Daniel J. Brouillette Email & Phone Number

Lafayette, In, Us

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

I am a member of the computer programming and development team in the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC), which is part of the Regional Climate Center system of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). MRCC is tasked with providing value-added, customized climate data and information for a variety of audiences in the Midwest, mainly via the Web. I am also involved with the co-located Indiana State Climate Office, which provides similar climate data and information for Indiana, and Purdue Mesonet. I collaborate with other programmers/developers as well as computer scientists, software engineers, and scientific and service staff toward providing day-to-day operational and custom climate products and services and fulfilling the obligations of long-term funded contracts and grants. Specifically, my role involves development of robust, extensible object-oriented code in Python and MySQL and online visualization tools in Tableau and other media; maintenance and debugging of legacy codes written in FORTRAN, Perl, HTML, Javascript, and other languages; analysis of weather and climate data-sets; and support of center's data servers and its Web site that is housed in a cloud-like, composable containerized system.

State College, Pennsylvania, United States

A member of the research faculty in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, I supported the activities of Michael E. Mann's research group, served as Associate Director of the Penn State Earth Science System Center (ESSC), and taught METEO 469 ("From Meteorology to Mitigation: Understanding Global Warming") and METEO 815 ("Applied Atmospheric Data Analysis").

Tallahassee, Florida Area

I was immersed in the full range of day-to-day operations of the Florida Climate Center, which is a unit within the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) at the Florida State University that functions as Florida's state climate office.

University Park, Pennsylvania

I was engaged in federally funded research activities under the advisement of Michael E. Mann related to reconstruction of precipitation and drought in the contiguous United States over the last 1500 years using the Regularized Expectation Maximization (RegEM) algorithm and paleoclimatic proxies.

University Park, Pennsylvania

I led, with a co-teaching assistant, two laboratory sections of the METEO 440W course, Principles of Atmospheric Measurements, which also serves as the department's primary writing-intensive course. I prepared short lectures to motivate laboratory activities, tended to classroom laboratory equipment, assisted students one on one with laboratory activities and independent projects, graded written open-response laboratory reports, and conducted office hours.

Norman, Oklahoma

I performed research for a project entitled “Quantifying changes in extreme precipitation at Houston and Oklahoma City by 2041-2065 using the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM)" and participated in activities aimed at professional development in research and development and the atmospheric sciences.

Master Of Science, Atmospheric Science

Bachelor Of Science, Meteorology, Applied Mathematics (Minor), 4.0

I was graduated Summa Cum Laude with University Honors, having completed a senior thesis under the direction of David Changnon entitled.

Diploma, With Honors, 3.98

I was graduated in the top one percent of the 2009 graduating class comprising 451 pupils.