Personal Information

Education: B.A., Kent State University, 1965 M.A., University of Georgia, 1967 Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1972

Though his primary training was in both economic and physical geography, since the mid-1980's Carl has concentrated for the most part on the physical side. He is currently the only regular faculty member at EMU with teaching and research interests in weather, climatology, and severe/unusual weather. His teaching responsibilities in a given semester usually involve some combination of an introductory level course in earth science (EESC 108) and higher level courses such as weather (EESC 324), climatology (EESC 424), and/or severe and unusual weather (EESC 425).

His research, in recent years concentrated on severe weather and climate change, has employed computer analysis of synoptic data. Recently he has become involved with GIS techniques such as ArcView in his projects. Using this technology he analyzed the impact of El Nino on the state of Michigan.

Carl is a member of several professional organizations, primary among which are the Association of American Geographers, the Michigan Academy of Science, the American Meteorological Society (SE Michigan Chapter), and the National Lightning Safety Group. In addition, since 1986 he has maintained the National Weather Service Cooperative Weather Station located on university grounds.

Carl's current recreational interests, which were much more competition-oriented in years past, are primarily jogging and some weight training. He has been married for more than 35 years to Ginny, and they currently live in the Ann Arbor area. Their son and daughter, Eric and Kristin, live out-of-state.