Dr. Cooper will present on factors to consider when making a seasonal forecast for this area in spring and summer. How these variables will play out for this year’s forecast, and lastly how climate change is now playing a role in any seasonal predictions.
Dr. Kevin A. Cooper was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio and graduated from Central Catholic High School. He then attended Northland College, an environmental college in Ashland, Wisconsin. He studied Meteorology with a minor in Physics and went on to graduate Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree. While completing college work, he was an intern at Toledo-11 News in the weather department for one summer.
Kevin pursued a Master’s degree entering the Atmospheric Sciences department at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, where he worked as a research assistant. He completed his Master’s degree in Meteorology and was the first author of a paper that was termed “Numerical Simulations of Transitions in Boundary Layer Convective Structures in a Lake Effect Snow Event,” which was published in the journal Monthly Weather Review in September 2000.
Kevin was hired as a full-time mathematics and science faculty member at National American University in Rapid City where he taught various mathematics and science courses for approximately ten years. He then took on an assistant dean position at Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs. He worked on Ph.D. research while in Colorado and completed his dissertation defense and earned a Ph.D. in Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences in 2017.
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