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Dr. Brooks is a research meteorologist and Head of the Mesoscale Applications Group at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma. He grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri. As an undergraduate, he majored in physics and math at William Jewell College, with a year at the University of Cambridge studying Archaeology and Anthropology. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and a M.A. from Columbia University. After graduating from Illinois, he was a National Research Council Research Associate at NSSL and joined the permanent staff there in 1992. During his career, his work has focused on why, when, and where severe thunderstorms occur and what their effects are, and on how to evaluate weather forecasts. In 2002, he received the United States Department of Commerce’s Silver Medal for his work on the distribution of severe thunderstorms in the United States. In 2007, he was part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change group that shared the Nobel Peace Prize and received the NOAA Administrator’s Award for work on extreme weather and climate change. He has been Co-Chief Editor of the American Meteorological Society’s journal, Weather and Forecasting, and is a member of the World Meteorological Organization’s Joint Working Group on Verification and the steering committee of the European Conference on Severe Storms. |
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