April 2012
• I taught a one-day Great Lakes Basic Marine Weather Seminar at the Catawba Island Club, Port Clinton, Ohio on April 21, 2012.
• I delivered a presentation titled Tragedy Strikes the 2011 Chicago-Mac to the Grand River Sailing Club on April 14, 2012.

March 2012
• I taught a one-day Great Lakes Basic Marine Weather Seminar at the Chicago Yacht Club on March 31, 2012.
• I taught a one-day Great Lakes Basic Marine Weather Seminar at Bay City Yacht Club, Bay City, MI on March 2, 2012.
• I delivered a presentation titled Tragedy Strikes the 2011 Chicago-Mac at the 20th Annual Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Conference on March 15, 2012. The presentation received the Brian Murphy Award for the most noteworthy presentation.

February 2012
• I taught a one-day Great Lakes Basic Marine Weather Seminar at Lorain Sailing and Yacht Club on February 4, 2012.
• I delivered a presentation titled Tragedy Strikes the 2011 Chicago-Mac to the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the American Meteorological Society on February 7, 2012.
• Taught a one-day Great Lakes Basic Marine Weather Seminar at Edgewater Yacht Club on February 25, 2012.

October 2011
• My 2011 Chicago-Mackinac Race: A Meteorological Summary was referenced in US Sailing's Inquiry Into The Chicago Yacht Club-Race to Mackinac Capsize and Fatalities published in October 2011.
• Delivered a basic weather forecasting presentation to the students enrolled in the Coast Guard Auxiliary's About Boating Safely class.

August 2011
• Published "An Interesting Local Wind", a short article about a small-scale wind encountered on Lake Erie. (click here)
• Published "2011 Chicago-Mackinac Race: A Meteorological Summary". A storm system caused two fatalities during the 2011 Chicago Mackinac Race. (click here)

July 2011
• Published "Forces Governing the Wind", a short article explaining the atmospheric dynamics responsible for the wind. (click here)
• Delivered a basic weather forecasting presentation to junior sailors at the Lorain Sailing and Yacht Club.
• Residents of northern Ohio endured a very wet spring. The record-setting rainfall was produced by very favorable large-scale patterns. The article can be accessed here.

May 2011
• Published a summary of the 2010 Lake Ontario 300 Challenge, a 300-mile circumnavitation of Lake Ontario. (click here)

March 2011
• Posted a quick analysis of products used to forecast and analyze ice cover on Lake Erie. (click here)

February 2011
• I taught two one-day Great Lakes Basic Marine Weather Seminar during the month. One at Lorain Sailing and Yacht Club and the other at Edgewater Yacht Club.

September 2010

• Several docks at Spitzer Lakeside Marina were damaged by strong thunderstorm winds in August 2009. Click here to read the summary.

August 2010
• Doppler radar reflectivity imagery is a staple of evening news broadcasts and is widely recognized by weather consumers. But there are many lesser known products used by forecasters in their quest to warn communities of approaching severe weather. One such product is Echo Tops which displays the height of storms ... read more.