Course Taught
UND Professor:
AtSc
535 - Measurement Systems 
Fall
Semester, 2008
UND Professor: Burkina Faso Training Program - Aircraft Instrumentation Short Course
October 1-14, 2007
Professor: AtSc
270 - Computer Concepts in Meteorology
Spring
Semester, 2007 (Graduate Teaching Assistant: Jason Naylor)
Professor:
AtSc
405 - Numerical Methods in Meteorology
Fall
Semester, 2006
Professor:
AtSc
535 - Measurement Systems
Fall
Semester, 2006
Professor:
AtSc
270 - Computer Concepts in Meteorology
Spring
Semester, 2006 (Graduate Teaching Assistant: Derek Blestrud)
Laboratory
Instructor: Introduction to Meteorology
January
1997 to May 1997
Laboratory
Instructor: Engineering Summer Program
June
2-13, 1997
Graduate Committee Advisor
Gokhan Sever: UND
Atmospheric Sciences Master Student
ADPAA Software Developer
Unfunded member of the UND Rocksat project (Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009)
Presentation at UND Graduate School Scholaryly Forum (March 12, 2009)
Participation as aircraft flight engineer in Saudi Arabia Field project (March 13-31, 2009)
Presentation at AGU Spring Meeting (May 24-27, 2009)
Attended the 8th Annual Python in Science Conference (August 18-23, 2009)
Presentation at the 28th Annual Conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research (October 26-30, 2009)
Attended the Droplet Measurement Technology Cloud Condensation Nuclei Workshop (December 10-11, 2009)
David Keith: UND Atmospheric Sciences Maser Student
Participated in Alena Kubatova (Chemistry Department) Air Pollution
Workshop on March 16-17, 2009 by demostrating aircraft instrumentation.
Presentation the 28th Annual Conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research (October 26-30, 2009)
Graduate Committee Member
Dan Adriaansen: UND Atmospheric Sciences Master Student
Timothy Logan: UND Atmospheric Sciences Master Student
Adam Mohs: UND Chemical Enginneering Master Student (Signed Thesis Summer 2008)
Thesis Title: Eliminating Dispersion in Moving Center Sectional Method Aerosol Size Distributions
Bradley Klotz: UND Atmospheric Sciences Master Student (Signed Thesis Summer 2008)
Thesis
Title: Diagnosing Characteristics of Mesoscale Convective Systems
Transitioning off the West African Coast Using NAMMA Observations
Josef Beranek: UND Chemistry Ph.D. Student
David Brown: UND Atmospheric Sciences Master Student (Signed Thesis December 2007)
Thesis Title: Variability in Microsphysical Properties of Mixed-Phase arctic Clouds
Christopher Theisen: UND Atmospheric Sciences Master Student (Signed Thesis May 2006)
Thesis Title: A Study of Relationships between
Tropical Thunderstorm Properties and Corresponding Anvil Cloud Characteristics
Employed Student Research Assistants
Matt Clegg: August 2009 - Present
Aymie Oliver: May 2009 - Present
Presentation at the 28th Annual Conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research (October 26-30, 2009)
Karen Larson: May 2009 - Present
Jon Mason: May 2009 - August 2009
Angelle van Oploo: October 2008 - Present
Peter Johnson: August 2008 - August 2009
Senior Project
Dan Adriaansen: May 2008 - August 2008
Participation in POLCAST2 Field project (Summer 2008)
Dan Koller: May 2008 - August 2009
Poster presented on June 19, 2009 at the WRF workshop
Spring 2009 Senior Project
Robert Mitchel: May 2008 - August 2009
Participation as aircraft flight engineer in POLCAST2 Field project (Summer 2008)
Participation as aircraft flight engineer in Saudi Arabia Field project (March 13-31, 2009)
Spring 2009 Senior Project
ADPAA Software Developer
Matt Ham: April 2008 - May 2009
Participation as radar engineer in POLCAST2 Field project (Summer 2008)
Spring 2009 Senior Project
Kelsey Watkins: January 2008 - August 2009
Participation in POLCAST2 Field project (Summer 2008)
Presentation at 2009 Annual meeting of the AMS
Presentation at UND Graduate School Scholaryly Forum)
Chris Kruse: November 2007 - Present
Participation in POLCAST2 Field project (Summer 2008)
Participated in Alena Kubatova (Chemistry Department) Air Pollution
Workshop on March 16-17, 2009 by demostrating aircraft instrumentation.
ADPAA Software Developer
Attended the 2009 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysics Union (December 16-18, 2009)
Eduation Philosophy
Education
is critical in
today's complex
world. To help people understand our complex world by
contributing to
their education is very rewarding to me. Universities serve a
critical role in the educational process because they deepen
student's knowledge while teaching how to critically analyze and
synthesize that knowledge. I believe the ability to analyze
and
synthesize knowledge is the real value of an educated person.
Enhancing student knowledge and the ability to apply
knowledge to
novel problems is my educational goal. To obtain this goal, I
believe
it is critical to design courses which have planned objectives.
These
objectives denote the knowledge and abilities you want students to
have at the completion of the course. The course design
should utilize
material best suited to achieve the course objectives that have been
set. Class room lectures
and demonstrations aim at teaching one or more of the course
objectives and home work problems give students practice on
mastering the objectives. Student evaluations should be based on
sampling individual students ability to demonstrate that they have
mastered the objectives of the course. Questions and student
collaboration
are very important to the learning process and should be strongly
encouraged. New technology, such as email, web pages
and the Internet, should be used
to enhance the learning process. My teaching interests are in
the
whole spectrum of University education, from undergraduate courses in
atmospheric and environmental science to graduate courses in cloud
physics, aerosols,
and radiation.