I have been at Kent State University in the Department of Geography since 2000, as Assistant Professor until 2005 and Associate Professor since. I've listed below some of my major accomplishments; further details can be had by clicking on the links above.

Service

• Graduate coordinator, Department of Geography (2006-)
• Climatology minor coordinator (2000-)
• Editor-in-chief, International Journal of Biometeorology (2008-)
• Field editor, International Journal of Biometeorology (2003-2007)
• Ohio Weather Observers Network coordinator (2001-)

Major grants and awards

• Municipal response and public perception of heat-health watch-warning systems: An evaluation of effectiveness
  Principal investigator, US Environmental Protection Agency (2003-2005)
• Climatic influences on the spatial and temporal variability of aerosols over North America
  Co-Principal investigator, National Science Foundation (2004-2006)
• Track 1, GK-12: Inquiry-based approaches to earth system science
  Co-Principal investigator, National Science Foundation (2005-2008)
• A spatial synoptic classification approach to projected heat vulnerability in California under future climate change scenarios
  Principal investigator, California Air Resources Board (2007-2009)
• Distinguished teacher award
  College of Arts and Sciences, Kent State University (2007)

Graduate students

• Completed as advisor/co-advisor
  PhD: Doug Cripe (2004), Jason Senkbeil (2007)
  MA: Tim Dolney (2003), Wes Kent (2004), Paul Butke (2005)
• Current advisees
  MA: Joe Harwood (2007), Wayne Kline (2008), Vanessa Myers (2008), Candace Olszak (2009)
• Committee service
  9 current, 6 graduated

Presentation and Participation

• Colloquium/Seminar/Guest speaker
  West Virginia University (2001), Ohio Weather Symposium (2002), Earth Day KSU (2002), Ball State University (2003), University of Northern Illinois (2005), Wolf Creek Environmental Center (2005), John Carroll University (2006), Cleveland Museum of Natural History (2006), Kent Environmental Forum (2006), Biology Dept. KSU (2007), California University of Pennsylvania (2007), MetroParks serving Summit County (2007)
• Invited participant
  Meeting of PHEWE Heat Stress Watch Warning System group and Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies for Human Health Workshop on Vulnerability to Thermal Stresses group, Freiburg, Germany (2003)
  Heat-Health Watch-Warning System Workshop, Montreal, Quebec (2006)
  Authors' Meeting to Develop Guidelines for Heat-Health Warning Systems, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (2007)

Education

• B.S., Meteorology, Rutgers University (1993)
• M.S., Meteorology, Texas A&M University (1995)
• Ph.D., Climatology, University of Delaware (2000)