Renee Curry
Summer2008 WAS*IS

My interest in meteorology stems from growing up on a family farm in South Dakota.  I then made the move to Oklahoma to follow my dream of studying meteorology.   For my undergraduate degree, I majored in meteorology with honors (cum laude) at the University of Oklahoma with minors in math and hydrologic science.  I spent six months of my B.S. degree studying at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.    My Master's research at the University of Oklahoma is a continuation of research that began during a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.   This research is a dual-Doppler radar study of a landfalling hurricane (Isabel) that came ashore in North Carolina in 2003.  Two mobile radars, the Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radars (SMART-Rs), were utilized to measure the three-dimensional wind.  These radars collected data of the small-scale structures within hurricanes that can be used in models to improve flood forecasts.

I have also been involved in national and international field projects with these radars.    I have worked on a couple of field projects involving the National Severe Storm Laboratory (NSSL) and will be involved in a large field program named VORTEX-2 in Summer 2009.  In the summer of 2007,  our radar group was involved in the NASA Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling (TC4) project that was based in Costa Rica.

To combine my interests in radar meteorology and the social sciences, I will be teaching a radar workshop this summer (2008) to high school teachers in conjunction with EarthStorm of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.   Attending WAS *IS will help me further understand my career interest in learning how to be an effective liaison between the scientific community and those outside of it.  Outside of meteorology, I love to sing, play golf, read, travel, and spend time with my amazing family and friends.
View my CV --> SOI