Whenever I attend an AMS event, I’m always delighted by the positive energy and engagement. We have a great community of professionals and students engaged in all aspects of the weather, climate, and water enterprise. Whether from academia, government, or industry, we are working together to advance knowledge and to apply it to critical issues. The important challenge to AMS is to harness this knowledge and energy in the most effective way to work together with our diverse skills and abilities to address human and environmental needs. AMS becomes the focal point for addressing issues and answering questions that arise. In our evolving environment, how do we collaborate to provide the information and support to the populace on our ever-changing weather and climate? How do we leverage the expertise of our members and diversity of thought to engage in multidisciplinary conversations and efforts to support society’s needs? How can we better organize and act to address the challenges of the future? AMS has been a leader in bringing the sectors together; but since the world is not static, we must be willing to evolve to meet emerging needs.
As an AMS councilor, I would work with colleagues within the framework of the commissions, boards, and committees to foster yet deeper collaborations and seek to engage the capabilities of the individual members as well as the various sectors to develop the synergy of this great Society in order to accomplish things not possible alone, thus engaging our weather, climate, and water expertise to make the world a better place.
Haupt, Sue Ellen, Senior Scientist and Director, Weather Systems and Assessment Program, Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado; and Adjunct Professor of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Born May 15, 1956, Johnstown, Pennsylvania. B.S. Meteorology and Marine Science Certificate, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1978; M.S. Engineering Management, Western New England College, Springfield, MA, 1981; M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 1984; Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988; Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1988-1990.
Professional Experience: Scientific Program Manager, Renewable Energy, Weather Systems and Assessment Program, Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2010-2011. Science Deputy, Weather Systems and Assessment Program, 2011. Professor of Meteorology, Meteorology Department, The Pennsylvania State University, 2009-2011. Senior Scientist, Computational Mechanics, Applied Research Laboratory, 2009-2011. Head, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Applied Research Laboratory, 2007-2010. Senior Research Associate and Associate Professor of Meteorology, Penn State University, 2004-09. Research Associate Professor, 2000-2003. Assistant Professor, 2003, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT. Associate Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno. 1997-1999. Research Associate, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, The University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1993-1997. Visiting Scholar, Physics Department, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, 1996-1997. Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 1990-1997. Visiting Faculty, Physics Department, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, Jan.-Feb. 1994. Research Associate, Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1990-1993. Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, May-June 1992. Environmental Engineer, New England Electric System, Westborough, MA, 1982-1984. Environmental Scientist, GCA/Technology Division, Bedford, MA, 1979-1982. Research Assistant, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA, 1978-1979. Student Trainee, National Weather Service, Radar Department, Silver Spring, MD, Summers 1977, 1978.
Professional Activities: Director for Education and Outreach of World Energy and Meteorology Council; Organizing Committee for International Conference on Energy and Meteorology Conference (2011-2015); Moderator and Organizer Utility Variable Integration Group Tutorial on Stochastic Forecasting Methods and Applications (2015); Group Lead (Mesoscale modeling group) for DOE Complex Flow Workshop (2012); Group Lead for Atmospheric Sciences of North American Wind Energy Academy (2011); Technical Committee Member for IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (2008); Organizing Committee for 2007 ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS-2007); Moderator for Panel on Gender and Equity in Engineering, (2007); Program Development Grant Committee of the National Society of Women Engineers (2007-2008); Faculty Advisor for Society of Women Engineers at, Penn State (2005-2008); Faculty Advisor for Society of Women Engineers at Utah State University (2002-2003); Co-Chair and Organizer of Junior Science and Engineering Conference sponsored by the IEEE Aerospace Committee (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002); Organizing Committee for IEEE Aerospace Conference 1998- 2002); Organized science camps for Girl Scouts in Councils in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada (1997-2003); Many review panels, journal paper reviews, invited panel speaker, plenary or keynote conference or workshop speaker, conference session chair. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Geophysical Union, American Solar Energy Society, Society of Women Engineers (Senior Member), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
AMS Activities: Member, AMS 1977-present; 2016 AMS Annual Meeting President’s Program Committee (2014- ); Energy Committee (2014- ); Board on Enterprise and Economic Development (2011-2014); Organizing Committee for AMS Washington Forum (2011-2014); Chair and Organizer of 2012 Artificial Intelligence Forecasting Contest on Wind Power Forecasting jointly sponsored by AMS Committee on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to Environmental Science, Energy Committee, and Probability and Statistics Committee; Chair, AMS Committee on Applications of Artificial Intelligence to the Environmental Sciences (2006-09); Member of AMS Committee on Applications of Artificial Intelligence to the Environmental Sciences (2003-2009); Organizer, Chair, and Lecturer of Short Courses held by AMS Committee on Applications of Artificial Intelligence to the Environmental Sciences; Program Chair, AMS Conferences on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Environmental Sciences (2007, 2008, 2009); Organized and chaired many joint sessions across committees; Session Chair of many sessions at AMS Annual Meetings.
Honors And Awards:CO-Labs Governor’s Award for High Impact Research in Sustainability and Honorable Mention for Public-Private Partnerships, NCAR Wind Power Forecasting Team, “Optimizing Integration of Renewable Energy into the Power Grid in Colorado”, 2014. CO-Labs Honorable Mention in Sustainability, NCAR Team for “A Wind Power Forecasting System to Optimize Integration of Renewable Energy Into the Power Grid,” 2013. Research Publication Award, Applied Research Laboratory, Penn State, 2012. Scientific and Technical Achievement Award for Wind Energy Prediction System, NCAR, 2011. Society of Women Engineers Advising Award, Utah State University, 2003. IEEE Junior Engineering and Science Organizing Award, 2003. Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society), 1985. Chi Epsilon Pi (Meteorology Honor Society), 1977. Phi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics Honor Society), 1978. Outstanding Graduate Student in Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan, 1986.
Publications:Troccoli, A., L. Dubus, and S.E. Haupt, eds., 2014: Weather Matters for Energy, Springer, 528 pp. Haupt, S.E., A. Pasini, and C. Marzban, Eds. 2009: Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Environmental Sciences, Springer, 424 pp. Haupt, R.L., and S.E. Haupt, 2004: Practical Genetic Algorithms, Second Edition with CD, John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY, 255 pp. (first edition 1998, Arabic edition 2011). Eight chapters in edited volumes. Over 55 journal papers published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Weather and Forecasting, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Monthly Weather Review, Solar Energy, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Tellus, Atmospheric Environment, National Weather Digest, Pure and Applied Geophysics, J. Fluids Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Renewable Energy, IEEE Antenna and Propagation Magazine, ACES Journal, IEEE AP Magazine, IEEE Potentials, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, Aerospace Systems Magazine, WindTech, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Measurement, Journal of Computers, Journal of Soft Computing, Expert Systems with Applications, SWE Magazine, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Physica D, Wave Motion.