Instructor Biography: Dan Lindsey
Dr. Dan Lindsey, Research Meteorologist, NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR)
Dr. Dan Lindsey is a Research Meteorologist for NOAA NESDIS, located at the Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA). Dan received a B.S. in Mathematics in 1998 at the University of Georgia and an M.S. in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, working under the direction of Dr. David Randall on modeling convective downdrafts. Dan joined the Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) during the spring of 2002. In September 2004, he joined NOAA/NESDIS as a Research Meteorologist, and finished his PhD in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University in 2008. His research interests focus on both geostationary and polar-orbiting satellite detection of mesoscale phenomena, including severe storms, and he is heavily involved in the checkout of GOES-16.