(Born 1958). Geoscientist. Meteorologist. Associate Professor, Meteorology, Regents’ Professor of Meteorology, Roger and Sherry Teigen Presidential Professor, Director, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma. Kelvin K. Droegemeier earned a B.S. with Special Distinction in Meteorology in 1980 from theUniversity of Oklahoma, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric science in 1982 and 1985, respectively, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the direction of R.Wilhelmson. He joined the University of Oklahoma in September, 1985 as an Assistant Professor of Meteorology, and was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in July, 1991, and promoted to Professor in July, 1998. Dr. Droegemeier was co-founder in 1989 of the NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS), and served for several years as its deputy Director. He then became the Director of CAPS in 1994. In 1998, Dr. Droegemeier was named a President’s Associates Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma, and for 2 years, beginning in summer 1999, wrote a daily weather science column for the Daily Oklahoman. He was awarded a Regents’ Professorship at OU in fall, 2001, a life-long title. In 2003, Dr. Droegemeier cofounded the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) and currently serves as its deputy Director. He is the only person in the nation to have co-founded an NSF Science and Technology Center and an NSF Engineering Research Center. In 2004, he was awarded the Roger and Sherry Teigen Presidential Professorship and became the first OU Professor to receive two Presidential Professorships.
In 1987, Dr. Droegemeier was named a Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation. As Director of the CAPS model development project for [over] 5 years, he managed the creation of a multi-scale numerical prediction system that has helped pioneer the science of storm-scale numerical forecasting. This computer model was a finalist for the 1993 National Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing. In 1997, Dr. Droegemeier received the Discover Magazine Award for Technology Innovation (computer software category), and also in 1997 CAPS was awarded the Computerworld Smithsonian Award (science category). Droegemeier also is a recipient of the NSF Pioneer Award and the Federal Aviation Administration’s Excellence in Aviation Award.
After 12 years of operation, CAPS has made considerable progress toward achieving its principal goal, namely, demonstrating the capability to predict high-impact, local weather using numerical models initialized with data from Doppler radars and other high-resolution observing systems. As expected, the fruits of this extensive work were most visible toward the end of the 11-year NSF base funding period, and particularly in 1999, when CAPS made a pioneering storm-scale forecast of the May 3 tornado outbreak in central Oklahoma. Never before had a numerical model been initialized with Doppler radar data and used to predict a particular storm at high spatial resolution. Indeed, when the proposal to establish CAPS was written, many in the scientific community questioned whether such forecasting was theoretically possible. CAPS not only showed that it is, but also demonstrated the capability in real time. The results were shown in a Congressional Briefing and during Congressional Testimony later in the summer. The URL for more information on the OU CAPS is http://www.caps.ou.edu/ .
From http://www.coeitt.net/coeitt/summit.pdf
Dr. Droegemeier has been a major force behind the development and application of high performance computing systems both at OU and across the US. In 1989 and 1990, he chaired the OU Computing Advisory Committee and was the lead author on a 5-year strategic plan. He has served on numerous NSF High Performance Computing and Communication panels and is a member of the NCSA User Advisory Committee. In 1995 he created as principal investigator, and now directs, a $1.4 million NSF/OU project known as the Environmental Computing Applications System. He served on the National Science Foundation’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the OU Supercomputer Center
for Education and Research (OSCER), which he helped establish.
Dr. Droegemeier has been an invited speaker at or organizer of several international conferences and symposia on meteorology, high-performance computing, and computational fluid dynamics in the U.S., England, Japan, Australia, Korea, and France, notably the series of Joint US-Korea Workshops on Storm and Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Prediction, which he initiated in the mid 1990s. He has authored and co-authored nearly 60 refereed journal articles and over 200 conference publications, and is a former Vice President of the Central Oklahoma Chapters of the American Meteorological Society and National Weather Association. He also is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Norman, OK Chamber of Commerce and chaired the Weather and
Climate Team for Governor Brad Henry’s EDGE (Economic Development Generating Excellence) Program.
Biography, http://www.etecok.com/nedc/kelvind.pdf
Dr. Droegemeier’s personal website address is http://weather.ou.ed … ulty/droegemeier.htm.
Home page: http://kelvin.ou.edu/
Curriculum Vita: http://kelvin.ou.edu/Full_Vita.pdf
http://www.caps.ou.e … files/kelvinvita.doc
http://kelvin.ou.edu/prosevitae.pdf
Faculty webpage, University of Oklahoma. “Kelvin Droegemeier, Director, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, Regents’ Professor of Meteorology,” http://weather.ou.ed … ulty/droegemeier.htm
Kelvin K. Droegemeier and David Jahn. Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma. “Research Efforts in the US and Collaborations with Asia toward Storm-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction,” http://rossby.metr.o … k/AMON/v1_n1/KD.html
Transcript. NOVA, “Hunt for the Supertwister,” http://www.pbs.org/w … ts/3107_tornado.html. Aired on PBS March 30, 2004.