David
A. Braaten, Associate Professor
Program Faculty
David
A. Braaten, Associate Professor
Address:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
Telephone: (785) 864-3801
Fax: (785) 864-5262
e-mail address: braaten@ukans.edu
Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, University of California - Davis
Dissertation: "Particle resuspension and associated coherent structures
in a turbulent boundary layer"
Research Interests: Snow accumulation, snow transport dynamics and snow surface feature formation in polar regions; Atmospheric boundary layer turbulence and fluxes; Aerosol dynamics, including interactions with surfaces; Instrumentation development for the investigation of ice sheet and meteorological processes in remote areas.
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Dr.
Donna Tucker, Assistant Professor
e-mail address: tucker@phoenix.phsx.ukans.edu
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B.S., Atmospheric Science, Cornell University.
M.S. and Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University.
Past positions include research meteorologist at the U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory at White Sands Missile Range and teaching meteorology part time at New Mexico State University. Also, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Creighton University.
Research Interests: Numerical modeling and mesoscale precipitation systems.
Other activities: Principle Investigator on an equipment grant from the National Science Foundation and has also received a grant from COMET. She is currently on the Board of Meteorological and Oceanographic Education of the American Meteorological Society and the Nominating Committee of the National Weather Association.
e-mail address: brunsell@ku.edu
Visit Dr. Brunsell's webpage: http://www.people.ku.edu/~brunsell/
B.S., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico
Ph.D., Biometeorology, Utah State University.
Research Interests: Emphasis in Remote Sensing,
Land-Atmosphere Interactions, and Micrometeorology.
Curtis Hall,
Instructor