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Curriculum Vitae -- Charles A. Doswell III
As of: 01 November 2004
PERSONAL
Born: November 5, 1945, Elmhurst, Illinois (York Township,
Dupage Co.)
EDUCATION
Willowbrook Community High School, Villa Park, Illinois:
9/59 to 6/63; graduated, 2.94 GPA
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (122 sem.hrs.):
9/63 to 6/67, Bachelor of Science degree conferred 5 June
1967. Major - Meteorology. 3.09 GPA; in Major: 3.62 GPA
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (3l sem. hrs):
9/67 to 1/69, Master of Science degree conferred January
l969. Major - Meteorology; Minor - Mathematics 3.89 GPA;
in Major: 4.00 GPA
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (94 sem. hrs.):
1/69 to 6/69 and 6/72 to 7/76, Doctor of Philosophy degree
conferred 30 July 1976. Major - Meteorology. 3.92 GPA; in
major: 4.00 GPA. Dissertation title: The Use of Filtered
Surface Observations to Reveal Subsynoptic Scale Dynamics.
HONORS, AWARDS, CERTIFICATIONS
National Merit Letter of Commendation - June 1963
Invitation to Univ. of Wisconsin Honors Convocation - June
1967
Dean's List, Univ. of Oklahoma - Dec 1967, May 1968
Silver Medal Award, U.S. Dept. of Commerce - Oct 1989, for
"meritorious authorship and editing associated with
A Guide for Operational Meteorological Research"
NOAA Sustained superior performance award 1987, 1988, 1989,
1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997
Editor's Award, Amer. Meteor. Soc. - Jan 1994, for "providing
penetrating and thought-provoking reviews on numerous manuscripts
submitted to Weather and Forecasting"
Gold Medal Award (Unit Citation), U.S. Dept. of Commerce
- Oct 1995, to NSSL "for achieving scientific and technological
breakthroughs leading to continuous improvements in the
national network of Doppler radars"
Research Achievement in Support of Operational Forecasting
Award (now the T.T. Fujita Award), Nat. Wea. Assoc. - Dec
1995, for "outstanding contributions to operational
research"
ERL Outstanding Scientific Paper Award - Sep 1996, for the
paper: Brooks, H.E., Charles A. Doswell III, and R.B. Wilhelmson
(1994): On the role of the mid-tropospheric winds in the
evolution and maintenance of low-level mesocyclones. Mon
Wea. Rev., 122, 126-136.
NSSL Outstanding Scientific Paper Award - Jan 1999, for
the paper: C.A. Doswell III, H.E. Brooks and R.A. Maddox
(1996): Flash flood forecasting: An ingredients-based methodology.
Wea. Forecasting, 11, 560-581.
Certified Consulting Meteorologist - Amer. Meteor. Soc.,
February 2002
Antonín Strnad Gold Medal - Czech Hydrometeorological
Institute, August 2002, for "many years of collaboration
and an active participation in the development of meteorology
of convective storms in the Czech Republic"
Sergey Soloviev Medal - European Geosciences Union, 2004,
for "distinguished work in the understanding, prediction
and mitigation of meteorological hazards"
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Meteorological Society
Chi Epsilon Pi Meteorology Honorary Society
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
National Weather Association
U.K. Royal Meteorological Society (Fellow)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Session Chair, 9th AMS Conf. Wea.Forecasting and Analysis
(Seattle, WA) - 1982
Session Chair, 10th AMS Conf. Wea. Forecasting and Analysis
(Clearwater, FL) - 1984
Session Chair, 14th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Indianapolis,
IN) - 1985
Session Chair, 15th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Baltimore,
MD) - 1988
Session Chair, 12th AMS Conf. Wea. Forecasting and Analysis
(Monterey, CA) - 1989
Session Chair, Tornado Symp. III (Norman, OK), 1991.
Session Chair, 17th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (St. Louis,
MO), - 1993
Session Chair, 18th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (San Francisco,
CA) - 1996
Session Chair, 10th Cyclone Workshop (Val Morin, Quebec)
- 1997
Session Chair, 19th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Minneapolis,
MN) - 1998
Session Chair, 20th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Orlando,
FL) - 2000
Member, Program Committee, 15th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms
(Baltimore, MD), 1986-1988
Member, Program Committee, 12th AMS Conf. Weather Forecasting
and Analysis (Monterey, CA),
1987 - 1989
Co-Chair, Program Committee, 16th AMS Conf. Severe Local
Storms (Kananaskis Provincial Park,
Alberta, Canada), 1988 - 1990
Co-Chair, Program Committee, Tornado Symposium. III (Norman,
OK), 1989 - 1991.
Member, Organizing Committee, 2nd European Conf. on Severe
Storms (Prague, Czech Republic),
2000 - 2002
Session Chair, 4th International Conf. Mesoscale Convective
Systems and Heavy Rainfall in East Asia (Beijing, People's
Republic of China) - 2004.
Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review, 1 January 1984
- 1 January 1986
Associate Editor, Weather and Forecasting, 1 January 1988
- 1 January 1998
Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review, 1 January 1998
- 1 January 2000
Associate Editor, The Tornado: Its Structure, Dynamics,
Prediction, and Hazards (Proceedings, Tornado Symp. III),
Geophysical Monogr. 79, Amer. Geophys. Union, 1989 - 1993.
[Winner Best New Book in Geography and Earth Sciences, Amer.
Publishers, Inc. (1994)]
Editor, Severe Convective Storms (AMS Monograph), Amer.
Meteor. Soc., December 1993 - December 2001
Visiting Professor, State Univ. of New York at Albany,
June 1994 - May 1995 Adjunct Associate Professor, Univ.
of Oklahoma, January 1989 - August 1996
Adjunct Professor, Univ. of Oklahoma, September 1996 - present
Member, AMS Advisory Committee on Severe Local Storms,
1986 - 1989
Member, AMS Advisory Committee on Severe Local Storms, 1992
- 1995
Member, AMS Executive Council, January 1997-2000
Facilitator, AMS statement on tornado safety and preparedness,
1998-2000
Member, AMS Ad Hoc Committee on Meetings, 1998-2000
Co-Facilitator, AMS statement on probability forecasting,
1999-2000
Member, AMS Advisory Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting,
2002 - present
Member, Council of Fellows, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale
Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), January 1991 - January 2001
Member, Steering Committee, Oklahoma Mesonetwork, Oklahoma
Climate Survey, January 1991 - May 1992.
Member, Steering Committee, Cooperative Regional Assimilation
and Forecast Test (CRAFT) for Center for Analysis and Prediction
of Storms (CAPS), University of Oklahoma, August 1991 -
December 2001
Chair, Data Processing and Management Advisory Committee,
NSSL, December 1986 - April 1990
Member, Personnel Management Advisory Committee, National
Severe Storms Laboratory, 1995 - 1996
Member, WMO Steering Group on Very Short-Range Forecasting,
January 1989 - January, 1992
Member, International Programme Committee for the INM-WMO
International Symposium on Mediterranean Cyclones and Hazardous
Weather Phenomena [INM - Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia],
January 1996 - April 1997
Member, U.S. Weather Research Program Prospectus Development
Team #9 (Hydrological Aspects of Weather Prediction and
Flood Warnings), December 1997
Member, FEMA Building Performance Assessment Team for the
3 May 1999 outbreak of tornadoes in OK and KS, May 1999.
Member, Interim Science Committee, MEDEX (Mediterranean
Experiment), INM-WMO, February 1999-December 2001
Member, Scientific Program Committee, European Conf. on
Severe Storms, July 2000 - September 2002
Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 1998-2000
Chair, Sigma Xi 1998 Forum Panel Discussion on "Severe
Weather:Hazards and Impacts"
Member, NWS Quick Response Team, 2003 - present
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