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Matt

CHASING

About Me

I am a graduate student at OU, serving as an RA with several scientists at the National Severe Storms Lab. I am researching cloud microphysics in tornadic and non-tornadic supercells using dual-polarization Doppler radar data in an effort to discover polarimetric signatures that may indicate imminent tornadogenesis.Oh, and I'm making a Rap album

My Interests

Meteorology, physics, music, philosophy of science/religion, composing music, storm chasing, ncaa football (especially OU - BOOMER SOONER), all of my research projects.

Music:

Most classical, especially Shostakovich, Mahler, Bernstein, Beethoven, and Dvorak to name a few; soundtracks: Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Horner, John Barry.

Books:

The most recent ones I've read: Einstein and Religion, God in the Equation, The Non-Local Universe, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, How We Believe, Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, Why People Believe Weird Things, Scientists Confront Creationism, The Elegant Universe, The Science of Good and Evil, The Godfather, Under a Wild Sky, Misquoting Jesus, The Life of the Cosmos, Consilience, Rough Guide to Climate Change, Fabric of the Cosmos, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Science and Religion, Billions and Billions, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Shostakovich and Stalin, The God Delusion, and a few meteorology textbooks.

Heroes:

Albert Einstein, Dmitri Shostakovich, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Edward Lorentz, Michael Shermer, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynmann