Mark Allan Bourassa

Education | Professional Experience | Activities and Honors | Memberships

Education

• Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences (Tropical Meteorology)

  Purdue University
  August 1990 - January 1994

• Masters of Science in Meteorology

  University of Alberta
  September 1986 - May 1989

• Bachelors of Science (spec) in Physics

  University of Alberta
  September 1981 - May 1985

Professional Experience

• Department of Meteorology and COAPS

  Florida State University: Associate Professor
  2008 - Present

• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute (GFDI) Associate

  2004 - Present

• Department of Meteorology and COAPS

  Florida State University: Assistant Professor
  2002 - 2008

• Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies

  Florida State University: Research Associate
  1996 - 2002

• College of Marine Studies, Univ. of Delaware: Postdoctoral Fellow

  1994 - 1995

• Purdue University: Research Asst./Teaching Asst.

  1990 - 1993

• University of Alberta: Research Assistant

  1988 - 1990

Activities and Honors

• Ocean Vector Wind Science Team: Team Leader

  2008 - Present

• US CLIVAR Working Group on High Latitude Surface Fluxes Co-Chair

  2008 -Present

• Associate Editor Journal Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

  2007 - Present

• NASA Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TCSP) science team

  2005 - Present

• NOAA Expert Team on the State of the Ocean

  2005 - Present

• SEAFLUX Working Group

  2005 - Present

• Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic Systems (SAMOS) Working Group

  2005 - Present

• Next Vector Winds Mission Science Working Group

  2003 - 2004

• AMS Committee on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere

  2003 - 2006

• Co-chair for QuikSCAT Surface Truth

  1998 - 2005

• Ocean Vector Winds Science Team, NASA/OSU QuikSCAT mission

  1998 - Present

• Science Working Team, NASA NSCAT mission

  1996 - 1999

• ONR Ocean Science Postdoctoral Fellow

  1994 - 1995

Memberships

• American Geophysical Union

• American Meteorological Society

• IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society

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