NSSL PECAN Team

Principal Investigators

Conrad Ziegler: PECAN Science Steering Committee, SSC, NSF Principal Investigator, NSSL Principal Investigator, Virtual Site Survey, field deployment of NSSL mobile ground-based facilities, NOAA Aircraft Operations Center Co-Investigator, follow-on scientific research

Ziegler is a long-time leader in basic research at NSSL and has been lead PI on multiple NSF grants that funded major collaborative field programs and innovative analysis projects for collected data. Ziegler’s efforts help fill the gaps in our understanding of fundamental atmospheric processes, providing a foundation for better forecasts and warnings. Contact Conrad Ziegler
David Turner: Science Steering Committee, NSF Co-Investigator, field deployment of CLAMPS mobile profiler, follow-on scientific research

Turner is a physical scientist in the Forecast, Research, and Development Division at the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). He is also affiliated with the University of Oklahoma's School of Meteorology, where he is an adjunct professor. The focus of Turner's research at NSSL is to better understand various processes that act upon and within the boundary layer (e.g., convective initiation, turbulent redistribution of water vapor, aerosol, and energy, etc) so that these processes are better represented within numerical weather prediction and climate models.
Dave Jorgensen: NOAA Aircraft Operations Center Principal Investigator and NSSL Principal Investigator for NOAA P-3 flight hours, follow-on scientific research

Jorgensen helped develop the airborne Doppler radar mounted on the tail of the NOAA P-3 research aircraft. He is an expert in designing airborne field campaigns to study all types of storms.

Co-Investigators, virtual site surveys, forecast support

Mike Coniglio: NSF Co-Investigator, field deployment of NSSL mobile ground-based facilities, follow-on scientific research
Ted Mansell: NSF Co-Investigator, field deployment of NSSL mobile ground-based facilities, follow-on scientific research
Terry Schuur: NSF Co-Investigator, follow-on scientific research, NOAA Aircraft Operations Center Co-Investigator and NSSL Co-Investigator for NOAA P-3 flight hours, follow-on scientific research
Steve Koch: Mission Selectin Team bore science representative; Bore Science Forecasting Team contributing member
Ami Arthur: Virtual site survey
Kiel Ortega: Virtual site survey
Chris Karstens: Field Forecast Support