Daphne LaDue

Director and PI, National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program
Research Associate, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
Doctoral Candidate, Adult & Higher Education, University of Oklahoma

Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
National Weather Center, Suite 2500
120 David L. Boren Blvd.
Norman, Oklahoma 73072

Ph: 405-325-1898
Fax: 405-325-7614
E-mail: dzaras@ou.edu

Updated August 25, 2009

Professional Preparation

Ph.D., perhaps May 2010
Adult & Higher Education Program
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
University of Oklahoma

Advisory Committee:
Chair: Dr. Connie Dillon, Professor, Adult & Higher Education, OU
Dr. Kathleen B. Rager, Assoc. Prof., Adult & Higher Education, OU
Dr. Juanita G. Vargas, Asst. Prof., Adult & Higher Education, OU
Dr. Kevin Kloesel, Asst. Dean, College of Geosciences, OU
Dr. Harold Brooks, Adjunct Professor, School of Meteorology, OU

Original advisor: Dr. Robert Fox, now Professor Emeritus, Adult & Higher Education, OU

M.S., 1992
Atmospheric Science
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Advisors:
Dr. William L. Smith, former Director CIMSS, UW-Madison
Dr. Steven A. Ackerman, Professor, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, and current Director CIMSS, UW-Madison

B.A., Cum Laude, 1990
Physics
Anderson University, Anderson, IN

Professional Experience

February 2007 - present
Research Associate
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
University of Oklahoma

This position encompasses multiple projects with different time spans, as described below:

a. Principal Investigator and Director of the National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program. February 2007 - present

Duties: Design and execute one of the nation's most popular summer student internship programs. This NSF-funded REU program brings in 10 students each year and pairs them with scientists throughout the National Weather Center to conduct and report on 10-week research projects. Supervise graduate and undergraduate student assistants. Design overall curriculum that includes skill building workshops, practice talks, seminars on science and career topics, and more.

Accomplishments: Designed and conducted extensive internship experience for undergraduate students. Successfully and efficiently managed a significant budget for Years 1 and 2. Administering Year 3. Year 4 (2010) is also expected to be funded for a total award of $646,941.

b. Teamed with the NOAA/NWS Warning Decision Training Branch. May 2008 - present

Duties: Assist the National Weather Service in efficient, productive use of the Department of Commerce's Learning Management System. Integrate the state of the science of adult learning to the WDTB.

Accomplishments: Completed a guide for NOAA managers on how to leverage existing writing courses to improve internal and external communication. Presented this guide at the 2008 NOAA Leadership Summit. Led professional development workshops for WDTB staff: 1) cognitive aspects of learning, 2) change theory.

c. Lead Researcher, Building a Business Case for the Next Generation Weather Radar. April 2008 - October 2008

Duties: Design and lead research project that identifies both strengths and limitations of current weather radar technology for two key stakeholder groups, TV broadcasters and NWS forecasters. The current system, the WSR-88D, is nearing the end of its 20-year life span and options for replacement are already under consideration. The results of this study will help decision-makers in the design and development of new radar technologies.

Accomplishments: Interviewed 5 NWS forecasters and 4 TV meteorologists from the Southern Plains to understand how the critical strengths and issues with current radar systems affect their ability to fulfill their roles. A preliminary write-up was submitted to the 24th Conference on Severe Local Storms.

June 1995 - November 2006
Research Associate
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
University of Oklahoma

This position has encompassed four distinct duties described in a through e:

a. Lead Developer of the distance education version of The Nation's Weather Enterprise: Public-Private Sector Partnership. April 2006 - November 2006

Duties: Teamed with the NOAA Warning Decision Training Branch to take material from a live workshop and create from it an engaging, educational opportunity for professional meteorologists.

Accomplishments: Extensively modified material to incorporate good distance learning principles for the online format of the workshop. The module is online in two places: NOAA/NWS/WDTB and NCIM. Also created the CD art and prepared the files for formal printing of the CD version.

b. Principal Investigator and Director of the National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, April 2001 - March 2006

Duties: As currently employed through CAPS

Accomplishments: As above, plus: successfully and efficiently managed a $611,847 budget over the 5-year period 2001-2005. Awarded a 2-Year Extension for Special Creativity for years 2004 and 2005 to study how participants' career decision-making processes change as they progress through the REU program. Results partially reported in Gonzalez-Espada and Zaras, 2005, Journal of Geoscience Education.

c. Webmaster, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, November 1998 - November 2006

Duties: Create and maintain the external web presence of this research group.

Accomplishments: Maintained external web site with key administrative information needed by NOAA and the University of Oklahoma regarding CIMMS activities.

d. Outreach Coordinator, Teamed with the NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, November 1998 - September 2005

Duties: Coordinate and conduct outreach activities on behalf of the NSSL. Met with visitors and answered questions via phone and email. Responsible for the meteorological content of the NSSL web site. Served on various NOAA teams for both web-related and educational projects. Served as informal editor of NSSL Briefings newsletter. Assisted with coordination of mirroring Storm Prediction Center and Tropical Prediction Center (a.k.a. National Hurricane Center) web sites. Served as team leader, involving management duties.

Accomplishments: Created an internal site for NSSL employees to find important organizational materials. Created the web site for Dr. Harold Brooks's Silver Medal award-winning hazardous weather risk information. Created and maintained several web pages identified as National Science Teacher's Association SciLinks. Maintained and added content to NSSL's popular FAQ and other pages. Created an online database for IT managers in several NOAA units to coordinate computer addresses. Created informational handouts for visitors.

e. Applied Researcher, Teamed with NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, June 1995 - November 1998

Duties: Researched the utility of satellite data to identify and track severe thunderstorms. Researched integration of information from satellite and radar for detection and tracking of severe storms. Served on Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) team. Created VISIT modules and taught sessions.

Accomplishments: Wrote and modified several programs to analyze satellite data. A non-federal part of the team winning a Silver Medal for the Severe Weather Warning Applications and Technology Transfer Team's work on radar and integrated sensor software applications for forecasts and warnings. Created VISIT modules for training NWS forecasters, one of which is still online.

June 1994 - May 1995
Associate Researcher
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
University of Wisconsin

Duties: Teamed with the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service in Camp Springs, MD, to work on satellite applications for use in flash flood forecasting.

Accomplishments: Developed a total precipitable water product that was integrated and found useful in NESDIS operations.

November 1992 - May 1994
Atmospheric Scientist
Science Applications International Corporation

Duties: Teamed with NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA to research mesospheric ozone chemical kinetics. Satellite-based stratospheric ozone measurements must account for ozone concentrations above the stratosphere in order to be accurate.

Accomplishments: Published three notable papers from just one year's work.

Research Interests

How Meteorologists Learn to Forecast
Weather and climate persistently affect individuals, corporations, and governments, sometimes in significant ways. Poor forecasts leave people unprepared to mitigate weather impacts, but good forecasts have saved billions of dollars through more focused mitigation and preparation efforts. Despite both the tangible and intangible significance of good forecasts, weather forecasting is rarely explicitly taught and meteorologists have written little on the subject. Education and other literature appear to contribute important, relevant frameworks, but those constructs provide lenses that sometimes intertwine and at other times fail to overlap. There is no one comprehensive education or other theory adequate to explain this learning. My grounded theory study will identify the elements and relationships characteristic of a theory of how meteorologists learn to forecast. A secondary objective of this ongoing research is to earn my doctorate in Adult & Higher Education.
Status: underway

Identification of Operational Deficiencies in Weather Radar
Given that the WSR-88D is approaching its 20-year life span, options for replacement are under consideration. By identifying operational deficiencies of the current technology for key stakeholder groups, better business decisions may be made regarding choice of replacement systems. This project investigated how National Weather Service forecasters and broadcast meteorologists in the Southern Plains use current radar systems in their operations. The critical incident method revealed the role of each stakeholder group and attained stories that exemplified radar strengths and limitations in their respective roles. The stories told by our participants vividly illustrated the advancing nature of weather detection with radar, and why there are still issues with weather radar and radar-derived information. An initial write-up in the form of a conference paper has been submitted to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Status: a formal publication submission is under review

How Emergency Managers Organize and Use Weather Radar Knowledge
The current OK-FIRST course organizes radar knowledge in ways typical for the education of meteorologists. Such organization and presentation of information may not be immediately useful to an emergency manager and may explain why only relatively small percentage of emergency managers heavily use radar information in their operations. This study explored how emergency managers who used radar data in their operations organized and used that knowledge in performing their job duties. This research resulted in feedback in the form of a consultation report to the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.
Status: complete

Misconceptions About Relative Humidity
This project has involved two facets thus far. The first, “How widely held are various aspects of relative humidity misconceptions?” was addressed using a multiple-choice survey. Results were reported in the Fredrickson et al. 2006 paper. The second question, “How do students’ understanding of concepts related to relative humidity impact their understanding of relative humidity?” was investigated through interviews with graduate students.
Status: We would like to continue this general thread of studies as time permits.

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Recent Teaching Experience

Professional Learning Interventions

The Nation's Weather Enterprise: Public-Private Partnership Distance Education Module
Motivated by the long-standing contention between two of the 3 major sectors of meteorology, the public and private sectors, two leaders in the field of meteorology created the original Public-Private workshop to educate both sectors about several fundamental, underlying differences between them in hopes that we might move beyond them to forge effective partnerships that grow the weather enterprise.The material had to be extensively modified for a consistent design and incorporate good learning principles for the online format. Articulate Presenter was the nominal tool, with Flash animations added for interactivity, use of engaging lecture style, alternating moderators, judiciously inserted video and audio from the original workshop, and increasing interactivity as the sections progress. The module may be found online at both the NOAA/NWS/WDTB and NCIM web sites.

A Manager's Guide to Improving the Effectiveness of Written Communication
I was brought in to consult on a project that resulted in a booklet I created to assist NOAA employees in targeting existing writing courses available in NOAA's Learning Management System (LMS) that directly addressed job tasks involving written communication. I created and included a simple form so individuals could create personal goals for change, thus designing the booklet in such a way to realize real outcomes from learning that could be documented and tracked in a personnel file to show return on effort. A subsequent change in the LMS vendor will require an update before the workbook is distributed.

Chair, Scenario Committee, 2006 National Severe Weather Workshop
Provided leadership and mentoring for the first year of the most popular, effective learning venue of the NSWW to-date. In this severe weather scenario, participants played interacting roles of National Weather Service warning forecasters, emergency mangers, and TV meteorologists. During the scenario, a live TV feed from the TV room was shown in the other two rooms while products issued by the NWS room appeared in computer systems in the TV and emergency manager rooms. This scenario activity has continued each year of the workshop since.

Other Formal Teaching Experience

Overall program design, National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 2001-2005, 2007-present
Solely responsible for overall program design of this highly-respected program. The program includes skill-building workshops on computers, statistics, scientific communication, and more; practice talks; career exploration field trips; lectures on a wide variety of science and career topics; job shadows; periodic bull sessions to monitor students' progress and address any concerns; and a conference-style, formal presentation day to wrap up the program. The most recent innovations include use of learning contracts to further coach students through their work and an entrepreneurial workshop where they have a rare opportunity to exercise creativity in identifying a need and proposing a business plan to address that need.

Entrepreneurial Workshop, NWC REU Program, 2007-2008
Created and led workshop for participants in the National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates program to exercise their creativity and problem-solving. Teams of 4 created business plans and then pitched their ideas to the rest of the group that posed as venture capitalists. Each business idea was evaluated for creativity and viability. Venture capitalists voted whether to fund each idea.

Scientific Posters, Talks, and Papers; NWC REU Program, July 2007
Led the portion that critiqued several posters collected from around the NWC that had been presented at professional conferences to convey a variety of research project results. Helped students see for themselves how to effectively present scientific research in the poster format. My co-presenter addressed scientific talks and papers.

Portion of OU EDAH 5513: Management of the Training Function, Fall 2005
Created instructional materials and taught session on Return on Investment.

FOSS Weather and Water Institute Workshop for K-12 Teachers, Summer 2005
Led interactive session on the science and observation of severe storms.

Portion of OU EDAH 5103: Instructional Strategies, Spring 2005
Created instructional materials, taught, and evaluated workshop titled Case Study Method as a Solution to the Problem of Teaching Practice Within a Discipline.

Meteorology Basics, Spring 2005
Taught 6-8th graders from Western Oklahoma Christian School rudimentary weather map analysis in a mini-workshop at the National Severe Storms Laboratory.

Oklahoma Scholarship Leadership Enrichment Program course Using the Science of Weather in Business and Public Policy, January 2005
Taught a workshop-style portion of the course on serving weather information needs of the general public; served as faculty resource person for the course and was responsible for final grades. Portions of the course were conducted using distance learning technology.

Chair, Panel Discussion on the Research and Policy of Climate Change, NWC REU Program, June 2004
Organized objectives and panel speakers and served as moderator.

Portion of OU EDAH 5413: Design and Delivery of Distance Education, Spring 2004
Designed learning objectives, created instructional e-learning materials, and conducted e-learning session with both synchronous and asynchronous elements titled Getting Where You Want to Go: Computer Basics.

Introduction to Lightning Web Site, Spring 2004
Designed learning objectives and created instructional e-learning materials for the general public.

Portion of OU EDAH 5023: Administration of Adult & Higher Education, Fall 2003
Created instructional materials and taught workshop on the Three C's of Organizational Dynamics in Higher Education.

Portion of OU EDAH 5013: The Adult Learner, Fall 2003
Created instructional materials and taught workshop on the role of meaning in learning.

Introduction to UNIX, Summer 2002
Created and conducted hands-on workshop on the UNIX computer operating system for National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates participants.

What You Need to Know About Your Web Pages: New Accessibility Requirements for Federal Web Pages, Spring 2002
Designed both workshop and online reference materials and taught NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory staff about how to meet Section 508 accessibility requirements.

Professional Development

• Advanced WAS*IS Workshop: Beyond Storm Warnings, Norman, OK 2008
• Weather And Society*Integrated Studies Workshop (WAS*IS), Norman, OK, 2006
• National Weather Service Training That Works, LERN, Norman, OK, 2006
• Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Awareness, Supervisory version, University of Oklahoma, annually - present
• Leadership Norman, Norman, Okla. Chamber of Commerce, 2001-2002
• Management Conference, Fred Pryor Seminars, Oklahoma City, 2001
• Telephone Communication, University of Oklahoma, 1999
• Cultural Awareness, University of Oklahoma, 1999
• Conflict Resolution, CareerTrack 1-Day Seminar, Oklahoma City, 1996
• Total Quality Management, Philip Crosby Methodology, SAIC, Hampton, VA, 1993

Technical Proficiency Learning

• NOAA Workplace Safety, NOAA, annually - present
• NOAA Information Technology Security Course, NOAA, annually - present
• AWOC Facilitator's Workshop, NWS Warning Decision Training Branch, August 2004
• NVIVO, OU College of Education, 2003
• Federal Rehabilitation Act Section 508 Accessibility Training, US Department of Commerce, 2001
• Presenting Data and Information, Edward Tufte, Dallas, TX, 2000
• Web Design, Thunderlizard Productions, Denver, CO, 1999
• Javascript, Thunderlizard Productions, Monterey, CA, 1998
• ANSI C/C++ Programming, Deitel & Associates, Norman, OK, 1998
• Satellite Interpretation Workshop, NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, 1994
• NWS Flash Flood Forecasting Course, Kansas City, MO, 1994
• Introduction to UNIX, NASA-LaRC, Hampton, VA, 1993
• McIDAS, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992

Professional Skills

I am proficient with several types of computer platforms and types of computing tasks. My diverse professional and graduate work experiences have led me to use computers for:

• Educational research, both quantitative and qualitative
• Graphic design for posters, handouts, brochures, large displays, scientific posters
• Office tasks including fillable PDF forms, spreadsheets for budgets, and data analysis
• Video production
• Web site authoring of pages, entire sites, and captioning of web video for Section 508 compliance
• Preparation of images for print and web
• Meteorological research: scientific programming and manipulation of meteorological data
• Meteorological data analysis and display

Communication: Proficient in proposal writing, technical presentations (both oral and poster), informal and formal adult education on a wide range of subjects.

Video/presentation: Proficient and experienced with operating video and presentation hardware in conference and classrooms.

Training/Education applications: Blackboard, VISITview, Articulate Presenter

Computer programming languages: HTML, C-shell scripting, Perl/CGI, C/C++, FORTRAN, IDL

Computer operating systems: Mac, PC, UNIX/LINUX, VAX

Meteorological applications: AWIPS, WES, BUFKIT, GEMPAK, McIDAS, WDSS

Other software: Microsoft Office Suite, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Professional, FileMaker Pro, SPSS, NVIVO, SAS, EndNote, OmniOutliner, NVIVO, MAGpie, FrameMaker, Adobe Premier, iMovie/iDVD

Funding Awards

National Science Foundation, 2007-2010
REU Site: Real-World Research Experiences For Undergraduates at the National Weather Center.

U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2008
To identify strengths and limitations of operational weather radar for two stakeholder groups in the southern plains.

Oklahoma EPSCoR, 2004, 2007, and 2009
Each year mentioned, to add a student to my REU program.

National Science Foundation, 2001-2005
Research Experiences For Undergraduates on Site at the Oklahoma Weather Center. Years 4 & 5 were funded as a 2-Year Extension for Special Creativity.

Professional Honors

Awarded a 2-Year Extension for Special Creativity from the National Science Foundation for my Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, 2003.

Unsolicited offer to fund additional student interns, Oklahoma EPSCoR, 2004 and 2007.

On two teams that won Silver Medals from the US Department of Commerce.

Nominated for ATHENA Award for promotion of women in science careers, 2005.

Selected to participate in Leadership Norman, 2001-2002.

NASA-Wisconsin Space Grant Fellowship to fund my second year of M.S. work, 1991-1992.

Ranked as best Graduate Student Forecaster for Spokane, WA, National Collegiate Forecasting Contest, 1992.

Leadership Activities

Chair, American Meteorological Society's Board on Continuing Professional Development.

Advocated for an active learning component - a role-playing scenario - to be integrated into the 2006 National Severe Weather Workshop and subsequently led the committee that created and conducted the first scenario.

Working to investigate misconceptions in the understanding of relative humidity among student and professional meteorologists in order to develop educational materials that discourage development of these misconceptions.

Preparing a vision-setting paper for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society on what a deliberate system of professional development might encompass for meteorology based upon the largest field of continuing education (medicine).

Worked closely with Evan Forde (NOAA/OAR/AOML) to create a Severe Weather poster that was distributed to over 15,000 middle school teachers via the National Science Teacher's Association.

Initiated a peer/multi-mentoring group of mid-career female meteorologists in Norman. This group inspired the female graduate students to form a second networking group where we, the professional women, meet with them.

Mentored eight high school student volunteers exploring meteorology as a career on projects lasting four months to two years.

Counsel tens of high school students and college students each year regarding careers in meteorology.

Publications - In Progress

Editors of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society have welcomed a proposal for a paper on the results of the Identification of Deficiencies in Operational Weather Radars project and its methodology.

Editors of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society had welcomed my proposal to draft a vision-setting paper for on what a deliberate system of professional development might encompass for meteorology based upon the largest field of continuing education (medicine). I really need to get back to this.

We are at the final editing stage for an article for the WAS*IS Compendium highlighting successful social science integrations with weather and climate.

Publications - Formal

LaDue, D. S., P. L. Heinselman, and J. F. Newman (2009). Strengths and Limitations of Current Radar Systems for Two Key Stakeholder Groups in the Southern Plains. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, submitted.

Arndt, D. S., and LaDue, D. S. (2009). Applying concepts of adult education to improve weather and climate literacy. Physical Geography, 29 (6), 487-499.

Gonzalez-Espada, W., & Zaras, D. S. (2005). Evaluation of the impact of the NWC REU program compared with other undergraduate research experiences. Journal of Geoscience Education, 54, 541-549.

Brooks, H., Doswell III, C., Dowell, D., Holle, R., Johns, R., Jorgensen, D., et al. (2003). Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. In T. D. Potter & B. R. Colman (Eds.), Handbook of weather, climate, and water: Dynamics, climate, physical meteorology, weather systems, and measurements (pp. 575-619). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Interscience.

Maddox, R. A., Zaras, D. S., MacKeen, P. L., Gourley, J. J., Rabin, R., & Howard, K. W. (1999). Echo height measurements with the WSR-88D: Use of data from one versus two radars. Weather and Forecasting, 14, 455-460.

Mlynczak, M. G., & Olander, D. S. (1995). On the utility of molecular oxygen dayglow emissions as proxies for middle atmospheric ozone. Geophysical Research Letters, 22, 1377-1380.

Mlynczak, M. G., Olander, D. S., & Lopez-Puertas, M. (1994). Rapid computation of spectrally integrated non-local thermodynamic equilibrium limb emission. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 25761-25772.

Mlynczak, M. G., Solomon, S., & Zaras, D. S. (1993). An updated model for o2(a1 delta-g) concentrations in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere and implications for remote sensing of ozone at 1.27 microns. Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 18639-18648.

Publications - Other

LaDue, D. S., 2009: A unique opportunity to exercise creativity: an entrepreneurial workshop for Research Experiences for Undergraduates participants. 18th Symposium on Education, Phoenix, AZ, American Meteorological Society, Poster P1.14.

Newman, J., D. LaDue, and P. L. Heinselman, 2009: Identifying critical strengths and limitations of current radar systems. 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Phoenix, AZ, American Meteorological Society, Paper 11B.4.

Newman, J., LaDue, D., & Heinselman, P. L. (2008). Identifying critical strengths and limitations of current radar systems, 24th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Savannah, GA: American Meteorological Society, Paper 7B.5. [Available from: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/142180.pdf]

LaDue, D.S., 2008: A Manager's Guide to Improving Written Communication: Leveraging the Commerce Learning Center as a Resource for Learning and Performance, NOAA/NWS Warning Decision Training Branch, 26 pp. [Available from Warning Decision Training Branch, 120 David L. Boren Blvd., Suite 2460, Norman, Oklahoma 73072.]

Gonzalez-Espada, W., & Zaras, D. S. (2006). Evaluation of the impact of the NWC REU program compared with other undergraduate research experiences, 15th Symposium on Education. Atlanta, GA: American Meteorological Society.

Fredrickson, S. E., Heinselman, P. L., Gonzalez-Espada, W., & Zaras, D. S. (2006). Relativity humidity: What do students know about it?, 15th Symposium on Education. Atlanta, GA: American Meteorological Society.

Zaras, D. S. (2005). Activities, findings, and recent developments of the national weather center research experiences for undergraduates program. Paper presented at the 14th Symposium on Education, San Diego, Calif.

Gonzalez-Espada, W., & Zaras, D. S. (2005). Evaluation of the impact of the NWC REU program compared with other undergraduate research experiences, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, American Geophysical Union.

Palmer, M. H., Stevenson, S., & Zaras, D. S. (2000). Student evaluations of the Oklahoma weather center REU program: 1995, 1998, and 1999. Paper presented at the Ninth Symposium on Education, Long Beach, Calif.

Brooks, H., Kay, M. P., Zaras, D. S., Blais, N., & Flickinger, B. (2000). Daily probabilities of severe thunderstorms in the United States. Paper presented at the 12th Conference on Applied Climatology, Asheville, NC.

Caruso, S. J., Rabin, R., Zaras, D. S., & LaDue, J. (2000). A new look at the McCann study of the enhanced-v signature. Paper presented at the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Long Beach, Calif.

Zaras, D. S., & Rabin, R. (1998). Identification and tracking of cold cloud regions in infrared satellite imagery. Paper presented at the 19th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Minneapolis, MN.

Zaras, D. S., Rabin, R., Maddox, R. A., & MacKeen, P. L. (1998). Integration of goes-8/9 and multiple WSR-88D for monitoring long-lived severe convective storms. Paper presented at the 2nd Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, Phoenix, AZ.

Zaras, D. S. (1997). Integrating satellite and radar data to improve severe storm warnings: An important operational problem. Paper presented at the 1st Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, Long Beach, CA.

Scofield, R. A., Zaras, D. S., Kusselson, S., & Rabin, R. (1996). A remote sensing precipitable water product for use in heavy precipitation forecasting, 8th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. Atlanta, GA: American Meteorological Society.

Olander, D. S., Scofield, R. A., Kusselson, S., & Rabin, R. (1995). A remote sensing precipitable water product for use in heavy precipitation forecasting. Paper presented at the Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, MD.

Scofield, R. A., Kusselson, S., Olander, D. S., & Robinson, J. (1995). Combining goes, microwave, model, and rawinsonde moisture data for improving heavy precipitation estimates and forecasts. Paper presented at the 14th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Dallas, TX.

Professional Memberships

American Meteorological Society
American Geophysical Union
National Weather Association
Oklahoma Emergency Management Association
American Evaluation Association