Early Career Research Fellow Track 3 (Offshore Energy Safety) - Paul Miller
Implementing Organization
Louisiana State University
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$75,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Fellowships
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Dr. Paul Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University. He is a coastal meteorologist whose research examines thunderstorms and their associated hazardous weather impacts, focused mostly in the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean. Dr. Miller received a B.S. in Meteorology and M.S. in Geography from Virginia Tech, and he subsequently completed a Ph.D. and postdoctoral research appointment at the University of Georgia before joining LSU in January 2019. Upon arrival, he founded and now supervises the LSU Coastal Meteorology (COMET) Lab with an emphasis on improving weather forecasts. The COMET Lab’s recent projects include creating a high-resolution climatological-based forecast of pop-up thunderstorms along the Gulf Coast, an ongoing analysis of the severe weather conditions associated with the April 2021 wreck of the SEACOR Power, and leading the development of a new Gulf of Mexico-centric seasonal hurricane forecast. The latter attracted nationwide media interest shortly after the impact of Hurricane Ida in August 2021. In addition to the COMET Lab’s research activities, Dr. Miller recently served as the weather scientist and forecaster for “Delta-X”, a large NASA-led field campaign along the Louisiana coast in Spring and Fall 2021. Meanwhile, Dr. Miller's classroom instruction, in which he trains students to perform weather modeling experiments based on the Disney movie Frozen, was also the subject of news articles by the Associated Press, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, and a number of other outlets in November 2019.
Contact
Maeesha SaeedNone
msaeed@nas.edu
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