Richard B Rood

Professor

Education:

Ph.D., Meteorology, Florida State University
M.S., Meteorology, Florida State University
B.S., Physics, University of North Carolina

Research:

My current research is focused on bridging the study of weather and climate.  I am funded by NASA to study dynamical features as objects and to develop new methods for analyzing climate models.  I am funded by the Department of Energy to study sub-scale mixing processes in climate models.

I teach a class on climate change and the interface of climate change with all aspects of society. This has evolved into a class on problem solving in climate change. This is a graduate class, taught in concert with the School of Natural Resources and Environment. The class includes business students, policy students, as well as students from several science departments. It's cool, and it's the future. Web link below.

 

In addition, I have funding to study urban heat waves, human heat health warning systems, and how to govern open source / open innovation communities.

Doctoral Students:

Erika Roesler
Soner Yorgun

Specializations and Research Interests

• Climate change and business, policy, public health ....
• Climate Modeling
• Stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry modeling
• Data assimilation

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments

• World Meteorological Organization, Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award
• NASA Group Achievement Awards (SOLVE, Forecasting Group, SPADE, AASE)
• NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
• NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal

Professional Service

• Fellow, American Meteorological Society
• Member, American Geophysical Union

Publications

BLOGS

• climatepolicy.org Blogs

  One of several invited participants in an American Meteorological Society forum on climate change policy.

• Weather Underground Blogs

  Wide ranging blogs that are mostly in the spirit of education.

• A searchable database of the Weather Underground Blogs

CLASSES

• Dynamical Meteorology Lectures

• Climate Change Class

  Climate Change: The Move to Action

Selection of Rood's Professional Publications

This selection includes links to the report that was written for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2000. It's an analysis and strategy for organizing climate modeling in the U.S. Some consider it a "computing report," but that's not all the authors intended. There is a PDF of my 1987 advection review and some of the other papers that people seem to ask for.

A Sampling of Prof. Rood's Non-scientific writings

(minor words that give me exaggerated pleasure)

• Lessons of the Storm, Bay Weekly, 2009, Vol. 17
• The Cape Anne Pig and Me, Bay Weekly, 2007, Vol. 15
• Simple Africa, The Survivor, 2006, Vol. 25
• My Father'sTomatoes, Bay Weekly, 2006, Vol. 14
• John McLean, Current Magazine (online)
• Christmas at the 7-Eleven, Bay Weekly, 2005, Vol. 13
• The Keeper, Foreign Service Journal, 2004
• Relics, Faultline, 2003, Vol. 12

If you need a photo, here they are.