Dr. Mike Brown is the state climatologist for Mississippi and a professor of meteorology/climatology in the Department of Geosciences.  His research interests include land-surface-atmosphere interactions and severe local storms, public perception of warnings, tornado damage paths and enhanced convection, lightning probabilities at NCAA stadiums, and thermodynamic characteristics of severe…

Dr. Andrew Mercer is a meteorologist/climatologist whose primary research expertise centers on the application of machine learning/artificial intelligence methods to large-scale meteorological and climatological problems. He has published works in many different meteorological areas, including mountain windstorm forecasting, wind energy forecasting, warm-season…