NSSL Staff Profiles

Addison is a Research Physical Scientist in the Phased Array Radar and Meteorological Analysis Studies Team. His research interests primarily revolve around leveraging phased array …

Tyler is a Research Scientist in CIWRO. His research revolves around increasing the number and quality of observations in the atmospheric boundary layer through innovative …

Kodi is the Program Lead for Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs) at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). Her primary area of research …

Jami's role at NSSL is best summarized as providing "NWS eyes" toward the evolutionary weather radar research ongoing at RRDD, specifically Phased Array Radar. This …

Kelsey is a Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Candidate working with CIWRO and NSSL as part of the Forecast, Assessment, and Social Science Team in …

I like to play with scientific problems I think are interesting. I have a broad liberal arts background, so I tend to think of the …

Matthew is an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NSSL and is a member of the Observations & Processes Team (OPT) within FRDD. He currently uses storm-scale …

Petar is a research scientist at CIWRO. His research primarily focuses on the development / testing of polarimetric radar relations for snow estimation, snow and …

Patrick is the Program Lead for Warn-on-Forecast, a position created in 2020: Growing up in Oklahoma City sparked my passion for convective storms. I attended …

Kristin is a research scientist and Team Lead for the Severe Convective Probability and Impacts Group. She studies a wide variety of topics including probabilistic …

Patrick is the CIWRO team lead for the Severe Convective Probability and Impacts Group. His research efforts focus on the development of Probabilistic Hazard Information …

Jacob is a research scientist and CIWRO lead of the Doppler Radar and Remote Sensing Research team. His research primarily focuses on applications of dual-polarization …

DaNa L. Carlis, Ph.D. is an award-winning meteorologist and serves as the Director at NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). At NSSL, he is responsible …

Vanna is a Research Physical Scientist and Federal Team Lead for the Integrated Sensing Group in the Warning Research and Development Division at the NOAA/OAR …

Dr. Adam J. Clark is a federal research meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in the Forecast …

Corey is the Administrative Officer at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). He supervises the Administrative Services team and is responsible for the oversight of …

Dr. Michael Coniglio is a Research Scientist in the Forecast Research and Development Division (FRDD) of NSSL. Michael's primary responsibilities are to conduct research using …

MRMS expert with extensive expertise and experience in system design, data flow management, processing chains, NetApp, AWS cloud computing, and LDM. She understands the R2O …

Linda has been NSSL’s Financial Management Specialist since 2020.  As FMS, she strives to facilitate lab operations by providing financial administration and management, including performing …

Jilliann is a research associate within the Transportation Applications Team. She joined in November 2022 after completing her M.S. in Atmospheric Science at Texas Tech …

Suzanne is the Program Support Assistant for the Warning Research and Development Division at NSSL. Suzanne is responsible for WRDD's payroll, purchasing, travel, budget, and …

Vicki has been at NSSL since 1996, and manages the NSSL website and all related web properties. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma and …

Thomas is a Research Physical Scientist and Federal Team Lead for the Forecast Applications and Social Science Team in the Forecast Research and Development Division …

I am currently a research meteorologist for National Severe Storm Laboratory (NSSL)/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). I am also affiliated with University of Oklahoma …

Josh is a research scientist at CIWRO/NSSL. His research focuses on developing integrated data products from boundary layer and lower atmosphere observing systems and identifying …

Alan has been the chief of WRDD since 2018, and served as the deputy division chief before that beginning in 2015. He came to NSSL …

Jeremy uses theory and computers to study atmospheric boundary-layer flows, including turbulence modeling, land-surface modeling, parameterization of boundary-layer and surface-layer interactions, and multi-scale numerical weather …

I am a Research Hydrometeorologist with the NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory and an Affiliate Associate Professor with the School of Meteorology, Civil Engineering, and Hydrology …

Brandy is the PSA for Forecast, Research, and Development division at NSSL.  

Kurt began his career as a Research Associate with the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Since 1993 he has …

Kim is a Research Scientist with CIWRO/NSSL and serves as the CIWRO team lead or the Forecast Applications and Social Science Team in the Forecast …

Larry has been the Radar Research and Development Division Chief at NSSL since September 2021 after serving as a National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist for …

Jeff joined the NSSL team in 1997 as a Systems Administrator with the Open Systems group. He has held several positions and roles within the …

Igor holds the role of a research scientist at CIWRO, where his primary focus lies in the exploration and advancement of innovative signal-processing methods tailored …

From 2010 to the present, I have been employed as a Research Scientist at CIMMS / CIWRO as part of the Warn-on-Forecast (WoF) project. I …

Kent is a Research Associate III with CIWRO/NSSL and is a member of the Forecast Applications and Social Science Team in the Forecast Research and …

Kenzie is the Social Science Team Lead for the Behavioral Insights Unit in WRDD. Her research broadly focuses on understanding how people use weather information …

I am interested in understanding how forecasters and emergency managers use radar data and how new radars and radar-based products might impact end-user decision making. …

Tony is a Physical Scientist in the Warning Research and Development Division (WRDD) of NSSL.  He serves as Executive Officer of the NOAA Hazardous Weather …

I have been affiliated with NSSL since starting as a grad student last century (1995). My research has involved substantial development in the numerical cloud …

Steven is a Research Associate at the CIWRO/NSSL and works under the Stormscale Hydrometeorology Group. He is also the CIWRO team lead for the Integrated …

Brian is a Research Associate with CIWRO/NSSL and is a member of the Data Assimilation and Modeling team with the Forecast Research and Development Division …

Linda is a Support Services Specialist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). She has 21 years of combined experience providing administrative and technical support …

The Phased Array Radar (PAR) Technical Lead for the Radar Research and Development Division (RRDD). Previously worked as an Electronics Engineer for the Radar Engineering …

My background is in astrophysics specializing in spectroscopy and computing. I am currently a software developer for the Applied Computing for the Meteorological Enterprise (ACME) …

Christian Moon is the ITS Program Manager at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, where he has been leading a multidisciplinary IT team since 2023. With …

James is the Media Specialist for NOAA NSSL. His areas of expertise are in videography, video editing, photography, photo editing, and media management.

Feng is a research scientist and part of the Advanced Radar Techniques team. His research primarily focuses on 1) developing signal processing algorithms to improve …

Warn-on-Forecast scientist in FRDD since 2012, and adjunct/affiliate faculty member of the OU School of Meteorology since 2014. I work on many facets of thunderstorm …

Dr. Reeves leads the Transportation Applications Team in WRDD.  This is a highly-collaborative team that works cooperatively with partners in operations to develop decision-support tools …

Anthony is the Phased Array Radar R&D Program Lead at NSSL. Dr. Reinhart blends his expertise in computer engineering, severe weather research, and application development. …

Andrew joined the Lab in 2016 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, where his graduate research focused on the mesoscale structures in …

Ben is a Research Scientist in Warning Research and Development Division at NSSL.  He is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor with the School of Meteorology …

Jacob is a CIWRO Research Associate within NSSL's WRDD. His focus has been on developing and utilizing dual-polarization radar algorithms to improve our understanding of …

Justin the social science coordinator for VORTEX-USA program (formerly VORTEX-SE) which brings together meteorologists and social scientists for collaboration on a research program. He engages …

Brandon is a Research Associate at CIWRO/NSSL and is a member of the Stormscale Convection & Radar Team within WRDD.  His research mainly focuses on …

Dr. Elizabeth Smith focuses on low-level atmospheric processes relevant to near- and pre-storm environments and convection initiation. Her expertise is in boundary-layer–to–mesoscale meteorology, observations, and …

Jeff is a research meteorologist and federal lead of the Doppler Radar and Remote Sensing Research team. His primary areas of research are (1) applications …

Dan is a Research Scientist and serves as the CIWRO lead for the Observations and Processes Team. He specializes in the collection, processing, and analysis …

Derek is a CIWRO research scientist on the Data Assimilation and Modeling Team within NSSL's FRDD working on the Warn-on-Forecast project. His current research generally …

Lin is a research scientist at the CIWRO/NSSL and a member of the Stormscale Hydrometerology Group. Her research and work focus on improving radar data …

Zach joined NSSL as a Systems Administrator in 2018 with 6 years of multi-platform experience. Since then, he held the position of Program Manager for …

Sebastián leads the Advanced Radar Techniques team and has 26+ years of experience conducting research and development of innovative signal processing and advanced remote-sensing techniques …

Daniel has been with the Transportation Applications Group (TAG) since January 2020. His research is primarily focused on developing decision-support tools for transportation related forecasts. …

Melisa Wagner is a Research Scientist with CIWRO and drone pilot (Remote Part 107) since 2017. Her research focuses on better characterizing severe storm impacts …

Adam is a research associate on the Transportation Applications Team. Adam joined NSSL in 2022 after completing his M.S. at North Carolina State University. While …

I have a broad set of research interests which generally are focused on numerical analysis, simulation, and forecasts of severe convection and tornadoes. My original …

Arthur is a research meteorologist in the Phased Array Radar and Meteorological Analysis Studies Team. His primary areas of research include radar-based identification of large …

Nusrat is a Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Severe & High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO) and NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory …

Noah is an engineer and researcher for the Radar Engineering and Development team.

Jian is a research meteorologist at the NSSL and the Federal team lead for the Stormscale HydroMeteorology Group. She is the lead scientist for the …

Dr. Conrad Ziegler is a Research Meteorologist in the Forecast Research and Development Division (FRDD) of NSSL. Conrad's primary responsibilities are to conduct research using …