CV – Greg McFarquhar

Greg McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 120 David L. Boren Blvd, Norman, OK, 73072

Email: mcfarq@ou.edu, phone: (405)325-3041, fax: (405)325-3098

Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0950-0135

Educational Background

B.Sc. (Honors), Mathematics & Physics, University of Toronto, 1987
M.Sc., Atmospheric Physics, University of Toronto, 1989
Ph.D., Atmospheric Physics, University of Toronto, 1993

Academic Positions since Final Degree

Postgraduate Researcher, Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1993-1994
Associate Scientist, Microscale and Mesoscale Meteorology Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 1995-1997
Project Scientist, Microscale and Mesoscale Meteorology Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 1997-2001
Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2001-2005
Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2005 – 2009
Visiting Professor, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2012
Visiting Faculty Fellow, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 2015-16
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2009 – 2017
Director, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, 2017 – 2021
Director, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO), University of Oklahoma, 2021 – present
Professor, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2017 – present

Publications

222 publications in the refereed literature (Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Climate, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Water Resources Research, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Monthly Weather Review, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Reviews of Geophysics, Icarus, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Journal of Advances in Modeling the Earth System, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Weather and Forecasting, Journal of Hydrometeorology
H-index of 62 (google scholar)
13,225 citations (google scholar)

Grants:

Principal Investigator for 9 National Science Foundation Grants (~$4.6 million awarded)
Principal Investigator for 10 Department of Energy Grants (~$3.0 million awarded)
Principal Investigator for 10 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Grants (~$3.2 million awarded)
Principal Investigator for 1 National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Grants (~$360,000 awarded)
Principal Investigator on 3 Grants from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (~$120,000 awarded)
Principal Investigator on 2 NSF facility grants (Facilities awarded: NCAR C130, Sounding and surface facilities, dropsondes)
Principal Investigator on 1 DOE facility grants (Facilities awarded: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program’s Mobile Facility and Aerosol Observing System)
Principal Investigator on 2 University of Illinois Research Board grants (~$33,000 awarded)
Principal Investigator on 1 grant from private industry (~$14,000 awarded)
Investigator on 8 allocation requests from the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) or National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) (~14.3 Million GAUs awarded)

Major Leadership Positions:

President, International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (2021 – present)
Vice President, International Association of Meteorological Education and Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 – present
Vice President, International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (2016 – 2021)
Member, International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (2012- present)
Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar (2008 – 2011)
Head, American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Cloud Physics (2007-2012)
Chief Scientist for the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program’s Aerial Facilities (AAF), 2003-2010
Lead Scientist for Following Field Programs: ISDAC, SOCRATES and MARCUS for cloud microphysics probes on ORACLES, PECAN, RACORO and BAMEX, and for aircraft on CLASSIC and ESCAPE

Editorships:

Chief Editor, American Meteorological Society Monographs (2015 – present)
Co-Editor, Ice Formation and Evolution in Clouds and Precipitation: Measurement and Modeling Challenges, American Meteorological Society Monograph (2015 – 2016)
Guest Editor, Special Issue on 2012 International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Atmospheric Research (2013 – 2014)
Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2010 – present)
Associate Editor, Journal of Climate (2009 – 2017)
Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Meteorology (2004-07)
Guest Editor, TCSP Special Issue, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (2004-2006)

Special Awards and Honors:

Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2020)
Fellow, American Meteorological Society (2017)
UI List of Teachers ranked Excellent by their Students (fall 2002, spring 2003, fall 2003, fall 2005, fall 2007, fall 2008 (2 classes), fall 2009, fall 2010, fall 2011 (2 classes), spring 2012, fall 2013, fall 2014, spring 2015, spring 2017
National Center for Atmospheric Research Advanced Study Program Faculty Fellowship (2014-2015)
Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar (2008 – 2011)
Petit Scholar (2005-06)
NASA Group Achievement Award 2002, 2009, 2014
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Graduate Student Prize (1993)

Conference Chair:

American Meteorological Society Conference on Cloud Physics (2010)
Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Aerial Vehicle Program (DOE ARM AVP) Conference on Advances in Airborne Instrumentation for Measuring Aerosols, Clouds, Radiation and Atmospheric State Parameters (2008)

Panels and Committees:

Member, NCAR Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division Advisory panel (MMM, 2015 to 2022)
Member, NCAR Observing Facilities Assessment Panel (OFAP, 2012 to 2017)
Member, Working Group on Climate Engineering, International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (2013)
Chair, American Meteorological Society Committee on Cloud Physics (2007 to 2012)

Field Campaigns:

Investigator in 35 Field campaigns including: Cold-Air outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region (CAESAR, 2024), Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS, 2020, 2022, 2023), Experiment of Sea Breeze Convection Aerosols Precipitation and Environment (ESCAPE, 2022), Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine BOundary Layer (COMBLE, 2019-20), Southern Ocean Clouds Radiation Aerosol Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES, 2018), Cloud, Aerosol and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI, 2018/19), Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation and Clouds over the Southern Oceans (MARCUS, 2017/18), Observations of Aerosols above Clouds and their Interactions (ORACLES, 2016/17/18), Olympic Mountain Experiment (OLYMPEX, 2015), Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN, 2015) High Ice Water Content (HIWC, 2014/15) Profiling of Winter Storms (PLOWS, 2009/10), Small Particles in Cirrus (SPARTICUS, 2009/10), (RACORO, 2009), Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC, 2008), Cloud-Land Surface Interaction Campaign (CLASIC, 2007), Gulf of Mexico Aerosol Cloud Composition Study (GoMACCS, 2006), NASA African Multidisciplinary Monsoon Analysis (NAMMA, 2006), Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE, 2006), Tropical Convection and Systems Processes (TCSP, 2005), Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE, 2004), Alliance Icing Research Study II (AIRS-II, 2003), Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortices Experiment (BAMEX, 2003), Convection and Moisture Experiment-4 (CAMEX-4, 2001), Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX, 1999), Texas-Florida Underpass Experiment-A (TEFLUN-A, 1998), (SUCCESS, 1996), Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment (CEPEX, 1993), Canadian Atlantic Storms Program-2 (CASP-2, 1992), Malaysian Rain Studies Experiment (1990).

Student/Postgraduate Advising and Teaching:

Advised 24 M.S. theses, 16 Ph.D. theses, 22 undergraduate students and 3 postdoctoral fellows
Taught 3 different graduate classes at University of Oklahoma, 12 different undergraduate and graduate classes at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and 1 graduate class at University of Colorado at Boulder

Conference Proceedings and Invited Lectures:

McFarquhar and group members have made 722 presentations at national and international conferences
Served as session chair at conferences 43 times and session convener 33 times
Organized/Co-organized Peter Hobbs Symposium at 2008 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2010 14^th American Meteorological Society Conference on Cloud Physics, 2014 Workshop on Southern Ocean Cloud-Aerosol-Climate Connections, 2014 Workshop on Data Analysis and Presentation of Cloud Microphysics Measurements, 2016 Data Processing, Analysis and Presentation Software Workshop for Cloud Microphysics, 2018 Workshop on Uncertainty in radar retrievals, model parameterizations, assimilated data, and in-situ observations: implications for predictability of weather, 2018 Southern Ocean Science Meeting, 2019 Workshop on Current and Future Uses of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) for Improved Forecasts/Warnings and Other Scientific Studies, 2019 Polar Prediction Workshop, 2019 Workshop on Cloud Observations, 2019 Southern Ocean Atmospheric Research Science Team Meeting, 2021 International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, 2021 Workshop on Observations and modeling of high-latitude cold-sector marine clouds, five 2022 workshops on CIWRO research themes, 2022 First workshop of ESCAPE Science Team, 2023 Workshop on Future Research Directions in Southern Ocean clouds,
89 invited lectures and 63 invited conference/workshop presentations