I recently was assigned to a term position within the NCAR Directorate Office as Senior Advisor for Research and Strategic Planning. In this role, I will be responsible for providing senior-level strategic leadership for NCAR’s cross-center priorities. These initiatives derive from NCAR’s Strategic Plan, NCAR’s Implementation Plan, and NCAR’s Program Operating Plan (POP). Specifically, I will be engaged across NCAR to help break down barriers that inhibit collaboration and rapid progress on key center-wide priorities. For example, I will provide oversight and coordination on the NCAR Reinvestment projects; work with the Path to Exascale Taskforce; and play a key role in partnership with ODEI, the labs, and E&O on advancing UCAR’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategic Plan. I will also serve as a liaison to NSA and ECSA, will foster interactions and collaborations between NCAR, and UCP, and will have responsibility for NCAR-wide outreach to our academic community and other partners.

Formerly, I was a project scientist with a split appointment between MMM and DAReS (CISL). My current research focuses on ensemble-based data assimilation and storm-scale ensemble design applied to convective forecasting challenges using the WRF model and DART toolkit. This research is also in support of NCAR's STEP program and is coordinated with external support from NOAA, NASA, and NSF. Additionally, I provide support to the community of WRF/DART users and occasionally participate in field campaigns, such as VORTEX2 (Spring 2009-10) and Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX; Spring 2013). A notable recent forecast and DA project was the NCAR ensemble. The team of folks I work with address a range of prediction and predictability activities, particularly for high-impact convective weather.