BioAlek is a first year graduate student and Associate Director of Scalia Lab. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in Meteorology and a minor in Mathematics. While at Oklahoma he has worked with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey for the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, preformed public outreach as a National Weather Center tour guide, and participated in a study abroad to Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. During the summer of 2009 Alek worked at the Charleston, SC National Weather Service office through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hollings Scholarship Program. While in Charleston he completed an upper-air climatology for the office and presented his work at the 2010 American Meteorological Society Conference. Alek is originally from St. Louis, MO and enjoys swimming, hiking, traveling, and following Cardinals baseball. |