PEOPLE

Director: Professor James B. Elsner.

Research Associate: Dr. Thomas H. Jagger.

Climatek, Inc. Providing weather hazard risk assessment to government and industry.

Cique Studios, Ian J. Elsner

Current graduate students:

Emily Fogarty, Kelsey Scheitlin, Robert Hodges, Jill Malmstadt, Shawn Lewers

Student Theses Directed:

• Jeff Dickey, Flood Forecasting from Basin Elevation Distribution, PhD, 2006.
• Emily A. Fogarty, Variations in Typhoon Landfalls over China, MS, 2004.
• Jefferson Wood, Fluctuations in Hurricane Landfall Frequency Along the East Coast of Florida as a Function of Regional Climate Variability, MS, 2004.
• Brian H. Bossak, Early 19th Century U.S. Hurricanes: A GIS Tool and Climate Analysis, PhD, 2003.
• Ethan J. Gibney, An Assessment of Potential for Economic Loss to Residential Property in United States Coastal Counties from Tropical Cyclones Using a Geographic Information System, MS, 2002.
• Bethany Kocher, Tropical Cyclones and the North Atlantic Oscillation, MS, 2000.
• Marc Cooper, The Association of Human Activities With Land Degradation in the Republic of Botswana, MS, 2000.
• David Whitehead, An Evaluation of Coastal County Hurricane Vulnerability, MS, 1999.
• Matthew M. Carter, A Quantitative Precipitation Forecast Experiment for Puerto Rico, PhD, 1999.
• Kwan-Yin Kong, Landfall and Post-Landfall Structure of Hurricane Danny and the Possibility of Retrieving Vertical Velocity Profiles from Rawinsonde Soundings, MS, 1999.
• Weilin Pan, Fuzzy Neural Approaches to Seasonal Atlantic Hurricane Prediction, MS, 1997 (co-directed with S. Foo).
• Todd B. Kimberlain, Baroclinically-Initiated Hurricanes of the North Atlantic Basin, MS, 1996.
• Matthew M. Carter, Convective Rainfall Regions in Puerto Rico, MS, 1995.
• Jason C. Hess, Improving Seasonal Predictions of Hurricane Activity for the Atlantic Basin, MS, 1994.
• Vincent Robert Tino, A Validation of the Industrial Source Complex (ISC2) Dispersion Model in the Kuwaiti Oil Fire Situation, MS, 1992.