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Dr. Chris Landsea will be in conference with the WWOL on August 11, 1998, from 8-10 pm EDT. Information on where to sign on and how will be forthcoming.

BACKGROUND
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Dr. Landsea became interested in and learned to respect hurricanes by growing up in South Florida. He is
currently employed as a Research Meteorologist the NOAA/Atlantic
Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory's Hurricane Research
Division.

EDUCATION
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August 1994   Doctoral Degree in Atmospheric Science
              Colorado State University
              Advisor, Prof. William M. Gray 
              Dissertation:  "Climatic Variability of Intense Tropical Cyclones"

May 1991      Master's Degree in Atmospheric Science
              Colorado State University
              Advisor, Prof. William M. Gray
              Thesis:  "West African Monsoonal Rainfall and 
                        Intense Hurricane Associations"

December 1987 Bachelor's Degree in Atmospheric Sciences
              University of California, Los Angeles



RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
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.....Conducting research into the seasonal and climatic 
relationships of Atlantic tropical cyclones, African Sahel 
rainfall and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation.  Results of these 
investigations have been published in the _Bulletin of the 
American Meteorological Society_, _Geophysical
Research Letters_, the _Journal of Climate_, _Weather and 
Forecasting_, _Monthly Weather Review_ and _Weather_.  He is the 
lead author on five of the thirteen refereed articles he and his 
colleagues have published.

.....Spending seven months as a Visiting Scientist at the 
Australian Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre in Melbourne and
 Macquarie University in Sydney.  He investigated the association 
of the Australian monsoon with the tropical cyclones of the 
region.

.....Participating in the Tropical Cyclone Motion-1990 (TCM-90) 
experiment in the Northwest Pacific.  Responsibilities included 
launching rawindsondes in Saipan and monitoring ship observations 
while in Guam.

.....Issuing, with Profs. William M. Gray, Paul W. Mielke, Jr. 
and Kenneth J. Berry, seasonal hurricane and Sahel rainfall 
forecasts and their verifications.  

.....Has flown into nine tropical cyclones including Hurricanes 
Gilbert (1988) and Opal (1995) aboard the NOAA P-3 aircraft and 
into Supertyphoon Flo (1990) aboard the NASA DC-8 jet.



METEOROLOGICAL AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
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.....Invited to be a participant on a World Meterology committee 
to assess state-of-the-art research on tropical cyclones and 
global warming. A report on the findings is to be published in 
the _Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society_ in late 
1997-early 1998.

.....Invited to be a member of the American Meteorological 
Society's Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones
 for the years 1997-1999.

.....Recipient of a NOAA Post-doctoral Fellowship in Climate and 
Global Change for the period 1995-1996.  Postdoctorate research 
was conducted at the NOAA/AOML Hurricane Research Division.

.....Co-recipient of the American Meteorological Society's Banner
 I. Miller Award along with William M. Gray, Paul W. Mielke, Jr.,
 and Kenneth J. Berry for the paper "Predicting Atlantic Seasonal
 Hurricane Activity 6-11 Months in Advance" at the May 1993 
meeting of the 20th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical 
Meteorology.  The award was given for the "best contribution to 
the science of hurricane and tropical weather forecasting 
published during the years 1990 - 1992."

.....Recipient of NASA Graduate Student Fellowship in Global 
Change Research, 1991 to 1994 to support doctoral research while 
at Colorado State University. 

.....Recipient of the American Meteorological Society's Max A. 
Eaton Prize for  the Best Student Paper given at the 19th 
Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in May 1991.


.....Second place in the American Meteorological Society's 
Macelwane Awards (given for undergraduate research papers) for a report "A Quantitative Comparison of Two
 BASIN Lidar Images" in 1986.

.....Honorable mention in the American Meteorological Society's 
Macelwane Awards for my paper "Convective Scale Characteristics 
of a Hurricane during Landfall from WSR-57 Radar Data" in 1984.