Brief Biography I am a Lecturer in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. I did my PhD in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics group at the University of California, Berkeley, where I was advised by Prof. Fotini Katopodes Chow. I did my BS and MS in Civil Engineering at North Carolina State University, where I was advised by Prof. John W. Baugh in the Computing and Systems group, and worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. Teaching Teaching is my primary professional focus and interest. At the University of New Hampshire, I have taught:
Research I am generally interested in thermal fluid mechanics, particularly as it relates to atmospheric turbulence. Currently, I am most interested in improving eddy-viscosity turbulence models and surface-layer parameterizations used for high-resolution numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. My doctoral research was on the formulation of large-eddy simulation (LES) turbulence closure models for kilometer-scale NWP applications (Simon and Chow 2021, Simon et al. 2019, Zhou et al. 2014). As a postdoctoral researcher I studied coupled land-atmosphere processes and their relevance to global Earth system models (Simon et al. 2024, Waterman et al. 2024, Fowler et al. 2024, Simon et al. 2021). My masters work focused on coastal storm surge and tide modeling (Baugh et al. 2014). Turbulence Animations Below are some pleasing visualizations of (numerically simulated) turbulent flows, offered with no further explanation. 
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