Research CV

Seminars

• “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)
• “A Preliminary Assessment of Future Changes in the Severe Thunderstorm Environment”. Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma (Fall 2008)

Invited Presentations

• “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)
• “Social Media, VORTEX 2, and Bringing the Two Together: Fundamental Shifts In The Way We Communicate”. American Meteorological Society’s Education Resource Associates Annual Meeting, Norman, OK (30 June 2010)
• “The Future of Severe Weather Information Collection”. 2011 National Severe Weather Workshop, Norman, OK (5 March 2011)

Fundraising and Development

• Worked with FORWARN to raise money to provide severe weather alert pagers to emergency managers (February 2004)
• Established the Forrest W. Johns Memorial Meteorology Scholarship (Spring 2006; University of Oklahoma)

Research Grants

• Honors College Research Grant, 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, 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)

Students Supervised (Primary Advisor)

• Stacey Hitchcock – Summer REU 2010

Students Supervised (Co-Advisor)

• Preston Carter – NOAA Hollings 2009

Peer Reviewed Formal Publications – Lead Authored

• 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. Atmos. Sci. Letters, 8, 100 – 106.
• Marsh, P.T., H.E. Brooks, and D.J. Karoly 2009): Preliminary investigation into the severe thunderstorm environment of Europe simulated by the Community Climate System Model 3. Atmos. Res., doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.09.014

Conference Preprints

• 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.
• 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.
• Brooks, H.E., P.T. Marsh, A.M. Kowaleski, P. Groenemeijer, T.E. Thompson, C.S. Schwartz, C.M. Shafer, A. Kolodziej, N. Dahl, and D. Buckey, 2009: Evaluation of ESTOFEX Forecasts. 5th European Conference on Severe Storms, Landshut, Germany (12-16 October 2009)
• Marsh, P.T., J.S. Kain, S.J. Weiss, I.L. Jirak, R.A. Sobash, F. Kong, K.W. Thomas, M. Xue: Investigating a Fundamental component of a Warn-on-Forecast System in a Collaborative Real-Time Experiment, 2010. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Scharfenberg, K.A., D.L. Andra Jr., P.T. Marsh, K.L. Ortega, J. Brotzge: Tornado Warning Services for Misoscale Circulations in Quasi-Linear Convective Systems, 2010. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Jirak, I.L., S.J. Weiss, C.J. Melick, P.T. Marsh, J.S. Kain, A.J. Clark, M. Xue, F. Kong, K.W. Thomas, 2010: Evaluation of the Performance and Distribution of Hourly Maximum Fields from Storm-Scale Ensemble Forecasts. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Melick, C.J., I.L. Jirak, S.J. Weiss, A.J. Clark, P.T. Marsh, J.S. Kain, M. Xue, F. Kong, K.W. Thomas, 2010: An Environmental Climatology of the CAPS Storm-Scale Ensemble Forecast System During the 2010 HWT Spring Experiment. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Weiss, S.J., A.J. Clark, I.L. Jirak, C. Siewart, R.A. Sobash, P.T. Marsh, A.R. Dean, J.S. Kain, M. Coniglio, M. Xue, F. Kong, K.W. Thomas, J. Du, D.R. Novak, F. Barthold, M.J. Bodner, J.J. Levit, C.B. Entiwistle, R.S. Schneider, T.L. Jensen, 2010: An Overview of the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecast Experiment. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Jensen, T.L., M. Harrold, S.J. Weiss, M. Xue, P.T. Marsh, F.E. Barthold, J.J. Levit, F. Kong, A.J. Clark, B.G. Brown, D.R. Novak, J.S. Kain, R.S. Schneider, and M.C. Coniglio, 2011: The Developmental Testbed Center Objective Evaluation Performed During the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather. 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA (23-27 January 2011)
• Harrold, M., T.L. Jensen, B.G. Brown, S.J. Weiss, P.T. Marsh, M. Xue, F. Kong, A.J. Clark, K.W. Thomas, J.S. Kain, M.C. Coniglio, and R.S. Schneider, 2011: Spatial verification of convective systems during the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment. 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA (23-27 January 2011)
• Bass, E.J, B Hogan, D. Rude, B. Philips, D. Westbrook, C. League, J. Brotzge, P.T. Marsh, R. Riley, L. Lemon (under review). A method for investigating real-time distributed weather forecaster-emergency manager Interaction. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. October 9-12, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska.

Conference Oral Presentations – Lead Author

• Marsh, P.T., 2004: Modern technology and its applications in severe weather information dissemination. 4th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society, Nice, France
• Marsh, P.T., 2007: Assessment of CCSM3 severe weather environment of North America. 11th Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
• Marsh, P.T., H.E. Brooks, and D.J. Karoly, 2007: Assessment of the European severe weather environment simulated by the CCSM3. 4th European Conference on Severe Storms, Trieste, Italy
• Marsh, P.T., D.J. Karoly, and H.E. Brooks, 2008: A preliminary assessment of future changes in the severe thunderstorm environment in North America. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA, USA
• Marsh, P.T., H.E. Brooks, and D.J. Karoly, 2008: A preliminary investigation of severe thunderstorm environment distributions under global warming as simulated by CCSM3. 24th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Savannah, GA, USA
• Marsh, P.T., H.E. Brooks, and D.J. Karoly, 2009: A Preliminary Investigation of Severe Thunderstorm Environment Distributions under Global Warming as Simulated by CCSM3. 7th Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW), Norman, OK, USA
• Marsh, P.T., K.A. Scharfenberg, J. Purpura, M.J. Hudson, S.R. Cobb, M. Britt, F. Glass, C. Sohl, K. Brown, M.C. Coniglio, and L.J. Wicker, 2010: VORTEX 2 Operations Center: Bridging the gap between research and operations. 35th National Weather Association’s Annual Meeting, Tuscon, AZ, USA (2-7 October 2010)
• Marsh, P.T., J.S. Kain, I.L. Jirak, S.J. Weiss, R.A. Sobash, F. Kong, K.W. Thomas, and M.Xue, 2010: Investigating a fundamental component of a Warn-on-Forecast system in a collaborative real-time experiment. 25th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)

Conference Poster Presentations – Lead Author

• 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,/a>
• 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., D. Bodine, K.H. Goebbert, C.M. Shafter, and M.J. Laufersweiler, 2008: A student centered, student led, volunteer forecasting organization at University of Oklahoma. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA, USA
• Marsh, P.T., J.S. Kain, S.J. Weiss, R.A. Sobash, F. Kong, K. Thomas, and M. Xue, 2010: Evaluating the fundamental components of a Warn-on-Forecast system in a collaborative real-time environment. 11th Annual WRF Users Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA (22-24 June 2010)
• Marsh, P.T., K.A Scharfenberg, K. Kelleher, J. Purpura, M.J. Hudson, S.R. Cobb, M. Britt, F. Glass, C. Sohl, K. Brown, M.C. Coniglio, and L.J. Wicker, 2010: VORTEX 2 Operations Center: Bridging the gap between research and operations. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)

Conference Oral Presentations – Coauthor

• Brooks, H.E., P.T. Marsh, A.M. Kowaleski, P. Groenemeijer, T.E. Thompson, C.S. Schwartz, C.M. Shafer, A. Kolodziej, N. Dahl, and D. Buckey, 2009: Evaluation of ESTOFEX Forecasts. 5th European Conference on Severe Storms, Landshut, Germany (12-16 October 2009)
• Weiss, S.J., A.J. Clark, I.L. Jirak, C.J. Melick, C.W. Siewert, R. Sobash, P.T. Marsh, A.R. Dean, M. Xue, F. Kong, K.W. Thomas, J. Du, D.R. Novak, F.E. Barthold, M.J. Bodner, J.J. Levit, C.B. Entwistle, T. Jensen, J.S. Kain, M.C. Coniglio, and R.S. Schneider, 2010: An overview of the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed spring forecasting experiment. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Jensen, T.L., M. Harrold, B.G. Brown, S.J. Weiss, P.T. Marsh, M. Xue, F. Kong, A.J. Clark, K.W. Thomas, J.S. Kain, R.S. Schneider, D.R. Novak, F.E. Barthold, J.J. Levit, and M.C. Coniglio, 2010: An Overview of the Objective Evaluation Performed During the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) 2010 Spring Experiment. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Jirak, I.L., S.J. Weiss, C.J. Melick, P.T. Marsh, J.S. Kain, A.J. Clark, M. Xue, F. Kong, and K.W. Thomas, 2010: Evaluation of the performance and distribution of hourly maximum fields from storm-scale ensemble forecasts. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Melick, C.J., I.L. Jirak, S.J. Weiss, A.J. Clark, P.T. Marsh, J.S. Kain, M. Xue, F. Kong, and K. W. Thomas, 2010: An environmental climatology of the CAPS Storm-Scale Ensemble Forecast system during the 2010 HWT Spring Experiment. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Jensen, T.L., M. Harrold, S.J. Weiss, M. Xue, P.T. Marsh, F.E. Barthold, J.J. Levit, F. Kong, A.J. Clark, B.G. Brown, D.R. Novak, J.S. Kain, R.S. Schneider, and M.C. Coniglio, 2011: The Developmental Testbed Center Objective Evaluation Performed During the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather. 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA (23-27 January 2011)
• Weiss, S.J., A.J. Clark, I.L. Jirak, C.J. Melick, C.W. Siewert, R. Sobash, P.T. Marsh, A.R. Dean, M. Xue, F. Kong, K.W. Thomas, J. Du, D.R. Novak, F.E. Barthold, M.J. Bodner, J.J. Levit, C.B. Entwistle, T.L. Jensen, R. Schneider, J.S. Kain, and M.C. Coniglio, 2011: An overview of the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed spring forecasting experiment. 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA (23-27 January 2011)
• Kloesel, K., A. Kolodziej, P.T. Marsh, C. Taylor, and J. Willis, 2011: Hail to the Weather! Summer weather camps at the Clinton Presidential Library. 20th AMS Symposium on Education, Seattle, Washington, (23-27 January 2011)

Conference Poster Presentations – Coauthor

• Goebbert, K.H., C.M. Shafter, P.T. Marsh, and M.J. Laufersweiler, 2008: A new operational forecasting webpage at University of Oklahoma. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA, 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
• 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
• Jensen, T., S.J. Weiss, J.S. Kain, M. Harrold, B. Brown, M. Xue, F. Kong, P.T. Marsh, M. Coniglio, and R. Schneider, 2010: The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) objective evaluation performed during the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) 2010 Spring Experiment. 11th Annual WRF Users Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA (22-24 June 2010)
• Scharfenberg, K.A., D.L. Andra Jr., P.T. Marsh, K. Ortega, and J. Brotzge, 2010: Tornado warning services for misoscale circulations in quasilinear convective systems. 35th National Weather Association’s Annual Meeting, Tuscon, AZ, USA (2-7 October 2010)
• Scharfenberg, K.A, D.L. Andra Jr., P.T. Marsh, K. Ortega, and J. Brotzge, 2010: Tornado warning services for misoscale circulations in quasilinear convective systems. 25th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Hitchcock, S.M., P.T. Marsh, and H.E. Brooks, 2010: Impacts of varying the integration depth on performance of updraft helicity as numerical guidance for severe thunderstorms forecasting. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Harrold, Michelle, T.L. Jensen, B.G. Brown, S.J. Weiss, P.T. Marsh, M. Xue, F. Kong, A. Clark, K.W. Thomas, J.S. Kain, M.C. Coniglio, and R. Schneider, 2010: Spatial verification of convective systems during the Hazardous Weather Testbed 2010 Spring Experiment. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Clark, A.J., M. Xue, F. Kong, K.W. Thomas, Y. Wang, K. Brewster, X. Wang, S.J. Weiss, I.L. Jirak, C.J. Melick, P.T. Marsh, J.S. Kain, M.C. Coniglio, and J. Du, 2010: Verification of probablistic forecasts for severe weather parameters in the 2010 Storm-Scale Ensemble Forecast System and the operational SREF system. 25th Severe Local Storms, Denver, CO, USA (11-14 October 2010)
• Clark, A.J., M. Xue, F. Kong, S.J. Weiss, I.L. Jirak, C.J. Melick, R. Sobash, P.T. Marsh, A.R. Dean, K.W. Thomas, J.S. Kain, and M.C. Coniglio, 2011: Verification of diurnal cycle characteristics in the CAPS 2010 Storm Scale Ensemble Forecast System. 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA (23-27 January 2011)
• Weiss, S.J., A.J. Clark, I.L. Jirak, C.J. Melick, C.W. Siewert, R. Sobash, P.T. Marsh, A.R. Dean, M. Xue, F. Kong, K.W. Thomas, J. Du, R.S. Schneider, J.S. Kain, and M.C. Coniglio, 2011: The severe thunderstorm forecasting component of the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed spring. 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA (23-27 January 2011)
• Harrold, M., T.L. Jensen, B.G. Brown, S.J. Weiss, P.T. Marsh, M. Xue, F. Kong, A.J. Clark, K.W. Thomas, J.S. Kain, M.C. Coniglio, and R.S. Schneider, 2011: Spatial verification of convective systems during the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment. 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA (23-27 January 2011)

Non-peer Reviewed Publications – Sole Authored

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