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
Guifu Zhang
Professor, Sam K. Viersen Presidential 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 […]
Kelvin Droegemeier
Regents' Professor of Meteorology; Weathernews Chair Emeritus; Roger and Sherry Teigen Presidential Professor; Former Vice President for Research
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Jason Furtado
Associate Professor
Office: NWC 5240 Phone: (405) 325-1391 Website: http://ifurtado.org Group: http://ifurtado.org/ Education: B.S., Meteorology and B.S., Mathematics, Lyndon State College, 2002 M.S., Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 2005 Ph.D., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010 Research interests: Improving sub-seasonal and seasonal forecasts of temperature and precipitation. Enhancing our understanding of decadal-scale projections of climate/climate […]
Graduate Students
Chasteen, Manda
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Mose, Angela
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Pardun, Tyler
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Mentors
James Ruppert
Assistant Professor
Office: 5331 Phone: TBD Website: http://jruppert.oucreate.com/ Education: B.S., Atmospheric Science, University at Albany, 2009 M.S., Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 2012 Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 2015 Research Interests: Convective systems Mesoscale dynamics Tropical dynamics Cloud–radiation feedback Tropical cyclones / hurricanes The Madden–Julian Oscillation Online Research Profiles: Google Scholar ResearcherID ResearchGate
Amanda Kis
Instructor
Office: NWC 5409 Phone: 405-325-6561 Website: Dr. Kis earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, double-majoring in atmospheric & oceanic sciences and mathematics, and Master of Science and doctoral degrees in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include investigating the environments in which nocturnal tornadoes form and using social […]
McGovern, Amy
Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor
Professor, OU School of Computer Science, OU School of Meteorology Office: NWC 3435 Web: http://www.mcgovern-fagg.org/amy/ Group: http://mcgovern-fagg.org/idea/index.html Education: BS in Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996 MS Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1998 Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2002 Research Interests: Data science/Machine learning for weather prediction (with a focus on severe […]
