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NAC MembersStephanie Adams
Brian Argrow
Affiliation: University of Colorado at Boulder Chris Brown
Affiliation: NOAA Christopher Fairall
Affiliation: NOAA OAR ESRL Brian Gross
Affiliation: NOAA OAR GFDL Steven Koch
Affiliation: NOAA OAR ESRL Sharon LeDuc
Jim Meagher
Affiliation: NOAA OAR Craig McLean
Affiliation: NOAA OAR Jack Snoeyink
Affiliation: UNC Chapel Hill |
Dr. Stephanie G. Adams is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Adams is an
honors graduate of North Carolina A&T University,
awarded the Master of Engineering degree from the
University of Virginia, and received her Ph.D. in
Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M
University in 1998. Her research interests include
Team Effectiveness, Collaborative and Active
Learning, Engineering Education and Pedagogy, and
Quality Control and Management. In 2003 she
received the prestigious CAREER award from the
National Science Foundation to support her goal of designing, developing and
validating a model for the facilitation of effective teaming in the engineering
classroom and for the enhancement of learning. Dr. Adams is the recipient of
numerous awards for teaching, mentoring and service.
Prof. Brian Argrow is a professor of aerospace engineering and director of the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles at the University of Colorado. Over the last decade, Dr. Argrow has contributed to the development of a quiet supersonic airplane and conducted research on unmanned aerial vehicles, including leading students in the design of a Tornado Chaser aircraft with the National Severe Storms Laboratory. He also is a member of CU’s President’s Teaching Scholars Program, which brings a select group of faculty together to discuss the scholarship of teaching. As a faculty member with a passion for teaching, he co-led an overhaul of the aerospace engineering curriculum to incorporate a greater emphasis on active learning. 
Dr. Christopher Brown received his Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. He is currently a member of the Center for Satellite Applications and Research, a Visiting Associate Research Scientist with the Cooperative Institute of Climate Studies, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. Dr. Brown uses remote sensing to address and understand biological patterns and their biogeochemical consequences in the global ocean. His primary research interest includes the remote detection of algal blooms in coastal waters and the global ocean, and predicting Sea Nettles, harmful algal blooms, and pathogens. He and several of his colleagues recently were awarded the Department of Commerce's Gold Medal for delivering operational satellitederived ocean biology products that support the need for forecasting and monitoring coastal and ocean water.
Dr. Christopher Fairall is a Supervisory Physicist with NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Physical Science Division. His current research includes air-sea-ice interactions, boundary-layer processes, clouds, optical/radio propagation in the atmosphere, and instrumentation/measurement techniques. Dr. Fairall received his PhD degree from Michigan State University. Current research projects include: Measuring, parameterizing, and modeling atmospheric surface fluxes during SHEBA; shipboard measurements of cloud-radiative properties in the tropical western Pacific: Honors and awards: Member of the Science team for the NASA First ISSCP Regional Experiment (FIRE-III); Member of the ARM Science Team Executive Committee, chairman of the ARM Tropical Western Pacific Science Advisory Committee; Member of the PACS/EPIC2001 executive committee; Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
Dr. Brian Gross is the Deputy Director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, NJ. He received his Ph.D. In Atmospheric Science in 1989 from the University of Colorado, with an emphasis on mountain meteorology. After serving as a postdoc at NASA/GSFC and GFDL, Dr. Gross became a NOAA employee in 1993. He built the first version of the nonhydrostatic model now being used to study hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin, was the technical lead on the GFDL Supercomputer procurement in 2000, and led the Modeling Services group at GFDL. He became the GFDL Deputy Director in 2003. He focuses now on NOAA supercomputing (as a member of the NOAA HPC Board) and NOAA Program development.
Dr. Steven Koch serves as the Director of the ESRL Global Systems Division. Previously, he was Chief of the Forecast Research Division of the Forecast Systems Laboratory. Prior to 2000, Dr. Koch was a tenured Associate Professor at North Carolina State University. He began his professional career as a Research Meteorologist at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, where he served from 1980 – 1993. He is the author or co-author of numerous journal articles on the subjects of numerical weather prediction and data assimilation, radar and wind profiler applications, gravity wave dynamics, the diagnosis and prediction of turbulence, scientific data visualization, operational forecasting techniques, and other topics in the fields of satellite and mesoscale meteorology. He also serves as the Technical Monitor for the NOAA ISET Cooperative Science Center. 
Sharon LeDuc holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Missouri. She has been the Deputy Director for NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center since 2001. She also served on an assignment to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory for 13 years. While there she managed the technology transfer of air quality model into operations. Dr. LeDuc has received numerous awards for her outstanding work including two Department of Commerce Gold Medals and a Bronze Medal, two Bronze Medals from the EPA, and a NOAA Administrator’s Award. She has also taught/advised as adjunct at a number of colleges and universities.
Dr. James (Jim) Meagher is the Deputy Director of the ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, and also NOAA Air Quality Matrix Program Manager. He received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Catholic University of America, and prior to coming to NOAA, he was at the Tennessee Valley Authority for 22 years ending as Manager of the Atmospheric Sciences Division of the Environmental Research Center. Dr. Meagher’s research interests are in atmospheric chemistry - airborne and ship-based field studies, smog chamber studies, gas kinetics, photochemistry.
Craig McLean is the deputy for NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research programs and administration. He is responsible for daily operations and administration of NOAA’s research enterprise, and the execution of NOAA programs including the Climate program, National Sea Grant, and Ocean Exploration. He has previously served in NOAA as Executive Officer of the National Ocean Service, and was the founding Director of NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration. McLean served in uniform for nearly 25 years, retiring from NOAA’s Commissioned Corps in the grade of Captain after service at sea, underwater, and in operational, legal, and marine resource management positions. McLean served aboard hydrographic, oceanographic, and fisheries research ships and was the first commanding officer of NOAA’s largest fisheries research vessel, the 224-foot Gordon Gunter. He has been awarded the Departmental Silver and Bronze Medals, the NOAA Corps Commendation Medal, Special Achievement Medal, and recognized as the NOAA 2005 Senior Leader of the Year.
Jack Snoeyink is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Snoeyink’s received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1990. He served for eight years on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia. He joined UNC-Chapel Hill as a full professor in the 1999-2000 academic year. His research area is in the design and analysis of computer algorithms for problems best stated in geometric form. These arise in many application areas, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), molecular modeling, and computer graphics. Jack has contributed to the mathematics of how computers can represent and compute with shape and geometric structure.