The Pennsylvania State University c1997
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Jensen, Michael Philip

Columbia University
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math
NASA Goddard Institute of Space Sciences
2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025

mjensen@giss.nasa.gov

Stuff about me


Me and Mack in his class, February 2004


I was born September 23, 1968, and raised on the North Shore of Long Island, the eldest of Richard and Diane Jensen's three children. In 1986, I graduated from Harborfields High School. I attended Hofstra University for my freshman year in college, but the stress of commuting with NYC rush hour traffic every day led me to transfer to SUNY Stony Brook, where in 1990 I received a Bachelor's degree in meteorology. From there, I moved on to graduate school at The Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Meteorology. I received my Master's degree in 1993 and moved to Staunton, Virginia to become a teacher at The Central Shenandoah Valley Regional Governor's School. On April 30, 1994 I was married to Jacqueline Parrish (Dionisio) Jensen. In 1995, I decided to return to head back to State College, PA and Penn State to pursue a doctorate in meteorology. The greatest day of my life came on May 31, 1996 when my son Mackinley Richard Jensen was born. I defended my thesis in November 1999 and will officially graduate from Penn State during the May 2000 graduation ceremonies. I am currently employed as a post-doctoral research scientist at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute of Space Sciences in New York City. My life, coming full circle, has returned me to Centerport, New York on the north shore of Long Island wherre I plan to be for the next two years before I see where the next step of my journeys will be.

My Photo album (Mostly Mac!)

Before the question is asked, yes Mackinley is an unusual name. Where did we get it from? Well, it is a result of my interest in the blues. For those of you who are truly blues fans, you may recognize that with a slight spelling change, we have taken our son's name from the great blues legend McKinley Morganfield, otherwise known as Muddy Waters. If you are one of the unfortunate people who is not familiar with Muddy's music check outthis clip from one of his more famous songs.
Mannish Boy

In case you are interested here is an on-line version of my resume

I also want to direct you to some examples of my writing, these are unpublished review papers written for class projects and the like.

Some links

For Work

I have just finished the third year in pursuit of my doctoral degree at The Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Meteorology.I am part of the PSU Atmospheric Radiation Group, where my research involves the life cycles and radiative effect of tropical anvil cirrus outflow.

In the Spring semester of 1997 I took a course in Tropical Meteorology (METEO 597C)Part of the classwork involved a group forecasting project, look here for my groups forecast log.

MCTEX (Maritime Continent Thunderstorm Experiment)

In April 1997, I presented a poster of some of my work at the ARM Science Team Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Here is a web version of my poster. Anvil Cirrus Outflow During the Maritime Continent Thuderstorm Experiment

For those of you who are not familiar with what a cirrus anvil is, take a look at this link, courtesy of Steve Sekelsky at UMASS, for a great picture of a tropical thunderstorm with a well developed anvil
In August 1998, I presented a talk titled Anvil Cirrus Outflow During the Maritime Continent Thunderstorm Experiment: A Case Study at the American Meteorology Society's 1998 Conference on Cloud Physics in Everett, Washington.

ARM -- Tropical Western Pacific Site

Part of my current work involves the data quality control for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Tropical Western Pacific Site In March 1998, I presented a poster summarizing some observations of the 1997-98 El Nino at the TWP site at the Eigth ARM Science Team meeting at Tuscon, AZ. Here is an online version of my poster presentation Observations of the 1997-98 warm-ENSO event at the Manus Island ARM site.


From the Florida Flambeau

If you want to learn more about El Nino, check out some of these sites.

Mammatus case study

As part of a radar meteorolgy course that I took during spring 1997, I am currently helping in the preparations of a paper on a case study we did of mammatus observed by the Eldora during VORTEX (Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment)
You say that you are not sure what mammatus clouds are?? Check out this photo mammatus.

In special memory of my mother Diane E. Jensen (1945-1994) I would like to direct you to a special link The Brain Tumor Society. This organization was of great help to my mother as she fought her disease


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