Short-term Prediction Research
and Transition Center

Bill W. McCaul

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Dr. Eugene W. McCaul, Jr. USRA/Global Hydrology and Climate Center 320 Sparkman Drive Huntsville, AL 35805 256-961-7837 bill.mccaul@msfc.nasa.gov
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Meteorology (1989) University of Oklahoma
Master of Science in Meteorology (1985) University of Oklahoma
Master of Architecture (1979) University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science (1970) University of Virginia

Eugene W. McCaul Jr. is a research scientist specializing in studies of severe storm morphology, dynamics and electrification. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1989, and is currently affiliated with Universities Space Research Association and the Earth System Science Program within the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

McCaul's dissertation work dealt with the special characteristics of severe storms within landfalling hurricanes. After graduating, he received a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. In late 1990, he accepted a position with USRA in Huntsville. Currently an employee of the Short-Term Prediction and Research Transition (SPoRT) Project sponsored by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, his recent research has focused on analyzing and forecasting the lightning behavior of thunderstorms. He has also investigated the variations in morphology of deep convective storms as a function of their position within a large idealized 8-dimensional parameter space. He has authored more than 50 research papers, and was an invited speaker at the Third Tornado Symposium in 1991, the NCAR-sponsored Colloquium on Landfalling Hurricanes in 1998, and the Doug Lilly Symposium in 2006. He also currently serves as an associate editor for Monthly Weather Review, and as an adjunct professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

McCaul is a member of the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association. He has also served as president of the Tennessee Valley Chapter of the AMS, and is a regular speaker on storm spotting, safety and other weather topics.