Matthew Lazzara
Meteorologist
Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
Space Science and Engineering Center
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1225 West Dayton Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Phone:(608) 262-0436

mattl@ssec.wisc.edu

Interests:

Along side my work at SSEC, my interests include polar meteorology (especially Antarctic meteorology), chaos theory, forecasting, atmospheric predictability, satellite meteorology and interactive processing.

Background:

Orginally, I am a graduate of King Philip Regional High School's Environmental Science Department in Wrentham, Massachusetts (my hometown). I have my undergraduate degree from Lyndon State College in Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology , and Minors in Math and Physics. Recently, I completed graduate school from Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Graduate School with a Masters in Atmospheric Sciences. I am currently pursuing my PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences as well as working on my minor in Curriculum and Instruction (Science). I am a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society , the National Weather Association, and the Mt. Washington Observatory.

I am currently involved in the following projects:

AMRC, Antarctic Meteorological Research Center and related sister project AWS, Automatic Weather Station Project

I have been involved in the following projects:

• McIDAS, Man computer Interactive Data Access System User Group
  
• MERLIN, Multi-source EnviRonmental data dispLay for INternet archives
  
• Interactive Systems Development Group

Related Links: 

• Antarctic Journal - entries from past 4 trips to Antarctica
• Tracking Iceburgs
• Ross Ice Shelf