Tel: (919) 345-5463
Email: jjhemper@ncsu.edu
Education:
P.h.D Student, Atmospheric Science, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, August 2009- Present.
M.S. Degree, Atmospheric Science, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, August 2009.
B.S. Degree, Meteorology with a concentration in Marine Science, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, May 2007.
Work Experience:
Summer Intern at the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards at the Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, June 2009 to August 2009.
Graduate Research Assistant, Air Quality Forecasting Lab, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, August 2007 to Present.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, MEA 313, August 2009 to May 2010.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, MEA 135, August 2008 to May 2009.
Meteorologist, State Climate Office of North Carolina, May 2007 to August 2007.
Meteorologist Intern, National Weather Service Raleigh, NC, May 2007 to August 2007.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, State Climate Office of North Carolina, August 2006 to May 2007.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, State Climate Office of North Carolina, May 2005 to August 2005.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, NCSU/NC Health Department, January 2005 to May 2005.
Research Experience:
- M.S. thesis work: The Application and Evaluation of the Global Weather Research and Forecasting Model.
- State Climate Office of North Carolina, Meteorologist. Main tasks included: Evaluation of evapotranspiration estimation techniques, development of evapotranspiration climatology in N.C., meteorological summary and report on the 2007 Easter freeze, and assisting in data requests as a public service.
- State Climate Office of North Carolina, Undergraduate Research Assistant. Main tasks included WRF model runs to investigate the influence of eddies in the Gulf Stream on winter cyclogenesis, development and implementation of software to estimate evapotranspiration at climate monitoring stations across N.C. (sponsored by Department of Crop Science at NCSU).
- State Climate Office of North Carolina, Undergraduate Research Assistant. Main tasks included analysis of the efficiency and accuracy of Degree Day forecasts for Touchstone Energy and N.C. Electric Cooperatives.
- North Carolina State University/ NC Health Department, Undergraduate Research Assistant. Main tasks included using GIS tools to identify watersheds with dangerous Arsenic concentrations in Gaston County, N.C.
Publications:
Non-refereed conference proceedings:
Hemperly, J.J., X.-Y. Wen, N. Meskhidze, and Y. Zhang, The Evaluation of the Global Weather Research and Forecasting (GWRF) Model with Surface-Based and Remotely-Sensed Observations, The 4th Annual NC State University Graduate Research Symposium, March 18th, 2009, Raleigh, NC. (accepted).
Hemperly, J.J., X.-Y. Wen, N. Meskhidze, and Y. Zhang, Retrospective Aplication and Evaluation of the Global Weather Research and Forecasting (GWRF) System, The 7th Annual Community Modeling and Analysis (CMAS) Meeting, October 6-8, 2008, Chapel Hill, NC.
Hemperly, J.J., M. Brooks, and R. Boyles, Estimating Daily Potential Evapotranspiration across North Carolina Using Radiation Estimates for the Penman-Monteith Equation, The 16th Annual NC State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 17th, 2007, Raleigh, NC.
Hemperly, J.J., and J. Fountain, Mapping Dangerous Levels of Arsenic in Gaston County Wells, The 14th Annual NC State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 28th, 2005, Raleigh, NC.
Contributed conference presentations:
Meskhidze, N., Y. Zhang, B. Gantt, J.J. Hemperly, X.-Y. Wen, 2008, Effect of Terrestrial and Marine Organic Aerosol on Regional and Global Climate: Work Plan and Some Preliminary Results, oral presentation at the Department of Energy Atmospheric Science Program FY 2008 Science Team Meeting, Annaplois, MD, February 25-27, 2008.
Zhang, Y., X.-Y. Wen, X.-M. Hu, Y. Pan, J.J. Hemperly, and N. Meskhidze, 2008, Current Status of the Development and Application of Mesoscale and Global WRF/Chem at NCSU, oral presentation at the Department of Energy Atmospheric Science Program FY 2008 Science Team Meeting, Annaplois, MD, February 25-27, 2008.
Zhang, Y., Y. Pan, X.-Y. Wen, Y.-S. Chen, and J. Hemperly, P. Karamchandani, D. G. Streets, and C. Jang, 2009, Global-through-urban WRF/Chem: a unified model for simulating aerosol-climate interactions and evaluating co-benefit for air quality and climate change, invited presentation at the joint workshop of EMEP’s Task Force on Measurements and Modeling (TFMM) and the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF HTAP), Paris, France, June 17-19.
Awards and Honors:
Dean’s list spring 2007
Languages:
PHP, PERL, C-SHELL, FORTRAN, NCL
Members/Activities:
Chair of Web committee, Air Quality Forecasting Lab at NCSU 2008-2009
Second lead Linux cluster committee, Air Quality Forecasting Lab at NCSU 2008-2009
Vice-President, Student Chapter of Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA) at NCSU 2008-2009
Webmaster, Student Chapter of Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA) at NCSU 2007-2009
Graduate Representative, Student Chapter of AMS at NCSU 2007-2008
Secretary, Student Chapter of Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA) at NCSU 2007-2008
Secretary, Student Chapter of AMS at NCSU 2006-2007
Webmaster, Student Chapter of AMS at NCSU 2006-2007
Junior class representative for student chapter of AMS 2005-2006
Member, Central chapter AMS 2005-2006
Member, Student Chapter of AMS at NCSU 2003-2007
