Mark Bourassa

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Mark Bourassa

Bourassa Photo Assistant Professor in Meteorology

Rm. 234

(850) 644-6923 phone
(850) 644-4841 fax

I was born in Portland, Oregon; however, I lived in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 1969 through 1990. My undergraduate degree was in Physics and my Master of Sciences in Meteorology are both from the University of Alberta. The subject of the M.Sc. thesis was consistent with Alberta's climate: a risk analysis of wet snow accretion on transmission lines. During the year following graduation, I worked as a research assistant at the University of Alberta's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, studying marine ice accretion. An interest in air-sea interaction was pursued at Purdue University from fall 1990 to 1993, where I completed a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences. The thesis involved the development of physically consistent wave and flux parameterizations in an air-sea interaction model. This research was furthered as an ONR Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Delaware's College of Marine Studies. I joined the Center for Oceanic-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University in 1996, where I am currently applying satellite remote sensing to studies of air-sea interaction. In Tallahassee I met my future wife, Tiffanie, and we were married in 1998.

My research interests include modeling of the atmospheric and aqueous boundary layers as well as large-scale applications of these models. Specific small-scale interests include fluxes at low and moderate wind speeds, the influence of atmospheric stability on wave characteristics, and coupling aqueous and atmospheric boundary layers. Large-scale interests include El Niño Southern-Oscillation and the tropical general circulation.