in polarimetric radars, mobile radars, cloud physics and electrification, tropical cyclones (hurricanes), severe local storms, and storm dynamics. He is the Director of the SMART radar program at OU. Howard Bluestein, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, Professor University of Oklahoma specializes in violent weather phenomena and provides expertise with Doppler weather radar. He is a professor in meteorology. Donald W. Burgess, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, Scientist at CIMMS. David Dowell, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Jeffrey Frame, Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, expert in severe convection. Katja Friedrich, Scientific PI, Associate Professor, University of Colorado. Karen Kosiba, Scientific PI, is a senior research meteorologist at the Center for Severe Weather Research. Timothy P. Marshall, P.E. is a damage analyst with a background in civil/structural engineering and meteorology. Paul Markowski, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, associate professor in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, specializes in severe storm dynamics. Matthew Parker, Scientific PI, Mobile Soundings Coordinator, Associate Professor of meteorology at North Carolina State University. Specializes in the dynamics of convective storms, including tornadic supercells and mesoscale convective systems (MCSs). Erik N. Rasmussen, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, VORTEX2 co-PI, Atmospheric Scientist and VORTEX1 field director, Rasmussen Systems. Yvette Richardson, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, associate professor in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, specializes in severe storm dynamics. Glen Romine, Scientific PI, Project Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Paul Robinson is a senior research meteorologist at the Center for Severe Weather Research. Roger Wakimoto, Scientific PI, Director National Center for Atmospheric Research. Chris Weiss, Scientific PI, Associate Professor, Texas Tech University. Louis Wicker is a research scientist with a specialty in modeling of severe storm dynamics. He was also a co-team leader in VORTEX1. National Severe Storms Laboratory. Joshua Wurman Steering Committee, Scientific PI, VORTEX2 PI, president at the Center for Severe Weather Research with a specialty in mobile Doppler weather radar, invented and leads the Doppler On Wheels (DOW) program. Smaller projects Other smaller field projects include the previously mentioned SUB-VORTEX (1997–98) and VORTEX-99 (1999), and VORTEX-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) (2016-2019). See also TOtable Tornado Observatory (TOTO) TWISTEX References External links – Scientific Program and Experimental Design overviews NSF press release for VORTEX2 Information on the VORTEX1 project VORTEX-99 NSSL VORTEX2 profile Earth Observing Lab project profile (NCAR) VORTEX1 by David O. Blanchard Tornado Alley, a documentary featuring VORTEX2 researchers Severe weather and convection Meteorology research and field projects Tornado