Lazarus, Steven
Steven Michael Lazarus
Professor | College of Engineering and Science - Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences
Contact Information
Personal Overview
My research interests are varied and include electrical phenomena (gigantic jets), surface layer meteorology and wind/wave interactions. I have authored or co-authored over 30 peer-review articles and have had more than 2 dozen proposals funded - totaling a little over $2 million. Over the past 5 years I have been a reviewer for various journals including Atmospheric Research, Journal of Atmospheric Science, International Journal of Wind and Structures, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. Since arriving at 澳门100%最准一肖一码, I have graduated 14 MS thesis, and two Ph. D students. I am currently supervising 2 Ph. D students - in the areas of strutural wind loading (associated with high impact weather events), and a machine learning (aviation impact) related project that involves cloud identification using camera imagery. I am PI on a grant involving the installation and operation of a coastal (wind and current) radar system here in east central Florida. I am a member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) , American Geophysical Union (AGU) and presently serve as an academic member representative for the University Center for Atmospheric Research () a consortium that includes 120 North American universities with programs i meteorology to hydrology, oceanography, atmospheric chemistry, climate science, etc.
I love to bike, hike, kayak and adopting senior dogs from area rescues. I am a quasi-vegetarian (I will eat some sustainable fish!). For the past 16 summers, I have been a volunteer for the Sea Turtle Preservation Society - giving presentations and guided tours on our local beaches during the summer months and I also serve on the board of directors of the . I like to tweet about climate change, weather, and environmental issues - you can follow me on X (@slazmo)!
Educational Background
Ph.D.: University of Oklahoma 1996
Masters of Science: University of Oklahoma 1990
Bachelors of Science: Florida State 1985
Professional Experience
Dr. Lazarus began his research career as an undergraduate assistant for at Florida State University, from 1984-1985. During that span, he spent the summer of 1984 as an under-graduate fellow working with the founder of the tornado F-scale, , at the University of Chicago. Before attending graduate school, Dr. Lazarus was employed at the Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where he worked on a statistical ocean modeling project.
Dr. Lazarus completed his master's and Ph D. work at the University of Oklahoma (OU). His work in the areas of modeling severe convection and data assimilation was augmented by tornado chasing during his graduate student years in Oklahoma. Dr. Lazarus met with the founder of chaos theory (aka the 'butterfly' effect), MIT professor , to discuss his MS related work regarding the predicitability of rotating thunderstorms. As a post-doc at the University of Utah, he was involved in several projects including real-time weather analysis work in support of the Winter Olympic games, GCM (cloud) evaluation with the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM), and served as the local AMS chapter president--representing groups from the University of Utah, the National Weather Service and Western Region Headquarters. During the summer of 2004 Dr. Lazarus was a visiting scientist at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction in Washington, D.C. and served on a national committee that is overseeing an operational mesoscale analysis project referred to as the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA). While he stepped down from 8 years of service on Unidata's and , he continues to serve as a academic member representative. Committees and received their highest honor, the award (see sidebar link).
Dr. Lazarus is a member of the and the . He is an active participant in the peer-review process having reviewed more than two dozen proposals and/or journal articles. Dr. Lazarus has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles in peer-review journals and spent a sabbatical at the University of Utah during the academic year (2013-2014).
Additional Duties
FIT Committees:
President's Hurricane Advisory; Tenure Review (Co-Chair)
FIT Club Sponsorship
American Meteorological Society; Mishapacha
Graduate Student Advising
2 PhD
Current Courses
(MET 1999)
(ENS 3101)
(MET 4306/5306)
(MET 5320)
Selected Publications
SUBMITTED:
Besing, H., S. Lazarus, J. Zhang, C. Subramanian, and J.-P. Pinelli: Near surface wind measurements during the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. Manuscript Number: INDAER-D-23-00960.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Vaidya, H., R. D. Breininger, M. Madrid, S. Lazarus, and N. N. Kachouie, 2023: Genealized Addititve Models for Predicting Sea Level Rise in Coastal Florida. Geosciences, 13, 310; .
LAST 5 YEARS:
Lazarus, S., J. Chiappa, H. Besing, M. Splitt, and J Riousset, 2021:Distinguishing characteristics of the tropical cyclone gigantic jet environment. J. Atmos. Sci., 79, 2741-2761, .
Colvin, J., S. Lazarus, and M. Splitt, 2020: Extracting nearshore wave properties from video: A new method for coastal estuaries, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 246, .
Boggs, L. D., N. Liu, M. Peterson, S. Lazarus, M. Splitt, F. Lucena, A. Nag, H. Rassoul, 2019: . Geophysical Research Lettters, 46, 3999-4006.
Boggs, L. D., N. Liu, J. A. Riousset, F. Shi, S. Lazarus, M. Splitt, H. Rassoul, 2018: . Nature, Scientific Reports, 8, Article number: 18085.
Holman, B., S. Lazarus, and M Splitt, 2018: . Mon. Wea. Rev, 146, 2859-2880. DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-17-0338.1.
Colvin, J., S. Lazarus, M. Splitt, R. Weaver, and P. Taeb, 2018: . Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, .
PUBLISHED:
Holman, B., S. Lazarus, and M Splitt, 2017:, Wea. Forecasting, 32, 1637-1657. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-17-0016.1.
Weaver, R.J., Taeb, P., Lazarus, S., Splitt, M., Holman, B., and Colvin, J., 2016: , Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2016.10.014.
Boggs, L. D., N. Liu, M. Splitt, S. Lazarus, C. Glenn, H. Rassoul, and S. A. Cummer (2016), , J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, doi:10.1002/2015JD024188.
Lazarus, S. M., M. E. Splitt, James Brownlee, Nicholas Spiva, and Ningyu Liu, 2015: , J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD023383.
Kelley, N.A., D. M. Smith, J. R. Dwyer, M. Splitt, S. Lazarus, F. Martinez-McKinney, B. Hazelton, B. Grefenstette, A. Lowell, and H. K. Rassoul, 2015: , Nature Communications, 6. Article number: 7845, doi:10.1038/ncomms8845.
Aronson, R. B., Smith, K. E., Vos S. C., McClintock J.B., Amsler, M.O., Moksnes, P.O.,. Ellis, D.S., Kaeli, J., Singh, H., Bailey, J.W., Schiferl, J.C., van Woesik, R., Martin, M.A., Steffel, B.V., Deal, M.E., Lazarus, S. M., Havenhand, J.N., Swalethorp, R., Kjellerup, S., Thatje, S., 2015: . Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513962112.
Barnes, D.E., M.E. Splitt, J.R. Dwyer, S.M. Lazarus, D.M. Smith, and H.K. Rassoul (2015), . J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, 3453鈥3464. doi: 10.1002/2014JD021495.
Splitt, M. E., S. M. Lazarus, S. Collins, D. N. Botambekov, and W. P. Roeder, 2014: . Wea. Forecasting, 29, 1155-1168.
Lazarus, S. M., S. T. Wilson, M. E. Splitt, and G. A. Zarillo, 2013: . Wea. Forecasting, 28, 297-315.
Lazarus, S. M., S. T. Wilson, M. E. Splitt, and G. A. Zarillo, 2013: Evaluation of a wind-wave system for ensemble tropical cyclone wave forecasting. Part II: Waves. Wea. Forecasting, 28, 316-330.
Lazarus, S. M., and Coauthors, 2013: 2012 Unidata Users Workshop Navigating Earth System Science Data. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, ES136鈥揈S143, .
Smith D. M.; Dwyer J. R.; Hazelton B. J.; Grefenstette B. W.; Martinez-McKinney G. F. M.; Zhang Z. Y.; Lowell A. W.; Kelley N. A.; Splitt M. E.; Lazarus S. M.; Ulrich W.; Schaal M.; Saleh Z. H.; Cramer E.; Rassoul H. K.; Cummer S. A.; Lu G.; Blakeslee R. J., , 2011: Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L08807.
Smith, D. M., et al. (2011), , J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JD016252, in press.
Lazarus, S. M., M. E. Splitt, M. D. Lueken, R. Ramachandran, X. Li, S. Movva, S. J. Graves, and B. T. Zavodsky, 2010: . Wea. Forecasting, 25, 511-525.
Splitt, M. E., S. M. Lazarus, D. Barnes, J. R. Dwyer, H. K. Rassoul, D. M. Smith, B. Hazelton, and B. Grefenstette, 2010:. J. Geophys. Res., 115, A00E38, doi:10.1029/2009JA014622.
Splitt, M. E., J. A. Shafer, S. M. Lazarus, and W. P. Roeder, 2010: . Wea. Forecasting, 25, 837-851.
Xid, C., R. Lopez, and S. M. Lazarus, 2009:, J. Geosci. Ed., 57, 372-378.
LaCasse, K. M., M. E. Splitt, S. M. Lazarus, and W. M. Lapenta, 2008: . Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1349-1372.
Lazarus S. M., C. G. Calvert, M. E. Splitt, P. Santos, D. W. Sharp, P. F. Blottman, and S. M. Spratt, 2007: . Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3158鈥3173.
Lazarus, S. M. and J. Bewley, 2006: . J. Geophys. Res., 111 (D10), D1010410.1029/2005JD006396.
Lazarus, S. M. and J. Bewley, 2005: . J. Geophys. Res., 110 (D7), 7102, doi:10.1029/2004JD005614.
Myrick, D. T., J. D. Horel, and S. M. Lazarus, 2005: . Wea. Forecasting, 20, 149-160.
J. Hacker, J. Hansen, J. Berner, Y. Chen, G. Eshel, G. Hakim, S. Lazarus, S. Majumdar, R. Morss, A. Poje, V. Sheremet, Y. Tang, and C. Webb, 2005: . Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 86, 1733-1777.
Lazarus, S. M., J. D. Horel, and C. M. Ciliberti, 2002: . Wea. Forecasting, 17, 971-1000.
Lazarus, S. M., A. Shapiro, and K. D. Droegemeier, 2001: . J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 998-1016.
Lazarus, S. M., S.K. Krueger, and G. G. Mace, 2000: . J. Climate, 13, 1762-1775.
Lazarus, S. M., A. Shapiro, and K. D. Droegemeier, 1999: . J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 16, 5-18.
Recognition & Awards
winner for service and activity in the Geoscience Community (2018)
NCEP visiting scientist (June-July 2004)UCAR Strategic Advisory Committee (2016-2018)
UCAR Member Representative (2012-present)
University of Utah visiting professor (Sabbatical), 2013-2014)
NCEP visiting scientist (June-July 2004)
NCAR-ECSA Junior Faculty Forum on Predictability participant (June 2003)
COMET workshop on Atmospheric Thermodynamics participant (August 2002)
AMS Salt Lake City chapter president 2000-2001
Member, American Geophysical Union
Member, American Meteorological Society
Unidata Strategic AdvisoryCommittee Representative (2015-2018)
Unidata User Workshop participant 2009, 2012, 2015
Unidata Users Committee Representative (2009-2015)
Co-Chair, Unidata Triennial Workshop 2015
Research
- General Dynamics. Radionuclide Station (RASA) Operator. $22,000/yr (PI, ongoing).
- NIST (Disaster Resilience): Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) system and Lidar experiments for the characterization of strong wind loads on non-structural components and near-surface wind profiles. $467,000 (Co-PI along with Mani Subramanian and Jean-Paul Pinelli). 8/01/2019 -5/31/2024.
- NSF (REU Site: Statistical Models with Applications to Geoscience (SMAG). $304,000 (Co-PI along with Nezamoddin Nezamoddini-Kachouie). 9/01/2020-8/31/2024
Recently Funded
- Partnering to meet the needs of coastal communities for actionable information to protect lives and property. NOAA/SECOORA $455,00 (PI). 6/01/2021-5/31/26
Research & Project Interests
When the weather gets rough - our research group heads out into the field. Check out the of our wind lidar deployment duing Hurricane Isaias.
See my Oct. 24 2019 NPR regarding our lidar work on wind loading, assessment and mitigation from Orlando's WMFE bi-weekly Intersection news program.
Here's a link to an invited in association with the (2018) Russell L. DeSouza award honoring 鈥individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences鈥. For more on the award, visit the University Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Unidata .
Dr. Lazarus' research interests include mesoscale analysis, data assimilation and modeling. He is currently funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on a wind loading/assessment project and was recently awarded a NOAA grant to support the installation and maintainance of two coastal (wave and current) radars in east central Florida.
Other areas of interest include climate change and hurricanes, coastal meteorology, wind/wave modeling, and thunderstorm electrification/transient luminous events including terrestrial gamma ray flashes and gigantic jets.