Stensrud earned a B.A. in meteorology and mathematics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . At Pennsylvania State University ( PSU ) he earned M.S. in meteorology in 1985 with the thesis '' On the Development of Boundary Layer Rolls from the Inflection Point Instability '' and in 1992 a Ph.D. with the dissertation '' Southward Burst Mesoscale Convective Systems : An Observational and Modeling Study '' . He joined the National Severe Storms Laboratory ( NSSL ) in 1986 as a research meteorologist and is an adjunct professor at the affiliated University of Oklahoma ( OU ) . He was an inaugural awardee of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers ( PECASE ) in 1996 and was a contributor to the Physical Science Basis portion of Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC , an organisation that was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize . He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society ( AMS ) and a member of Sigma Xi and Chi Epsilon Pi
2007 Nobel Peace Prize
2007 Nobel Peace Prize
David Stensrud