All About Me

Full Name: Louis Anthony Bowers

Age: Just about 23 (February 9, 1979)- Go Aquarians!

Home: Somers Point, NJ

Occupation: Meteorologist

Eduaction:

• B.Sc. Meteorology - 3.407 GPA 27/~600 - May 2001 - Rutgers University (Cum Laude)

• High School - 3.89/4.00 GPA 23/238 - June 1997 - Mainland Regional (Cum Laude)

Tests that show that I am smart:

• IQ: 155, 135 when drunk

• GRE: 710Q, 550V, 610A

• SAT: 1300

Car: '97 Mercury Tracer

Contact info:

• lbowers54@home.com

• bowers@imcs.rutgers.edu

Instant Messaging:

• AOL: HurricanLB; SeabreezeLou

• Yahoo: HurricanLB

 

Web Pages Created:

• www.hurricanlb.com

• NJ Coastal Weather Page

• NJ Sea Breeze Case Study Page

 

Hobbies and Activities:

• Getting screwed over by women

• Storm Chasing

• Weather in general

• Basketball (Go 76ers!!!)

• Movies (Favs include GO, Before Sunrise, The Matrix, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Twister, the Perfect Storm)

• Music (Favs include REM, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Robert Palmer, Beethoven, Nirvana, Bon Jovi, Bare Naked Ladies, DMB, STP, No Doubt, radio station Y100 Philly, WBZC)

• Playing with my computer

• Deriving thermodynamic equations...just kidding :)

Conferences Attended:

• American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting - Honolulu, HI February 2002

• American Meteorological Society 81st Annual Meeting - Albuquerque, NM January 2001

• 2000 NJ State Emergency Preparedness Hurricane Conference- Atlantic City, NJ June 2000

• 2001 NJ State Emergency Preparedness Hurricane Conference- Atlantic City, NJ May 2001

Presentations:

• Poster AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting

• Sea Breeze Frontogenesis and Onshore Propagation Along the NJ Shore - Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences - November 2000

• Schor Middle School 8th Grade - ONJSC Outreach April 2001

• The Role of Remote Sensing in Hurricane Forecasting - May 2000