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is presently the Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory.
He has broad experience in leading organizations in the atmospheric
and related sciences. He is interested in putting together alliances
of institutions and people to tackle complex, multidisciplinary problems.
Past efforts include contributions to the creation of the Oklahoma
Weather Center, the OU/Fort Valley/Industry Consortium, and most recently,
the Phased Array Radar Project. He designed alternative graduate curricula
in Meteorology to develop student expertise in the transfer of technology
and high-quality service to clients. He has taught a graduate level
course in private sector meteorology employing the case-study method.
His research interests include cyclogenesis, severe storms, and energy-balance
climatology.
Daphne Zaras is a meteorologist and adult education
specialist with NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory and the
University of Oklahoma's Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological
Studies in Norman, OK. Daphne leads and is an integral part of National
Severe Storms Laboratory's Information/Outreach team. She is also
the director of the National Weather Center (NWC) Research Experiences
for Undergraduates program, a National Science Foundation funded
program that brings 10 college students in from around the country
to work with NWC scientists each summer.
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Using the Science of Weather
in Business and Public Policy
Monday - Friday January
3-7, 2005
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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Ideas, even intellectual
ones, can generate research and development programs, system prototypes,
and useful products and services. Students are educated, jobs
are created, companies are born or expand, and sometimes, whole
new industries emerge around centers of true excellence.
The growth of the weather enterprise in Oklahoma is an example
of such a center. This class will examine how the weather enterprise
was conceived, grew, and prospered mostly in Central Oklahoma.
We will examine how ideas linked to academic, government, and
private entities became what will be known shortly as the National
Weather Center with annual expenditures approaching $100 million.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
* The Weather Book by Jack Williams 1997
* The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm by Thomas P. Grazulis,
2001
* Climate Affairs by Michael H. Glantz. 2003
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