Ryan N. Maue
Department of Meteorology
Center for Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction Studies
Florida State University
Email: rmaue at met.fsu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate Meteorology, in progress 2005-present
Degree completion expected Fall 2009
The Florida State University, Department of Meteorology
Advisor: Mark A. Bourassa
Committee: X. Zou, V. Misra, R. Hart, K. Speer
Dissertation: Warm Seclusion Extratropical Cyclones
Hours completed: 200 [Aug 2002-Aug 2009] GPA: 3.979

M.S. Meteorology, November 2004
The Florida State Univeristy, Department of Meteorology
Advisor: Dr. James J. O'Brien
Thesis: Evolution of Frontal Structure Associated with Extratropical Transitioning Hurricanes

B.S. Atmospheric Science, summa cum laude .
College of Engineering, Department of Atmosphere, Ocean, and Space Sciences
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2002. Engineering GPA 3.97

A.B History, high distinction .
College of Literature, Arts and Sciences, Department of History
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2002. Liberal Arts GPA 3.66

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

NASA Earth System Science Graduate Fellowship, 2006 - 2009 (FSU)
FSU Summer Graduate Student Scholarship (Summer 2008)
AMS Global Climate Change Scholarship / Travel Grant (Seattle 2004, 84th Annual Meeting)
FSU College Teaching Fellowship (2003)
Chi Epislon Pi Meteorology Honor Society (FSU, 2003)
Phi Beta Kappa (UMICH, 2002)
UMICH AOSS/Engineering Department Undergrad Award (spring 2002)
UMICH LSA History Scholarship (summer 2001)
UMICH Branstrom Freshman Prize (spring 1999)
UMICH Honors Program Sophomore Award (spring 2000)
UMICH Dean's List (multiple)

CONFERENCES

AMS Annual Meetings: Seattle 2004, Atlanta 2006, San Antonio 2007, New Orleans 2008, Phoenix 2009
AMS Tropical Conference: Monterey 2006, Orlando 2008
AMS WAF/NWP: Washington DC 2005, Park City UTAH 2007
Cyclone Workshop: Monterey CA 2006, Quebec 2008
AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco 2007, 2008
1st Hurricanes Summit, Crete, Greece 2007
NASA Ocean Vector Winds, Seattle 2008, August 2009

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & SEMINARS

MS Thesis Defense Seminar. Frontal structure associated with extratropical transitioning hurricanes
Florida State Univ. Dept. of Meteorology, Nov. 11, 2004

ONR Naval Research Laboratory Summer Intership Seminar: Hurricanes and Trough Interactions (Talk)
Naval Resarch Laboratory, Monterey, CA August 2005

27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology 24-28 April 2006, Monterey CA (Talk)
Hurricanes Ivan, Jeanne, Karl (2004) and Midlatitude Trough Interactions (w/Peng, Reynolds, Langland) Ex Abstract

27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology 24-28 April 2006, Monterey CA (poster)
Warm seclusion cyclone climatology (w/R.Hart) Abstract

21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction Aug 2005, Washington, DC (poster)
Warm-seclusion extratropical cyclone development: Sensitivity to the nature of the incipient vortex (w/R.Hart) Ex Abstract

1st International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change 27-30 May 2007, Crete, Greece (poster)
Using reanalysis datasets for tropical cyclone intensity trends. (w/R.Hart) Conference Program

Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Dec 2007, San Francisco, CA (poster)
Using Normalized Anomalies to classify extratropical/tropical interactions (w/R.Hart)

28th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology April 2008, Orlando FL (Talk)
Historical Northern Hemisphere Tropical cyclone inactivity during 2007 Recorded Presentation

22nd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 18th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction June 2007 Park City, Utah (talk)
Midlatitude-tropical intrusions and extrusions: territory invasion. (w/R.Hart)

14th Cyclone Workshop 21-26 September 2008 Sainte-Adele, Quebec, Canada (talk)
Warm seculsion extratropical cyclones Program PPT

Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference, 89th Annual AMS Conference, 2009, Phoenix AZ (poster)
Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone activity Abstract

Scatterometry and Climate, NASA Ocean Vector Winds Arlington VA, 19-21 August 2009 (invited talk)
Aspects of global tropical cyclone energy metrics

Collaborator:

Third WCRP International Conference on Reanalysis, 28 Jan- 1 Feb 2008 Tokyo, Japan
Tropical Cyclones within reanalyses: Evolving representation, trends, potential misuse, and intriguing questions. R.E. Hart, D. Manning, M. Fiorino, R.N. Maue

28th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology April 2008, Orlando FL
Estimating the atmospheric and SST memory of tropical cyclones. R.E. Hart, R.N. Maue and M. Watson

Proceedings of the Tropical Meteorology Special Symposium. New Orleans, LA 2008
Estimating local memory of tropical cyclones through MPI anomaly evolution. R.E. Hart, R.N. Maue, and M. Watson

1st International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change 27-30 May 2007, Crete, Greece (poster)
The atmospheric/oceanic memory of tropical cyclones and their aggregate role in modifying climate. R.E Hart, R.N. Maue, M. Watson, L.F. Bosart, and C. Hosler

Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Dec 2007, San Francisco, CA
The atmospheric/oceanic memory of tropical cyclones and their aggregate role in modifying climate. R.E Hart, R.N. Maue, M. Watson, L.F. Bosart, and C. Hosler

INTERNSHIPS & WORKSHOPS

ASP Summer Colloquium, "The Challenge of Convective Forecasting", National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 10-21 July 2006
Office of Naval Research: Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program (NREIP) Monterey, CA NRL Monterey (2005, 2007)
TPARC-08 Field Campaign Dry Run (Sep 2007)
TPARC-08 Field Campaign NRL Invite w/R. Langland (Aug 2008)

COURSEWORK

Fall 2002: Partial Diff Equations (Hunter), Dynamics I (Barcilon), Tropical Meteorology II (Krish), Physical Oceanography (Weatherly)
Spring 2003: Dynamics II (Ahlquist), Synoptic Lab II (Cunningham), Air-Sea Boundary Layer (Bourassa)
Summer 2003: Time Series (Ahlquist)
Fall 2003: Large Scale Circulations (Zou), Satellite Remote Sensing (Liu), Tropical Meteorology I (Krish), Synoptic Dynamic Met (Cunningham)
Spring 2004: Objective Analysis (Zou)
Fal 2004: Midlatitude Weather Systems (Cunningham), Dynamical Weather Prediction (O'Brien), Antarctic Science (Oceanography; Speer)
Spring 2005: Dynamical Oceanography (Dewar), Fluid Mechanics Lab (Oceanography; Ruby Krish)
Fall 2005: Satellite Oceanography (Clayson), Prelim Doctoral Exam, Ocean Waves (Oceanography; Clarke)
Summer 2006: Advanced Hurricanes (Zou, Hart, Krish, Reasor) Prospectus Defense
Fall 2006: Numerics Earth Environmental Science w/Matlab (Computer Science)
Spring 2008: Numerical Weather Prediction (Zou), Equatorial Dynamics (Oceanography; Clarke)
Announced Retirement from Classes (April 30, 2008)
Directed Independent Study
QuikSCAT Scatterometry Winds (M. Bourassa, Spring 2004)
Extratropical Transition Studies (R. Hart, Summer 2004)
Time Series Squared (J.J. O'Brien, Summer 2004)
Warm Seclusions (Spring 2005)
Extreme Warm Seclusions (Fall 2005)
Tropical Cyclones and Climate (Spring 2007)

Literature w/my Name

M.S. Peng, R.N. Maue, C.A. Reynolds, and R.H. Langland, 2007: Hurricanes Ivan, Jeanne, Karl (2004) and mid-latitude trough interactions, MAP. 10.1007/s00703-006-0254-z.

R. N. Maue and R. E. Hart, 2007: "Comment on "Low frequency variability in globally integrated tropical cyclone power dissipation". Geophys. Res. Lett, 2006GL028283.

Hart, R., R. N. Maue, and M. Watson, 2007: Estimating the local memory of tropical cyclones through MPI anomaly evolution. Mon. Wea. Rev.

Bourassa, M. A., R. N. Maue, S. R. Smith, P. J. Hughes, and J. Rolph, 2007: Global Winds: State of the Climate in 2006. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, A. Arquez, H. D. Diamond, F. Fetterer, A. Horvitz, and J. M. Levy, American Meteorological Society, Vol. 88 (6), 135 pp.

Langland, R. H., R. N. Maue, and C. H. Bishop, 2008: Uncertainty in Atmospheric Temperature Analyses. Tellus A . 60 (4), 598-604.

Maue, R. N., 2009: Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Activity. Geophys. Res. Lett., (in press, Jan 2009) 2008GL035946

Maue, R. N., 2009: Reconciling metrics of recent global tropical cyclone activity. Geophys. Res. Lett. Submitted.

Maue, R. N., 2010: Warm seclusion extratropical cyclones. Part I: Global climatology. Mon. Wea. Rev. Manuscript to be submitted

Maue, R. N., 2010: Warm seclusion extratropical cyclones. Part II: Mature warm core structure. Mon. Wea. Rev. Manuscript to be submitted

Maue, R. N., 2010: Warm seclusion extratropical cylcones. Part III: Predictability and Energetics. Mon. Wea. Rev. Manuscript to be submitted

Media Coverage of Research

Tropical Cyclone Activity Update
Fox News Channel: Special Report with Brit Hume, October 29, 2007
USA Today, November 12, 2008 Article
Watt's Up With That? Anthony Watts - March 12, 2009: Global Hurricane Activity has decreased to lowest level in 30 years.
Treasure Coast Palm News: Editorial Board - August 1, 2009: Thumb up: Will Hurricane streak continue -- in a good way?
Houston Chronicle SciGuy: Eric Berger - August 31, 2009: Erika likely to form. But where are the other storms?
Watt's Up With That? Anthony Watts -- August 2009: NOAA Lowers Hurricane Season Outlook
CNN.com by Brandon Miller -- October 8, 2009: Is El Nino behind spate of Pacific Typhoons? -- CNN.com
DrudgeReport Link -- October 30, 2009: Atlantic Hurricane Season slowest since 1997; Global tropical cyclone activity near 30-year lows...
Houston Chronicle: Eric Berger -- November 1, 2009: As tropical storms ebb, climate debate kicks in Slow hurricane season for U.S. was the same across the globe, scientists say

Research Websites

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