Presentations

Presentation list since 1988. Last revised 13 March 2008

Invited

Other presentations

Invited

1988-1990

  1. 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"
  2. January 1989 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe Weather Coordinator Workshop (Winnipeg, MB)
  3. February 1990 University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
  4. February 1990 National Severe Storms Laboratory (Norman, OK)
  5. August 1990 Research Experience for Undergraduates (Norman, Oklahoma)

1993

  1. January 1993 National Severe Storms Forecast Center (Kansas City, MO) "Role of Mid-tropospheric Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
  2. February 1993 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe Weather Coordinator Workshop (Kelowna, BC) "Role of Mid-tropospheric Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
  3. March 1993 NEXRAD Operational Support Facility Training Branch (Norman, OK) "Role of Mid-tropospheric Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
  4. April 1993 Saint Louis University (Saint Louis, MO) "Role of Mid-tropospheric Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
  5. April 1993 Saint Louis local chapter of the American Meteorological Society "History of Tornado Theories"
  6. July 1993 Project ATMOSPHERE high school teachers (Norman, OK) "Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms"

1994

  1. February 1994 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe Weather Coordinator Workshop (Alliston, ON) "Flash Flood Forecasting"
  2. February 1994 SOO Severe Convection Workshop (Norman, OK) "Role of Mid-tropospheric Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
  3. March 1994 NWSFO Norman, OK Severe Convective Workshop "Conceptual Model of Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
  4. July 1994 Earthstorm Teachers Workshop (Norman, OK)
  5. September 1994 Gage (OK) High School gifted program (Earthstorm)
  6. October 1994 McGill University (Montreal, QB) "Effect of Mid-tropospheric Winds on Supercell Behavior"
  7. October 1994 Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) "Probability in Weather Forecasting"

Flash Flood Forecasting Course (2 days), NWS Training Center (Kansas City, MO)

1995

  1. February-March 1995 Fifth AES/CMOS Workshop on Operational Meteorology (Edmonton, AB) "Challenges for Technology Developers"
  2. March 1995 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe Weather Coordinators Workshop (Edmonton, AB) "Human Forecasters in the Future of Summer Severe Weather Forecasting"
  3. March 1995 University of Oklahoma "The Future Role of Humans in Weather Forecasting"
  4. 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"
  5. October 1995 Frontiers of Science Foundation (Oklahoma City, OK) "Tornadoes"
  6. November 1995 Ontario Weather Centre (Downsview, ON) "The Future Role of Humans in Weather Forecasting"
  7. November 1995 Atmospheric Environment Service Headquarters (Downsview, ON) "Designing a New Public Weather Service"
  8. December 1995 Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) "VORTEX: Preliminary Results"

1996

  1. March 1996 Northeast Illinois Skywarn Advanced Spotter Training (Wheaton, IL)
  2. March 1996 Norman, OK Severe Convection Workshop "Role of Mid-Tropospheric Winds in Low-level Mesocyclogenesis"
  3. March 1996 Norman, OK Severe Convection Workshop "Preliminary Results from VORTEX: Applications to Operational Forecasting"
  4. April 1996 Saint Louis local chapter of the American Meteorological Society "VORTEX: What We've Learned So Far"
  5. April 1996 NWSFO (Saint Louis, MO) "Preliminary Results from VORTEX: Applications to Operational Forecasting" and "Distributions-Oriented Verification of Temperature Forecasts"
  6. June 1996 NWSFO (Pleasant Hill, MO) "Preliminary Results from VORTEX: Applications to Operational Forecasting" and "Distributions-Oriented Verification of Temperature Forecasts"
  7. October 1996 New England/Southeastern Canada Operational Meteorologists Training Symposium (Taunton, MA) "The NWSFO/SPC/NSSL Triangle"
  8. October 1996 Penn State University (University Park, PA) "Eye of the Beholder: Cloud-Scale Resolution and the Future of NWP"

1997

  1. March 1997 Central Illinois Severe Weather Spotters Training (Bloomington, IL): Recent Advances in Science: Implications for Spotters
  2. May 1997 NWSFO (Valley, NE) "Preliminary Results From VORTEX: Applications to Operational Forecasting"
  3. May 1997 Omaha-Offutt local chapter of the American Meteorological Society "Two Millenia of Tornado Theories"
  4. June 1997 Environment Canada Regional Center Toronto (Downsview, ON) "Short Range Ensemble Forecasting and Operational Forecasters"
  5. July 1997 Search and Rescue/Disaster Response '97 (Nashville, TN) "Severe Weather"
  6. September 1997 Environment Canada Ottawa Regional Centre, "Preliminary Results from VORTEX", "Short-Range Ensemble Forecasting", "Weather Forecast Verification"
  7. September 1997 Northern High Plains and Intermountain Workshop (Great Falls, MT) "Flash Flood Forecasting", "Preliminary Results from VORTEX", "Weather Forecast Verification"
  8. September 1997 Centers for Disease Control and Prediction (Atlanta, GA) "Hazardous Weather Research at the National Severe Storms Laboratory"

1998

  1. January 1998 AMS Short Course on Forecast Verification (Phoenix, AZ) "Applications"
  2. January 1998 AMS Conference on Probability and Statistics (Phoenix, AZ) "Future Directions for Forecast Verification" (Panel member-invited)
  3. February 1998 Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) Summer Severe Weather Coordinators Workshop (Downsview, ON) "Potpourri"
  4. April 1998 Texas Severe Storms Association Annual Meeting (Plano, TX) "2000 Years of Tornado Theories and Observations"
  5. April 1998 National Weather Service Forecast Office, Lacrosse, WI "Preliminary Results from VORTEX"
  6. April 1998 National Weather Service Forecast Office, Minneapolis, MN "Preliminary Results from VORTEX"
  7. June 1998 1998 Workshop on Model Forecast Verification (Boulder, CO) "New Approaches to Forecast Verification"

1999

  1. February 1999 NWS Central Region Sub-regional SOO Workshoop (Kansas City, MO) "Verification"
  2. 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"
  3. April 1999 Fermilab Tornado Seminar (Batavia, IL) "In Search of Tornado Alley"
  4. May 1999 Congressional Staff Seminar (Washington, DC) "Societal Impacts of the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornado"
  5. July 1999 WMO/UNESCO Sub-Forum on Science and Technology in Support of Natural Disaster Prediction (Geneva, Switzerland) "Severe Local Storms and Tornadoes"
  6. July 1999 Atmospheric Sciences ETH (Zurich, Switzerland) "The 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornado: Science and Societal Impacts"
  7. July 1999 Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (Norman, OK) "Issues in the Climatology of Severe Thunderstorms"
  8. August 1999 Workshop on Ensemble Prediction (Boulder, CO) "Through a Glass Darkly: Mesoscale Ensemble Forecasting"
  9. December 1999 Sixth AES Workshop on Operational Meteorology (Halifax, NS) "Forecast Verification" (Workshop-presented twice)

2000

  1. January 2000 Fujita Symposium, AMS Annual Meeting, "Societal Impacts of the 3 May 1999 Outbreak"
  2. January 2000 VORTEX Symposium, AMS Annual Meeting, "VORTEX: Does What We Do Matter?"
  3. January 2000 VORTEX Symposium, AMS Annual Meeting, "Recent Work in Severe Thunderstorm Climatology: The NSSL Hazards Project"
  4. March 2000 Central Rockies Severe Weather Workshop (Cheyenne, WY) "Climatology of Severe Thunderstorms"
  5. March 2000 Central Rockies Severe Weather Workshop (Cheyenne, WY) "Societal Impacts of the 3 May 1999 Outbreak"
  6. April 2000 Fermilab Tornado Seminar (Batavia, IL) "Images and Impacts of the 3 May 1999 Tornado Outbreak"
  7. June 2000 Oklahoma Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates (Norman, OK) "Recent advances in severe thunderstorm climatology"
  8. October 2000 University of Dallas Physics Department (Dallas, TX) "The What, Where, and When of Severe Thunderstorms"
  9. October 2000 University of Oklahoma Psychology Department (Norman, OK) "Decision-Making and "Good" Weather Forecasts"
  10. November 2000 International Association of Emergency Managers Annual Meeting (Austin, TX) "Tornadoes and Tornado Deaths in US History"
  11. November 2000 Risk Prevention Initiative (Bermuda) "Rare Events in Tornado Climatology"
  12. December 2000 American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA) "Predictability of Thunderstorm Hazards: Problems and Potential Applications"

2001

  1. March 2001 National Severe Weather Workshop (Norman, OK) "Tornadoes and Tornado Death Climatology"
  2. March 2001 Institute for Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Research (Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany) "An Overview of the National Severe Storms Laboratory"
  3. April 2001 DePauw University Physics Department (Greencastle, IN) "The What, Where, and When of Severe Thunderstorms"
  4. April 2001 National Weather Service Forecast Office (Wilmington, OH) "Recent Work in Severe Weather Climatology: The Hazards Project"
  5. April 2001 Ohio State University Severe Weather Symposium (Columbus, OH) "Tornado Damage and Deaths from a Historical Perspective"
  6. May 2001 WMO Workshop on Quantitative Precipitation Forecast Verification (Prague, Czech Republic) "Kernel Density Estimation and Forecast Verification"
  7. May 2001 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Congress (Winnipeg, Manitoba) "Severe Thunderstorm Climatology"
  8. August 2001 International Conference on Disaster Management (Orlando, FL) "Tornado Climatology"
  9. September 2001 Weather Risk (Oxford, England) "Short-term Severe Weather Hazards"
  10. October 2001 National Weather Association Annual Meeting (Spokane, Washington) "Climatology of Severe Thunderstom Winds"
  11. December 2001 American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA) "Thunderstorm Ensemble Forecasting"

2002

  1. January 2002 Kansas City American Meteorological Society Local Chapter Meeting (Overland Park, KS) "Statistical Modelling of Tornado Climatology"
  2. January 2002 National Weather Service Forecast Office (Pleasant Hill, MO) "Collaborative Research Between the SPC and NSSL/MAG"
  3. March 2002 National Severe Weather Workshop (Norman, OK) "Climatology of Severe Thunderstom Winds"
  4. April 2002 Oklahoma University Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Sociey (Norman, OK) "Severe Thunderstorm Climatology"
  5. June 2002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Workshop on Extreme Events and Climate Change (Beijing, China) "Severe Thunderstorms: Climatology and Modelling Challenges"
  6. July 2002 Workshop on Verification of Aviation Forecasts (Boulder, Colorado) "Forecast Verification for Fun and Profit"
  7. August 2002 EUMETSAT Workshop on Forecasting Severe Thunderstorms (Prague, Czech Republic) "Forecasting and Nowcasting Severe Convective Storms, Part II: Developing Warning Systems"
  8. August 2002 EUMETSAT Workshop on Forecasting Severe Thunderstorms (Prague, Czech Republic) "Climatologies of Environmental Conditions"
  9. September 2002 Central Oklahoma American Meterological Society and National Weather Association Local Chapter (Norman, OK) "Synthetic Severe Thunderstorm Climatologies"
  10. November 2002 NOAA Science Advisory Board (Norman, OK) "The Worldwide Distribution of Severe Thunderstorms (Maybe)"

2003

  1. 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)
  2. March 2003 National Severe Weather Workshop (Norman, OK) "Tornado deaths in the US and mobile homes"
  3. March 2003 South African Weather Service (Pretoria, South Africa) "Forecast Evaluation" (Lecture Series)
  4. March 2003 University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa) "Challenges in understanding the world-wide distribution of severe thunderstorms"
  5. March 2003 SASOL Scifest USAID International Lecture (Grahamstown, South Africa) "Severe thunderstorms-Trying to draw a global map of hazards"
  6. April 2003 Rhodes University Frontiers of Science Lecture Series (Grahamstown, South Africa) "Challenges in understanding the world-wide distribution of severe thunderstorms"
  7. April 2003 Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) "Synthetic Severe Thunderstorm Climatologies"
  8. April 2003 Ohio State Severe Weather Symposium (Columbus, OH) "Synthetic Severe Thunderstorm Climatologies"
  9. June 2003 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Congress (Ottawa, Ontario) "Evaluating Forecasts of High-Impact Weather"
  10. September 2003 Pennsylvania State University Student American Meteorological Society Chapter (University Park, PA) "Mobile Homes and Tornado Deaths"
  11. September 2003 Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA) "Challenges in understanding the world-wide distribution of severe thunderstorms"
  12. October 2003 Wichita, Kansas Local Chapter of the American Meteorological Society "Challenges in understanding the world-wide distribution of severe thunderstorms"

2004

  1. February 2004 Meteorological Service of Canada Science-Operations Connection (Toronto, Ontario) "Knowledge and Training Requirements for Operational Forecasters"
  2. March 2004 William Jewell College (Liberty, MO) "The May 2003 Tornadoes in Context"
  3. July 2004 International Conference on Storms (Brisbane, Australia) "Estimating the Distribution of Severe Thunderstorms and Their Environments Around the World"

2005

  1. January 2005 Oklahoma Scholars Leadership Education Program (Norman, OK) "Societal impacts of weather"
  2. 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)
  3. March 2005 Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) "Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis"
  4. April 2005 Ohio State Severe Weather Symposium (Columbus, OH) "Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis"
  5. June 2005 National Weather Center REUnion (Norman, OK) "Problems in Meteorology"
  6. July 2005 International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (Udine, Italy) Lecture series as part of course on "Atmospheric Convection: Research and Operational Forecasting Aspects"
  7. October 2005 Risk Prevention Initiative (Bermuda) "Estimating the global distribution of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes

2006

  1. 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"
  2. March 2006 Southeast Symposium on Severe Storms (Starkville, MS) "A global view of severe thunderstorms: Estimating the current distribution and possible future changes"
  3. May 2006 Climate Change and Disaster Losses Workshop (Hohenkammer, Germany) "Tornado and Severe Thunderstorm Losses"
  4. June 2006 Walt Disney Feature Animation (Burbank, CA) "Tornadoes"
  5. June 2006 International Newspaper Editors (Norman, OK) "Tornadoes"
  6. October 2006 Goldman Sachs Investments "Modelling Tornadoes"

2007

  1. 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"
  2. January 2007 CASA Decision Sciences Meeting (Dallas-Fort Worth, TX) "National Weather Service Tornado Warnaings"
  3. April 2007 Ohio State Severe Weather Symposium (Columbus, OH) "Climate Change and Severe Thunderstorms"

2008

  1. 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"
  2. March 2008 American Physical Society March Meeting (New Orleans, LA) "Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms: Physical understanding and climate questions"

Other presentations

  1. January 1988 McGill University (Montreal, QB) "Helicity in atmospheric science"
  2. February 1988 Fifteenth Conference on Severe Local Storms (Baltimore, MD)
  3. October 1990 Sixteenth Conference on Severe Local Storms (Kananaskis Park, AB)
  4. March 1991 National Meteorological Center (Camp Springs, MD)
  5. October 1991 National Weather Association Annual Meeting (Salt Lake City, UT)
  6. September 1992 Fourth AES/CMOS Workshop on Operational Meteorology (Whistler, BC) "STORMTIPE" and "Operational implications of the sensitivity of modelled thunderstorms to thermal perturbations"
  7. August 1993 Thirteenth Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (Vienna, VA)
  8. October 1993 Seventeenth Conference on Severe Local Storms (Saint Louis, MO)
  9. VORTEX briefings
  10. July 1994 Short-range Ensemble Forecasting Workshop (Camp Springs, MD)
  11. October 1994 COMPARE Workshop (Montreal, QB) "Short-range Ensemble Forecasting"
  12. February 1996 Eighteenth Conference on Severe Local Storms (San Francisco, CA)
  13. February-March 1995 Fifth AES/CMOS Workshop on Operational Meteorology (Edmonton, AB) "Flash flood forecasting"
  14. March 1996 ARM Science Team Meeting (San Antonio, TX)
  15. July 1996 Big Thompson Flash Flood Symposium (Fort Collins, CO)
  16. August 1996 Fifteenth Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting and Eleventh Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (Norfolk, VA)
  17. March 1997 ARM Science Team Meeting (San Antonio, TX)
  18. March 1997 University of Oklahoma "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Lessons Learned From Forecast Verification"
  19. 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"
  20. January 1998 AMS Conference on Probability and Statistics (Phoenix, AZ) "Value of Weather Forecasts for an Electrical Utility"
  21. May 1998 7th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (Whistler, BC) "Objective Upper and Lower Bounds on Skill of Forecasting Rare Events"
  22. July 1998 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (New York, NY) "Climate Change and the Observed Record of Severe Thunderstorms"
  23. October 1998 National Weather Association Annual Meeting (Oklahoma City, OK) "Changes in Severe Thunderstorm Reports: Implications for Forecast Verification and Climate Change Research"
  24. November 1998 University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) "The Record of Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms in the United States"
  25. Feburary 1999 53rd Indepartmental Hurricane Conference (Biloxi, MS) "Verification of Hurricane Strike Probability Forecasts" (P. L. MacKeen lead author)
  26. February 2000 Eurotornado Conference (Toulouse, France) "Some Aspects of the International Climatology of Tornadoes by Damage Classification"
  27. March 2000 National Severe Storms Laboratory (Norman, OK) "Recent advances in severe thunderstorm climatology"
  28. 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"
  29. May 2000 12th AMS Conference on Applied Climatology (Asheville, NC) "Daily probabilities of severe thunderstorms in the United States"
  30. July 2000 Royal Meteorological Society Meteorology at the Millenium Conference (Cambridge, UK) "Severe Thunderstorms and Climate Change: Can We Detect a Link?"
  31. September 2000 20th AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms (Orlando, FL) "Severe Thunderstorm Climatology: What we can know"
  32. March 2001 8th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (Luneburg, Germany) "Statistical Modelling of Tornado Occurrence"
  33. May 2001 NSSL Seminar Series (Norman, OK) "Deaths in the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornado from a Historical Persprective"
  34. August 2002 European Conference on Severe Storms 2002 (Prague, Czech Republic) "Synthetic Severe Thunderstorm Climatologies from Sounding Parameters"
  35. September 2002 NSSL Seminar Series (Norman, OK) "Synthetic Severe Thunderstorm Climatologies"
  36. January 2003 NSSL Seminar Series (Norman, OK) "How Far Away is the Moon?"
  37. February 2003 AMS Conference on Global Change (Long Beach, CA) "Developing Global Climatologies of Severe Thunderstorms from Reanalysis-Derived Soundings"
  38. February 2004 NSSL Seminar Series (Norman, OK) "A Distant Mirror Crack'd: Putting Tornadoes in Historical Context"
  39. October 2004 22nd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms (Hyannis, MA) "Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis"
  40. November 2004 European Conference on Severe Storms (Leon, Spain) "Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis"
  41. March 2005 NSSL Seminar Series "Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis"
  42. November 2005 NSSL Seminar Series "National Weather Service Tornado Warning, 1986-2004: Lead Time or Lead Time?"
  43. November 2006 23rd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms (Saint Louis, MO) "Proximity soundings from reanalysis data for Europe"
  44. September 2007 European Conference on Severe Storms (Trieste, Italy) "Proximity soundings for Europe and the United States from reanalysis data"