Sue Haupt

Biography

Dr. Haupt is an NCAR Senior Scientist and Director of the Weather Systems and Assessment Program of the Research Applications Laboratory of NCAR. She is also Director of Education of the World Energy and Meteorology Council (WEMC) and a Councilor of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). She previously headed the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics at the Applied Research Laboratory of The Pennsylvania State University where she remains an Adjunct Professor of Meteorology. She earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan (1988), M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1984), M.S. in Engineering Management from Western New England College (1982), B.S. in Meteorology from Penn State (1978), and did a postdoctoral fellowship with the Advanced Study Program of NCAR. She has also been on the faculty of the University of Colorado/Boulder; the U.S. Air Force Academy (visiting); University of Nevada, Reno; and Utah State University and previously worked for the New England Electric System and GCA Corporation. Dr. Haupt is an expert in renewable energy, boundary layer meteorology, large scale atmospheric dynamics, dynamical systems, numerical methods, artificial intelligence methods, and computational fluid dynamics. Her specialty is in applying novel numerical techniques to problems in the environmental sciences in both basic and applied research. She enjoys teaching and mentoring graduate students as well as developing and directing research programs and projects. Dr. Haupt recently chaired the Committee on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science of the AMS, and teaches the portions of short courses offered by that committee as well as short courses related to meteorology and energy offered through WEMC. She currently serves on the AMS Energy Committee. She is also a member of the American Geophysical Union, Society of Women Engineers (served as faculty advisor for student groups for five years), American Society of Engineering Education, Chi Epsilon Pi, and Phi Mu Epsilon. She co-authored Practical Genetic Algorithms (Wiley and Sons 1998, second edition 2004, Arabic edition 2011); is primary editor for Applications of Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Environmental Sciences (Springer, 2009); co-edited Weather Matters for Energy; and has authored over 3000 book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports.

Research Interest

Wind energy Wind energy resource assessment wind power forecasting solar power forecasting Boundary Layer Meteorology Predictability, Data Assimilation, Uncertainity Quantification, Probabilistic Predictions, Ensemble Design, Inverse Problem, Boundary Layer / Air Pollution / Mesoscale Meteorology, Downscaling, Dispersion Modeling computational fluid dynamics dynamic meteorology Artificial Intelligence dynamical systems genetic algorithms spectral methods Atmospheric Turbulence coherent structures Surface Transportation Weather Forecast systems, mesoscale meteorology, aviation weather, surface transportation weather Numerical Weather Prediction Wildfires societal impacts Women In Science Uncertainty Quantification Probabilistic Predictions Inverse Problems Ensemble Design