Bonnie Brown | About Me

Who am I?

I grew up in Berkeley, CA and moved to Seattle, WA in 2005 to attend the University of Washington. My life-long interest in weather and climate, the environment and natural disasters led me to the atmospheric sciences department. I completed the major and graduated in three years. Along the way, I was awarded several undergraduate merit scholarships, the Atmospheric Sciences Achievement Award and membership to the national honors society Phi Beta Kappa. In Autumn 2008, I began my graduate studies in the same department. My first year of graduate studies was generously funded by an American Meteorological Society Industry/Gov't Fellowship sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Energy.

What do I do now?

After taking core classes full time during my first year of graduate school, I began work on research with my adviser, Prof. Greg Hakim and am now in my fifth year. My main research focus is predictability and structure of hurricanes, as well as data assimilation concepts and ensemble techniques applied to hurricane forecasts. I am also involved in running numerical models, specifically the WRF-ARW and CM1 models, in connection with these topics. See and read much more about this on my research page. I have also been a teaching assistant for ATMS 101: Weather, am a member of the UW American Meteorological Society Student Chapter, and am involved in the atmos department's K-12 outreach program.

Outside of the University, I practice yoga regularly and am an avid knitter, as well as a Mariners baseball season ticket holder.

Curriculum Vitae - updated June 2013

Refereed Publications

Brown, Bonnie R. and Gregory J. Hakim, 2013
"Variability and Predictability of a Three-Dimensional Hurricane in Statistical Equilibrium"
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 1806-1820, doi:10.1175 JAS-D-12-0112.1

About Me

Who am I?

What do I do now?

Curriculum Vitae - updated June 2013

Refereed Publications

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