The School of Meteorology has 25 full time faculty members covering various aspects of the atmospheric sciences. The School has 33 adjunct and affiliate faculty members (adjunct and affiliate policy can be found here) with the largest number associated with NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory. We have a diverse array of students from around the globe including the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, Korea, China, Taiwan, Norway, and Serbia. We currently have 91 graduate students and 280 undergraduate students. Our regular and emeritus faculty includes 5 endowed chairs and professorship, six Presidential Professors; three Regents Professors; three George Lynn Cross Research Professors; two Emeritus GLC Professors; one Dean; two past Presidents of the American Meteorological Society; two OU Vice Presidents (Research and Weather and Climate).
Faculty
Phillip Chilson
Professor
Office: NWC 4618 Phone: (405) 325-5095 Web: http://arrc.ou.edu/~chilson/ B.S., Physics, Clemson University, 1985 M.S., Physics, University of Florida, 1990 Ph.D., Physics, Clemson University, 1993
Naoko Sakaeda
Assistant Professor
Office: NWC 5329 Phone: (405)325-1142 Website: http://nsakaeda.oucreate.com Education: B.S., Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 2009 Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany, 2015 Research Interests: Dr. Sakaeda’s research interests include understanding the dynamics of tropical clouds and precipitation in various scales and their interactions with higher latitudes. Some topics of her interests are the Madden-Julian Oscillation, convectively-coupled equatorial […]
Guifu Zhang
Professor
Office: NWC 4620 Phone: (405) 325-3507 Website:http://weather.ou.edu/~guzhang/page/Home.html Education: B.S. in Physics, Anhui University, 1982 M.S. in Radio Physics, Wuhan University, 1985 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 1998 Research Interests: Wave propagation and scattering in geophysical media Remote sensing for understanding and quantifying weather and earth environment Radar polarimetry for quantitative precipitation estimation and […]
Staff
Gebauer, Kathryn
Scientific Editor, Boundary-Layer Meteorology
Ms. Kathryn Gebauer Scientific Editor, Boundary-Layer Meteorology NWC 5420
