NSF NCAR
Jared Lee is a Project Scientist II at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He earned a Ph.D. (2012) and M.S. (2007) in meteorology from Penn State University (2012), and a B.A. cum laude in physics from Gustavus Adolphus College (2005). After earning his doctorate, Jared was a National Research Council Research Associate at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, from Oct 2012 through Sep 2013, and a Postdoc Researcher at NSF NCAR from Oct 2013 through May 2014. In May 2014 Jared became a Project Scientist I in the Research Applications Laboratory at NSF NCAR, and was promoted to a Project Scientist II in Feb 2018. Jared's research interests include numerical weather prediction, wind/solar energy forecasting and resource assessment, air quality forecasting, fire weather forecasting, surface transportation/road weather, cloud microphysics, boundary layer meteorology, and ensemble forecasting. Jared currently serves as the Co-Chair of the AMS Energy Committee, and is also active in other energy meteorology-related professional organizations, including ESIG and WEMC.