Roger has extensive experience in multiple facets of both publicly and privately funded fieldwork, from leading crews to driving and navigating storm intercepts, field photography, maintaining fleet vehicles, operating observing equipment, collaborating data-gathering procedures, and daily forecasting support. His work here has included the NSSL Spring Program and TOTO (Totable Tornado Observatory) in 1986, Doppler and Lightning (DOPLIGHT)-87, 1988 NSSL Spring Program, Next Generation Weather Radar Initial Operational Testing and Evaluation 2 (IOT&E2, 1989), Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX), and Tactical Weather-Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes Experiment (TWISTEX).
Roger also has provided data and imagery gathered on hundreds of personal storm observations and damage surveys to local NWS offices, the Storm Prediction Center and National Hurricane Center, as well as to numerous scientific papers — both his own and others’. For example, his imagery of the 24 May 2011 EF5 main tornado southwest of Piedmont, OK, interacting with an initially separate tornado originating in the forward-flank convergence zone, helped to confirm mobile-radar observations of the first known full merger of two mature tornadoes (French et al. 2015).
With his extensive scientific publication experience, Roger understands the importance of field research and its need for top-quality observations and imagery. Please inquire for availability (roger at supercell-consulting dotcom, or tornado dot specialist at gmail dotcom), the more advanced notice the better, and be ready to provide documentation or proposal of funding with specific role(s) desired (e.g., P.I., field coordinator, driver, photographer, research consultant, scientific author/coauthor, etc.).