Mike Madden
Graduate Teaching Assistant
President of MEAS Graduate Student Association
Jordan Hall 4134
Bio
Mike Madden is from Carterville, Missouri, a town on Route 66 that’s a couple of miles away from Joplin.
Interests:
- Heavy precipitation and summertime thunderstorms
- Air pollution science
- Numerical modeling
- Science policy and advocacy
- Graduate student engagement and support
- Piano performance and composition
- Radio broadcasting
- Trivia and quiz bowl
Mike has been a/an:
- Global Change Fellow of the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Student Senator
- Executive board member of the NC State Graduate Student Association
- Adjunct physics faculty for Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Missouri
- Host of a science news and commentary show on KSUA 91.5 FM, Fairbanks, Alaska
- Weather forecaster for KCOU 88.1 FM, Columbia, Missouri
Mike is currently:
- On the March for Science national operations committee (i.e. helps manage social media)
- President of the MEAS Graduate Student Association
- On the MEAS Department social and seminar committees
- Going to Washington, D.C. to learn more about science policy and visit Congressional staff
Education
B.S. Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences University of Missouri - Columbia 2012
M.S. Atmospheric Sciences University of Alaska - Fairbanks 2014
Study Abroad Meteorology University of Reading - U.K. 2011
Missouri Fine Arts Academy Music, Piano Performance Missouri State University 2007