Research

Research Grants

  • Honors College Research Grant, The University of Arkansas “Modern Technology and Its Applications In Severe Weather Information Dissemination”. Principal Investigator, $2,500. (11/15/2004 – 5/14/2005)
  • Honors College Research Grant, The University of Arkansas “Freaky East Wind”. Principal Investigator, $2,700. (2/15/2004 – 8/14/2004)
  • Roland S. Boreham Grant – Proposal to Provide Free Pagers to Volunteer Emergency Responders.  Principal Investigator, $20,000 (February 2003)


Invited Talks

  • “Winter Weather Forecasting:  Pretending to Know What We’re Talking About”. Oklahoma Weather Laboratory (Fall 2007, Fall 2008)
  • “What the Hail?!?:  Severe Thunderstorms and Climate Change”.  Science Café Norman (4 December 2008)
  • Roundtable Discussion. National Weather Service Next Generation Warning Services Workshop (4 December 2008)
  • “A Preliminary Assessment of Future Changes in the Severe Thunderstorm Environment”. Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma (Fall 2008)
  • “Assessment of the Severe Weather Environment of North America Simulated By a Global Climate Model”.  ECE Weekly Seminar, National Center for Atmospheric Research (Fall 2007)


Peer Reviewed Formal Publications – Lead Authored


Conference Preprints

  • Marsh, P.T., H.E. Brooks, and D.J., Karoly, 2007: Assessment of the European severe weather environment simulated by the CCSM3. Preprints, 4th European Conference on Severe Storms, Trieste, Italy, European Meteor. Soc., 2pp.
  • Marsh, P.T., H.E. Brooks, and D.J. Karoly, 2007: An assessment of the severe weather environment of North America simulated by a global climate model.  Preprints, 87th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, San Antonio, Texas, USA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 2pp.


Conference Oral Presentations


Conference Poster Presentations

  • Brooks, H.E., T.E. Thompson, C.M. Shafer, C. Schwartz, P.T. Marsh, A. Kolodziej, N. Dahl, and D. Buckey, 2008: Evaluation of ESTOFEX forecasts: Severe thunderstorm forecasts. 24th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Savannah, GA, USA
  • Brooks, H.E., T.E. Thompson, C.M. Shafer, C. Schwartz, P.T. Marsh, A. Kolodziej, N. Dahl, and D. Buckey, 2008: Evaluation of ESTOFEX forecasts: Lightning forecasts. 24th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Savannah, GA, USA
  • Marsh, P.T., D. Bodine, K.H. Goebbert, C.M. Shafter, and M.J. Laufersweiler, 2008: A student centered, student led, volunteer forecasting organization at The University of Oklahoma. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA, USA
  • Goebbert, K.H., C.M. Shafter, P.T. Marsh, and M.J. Laufersweiler, 2008: A new operational forecasting webpage at The University of Oklahoma. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society,  New Orleans, LA, USA
  • Marsh, P.T., H.E. Brooks, and D.J. Karoly, 2007: An assessment of the future severe weather environment of North America simulated by a global climate model.  NOAA’s 32nd Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Tallahassee, FL, USA
  • Marsh, P.T., H.E. Brooks, and D.J. Karoly, 2007: An assessment of the severe weather environment of North America simulated by a global climate model.  87th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, San Antonio, Texas, USA


Non-peer Reviewed Publications – Sole Authored

  • “History of Tornado Forecasting”. European Meteorological Society’s 2005 Weather Calendar (English, French, German)
  • “A Journey into the Heart of Mother Nature”. 2003 KFSM TV-5 Website
  • “The Makings of a 21st Century Weatherman”. 2000 KFSM TV-5 Almanac