|  | | Mark Seeley |
mseeley@umn.edu | 612-625-4724
www.climate.umn.edu
335 Soils Building
1991 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul MN 55108
Education:
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| B.A. | 1969 | University of California, Berkeley
| Political Science
| | M.S. | 1975 | Northern Illinois University | Meteorology | | Ph.D. | 1977 | University of Nebraska
| Climatology |
Dr. Seeley serves as extension climatologist/meteorologist, coordinating weather and climate educational programs with the National Weather Service, the Minnesota State Climatology Office, and various state agencies. His faculty appointment is split between research (20 percent) and extension (80 percent) programs related to the utilization of meteorological and climatological data for agricultural production systems and management of natural resources. He is also active in the NOAA Climate Literacy Program. He spent 1989-1990 on sabbatical leave with the United Kingdom Meteorological Office and Ministry of Agriculture. In 2002 Dr. Seeley was in Washington, D.C. as a NOAA Partner working with the National Weather Service Climate Services Division and the Climate Prediction Center. He has served as a weekly commentator on Minnesota Public Radio’s Morning Edition news program since 1992. He also writes the weekly newsletter “Minnesota WeatherTalk” and helps produce a weekly science podcast for public radio called “Jet Streaming” and occasionally contributes to the Minnesota Public Radio daily weather blog “Updraft.”
Graduate Programs:
Soil, Water, and Climate
Water Resources
Selected Publications:
Minnesota Weather Almanac, Mark W. Seeley, 2006, 294 pgs. Published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, St Paul, MN.
”NOAA’s ThreadEx Project: Implications for Minnesota’s Climate History”
Mark W. Seeley, in 2009 Minnesota Weatherguide Environment Calendar
published by the Freshwater Society, Navarre, MN.
“Weather and Climate Singularities” Mark W. Seeley, in 2008 Minnesota Weatherguide Environment Calendar published by the Freshwater Society, Navarre, MN.
Zin, Min, Ragsdale, D., Radcliffe, T, McCrae, I., and M. Seeley.
2006. Weather patterns that influence seasonal abundance of green
peach aphid (myzus persicae) and spread of potato leaf roll virus in
the northern Great Plains. Agric and Forest Meteorology, vol. 1, pp
1-11.
Seeley, M.W. “Great Lakes Climate and Meteorology (Parts I and II)”,
2005 European Meteorological Society, ISBN 3-928903-33-0 Bulletin and
Calendar, Berlin, Germany.
Seeley, M. W., 2004. Mother Nature Smiled: The Grand Excursion of 1854. Minnesota History, vol. 59:1 pp: 36-38.
Shulski, M.D. and M.W. Seeley. 2004. Application of snowfall and wind
statistics to snow transport modeling for snowdrift control in
Minnesota. J. App. Met. Vol 43: 1711-1721.
Extreme Weather Level 4 Reading Series, Mark W. Seeley, editor, a series of 5 children’s books published by Bellwether Media, Minneapolis, MN. (hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, droughts, and ice storms).
5. Amazing Science Series by Picture Window Books, Minneapolis, MN, edited by Mark W. Seeley. 2003:
Shine: A Book About Sunlight
Splish Splash: A Book About Rain
Flakes and Flurries: A Book About Snow
Sky Shapes: A Book About Clouds
Nature’s Fireworks: A Book About Lightning
Whoosh: A Book About Wind
Medina, H. and M. Seeley, 2003. Avian pneumovirus (APV) and other
respiratory challenges in turkeys in the Midwest: An examination of
environmental factors that induce a higher incidence in the Spring and
Fall of the year. Proceedings of the Western Poultry Disease
Conference, Sacramento, CA.
Links:
http://www.wunderground.com/auto/mpr/
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/programs/morning_edition/
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