Mountain meteorology, thermally-driven flows, boundary-layer, snow and ice processes, glaciology, instrumentation.

Graduate Research Fellow,  U.S. Department of Energy, Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship.   1999-2000.

Graduate Research Assistant,  NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction,Department of Meteorology, University of Utah.   1998-1999.

University of Nevada, Reno       Geography, B.S.  1995

The Role of Slope Flows on the Evolution of Cold Air Pools in Basins. 1999

Sierra Nevada wind flow in Yosemite National Park in cooperation with the National Park Service. 1997-1998

Obtained funding for and designed and implemented research on mountain and valley wind studies of the Sierra Nevada. 1994- 1998

Established a network of 7 weather stations from Mono Basin to Tioga Pass,California, both automated and manual. One was California's highest observer based stations. 1995

UNIX, C, FORTRAN, Instrumentation including the use and installation of remote meteorological towers, AIR Tethersondes, Campbell Scientific data loggers, pibals, computer cartography.

• Clements, C. B. (1999)"Mountain and Valley Winds of Lee Vining Canyon, Sierra Nevada, California, U.S.A." Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, vol. 31( 3), pp. 293-302.

• Clements,C.B. (1998)"Some Observations of Mountain and Valley Winds in the Sierra Nevada." Preprints, Eighth Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Flagstaff, AZ, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 1998.

• Clements, C. B. "Wind and Temperature Structure of Yosemite Valley, California." To be submitted to Physical Geography.

American Alpine Club Research Grant, from The Arthur K. Gilkey Memorial Research Fund. 1998

• 3rd Place Student Paper, Climate Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting , Boston, MA 1998

• Graduate Student Research Scholarship, Air & Waste Management Association, Eastern Sierra Chapter. 1998

• 2nd Place Student Paper, California Geographic Society. 1997

• University of Nevada Undergraduate Research Scholarship. 1994

Presentations:
 
 

"The Role of Slope Flows on the Evolution of Cold Air Pools in Basins", at the Association of Pacific Coast
  Geographers Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada. 1999

"Some Observations of Mountain and Valley Winds in the Sierra Nevada." Eighth Conference on Mountain  Meteorology,Flagstaff, AZ, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 1998.

"Observations of Mountain and Valley Winds of the Sierra Nevada."Association of American Geographers Annual
  Meeting, Boston, Mass. March 25-29, 1998

"Air Flow and Climate Along the East Slopes of the Sierra Nevada"Department of Geography 1997 Colloquium Series.
  October 15, 1997

Research report at the NWSFO, Reno, NV. 1997

"Lee Side Winds in Lee Vining Canyon" A.M.S., Northern Nevada Chapter. 1997

"Observations of the Mountain-Valley Wind Regime of Lee Vining Canyon, Sierra Nevada" California Geographic
  Society, Ukiah, California. 1997

"Winter Temperature and Wind Variations of an Eastern Sierra Canyon", at the Association of Pacific Coast
  Geographers Annual Meeting, California State University, Sonoma. 1995

 

Founded the University of Nevada Student Geographic Society 1993
Founded  Students of the Alpine and Mountain Sciences (in developement)  1997

Teaching assistant for Mountain Geography, University of Nevada, Reno 1997
Teaching assistant for Climatology, University of Nevada, Reno 1998
Tutor for geography and geology at the University of Nevada Academic Skills Center 1995

American Meteorological Society, Northern Nevada Chapter
American Geophysical Union
Air & Waste Management Association, Eastern Sierra Chapter
Association of American Geographers
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers
California Geographic Society
Mono Lake Committee