Curriculum Vitae:  JOSEPH WERNE

Institutional Address:

Colorado Research Associates Division, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.
3380 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO 80301, 303-415-9701 x207, werne@cora.nwra.com

Education:

Old Dominion University

B.S. (summa), Physics (1987)
B.S. (summa), Mech. Eng'g & Mechanics (1987)

The University of Chicago, Ph.D., Physics (1993)

Positions Held:

1985-87	Engineering Co-op, Reactor Plant Planning Yard, Newport News Shipbuilding
1987-89	Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, The University of Chicago
1989-92	Research Assistant, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago
1992-94	Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research
1994-95	Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
1995-96	Research Associate, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics & Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Univ. of Colorado
1997-01	Research Scientist, NorthWest Research Associates
1998-	Adjunct Faculty, Department of Applied Mathematics, Univ. of Colorado
2001-	Senior Research Scientist, NorthWest Research Associates

Professional Societies:

American Physical Society

American Astronomical Society

Professional Activities:

Conference Participation: Gordon Conference on Modeling in Solar Terrestrial Physics (1990); Gordon Conference on Solar Plasma and MHD Processes (1991); Army High Performance Computing Research Center, Workshop on Visualization and Statistical Analysis in Hard Turbulence (1992); The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Turbulence Meeting (1993); Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Supercomputing Techniques: Parallel Processing/Cray T3D (1994); Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summer Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (1995); NCAR Geophysical and Astrophysical Convection (1995); American Physical Society 43th, 44th, 46th, 47th, 48th & 58th Annual Meetings of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (1990-91, 1993-95, 2005); University of California 12th Annual Conference in Nonlinear Science (1996); National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Parallel Computing Workshop; SGI Origin (1997); DoD HPCMO User Group Conference (1998-2009); Global Grid Forum 2 and 3, Washington, D.C. (2001) and Frascati, Italy (2001); EUROMECH Workshop 428 "Transport by coherent structures in environmental and geophysical flows," Torino, Italy (2001); and more. Co-organizer, NCAR 2008 Theme of the Year Workshop "Petascale Computing: Its Impact on Geophysical Modeling and Simulation".

Teaching: Instructor, Summer MCAT Program, The University of Chicago, Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine (1989-92). Principal Lecturer, NCAR 2008 Summer School: Geophysical Turbulence

Awards: A.D. Morgan Scholarship (1986-87); Faculty Award in Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (1987); Outstanding Senior Award in Physics (1987); Gregor Wentzel Prize for Excellence as Graduate Student Tutor (1988).

Honor Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Beta Pi (1986-87).

General Fields of Investigation:

High Rayleigh-number convection, penetrative convection, rotating convection; transport processes and coherent structures in fluid turbulence; instability processes in geophysical and astrophysical flows; stratified shear turbulence, gravity-wave breaking; stratified shear magnetohydrodynamic instability and turbulence; accurate spectral numerical methods, large-scale and high-performance computing, massively parallel computing (Cray T3D, T3E, XT3, XT4, XT5; IBM SP, P4+, P5+, P6; SGI O2k, O3k, Altix; Compaq SC40/45).