Dr. Skamarock received his PhD in 1987 from Stanford University in Computational Geophysical Fluid Dynamics in a joint degree program from the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Engineering. He is currently a Senior Scientist at NCAR where he has worked since leaving Stanford. He is head of the Mesoscale Prediction Group in the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology division in the NCAR Earth System Laboratory.

Dr. Skamarock is very active in the development of fluid-flow solvers and atmospheric models, particularly nonhydrostatic solvers suitable for cloud-permitting simulations. He is one of the principal architects of the Weather Research and Forecast model, and he is currently working on developing global solvers based on unstructured centroidal Voronoi tessellations and is leading NCAR’s effort in the development of the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS). Dr. Skamarock continues to work on problems in atmospheric dynamics at large scales (baroclinic waves), small scales (deep convection) and interactions between scales. He collaborates in studies of chemistry and chemical species transport in deep convective clouds.

Dr. Skamarock regularly organizes international workshops on atmospheric model development, including the 2008 Workshop on Global Atmospheric Cores and the 2011 Workshop on Next Generation Weather and Climate Models and Workshop on Transport Schemes on the Sphere. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union. He was Co-Chief editor of Monthly Weather Review for five years and has chaired the Publications Strategic Planning Committee of the American Meteorological Society

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2019–2020 Member of the PhD Committee for Hing Ong, University of New York at Albany.
2011–2013 Member of the PhD Committee for May Wong, University of British Columbia.
2010–2012 Member of the PhD Committee for John Wong, University of Colorado.
2009–2012 Chair, AMS Publications Strategic Planning Committee
2007-2009 Member of the PhD Committee for Lucas Harris, University of Washington.
2004–2009 Member, AMS Information Systems Committee
2003–2008 Co-Chief Editor, Monthly Weather Review
2003– Member, AMS Publications Commission
2000–2002 Editor, Monthly Weather Review
2002–2004 Member, AMS Mesoscale Processes STAC
1999-2002 Member of the PhD Committee for Amy Stuart, Stanford University.
1999-2002 Member of the PhD Committee for Zuwen He, University of Miami.
1999-2009 Chair, MMM Computing Advisory Committee.
1998– Chair, WRF Working Group 1 (Numerics & Software Working Group)
1988– Member, American Meteorological Society
1986– Member, American Geophysical Union

AWARDS
2020 AMS Kenneth C. Spengler Award
2009 NCAR Publication Award
2000 Honorable Mention, NCAR Publication Award
1995 Honorable Mention, NCAR Publication Award