American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (San Francisco,
CA) "Predictability of Thunderstorm Hazards: Problems and Potential Applications"
2001
- March 2001 National Severe Weather Workshop (Norman, OK) "Tornadoes
and Tornado Death Climatology"
- March 2001 Institute for Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Research
(Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany) "An Overview of the National Severe Storms Laboratory"
- April 2001 DePauw University Physics Department (Greencastle, IN) "The
What, Where, and When of Severe Thunderstorms"
- April 2001 National Weather Service Forecast Office (Wilmington, OH)
"Recent Work in Severe Weather Climatology: The Hazards Project"
- April 2001 Ohio State University Severe Weather Symposium (Columbus,
OH) "Tornado Damage and Deaths from a Historical Perspective"
- May 2001 WMO Workshop on Quantitative Precipitation Forecast Verification
(Prague, Czech Republic) "Kernel Density Estimation and Forecast Verification"
- May 2001 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Congress
(Winnipeg, Manitoba) "Severe Thunderstorm Climatology"
- August 2001 International Conference on Disaster Management (Orlando,
FL) "Tornado Climatology"
- September 2001 Weather Risk (Oxford, England) "Short-term Severe Weather
Hazards"
- October 2001 National Weather Association Annual Meeting (Spokane,
Washington) "Climatology of Severe Thunderstom Winds"
- December 2001 American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (San Francisco,
CA) "Thunderstorm Ensemble Forecasting"
2002
- January 2002 Kansas City American Meteorological Society Local Chapter
Meeting (Overland Park, KS) "Statistical Modelling of Tornado Climatology"
- January 2002 National Weather Service Forecast Office (Pleasant Hill,
MO) "Collaborative Research Between the SPC and NSSL/MAG"
- March 2002 National Severe Weather Workshop (Norman, OK) "Climatology
of Severe Thunderstom Winds"
- April 2002 Oklahoma University Student Chapter of the American Meteorological
Sociey (Norman, OK) "Severe Thunderstorm Climatology"
- June 2002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Workshop on Extreme
Events and Climate Change (Beijing, China) "Severe Thunderstorms: Climatology
and Modelling Challenges"
- July 2002 Workshop on Verification of Aviation Forecasts (Boulder,
Colorado) "Forecast Verification for Fun and Profit"
- August 2002 EUMETSAT Workshop on Forecasting Severe Thunderstorms (Prague,
Czech Republic) "Forecasting and Nowcasting Severe Convective Storms, Part
II: Developing Warning Systems"
- August 2002 EUMETSAT Workshop on Forecasting Severe Thunderstorms (Prague,
Czech Republic) "Climatologies of Environmental Conditions"
- September 2002 Central Oklahoma American Meterological Society and
National Weather Association Local Chapter (Norman, OK) "Synthetic Severe
Thunderstorm Climatologies"
- November 2002 NOAA Science Advisory Board (Norman, OK) "The Worldwide
Distribution of Severe Thunderstorms (Maybe)"
2003
- February 2003 AMS Symposium on the Fujita Scale (Long Beach, CA) "The
distribution of tornadoes by F-scale in time and space" (Presented by D.
J. Stensrud)
- March 2003 National Severe Weather Workshop (Norman, OK) "Tornado deaths
in the US and mobile homes"
- March 2003 South African Weather Service (Pretoria, South Africa) "Forecast
Evaluation" (Lecture Series)
- March 2003 University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa) "Challenges
in understanding the world-wide distribution of severe thunderstorms"
- March 2003 SASOL Scifest USAID International Lecture (Grahamstown,
South Africa) "Severe thunderstorms-Trying to draw a global map of hazards"
- April 2003 Rhodes University Frontiers of Science Lecture Series (Grahamstown,
South Africa) "Challenges in understanding the world-wide distribution of
severe thunderstorms"
- April 2003 Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) "Synthetic Severe
Thunderstorm Climatologies"
- April 2003 Ohio State Severe Weather Symposium (Columbus, OH) "Synthetic
Severe Thunderstorm Climatologies"
- June 2003 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Congress
(Ottawa, Ontario) "Evaluating Forecasts of High-Impact Weather"
- September 2003 Pennsylvania State University Student American Meteorological
Society Chapter (University Park, PA) "Mobile Homes and Tornado Deaths"
- September 2003 Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)
"Challenges in understanding the world-wide distribution of severe thunderstorms"
- October 2003 Wichita, Kansas Local Chapter of the American Meteorological
Society "Challenges in understanding the world-wide distribution of severe
thunderstorms"
2004
- February 2004 Meteorological Service of Canada Science-Operations Connection
(Toronto, Ontario) "Knowledge and Training Requirements for Operational Forecasters"
- March 2004 William Jewell College (Liberty, MO) "The May 2003 Tornadoes
in Context"
- July 2004 International Conference on Storms (Brisbane, Australia)
"Estimating the Distribution of Severe Thunderstorms and Their Environments
Around the World"
2005
- January 2005 Oklahoma Scholars Leadership Education Program (Norman,
OK) "Societal impacts of weather"
- February 2005 National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Claims Conferece, (Clearwater Beach,
FL) "The What, When, and Where of Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes" (Online version)
- March 2005 Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) "Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis"
- April 2005 Ohio State Severe Weather Symposium (Columbus, OH) "Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis"
- June 2005 National Weather Center REUnion (Norman, OK) "Problems in Meteorology"
- July 2005 International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (Udine, Italy) Lecture series as part of course on "Atmospheric Convection: Research and Operational Forecasting Aspects"
- October 2005 Risk Prevention Initiative (Bermuda) "Estimating the global distribution of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes
2006
- February 2006 Symposium on Challenges of Severe Convective Storms, AMS Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA) "A global view of severe thunderstorms: Estimating the current distribution and possible future changes"
- March 2006 Southeast Symposium on Severe Storms (Starkville, MS) "A global view of severe thunderstorms: Estimating the current distribution and possible future changes"
- May 2006 Climate Change and Disaster Losses Workshop (Hohenkammer, Germany) "Tornado and Severe Thunderstorm Losses"
- June 2006 Walt Disney Feature Animation (Burbank, CA) "Tornadoes"
- June 2006 International Newspaper Editors (Norman, OK) "Tornadoes"
- October 2006 Goldman Sachs Investments "Modelling Tornadoes"
2007
- January 2007 Symposium on Connections between Mesoscale Processes and Climate Variability, AMS Annual Meeting (San Antonio, TX) "The environments of severe thunderstorms: Global distribution and temporal changes"
- January 2007 CASA Decision Sciences Meeting (Dallas-Fort Worth, TX) "National Weather Service Tornado Warnaings"
- April 2007 Ohio State Severe Weather Symposium (Columbus, OH) "Climate Change and Severe Thunderstorms"
2008
- February 2008 First US-China Symposium on Meteorology: Mesoscale Meteorology and Data Assimilation (Norman, OK) "Severe Thunderstorm Environments from Observations and Reanalysis Data: limate Impacts on Weather Events"
- March 2008 American Physical Society March Meeting (New Orleans, LA) "Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms: Physical understanding and climate questions"
Other presentations
- January 1988 McGill University (Montreal, QB) "Helicity in atmospheric
science"
- February 1988 Fifteenth Conference on Severe Local Storms (Baltimore,
MD)
- October 1990 Sixteenth Conference on Severe Local Storms (Kananaskis
Park, AB)
- March 1991 National Meteorological Center (Camp Springs, MD)
- October 1991 National Weather Association Annual Meeting (Salt Lake
City, UT)
- September 1992 Fourth AES/CMOS Workshop on Operational Meteorology
(Whistler, BC) "STORMTIPE" and "Operational implications of the sensitivity
of modelled thunderstorms to thermal perturbations"
- August 1993 Thirteenth Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting
(Vienna, VA)
- October 1993 Seventeenth Conference on Severe Local Storms (Saint
Louis, MO)
- VORTEX briefings
- Wichita, KS National Weather Service Office (March 1994)
- National Weather Service Central Region Headquarters (Kansas
City, MO) (March 1994)
- Surface Systems, Incorporated (Saint Louis, MO) (March 1994)
- Fort Worth, TX National Weather Service Office (March 1995)
- July 1994 Short-range Ensemble Forecasting Workshop (Camp Springs,
MD)
- October 1994 COMPARE Workshop (Montreal, QB) "Short-range Ensemble
Forecasting"
- February 1996 Eighteenth Conference on Severe Local Storms (San Francisco,
CA)
- February-March 1995 Fifth AES/CMOS Workshop on Operational Meteorology
(Edmonton, AB) "Flash flood forecasting"
- March 1996 ARM Science Team Meeting (San Antonio, TX)
- July 1996 Big Thompson Flash Flood Symposium (Fort Collins, CO)
- August 1996 Fifteenth Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting
and Eleventh Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (Norfolk, VA)
- March 1997 ARM Science Team Meeting (San Antonio, TX)
- March 1997 University of Oklahoma "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:
Lessons Learned From Forecast Verification"
- September 1997 Great Lakes Workshop on Operational Meteorology (Toronto,
ON) "Tornadoes in the Lower Great Lakes of the United States", "Changes in
the Storm Prediction Center's Products"
- January 1998 AMS Conference on Probability and Statistics (Phoenix,
AZ) "Value of Weather Forecasts for an Electrical Utility"
- May 1998 7th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (Whistler,
BC) "Objective Upper and Lower Bounds on Skill of Forecasting Rare Events"
- July 1998 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (New York, NY) "Climate
Change and the Observed Record of Severe Thunderstorms"
- October 1998 National Weather Association Annual Meeting (Oklahoma
City, OK) "Changes in Severe Thunderstorm Reports: Implications for Forecast
Verification and Climate Change Research"
- November 1998 University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) "The Record of Tornadoes
and Severe Thunderstorms in the United States"
- Feburary 1999 53rd Indepartmental Hurricane Conference (Biloxi, MS) "Verification of Hurricane Strike Probability Forecasts" (P. L. MacKeen lead
author)
- February 2000 Eurotornado Conference (Toulouse, France) "Some Aspects of the International Climatology of Tornadoes by Damage Classification"
- March 2000 National Severe Storms Laboratory (Norman, OK) "Recent advances in severe thunderstorm climatology"
- May 2000 Symposium on the 3 May 1999 Great Plains Tornado Outbreak (Oklahoma City, OK) "Deaths in the 3 May 1999 Tornado Outbreak from a Historical
Perspective"
- May 2000 12th AMS Conference on Applied Climatology (Asheville, NC) "Daily probabilities of severe thunderstorms in the United States"
- July 2000 Royal Meteorological Society Meteorology at the Millenium Conference (Cambridge, UK) "Severe Thunderstorms and Climate Change: Can
We Detect a Link?"
- September 2000 20th AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms (Orlando, FL) "Severe Thunderstorm Climatology: What we can know"
- March 2001 8th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (Luneburg, Germany) "Statistical Modelling of Tornado Occurrence"
- May 2001 NSSL Seminar Series (Norman, OK) "Deaths in the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornado from a Historical Persprective"
- August 2002 European Conference on Severe Storms 2002 (Prague, Czech Republic) "Synthetic Severe Thunderstorm Climatologies from Sounding Parameters"
- September 2002 NSSL Seminar Series (Norman, OK) "Synthetic Severe Thunderstorm Climatologies"
- January 2003 NSSL Seminar Series (Norman, OK) "How Far Away is the Moon?"
- February 2003 AMS Conference on Global Change (Long Beach, CA) "Developing Global Climatologies of Severe Thunderstorms from Reanalysis-Derived Soundings"
- February 2004 NSSL Seminar Series (Norman, OK) "A Distant Mirror Crack'd: Putting Tornadoes in Historical Context"
- October 2004 22nd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms (Hyannis, MA) "Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis"
- November 2004 European Conference on Severe Storms (Leon, Spain) "Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis"
- March 2005 NSSL Seminar Series "Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis"
- November 2005 NSSL Seminar Series "National Weather Service Tornado Warning, 1986-2004: Lead Time or Lead Time?"
- November 2006 23rd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms (Saint Louis, MO) "Proximity soundings from reanalysis data for Europe"
- September 2007 European Conference on Severe Storms (Trieste, Italy) "Proximity soundings for Europe and the United States from reanalysis data"