ABOUT ME
CV.
Karen Kosiba is the Managing Director of the F.A.R.M. (Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets) Facility and Research Scientist at the University of Illinois. She has a B.S. in Physics from Loyola University, an M.S. in Physics and an M.A.T in Teacher Education from Miami University, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Purdue University.
Karen has always been fascinated by the world around her. As a child she collected caterpillars, built balsa bridges (the prize-winning bridge may still be on display at Homer Jr. High School), took really bad photographs, and stayed up late watching lightning. When she began college, she considered careers in architecture, patent law, and veterinary medicine, but ultimately decided that observational studies of severe weather (somehow) combined all of her interests.
Her research mainly focuses on the kinematics and dynamics of severe convective storms, characterizing the low-level wind structure in tornadoes, and understanding the boundary layer winds and small-scale structures in landfalling hurricanes. Key to her research is executing field projects to collect data that can be analyzed to better understand and predict these hazardous weather events. Additionally, she is passionate about science education, regularly participating in outreach activities at schools, museums, and festivals, and online and through media interviews and consultations.
A strong believer in experiencing weather from the inside of a mobile weather radar, she has participated as a radar operator, project scientist, and project leader in a multitude of field projects, including: Radar Observations of Tornadoes and Thunderstorms Experiment (ROTATE), Hurricanes and Landfall (HAL), Convectively and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS), and the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Thunderstorms Experiment (VORTEX2), Long Lake-Axis-Parallel Lake-Effect Storms Project (LLAP), AgI Seeding Cloud Impact Investigation (ASCII), Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS), Plains Elevated Convection At Night (PECAN), Tornadic Winds: In situ and Radar at Low-levels (TWIRL), SNOWIE (Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: The Idaho Experiment), GRAINEX, RELAMPAGO, WINTRE-MIX, and PERiLS. She has collected data in over 100 tornadoes and has deployed radars in nine hurricanes.
In her free time, she is an avid watcher of British murder mysteries, traveler, yogi, reader, coffee drinker, biker, sleeper, phone photographer, ramen connoisseur, greyhound caretaker, and an obsessive researcher of random products she never ends up buying.
Karen Kosiba is the Managing Director of the F.A.R.M. (Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets) Facility and Research Scientist at the University of Illinois. She has a B.S. in Physics from Loyola University, an M.S. in Physics and an M.A.T in Teacher Education from Miami University, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Purdue University.
Karen has always been fascinated by the world around her. As a child she collected caterpillars, built balsa bridges (the prize-winning bridge may still be on display at Homer Jr. High School), took really bad photographs, and stayed up late watching lightning. When she began college, she considered careers in architecture, patent law, and veterinary medicine, but ultimately decided that observational studies of severe weather (somehow) combined all of her interests.
Her research mainly focuses on the kinematics and dynamics of severe convective storms, characterizing the low-level wind structure in tornadoes, and understanding the boundary layer winds and small-scale structures in landfalling hurricanes. Key to her research is executing field projects to collect data that can be analyzed to better understand and predict these hazardous weather events. Additionally, she is passionate about science education, regularly participating in outreach activities at schools, museums, and festivals, and online and through media interviews and consultations.
A strong believer in experiencing weather from the inside of a mobile weather radar, she has participated as a radar operator, project scientist, and project leader in a multitude of field projects, including: Radar Observations of Tornadoes and Thunderstorms Experiment (ROTATE), Hurricanes and Landfall (HAL), Convectively and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS), and the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Thunderstorms Experiment (VORTEX2), Long Lake-Axis-Parallel Lake-Effect Storms Project (LLAP), AgI Seeding Cloud Impact Investigation (ASCII), Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS), Plains Elevated Convection At Night (PECAN), Tornadic Winds: In situ and Radar at Low-levels (TWIRL), SNOWIE (Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: The Idaho Experiment), GRAINEX, RELAMPAGO, WINTRE-MIX, and PERiLS. She has collected data in over 100 tornadoes and has deployed radars in nine hurricanes.
In her free time, she is an avid watcher of British murder mysteries, traveler, yogi, reader, coffee drinker, biker, sleeper, phone photographer, ramen connoisseur, greyhound caretaker, and an obsessive researcher of random products she never ends up buying.
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