Jill Coleman
Summer2008 WAS*IS

As a geographer, I have been very interested in topics that examine the interaction between the physical and social sciences and the WAS-IS workshop is a perfect opportunity for me to improve upon and expand those interests.  My research emphasis is in applied climatology, specifically examining the relationship between the atmospheric environment and the biosphere.  For example, my dissertation focused on human mortality rate changes associated with synoptic scale atmospheric circulation variability in the central United States.  I received my Ph.D. and M.A. from The Ohio State University and B.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, all in geography.  I am now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Ball State University in Muncie, IN where I teach courses on synoptic meteorology, atmospheric thermodynamics, atmospheric hazards, and weather analysis, to name a few.
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