Curriculum Vitae

STEVEN LAZARUS

University of Utah

Meteorology Department Work Telephone

Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (801) 585-9480

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D Meteorology University of Oklahoma Fall 1996
Dissertation: The assimilation and prediction of a Florida multicell storm using single-Doppler data

M.S. Meteorology University of Oklahoma Fall 1990

Thesis: The influence of helicity on the stability and morphology of numerically simulated storms

B.S. Meteorology Florida State University Fall 1985

HONORARY SOCIETIES, AWARDS, & EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

AMS Salt Lake City chapter president 2000-2001
Mentor for a Salt Lake City Homeless Shelter child, 1997-present
Allan Saxe Scholarship recipient 1988
Alpha Epsilon Lambda Society
Student Development Award of Excellence
Recognition for contributions made to OU as chair of Graduate Student Senate

UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES

University of Oklahoma Graduate Council 1989-1990,1992-1993,1993-1994
University of Oklahoma Graduate Student Senate 1988-1991: 1989-1990 Vice-Chair 1990-1991 Chair
Human Diversity Coordinator - National Association of Graduate and Professional Students,(1991-1993).
OU Publications Board (1990-1991)
Geoscience Dean search committee (1992-1993)
Vice President for Student Affairs search committee (1991)
Provost search committee (1991-1992)
Student Health Insurance Committee (1992)
OU Norman/Health Sciences Reciprocity Committee (1992)
Student Support Services advisory committee on Human Diversity (1993)
Graduate Faculty Membership committee (1993)
New Sooner Orientation (1993,1994) * Panelist:
A Society of Competing Issues" 1993 Conference on "The place of Race in a Global Society"
OU Graduate College Banner carrier for Investiture Ceremony (Fall 1995)
Earthstorm Science Fair judge (Spring 1995)
University of Utah 2000, student recruitment.
University of Utah 2000-2001, College Research Faculty Representative.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Math, physics, and meteorology tutor for undergraduate students 1993-1996.
Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education, Summer Youth Academy - Summer 1991, Summer 1992.
Pre-Collegiate programs, instructor for meteorology workshops 5th-12th grades, 1992-1996.
University of Utah 1997-2000, have taught a portion of the following courses:
     Climate Change
     Atmospheric Chemistry
     Mesoscale/Boundary Layer Meteorology
     Cloud System Modeling
     Synoptic Meteorology

WORK HISTORY

Research Faculty, University of Utah 10/99 - present
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Utah, 1/97 - 9/99
Research Assistant (Ph.D), University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology, 1/91 - 12/96
Research Assistant (M.S.), University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology, 8/86 - 12/90
Research Assistant at Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis Ms., 1/86 - 8/86
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Florida State University, 1/84 - 12/85
Undergraduate fellowship, University of Chicago Summer 1984

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES/CURRENT FUNDING

Analysis of the Planetary Boundary Layer over an Urban Valley
Vertical Transport and Mixing Experiment (VTMX). Co-PI, NOAA grant.

Development and Testing of a Life Cycle Model and a Parameterization
of Thin Mid-level Stratiform Clouds. ARM/DOE grant.

Operation Center Coordinator - VTMX project Salt Lake City October 2000.

Field Volunteer Coordinator - VTMX project Salt Lake City October 2000.

Collaborating with NCEP, using MRF single column model

Olympic support work (near real-time analyses)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Droegemeier, K.K., S.M. Lazarus, and R. Davies-Jones, 1993: The influence of helicity on numerically simulated convective storms. Mon. Wea. Rev., 121, 2005-2029.

Lazarus, S. M., A. Shapiro, and K. D. Droegemeier, 1999: Analysis of the Gal-Chen Single Doppler Velocity Retrieval. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 16, 5-18.

Lazarus, S. M., S.K. Krueger, and G. G. Mace, 2000: A cloud climatology of the Southern Great Plains ARM CART. J. Climate. (Accepted August 1999)

Lazarus, S. M., A. Shapiro, and K. D. Droegemeier: Application of the Gal-Chen/Zhang single-Doppler velocity retrieval to a deep convective storm. J. Atmos. Sci., (ACCEPTED August 2000).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Ciliberti, C.M., John D. Horel, and Steven M. Lazarus:, 1999: An analysis of a cold frontal passage over complex terrain in northwest Utah. Preprints, Eighth Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Boulder Colorado, Amer. Met. Soc., 459-462.

Janish, P.R., M.L. Branick, K.K. Droegemeier, M. Xue, K. Brewster, J. Levit, A. Sathye, R. Carpenter, A. Shapiro, V. Wong, Y. Liou, D. Wang, H. Jin, X. Song, D. Weber, S. Lazarus, G. Bassett, M. Zou, N. Lin, and L. Sun, 1994: Evaluation of the Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) for storm scale operational forecasting during VORTEX '94. Abstract, 1994 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 5-9 December, San Francisco.

Krueger, S. K., S. M. Lazarus, G. G. Mace, and K. Sassen, 1997: Structure of a continental stratocumulus-topped boundary layer observed by aircraft and cloud radar. Preprints, 12th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Vancouver, B. C., Canada, Amer. Met. Soc., 66-67.

Krueger, S. K., and S. M. Lazarus, 1998: Intercomparison of multi-day simulations of convection during TOGA COARE with several cloud-resolving and single-column models. Proceedings of the Eighth Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting, Tucson, Arizona , DOE, (in press).

Krueger, S. K., and Lazarus, S. M., 1998: Intercomparison of multi-day simulations of convection during TOGA COARE with several cloud-resolving and single-column models. Proceedings, CLIVAR/GEWEX COARE98 Conference, Boulder, CO, WCRP, 351-352.

Krueger, S. K., and S. M. Lazarus, 1999: Intercomparison of multi-day simulations of convection during TOGA COARE with several cloud-resolving and single-column models. Preprints, 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 643-647.

Lazarus, S.M. and K.K. Droegemeier, 1988: Simulation of convective initialization along gust fronts. Preprints, 15th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Feb. 22-26, Baltimore, 107-110.

Lazarus, S.M. and K.K. Droegemeier, 1990: The influence of helicity on the stability and morphology of numerically simulated storms. Preprints. 16th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Kananaskis Provincial Park, Alberta Canada, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 269-274.

Lazarus, S.M., J. D. Horel, and C. M. Ciliberti, 2000: Wind analysis in complex terrain. 9th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Aug. 7-11, Snowmass Village, CO.

Lazarus, S.M., C. M. Ciliberti, and J. D. Horel, 1998: Application of a local analysis system in highly variable terrain. 16th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Jan. 11-16, Pheonix.

Lazarus, S.M., S. K. Krueger, and G. G. Mace, 1998: A cloud climatology of the ARM SGP CART. Proceedings of the 8th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting, Mar 23-27, Tucson, AZ, 413-416.

Lazarus, S.M., S. K. Krueger, and S. A. Frisch, 1999: An evaluation of the Xu-Randall cloud fraction parameterization using ASTEX data. Preprints, 13th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Dallas, TX, Amer. Met. Soc., 582-585.

Lazarus, S.M., S. K. Krueger, and S. A. Frisch, 1999: An evaluation of the Xu-Randall cloud fraction parameterization using ASTEX data. Proceedings of the Ninth Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team meeting, San Antonio, Texas, DOE. Extended abstracts on-line.

Lazarus, S.M., M.E. Splitt, C.M. Ciliberti, and Mark Miller, 1999: Application of a cloud/mesoscale analysis system to estimate hydrometeor advection over the SGP ARM CART. Proceedings of the Ninth Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team meeting, San Antonio, Texas, DOE. Extended abstracts on-line.

Shapiro, A. and S.M. Lazarus, 1993: A modified dynamic recovery technique for cloud-scale numerical models. Preprints, 17th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Oct. 4-8, St. Louis, 455-459.

Shapiro, A., K.K. Droegemeier, S. Lazarus, and S. Weygandt, 1994: Forward variational four-dimensional data assimilation and prediction experiments using a storm-scale numerical model. Proc., Int. Symp. on Assimilation of Observations in Meteor. and Oceanography, 13-17 March, World Meteorological Organization, Tokyo.

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