Clark Evans Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Colorado, United States

I am a Research Physical Scientist and the Chief of the Physics Branch in the Earth Prediction Advancement Division of the NOAA/OAR/Global Systems Laboratory.

• Lead investigator on $4.8 million in funded research through seventeen awards, including five from the NSF, three from NOAA, and one from the U.S. DOE.• Author of twenty-six papers (plus three more in preparation), including a highly cited review paper on the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones (Evans et al. 2017, Monthly Weather Review), and many research reports.• Mentored eighteen graduate and six undergraduate students, including two recipients of the American Meteorological Society's Father James B. Macelwane Undergraduate Research Award.• Developed and instructed seven courses in synoptic, mesoscale, and tropical meteorology, numerical weather prediction, and an introductory professional-development seminar.• Bridged research and operations needs as part of multiple funded projects.Selected accolades:• 2023 UWM Distinguished Faculty Public Service Award• 2021 UWM Office of Research/UWM Foundation Research Award• 2021 UWM Distinguished Faculty University Service Award• Inaugural Member (2018), American Meteorological Society Early Career Leadership Academy• Editor's Award (2018), Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting

• Collaborate with faculty, students, and staff to develop, execute, and evaluate programmatic initiatives, build and maintain a caring and supportive culture, and facilitate students’ success.• Led targeted student recruitment efforts that increased undergraduate enrollments by 80% between 2016-17 and 2019-20 and maintained these enrollments during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.• Initiated and oversee peer-mentoring programs, an introductory professional-development course, entry-level math course cohorts, and a living-learning community to better facilitate undergraduate student retention.• Developed, implemented, and evaluated Atmospheric Science M.S. and Ph.D. programs that replaced concentrations to Mathematics M.S. and Ph.D. programs that were ill-suited to student training and development.• Supervised and mentored over twenty graduate teaching assistants and ad hoc lecturers who teach non-majors-level Atmospheric Science courses.

Grafton, Wisconsin, United States

I engaged a diverse range of stakeholders to learn from their perspectives on our community and work with other elected Village officials and Village staff to advance our community's best interests. We collectively did this by establishing policy, adopting the Village's annual operating budget, and carrying out other duties defined by Wisconsin Statutes and the Village's Ordinances, including biannual reviews of the Village Administrator. Major achievements included:• Reviewing, revising, and approving the 2024 Village budget, totaling approx. $35,000,000.• Initiating and approving a ~$1.5 million per year referendum for enhanced Fire and EMS services to appear on the April 2024 ballot.• Approving comprehensive-plan changes to facilitate two large multifamily developments and rejecting a comprehensive-plan change to facilitate a third large multifamily development.• Facilitating the siting of a Wisconsin Environmental Mesonet station in the Village in spring 2024.By virtue of my position as a Trustee, I also served on the Village's Board of Public Works, where I collaborated with other board members as well as Dept. of Public Works and Water and Wastewater Treatment staff to develop budgets, review and take action on major contracts, and inform decisions.

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Advanced Study Program.• Conducted research on tropical cyclones over land and mesoscale convective systems.• Co-organized the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Lab's "Dynamics Happy Hour" seminar series.• Participated in the 2010 NSF-sponsored PRE-Depression Investigation of Cloud systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) field campaign.

• Categorized and advanced fundamental understanding of the wind structure transformation that occurs as a tropical cyclone becomes a non-tropical midlatitude cyclone.• Identified the physical processes associated with the thermal structure transformation that occurs as a tropical cyclone becomes a non-tropical midlatitude cyclone.

Taught MET 3520, Current Weather Discussion, to approximately ten undergraduate students.

Assisted the State Climatologist and the Florida Climate Center in developing a climate-focused website (SEAgClimate) tailored to southeastern United States agriculture interests.

Used GPS-derived radio occultations from polar-orbiting satellites to identify cloudy atmospheric layers. I received the American Meteorological Society's 2004 Father James B. Macelwane Undergraduate Research Award, given to the best undergraduate-led original research paper in the atmospheric sciences, in recognition of this research.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Meteorology

Master Of Science - Ms, Meteorology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Meteorology