Lance F. Bosart

Short Bio
Dr. Lance F. Bosart is a distinguished professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University at Albany/SUNY. He joined the University at Albany faculty after he received his Ph.D. in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969. He was promoted to full professor in 1983 and distinguished professor in 2004. His research specialty is synoptic-dynamic meteorology. He works on a variety of observationally driven large-scale, synoptic-scale and mesoscale basic research problems that focus on gaining a better understanding of the behavior of tropical, midlatitude and polar weather systems. This research, supported mostly by the National Science Foundation, includes studies of: 1) hurricane formation and hurricane interactions with midlatitdue weather systems, 2) life cycles of organized midlatitude severe-weather thunderstorm systems, 3) continental and marine cyclones and anticyclones, 4) mesoscale frontogenesis processes, and 5) high-latitude cold surges into midlatitudes. He also works on operationally oriented research problems through cooperative research projects with staff members of the National Weather Service under the auspices of the Cooperative Meteorology Education and Training program run by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research Program sponsored by the National Weather Service. He is a Fellow (1983) of the American Meteorological Society and a member of the Royal Meteorological Society. He received the American Meteorological Society's Jule Charney Research Award in 1992. He was also the first recipient of the American Meteorological Society's Teaching Excellence Award in January 2002. He received the University at Albany/SUNY Award for Excellence in Research, 2001, and the SUNY/Research Foundation Board of Directors Award Honoring Research in Science, Engineering and Medicine, 2001. He is a past editor of Monthly Weather Review, and a past associate editor of Weather and Forecasting, two journals published by the American Meteorological Society. He has held an affiliate scientist appointment at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, since 1998.