Dr. Rezaul Mahmood, professor at Western Kentucky University, specializes in weather and climate science. He has published more than 65 peer-reviewed papers in highly respected journals. Dr. Mahmood’s research focuses on meso-scale meteorology and climatology and observations, modeling atmospheric impacts of land use land cover change, modeling impacts of soil moisture on weather and climate, air quality meteorology, flash flooding climatology and hydrometeorology of the Appalachia. Rezaul provided significant leadership in development of the Kentucky Mesonet and WKU’s High Performance Computing Center (HPCC). His research has been funded by the NSF, NOAA, USDA-ARS, and others.