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Appendix G: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix G: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 186-192
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Headquarters, Scott Air Force Base, during 19741975 and received the Award for Meritorious Civilian Service for his contributions to the AWS radar program. He served on the Executive Committee of the International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation from 1988 to 1996, as director of the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium from 1991 to 1996, as a member of the National Research Council's National Weather Service (NWS)
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Theodore Fujita-world famous for his invention of the F-scale used to rate tornadoes. From 1978 to 1999, Forbes was a member of the meteorology faculty at Pennsylvania State University and taught courses in weather analysis, forecasting, hydrometeorology, and natural disasters.
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She has participated in numerous workshops sharing lessons from research on warning systems and flash flooding. Her current research project aims to change how we warn for short fuse events including flash floods and tornadoes to account for new data sources, new technologies, and new urban demographies.
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He is also coeditor of the recent Wiley Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water, and fellow of the AMS, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and Pennsylvania State University and a member of Sigma Xi. Rita Roberts is a project scientist with the Research Applications Program (RAP)
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Her master's research focused on developing techniques for objectively estimating the intensity and wind structure of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and East Pacific basins using microwave sounding data. The intensity estimation algorithm is now being run operationally by NOAA's National Hurricane Center during the tropical season.
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APPENDIX G 191 Academies in March 2002, she has worked on studies involving NEXRAD weather radar, weather modification, climate sensitivity, climate change, and radiative forcings. Liz is currently in graduate school at Johns Hopkins University, pursuing her master's in environmental science and policy.
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