Speaker: Dr. Paul Markowski, Professor of Meteorology, Associate Head, Graduate Program, Pennsylvania State University |

Seminar Title: How to Make a Tornado: Ideas Emerging from Decades of Theory, Simulation, and Field Observations |

Abstract: I will discuss how scientific “storm chasing,” computer simulations, and theory have helped meteorologists better understand and predict tornadoes, and what challenges remain. |

Bio: Paul Markowski is a Professor of Meteorology at the Pennsylvania State University, where he most often studies severe convective storms and teaches classes related to mesoscale meteorology or atmospheric convection.  He is a recipient of the American Meteorological Society’s Meisinger Award and Editor’s Award, the National Weather Association’s Fujita Award, the European Severe Storms Laboratory’s Dotzek Award, and is a Fellow of the AMS.  He co-organized the Second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX2), has co-authored a textbook (Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes), and served as Chief Editor of the Journal of Weather and Forecasting until he could convince Gary Lackmann to take over.  He used to play a lot of baseball and now plays a lot of golf.