Stephen Jascourt Email & Phone Number

College Park, Maryland, United States

Managing the contract program for ERT at the NOAA National Weather Service NCEP Climate Prediction Center!

Gaithersburg, Md

Continuation of previous position... MDA Information Systems LLC reorganized into Maxar, and for a while my position was under the Radiant Solutions business line until being rebranded simply as Maxar. I led scientific development and provided scientific insight, ideas, and methodologies for a fantastic team which provides weather-related and climate-related services, products, and data to the energy, agriculture, and financial sectors globally, helping customers meet operational… Show more Continuation of previous position... MDA Information Systems LLC reorganized into Maxar, and for a while my position was under the Radiant Solutions business line until being rebranded simply as Maxar. I led scientific development and provided scientific insight, ideas, and methodologies for a fantastic team which provides weather-related and climate-related services, products, and data to the energy, agriculture, and financial sectors globally, helping customers meet operational challenges and reduce risk.I created a best-of-the-science solar generation and irradiance forecasting system based on first principles and which won third party forecast intercomparisions and contracts. The team expertly implemented my development into an operational workflow which delivers real-time forecasts to a variety of customers and my forecast system contributed to one of the Department of Energy's Solar Forecasting II projects on using probabilistic solar power forecasts to improve integrating solar power into the electric grid and help regional transmission operators manage the grid.This position was an excellent growth opportunity which allowed me to learn and expand my expertise into areas of renewable energy and other industry applications of weather and climate and gain experience interfacing with interdisciplinary customers who have wide-ranging interests and backgrounds.Also, Maxar facilitated technological growth, as we were already moving to a cloud environment before the COVID-19 pandemic. Computation and development became cloud-based and Agile and we became adept at working fully remotely as a team. Show less

Gaithersburg, Md

We deliver cutting-edge forecasting and risk management services for the wind energy sector. My job is to further improve those and other services. I will be developing new methods of post-processing model output to optimize the information tailored for clients.

Served as a subject matter expert (SME) for UCAR’s COMET Program, an acclaimed meteorological training program which has delivered >450K hours of online training in the last four years- As one of two Project Leads/SMEs, developed online training program containing >70 online modules and > 130 hours of online training for National Weather Service operational forecasters on effectively utilizing numerical weather prediction (NWP) data to improve their forecasts- Co-led… Show more Served as a subject matter expert (SME) for UCAR’s COMET Program, an acclaimed meteorological training program which has delivered >450K hours of online training in the last four years- As one of two Project Leads/SMEs, developed online training program containing >70 online modules and > 130 hours of online training for National Weather Service operational forecasters on effectively utilizing numerical weather prediction (NWP) data to improve their forecasts- Co-led teams of internal and external meteorologists, instructional designers, graphic artists, and web programmers to coordinate the NWP production process- Monitored the new model development and changes to existing models in order to assess, plan and anticipate NWS training needs - Effectively bridged the technical gaps between model developers and field forecasters Show less

- Used a state-of-the-art nonhydrostatic mesoscale model to perform scientific experiments investigating the organization and upscale development of thunderstorm complexes and published the experimental design and results in doctoral dissertation- Created a Lagrangian parcel model which included diabatic heating functions and inhomogeneous background states; using the model, investigated parcel dynamics in presence of frontogenesis, inertial instability, and the formation of nocturnal… Show more - Used a state-of-the-art nonhydrostatic mesoscale model to perform scientific experiments investigating the organization and upscale development of thunderstorm complexes and published the experimental design and results in doctoral dissertation- Created a Lagrangian parcel model which included diabatic heating functions and inhomogeneous background states; using the model, investigated parcel dynamics in presence of frontogenesis, inertial instability, and the formation of nocturnal low-level jets- Investigated and published a paper on the ramp to chaotic behavior of discrete nonlinear dynamical systems and their relationship to continuous nonlinear dynamical systems- Conducted observational analyses of convective-symmetric instability case and published paper- Many other meteorological analyses- Extensive advanced coursework Show less

Atmospheric Science

Atmospheric Science

Meteorology

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology