My research interests are in historical meteorology and climatology, climate reconstruction from tree rings, severe storms meteorology, societal impacts of weather and climate extremes, and computer programming applications. These interests stem both from my professional work experience as a severe storms meteorologist and from my graduate-level study and research in meteorology, climatology, paleoclimatology, and climate change. The links on the left will take you to 1) my Ph.D. results on the weather and climate history of Kansas and 2) the development and numerical analysis of precisely dated tree-ring chronologies across the United States and Mexico by the University of Arkansas Tree-Ring Lab and our colleagues.