Education

• Ph.D. (Meteorology),  The Pennsylvania State University, May 1999
• M.S. (Meteorology),  The Pennsylvania State University, 1995
• B.S. (Mathematics),  Duke University, 1993

Teaching Experience

• 8/99-5/00:   Supervisor, University of Washington Applied Physics Lab
• 1/98-5/98:   Lecturer, The Pennsylvania State University Altoona Campus
• 8/96-5/97:   Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University

Research Experience

• 5/00-present:   Senior Meteorologist, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
• 9/04 - 10/04:   Aircraft Flight Scientist, SARJET (SAR Barrier Jet Experiment)
  
• 11/99-12/99:   Research Scientist, SHOWEX (SHOaling Waves EXperiment)
• 1/99-5/00:   Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, University of Washington Applied Physics Lab
• 8/95-Present:   Research Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University
• Fall 96:   Scientist, R/V Oceanus, Eastern Seaboard
• 8/93-8/95:   Research Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University

Member of

• Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing Association
• American Meteorological Society
• American Geophysical Union
• Canadian Meteorological Society
• Chi Epsilon Pi
• National Weather Association

Publications

• Refereed:
• Monaldo, F. M., D. R. Thompson, N S Winstead, W. G. Pichel, P. Clemente-Colon, and M. B. Christiansen, 2005: Ocean wind field mapping from synthetic aperture radar and its application to research and applied problems. Submitted to JHU/APL Tech. Digest, April 2005
  
• Colle, B. A., K. A. Loescher, G. S. Young and N S Winstead, 2005: Climatology of barrier jets along the Alaskan Coast, Part II: Large-scale and sounding composites.  Monthly Weather Review. In press.
  
• Loescher, K. A., G. S. Young, B. A. Colle, and N S Winstead, 2005: Climatology of barrier jets along the Alaskan Coast, Part I: Spatial and temporal distributions. Monthly Weather Review. In press.
  
• Young, G. S., T. D. Sikora and N. S. Winstead, 2005: Use of synthetic aperture radar in fine-scale analysis of Synoptic-scale fronts at sea. Weather and Forecasting. In press.
  
• Barnum, B. H., N. S. Winstead, J. Wesley, A. Hakola, P. R. Colarco, O. B. Toon, P. Ginoux, G. Brooks, L. Hasselbarth, and B. Toth, 2003: Forecasting dust storms using the CARMA-dust model and MM5 weather data. Environmental Modelling and Software,19, 129-140.
  
• Babin, S. M., T. D. Sikora and N. S. Winstead, 2003: A case study of satellite synthetic aperture radar signatures of spatially evolving atmospheric convection over the Western Atlantic Ocean. Boundary Layer Meteorology, 106, 527-546.
  
• Winstead, N. S., D. R. Thompson, T. D. Sikora and P. D. Mourad, 2002: Direct influence of gravity waves on surface-layer stress during a cold air outbreak, as shown by synthetic aperture radar..Monthly Weather Review. 130, 2764-2776.
• Thompson, D. R., F. M. Monaldo, N. S. Winstead, W. Pichel and P. Clemente-Colon, 2001: Combined estimates improve high-resolution coastal wind mapping.  EOS. 82, 469-474.
• Winstead, N. S., R. M. Schaaf and P. D. Mourad, 2000: Synthetic aperture radar observations of the surface signatures of cold-season bands over the Great Lakes. Weather and Forecasting, 16, 315-328.
• Winstead, N. S., J. Verlinde, M. Jensen, D. Nicosia, P. F. Maloit, N. Miles, S. T. Arthur, F. Jaskiewicz, and J. R. Davis, 2001: High resolution radar observations of mammatus. Monthly Weather Review, 129, 159-166.
• Winstead, N. S. and G. S. Young, 2000: Analysis of drainage flow exit jets over the Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Applied Meteorology 39 1269-1281.
• Young, G. S., T. D. Sikora and N. S. Winstead, 2000: On inferring marine atmospheric boundary layer properties from spectral characteristics of satellite-borne SAR imagery. Monthly Weather Review 128, 1506-1520.
• Winstead, N. S. and P. D. Mourad, 2000: Shallow Great Lake scale atmospheric thermal circulation imaged by synthetic aperture radar. Monthly Weather Review 128 3654-3663.
• Nicosia, D., E. Ostuno, N. Winstead, G. Klavun, C. Patterson, C. Gilbert, G. Bryan, J. H. E. Clark and J. M. Fritsch, 1999: A flash flood from a Lake-Enhanced Rainband. Weather and Forecasting.14. 271-288.
• Non-Refereed:
• Wesley, J. J., A. Hakola, G. R. Brooks, B. H. Barnum and N. S. Winstead, 2002: Dust Transport Application (DTA): Assessment and User's Guide for Africa, Central and Southwest Asia. Internal Air Force Weather Agency Report.
• Young, G. S., and N. S. Winstead, 2001: Meteorological phenomena in high-resolution SAR wind imagery. In High-resolution Wind Monitoring with SAR: A User's Guide. R. C. Beal, ed.
• Winstead, N. S., 2001: Characteristics of the Wind Speed Distribution over Cold Bay and Lenard Harbor, Alaska. Report No. SRO-01-09. Final report for the Aleutians East Borough completed May, 2001.
• Winstead, N. S., 1999: Using synthetic aperture radar to remotely sense mesoscale and submesoscale processes in the marine atmospheric boundary layer. Doctoral Dissertation: The Pennsylvania State University.
• Shirer, H. N., G. S. Young, R. Wells, A. N. Rogers, J. P. Rishel, R. A. Mason, L. Suciu, N. S. Winstead, H. W. Henderson, D. K. Rinker, Jr., J. W. Rohrbach, J. Edson, C. Friehe, S. Wetzel, S. Miller, and T. Hristov, 1999: Identifying Coherent Structures in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer. In Air-Sea Exchange: Physics, Chemistry, Dynamics and Statistics. Edited by G. L. Geernaert., Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Winstead, N. S., 1995: Diagnosing chaotic behavior in time series produced by large eddy simulation. Masters Thesis. The Pennsylvania State University.
• Conference Preprints and Presentations:
• Winstead, N S, B A Colle, J Olsen, G. Young and K Loescher, 2005: Improving the forecasting of barrier jets along coastal Alaska using remote sensing, modeling, and a SARJET field study. Preprints: 17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Washington D C, 1 - 5 August 2005.
  
• Horstmann, J., W. Koch, H. C. Graber, D. R. Thompson, F. Monaldo and N S Winstead 2005: Evaluation of an algorithm for operational wind field retrieval from synthetic aperture radra images. Preprints: 8th International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 17 - 19 May 2005.
  
• Winstead, N. S. : Using SAR to do mesoscale meteorology. Presentation given to the Juneau WFO. September 2004.
  
• Winstead, N. S., B. Colle, and N. Bond, 2004: Using synthetic aperture radar and high-resolution MM5 simulations to study barrier jets in the Gulf of Alaska. Preprints, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Anchorage, AK September 20 - 24, 2004.
  
• Loescher, K., G. Young, N. S. Winstead, and B. Colle 2004: Application of a SAR image archive to climatological analysis of coastal wind storms. Preprints, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Anchorage, AK September 20 - 24, 2004.
• Sikora, T. D., G. S. Young and N. S. Winstead, 2004: Use of synthetic aperture radar in the fine-scale analysis of synoptic-scale fronts at sea. Preprints: 13th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere,
  
• Young, G. S., K. Loescher, N. S. Winstead, and B. Colle 2004: Barrier jets in the Gulf of Alaska - A satellite climatology. Preprints: 11th Conference on Mountain Meteorology and the Annual Mesoscale Alpine Program (MAP), 21 June 2004
• Barnum, B. H. and N. S. Winstead, 2003: Tactical Decision Aid for Mesoscale Forecasting of Dust Storms. Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations, Monterey, CA. September 9-11 2003.
  
• Horstmann, J., W. Koch, N. S. Winstead, P. Clemente-Colon, and W. Pichel, 2003: Comparison of RADARSAT-1 SAR retrieved ocean wind fields to QuikSCAT and numerical models. IGARSS 2003
  
• Monaldo, F. M., D. R. Thompson and N. S. Winstead, 2003: Combining SAR and Scatterometer data to improve high-resolution wind speed retrievals. IGARSS 2003
• Barnum, B. H., N. S. Winstead, P. Colarco, O. B. Toon, P. Ginoux, J. Weseley, and A. Hakola, 2003: Mesoscale forecasting of dust storms. 7th Annual George Mason University Conference on Transport and Dispersion Modeling, Fairfax, VA June 17-19, 2003.
  
• Barnum, B. H., N. S. Winstead, P. Colarco, O. B. Toon, P. Ginoux, J. Weseley, and Lt. A. Hakola, 2002: Forecasting dust storms using CARMA-Dust Model and MM5 Weather Data. Preprints: Joint meeting of the International Conference on Aeolian Reseach and the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem-Soil Erosion Network. Lubbock, TX July 22-25, 2002.
• Barnum, B., N. S. Winstead and R. Sterner, 2001: Dust Transport and Source model Presentation. NSS Seminar, JHU/APL.
• Winstead, N. S., and F. M. Monaldo, 2001: Observing mesoscale and microscale atmospheric phenomena using synthetic aperture radar. Invited seminar presented to the Research Foundation of SUNY-Stony Brook, March 14, 2001.
• Winstead, N. S., and F. M. Monaldo, 2001: Observing mesoscale and microscale atmospheric phenomena using synthetic aperture radar. Invited seminar presented at the Illinois State Water Survey, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 4, 2001.
• Winstead, N. S., G. S. Young and S. Babin, 1998: Inferring wind direction from the organization of mesoscale Atmospheric signatures in RADARSAT imagery. Preprints, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Seattle, WA, 6-10 July 1998.
• Winstead, N. S., G. S. Young, and D. R. Thompson, 1997: An analysis of drainage flow exit jets over the Chesapeake Bay as seen in an ERS-1 SAR image. Preprints, 12^th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Vancouver, BC, July 28- August 1, 1997, American Meteorological Society.
• Sikora, T. D., D. R. Thompson, G. S. Young and N. S. Winstead, 1996: Evidence of a land breeze in an ERS-1 SAR image of the New Jersey coastline. Proc. IGARSS '96, Lincoln, Nebraska.
• Winstead, N. S., H. N. Shirer, H. W. Henderson and R. Wells, 1995: Diagnosing chaotic behavior in time series produced by large eddy simulation. Preprints, 11^th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Charlotte, NC, March 27-31, 1995, American Meteorological Society, 383-386.
• Winstead, N. S., H. N. Shirer, T. D. Sikora and R. C. Beal, 1996: Meteorological explanation of a sea surface roughness streak imaged by ERS-1 SAR near Block Island, RI, IGARSS '96, Lincoln, Nebraska May 27- 31, 1996.