Corene J. Matyas 11/15/07
Department of Geography, University of Florida
3141 Turlington Hall, P.O. Box 117315, Gainesville, FL32611
(352) 392-0494 ext. 210
Education
Ph.D., Physical Geography (Climatology), 2001 – 2005 Pennsylvania State University: University Park, PA
Dissertation: “Shape Analysis of Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Patterns”
M.A.,PhysicalGeography (Climatology), 1999- 2001 ArizonaStateUniversity: Tempe, AZ
Thesis: “A Compactness Measure to Analyze Convection Precipitation”
B.S., Environmental Geoscience (Atmospheric Science), 1996-1999 (Summa Cum Laude and Honors Program
Graduate) ClarionUniversity of Pennsylvania: Clarion, PA Minor: Sculpture
1994 - 1996 Enrolled under Senate Bill 140 while in high school Kent State University Trumbull – Warren, OH
Employment History
Assistant Professor – University of Florida; courses: Climatology, Weather and Forecasting, Extreme Weather, Hurricanes, Chasing Storms
Visiting Assistant Professor (non-tenure accruing) – OhioUniversity; courses: Introduction to Weather, Meteorology, Physical Geography, Climatology (2004-2005)
Course Instructor/ Graduate Lecturer – PennState, Introduction to Physical Geography (summer 2004)
Graduate Teaching Assistant – Penn State, teaching lab sections for Introduction to Climatology (fall 2002, 2003) and Introduction to Physical Geography (spring 2004) courses
Graduate Research Assistant – PennState, NSF grant studying land surface/climate interactions
2001-2002, analyzed radar imagery to determine convection severity in U.S. Corn Belt area
National Weather Service Office Phoenix, Arizona– Weather balloon launcher summers 2000, 2001
Graduate Research Assistant - Office of Climatology, Arizona State University, 1999-2001
Collect and manage data, operate meteorological instruments, NSF urban carbon dioxide studies
NASA-JOVE - Student Research Assistant, Clarion University, 1997 – 1999 Research and conference presentations – atmospheric teleconnections, estuaries, tropical cyclones
Lab Monitor – Work study position, ClarionUniversityArtDepartment, spring 1999 Clean and maintain sculpture shop equipment, assist students when utilizing machinery
Library Assistant – Work study position, Clarion University, summer 1998 Children’s Room Assistant at the Clarion Free Library check out/in and shelve books, create bulletin boards, read books to children
Library Assistant – Work study position, Clarion University, 1996-1998 Circulation Desk Assistant at the Rena Carlson Library on CUP campus assist patrons, maintain copiers, check out/in and shelve books
Professional Memberships and Activities
Association of American Geographers, Climate Specialty Group – member 1999 - present
American Meteorological Society – member 2002 - present
Society of Women Geographers –member 2003 – present
American Geophysical Union – member 2006 - present
South East Division of the Association of American Geographers – member 2005 - present
Pennsylvania Geographers Association – member 2002 - 2004
Supporting Women in Geography – member 2003 – 2004
National Council for Geographic Teaching – member 2002 – 2003
Arizona Thunderstorm Chasers – member 2000 – 2001, Assistant Director 2000
Central Arizona Chapter of the American Meteorological Society - member 1999 - 2001
Arizona Geographers Society – member 1999-2001
Awards
Nomination for CLAS faculty teaching award fall 2006
AAG Nystrom Award Competition: Finalist 2006
AAG Climate Specialty Group Student Paper Competition: First Place 2005
PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Graduate Exhibition: Second Place 2004
E Willard Miller Award in Geography: Third Place 2004
AAG Climate Specialty Group Student Paper Competition: Fourth Place 2003
AAG Climate Specialty Group Student Paper Competition: Second Place 2002
ASU Weather Forecasting Contest: Best Overall Forecaster 1999
ClarionUniversity Ethics Essay Contest: Second Place 1999
SSHE Honors Program Study Abroad Travel Award summer 1998
ClarionUniversity Presidential Commission on the Status of Women: Project Winner/Travel Award 1997
Mathematics Department Problem Solving Contest: Winner 1997
Award for Outstanding Athletic Academic Achievement 1997
Invited Lectures
University of Florida Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering October 15, 2007
IndianaState University Department of Anthropology, Geology, and Geography, April 30, 2007
University of Florida Physics Department seminar series October 19, 2006
NationalHurricaneCenter Hurricane Rainfall Seminar, MiamiFlorida August 15, 2006
University of Florida Mathematics Department seminar series April 12, 2006
Association of American Geographers Warren Nystrom Competition Finalist Speaker March 10, 2006
University of MaryWashington– March 18, 2005
Invited Speaker Honoring Distinguished Alumni Roscoe Braham, Ohio University – September 24, 2004
FloridaInternationalUniversity – March 18, 2004 Miami, FL
Society of Women Geographers– April 19, 2003 Washington, D.C.
Service
Committee for Education Programs and Students in the Department of Geography Fall 2007
South East Division AAG Regional Meeting – session discussant November 20, 2007
Family Day October 13, 2007 organization, equipment demonstrations
Interviews Fall 2007: Florida Public Radio, WUFT TV (4), WRUF AM (4), 11 journalism students
Interviews: 3 journalism students, 2 Gainesville Sun, Florida Public Radio, national press release concerning
hurricane rainfall research (print and on camera), WUFT (2), Orlando Sentinel, Herald-Tribune (Sarasota), WKTK FM, WRUF AM, RealScience website Summer 2007
Interviews: 2 Alligator reporters, 4 students Spring 2007
Dunkle Award Committee Spring 2007
Judge of student paper/poster competition: Florida Society of Geographers Annual Meeting Spring 2007
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Fall 2006
Hurricane Specialist Interviews: WUFT TV, 2 journalism students, WRUF AM Fall 2006
Merit Committee Summer 2006
Hurricane Specialist Interviews: Journalism students (6), Biloxi Times, News-Press, WCJB TV Summer 2006
Preview Advising Summer B 2006
Edward Fik Graduate Scholarship Committee Spring 2006
Committee to Develop Geography Department By-Laws Spring 2006
Department of Geography Colloquium speaker February 23, 2006
South East Division AAG Regional Meeting – session discussant November 22, 2005
Publications
Matyas, C.J. “A Spatial Analysis of Radar Reflectivity Regions within Hurricane Charley (2004),” submitted to the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 10/23/2007.
Matyas, C.J.“Shape measures of rain shields as indicators of changing environmental conditions in a landfalling tropical storm,” revise and resubmit 10/1/2007
Matyas, C.J. 2007 “Analyzing tropical cyclone radar reflectivity patterns using GIS.,” Geophysical Research Abstracts, 9, 03083.
Matyas, C.J. 2007 “Quantifying the Shapes of U.S. Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Rain Shields,”
The Professional Geographer, 59:2, 158-172.
Matyas, C.J. 2006. “Relating Rainfall and Wind Fields of Hurricane Charley (2004),” EOS Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A13E-0979
Matyas, C. J. “Spatial Characteristics of Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Patterns in Florida,” The Florida Geographer, Volume 37, Pg 58-71.
Matyas, C.J. 2006 “3D Data Visualization with Golden Software's Voxler” Geospatial Solutions software review.
Matyas, C.J. 2006. “Using GIS To Assess the Symmetry of Tropical Cyclone Rain Shields,” Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences Volume 29, Pg 31-39.
Matyas, C.J. 2006. Analyzing Tropical Cyclone Rain Shields According to Storm Size. 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Monterey, CA.
Matyas, C.J. 2006. Using Annular Rings and Quadrants to Clip Polygons Representing Tropical Cyclone Precipitation in a Geographical Information System. 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology at the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Matyas, C.J. 2005. “Using Geographical Information Systems for the Spatial Analysis of Base Reflectivity Radar Data and Applications to the Study of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Patterns,” 15th Conference on Applied Climatology, Savannah, GA.
Vega, A.J. and C.J. Matyas, 2004. "North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Intensities and Macro-Scale Temperature Variations,” The Pennsylvania Geographer, Spring/Summer 2004, Volume 42, Number 1, Pg 142-178.
Matyas, C. J., 1999. “Representing the Human Race,” Janua Sophia, Philosophy Journal of EdinboroUniversity of Pennsylvania, Volume 1, Pg. 1-7.
Presentations
Matyas, C.J. 2007 Classifying radar reflectivity regions during the landfall of Hurricane Charley (2004)delivered at the Association of American Geographers South East Division Annual Meeting, November 20, Charleston, SC.
Matyas, C. J. 2007 A GIS Analysis of Hurricane Charley (2004), delivered at the UF Department of Geography Colloquium October 18.
Matyas, C. J. 2007 Analyzing Hurricanes – A Geographer’s Perspective, delivered at the University of Florida Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series October 15.
Matyas, C.J. 2007 Comparing the Rainfall Patterns of Hurricanes Frances (2004) and Jeanne (2004) During Landfall Over Florida, to be delivered at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics XXIV General Assembly, July 2, Perugia, Italy.
Matyas, C.J. 2007 Analyzing tropical cyclone radar reflectivity patterns using GIS, delivered at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, April 16, Vienna, Austria.
Matyas, C.J. 2007 “A GIS Analysis of Radar and Surface Wind Data from a Landfalling Hurricane,” delivered at the 61st annual Interdepartmental Hurricanes Conference, March 7, New Orleans, LA.
Matyas, C. J. 2007 Spatial Characteristics of Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Patterns in Florida, delivered at the Florida Society of Geographers annual meeting, February 10, Jacksonville, FL.
Matyas, C.J. 2006 “Relating the Rain and Wind Fields of Hurricane Charley 2004,” delivered at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 11, San Francisco, CA.
Matyas. C.J. 2006 “Climate Change and Tropical Cyclones: Is a Category Six on the Horizon?,” to be delivered at the Physics Department Colloquium Series, October 19, Gainesville, FL.
Matyas, C.J. 2006 “Using GIS To Assess the Symmetry of Tropical Cyclone Rain Shields,” to be delivered at the 29th Annual Applied Geography Conference, October 12, Tampa, FL.
Matyas, C.J. 2006 “Measuring Tropical Cyclone Rain Shield Shapes with GIS,” delivered at the Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, August 15, Miami, FL.
Matyas, C.J. 2006 “Analyzing Tropical Cyclone Rain Shields According to Storm Size,” delivered at the 27thConference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, April 24, Monterrey, CA.
Matyas, C.J. 2006 “Predicting the Spatial Extent of Tropical Cyclone Rainfall,” delivered at the Department of Mathematics Colloquium Series, April 12, Gainesville, FL.
Matyas, C.J. 2006 “Relating the Shapes of Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Rain Shields to Storm Intensity, Distance Inland, and Topography,” delivered at the Association of American Geographers 2006 Annual Meeting, March 10, Chicago, IL.
Matyas, C.J. 2006 “Quantifying the Effects of Wind Shear on Tropical Cyclone Rain Shields,” delivered at the Florida Society of Geographers 2006 Annual Meeting, February 18, St. Petersburg, FL.
Waylen, P. and C.J. Matyas 2006 “Shifting Patterns of Seasonal Rainfall, Jacksonville, 1872-2005,” delivered
at the Florida Society of Geographers 2006 Annual Meeting, February 18, St. Petersburg, FL.
Matyas, C.J. 2006 Using Annular Rings and Quadrants to Clip Polygons Representing Tropical Cyclone Precipitation in a Geographical Information System. 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology at the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Matyas, C.J. 2005 “Relating Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Patterns to Storm Size,” delivered at the Association of American Geographers South East Division Annual Meeting, November 21, West Palm Beach, FL.
Matyas, C.J., 2005, “Using Geographical Information Systems for the Spatial Analysis of Base Reflectivity Radar Data and Applications to the Study of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Patterns,” 15th Conference on Applied Climatology, Savannah, GA.
Matyas, C.J. 2005 “A Set of Shape Measures to Track Changes in the Precipitation Patterns of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones,” delivered at the Association of American Geographers 2005 Annual Meeting, April 8, 2005, Denver, CO.
Vega, A.J. and C.J. Matyas 2004. “Relationships between North Atlantic Air and Sea Temperatures and Tropical Cyclone Intensity,” delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Geographical Society, Nov 5-6, 2004, New Cumberland, PA.
Matyas, C. J. 2004. “The Spatial Analysis of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Patterns: Does Size Matter?,” delivered at the Association of American Geographers East Lakes Division Annual Meeting, October 15, Athens, OH.
Matyas, C.J. 2004. “Geographical Tools to Aid Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Forecasts,” poster presentation delivered at the Pennsylvania State University Graduate Exhibition, March 28, 2004.
Matyas, C.J. 2004. “Using Geographical Shape Analysis to Investigate Tropical Cyclone Radar ReflectivityPatterns,” delivered at the Association of American Geographers 2004 Annual Meeting, March 15, Philadelphia,
PA.
Matyas, C.J. 2003 “Shape Analysis of Land Falling Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Patterns
,” delivered at the monthly meeting of The Society for Women Geographers, April 17, Washington, D.C.
Matyas, C.J. 2003. “Association Between Convective Rainfall and Land Cover Boundaries in the Midwestern U.S. Corn Belt,” delivered at the Association of American Geographers 2003 Annual Meeting, March 7, New Orleans, LA.
Matyas, C.J. 2002. “Convection and Land Surface Boundary Associations in the Midwest U.S., Summers 1999 and 2000,” delivered at the 2002 Joint Meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education and the Pennsylvania Geographical Society, Oct 18, Philadelphia, PA.
Matyas, C.J. 2002. “A Compactness Measure to Analyze Convective Precipitation Shapes,” delivered at the Association of American Geographers 2002 Annual Meeting, March 21, Los Angeles, CA.
Matyas, C.J. 2001 “Shape Analysis of Convective Precipitation Around Phoenix, Arizona” delivered at the Association of American Geographers 2001 Annual Meeting, New York City, NY.
Matyas, C. J. and A. J. Vega 2000. “Synoptic Investigation of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones,” delivered at the Association of American Geographers 2000 Annual Meeting, April 6, Pittsburgh, PA.
Matyas, C. J. 1999. “Ethical Implications of Coastal Development,” delivered at the 1999 State System of Higher Education Philosophy Conference, April 17, Lockhaven, PA.
Matyas, C. J. and A. J. Vega, 1998. “The Effects of Northeastern United States Climate Variations on Salinity Changes in Chesapeake Bay,” delivered at the 12th National Conference on Undergraduate Research, April 23-25, Salisbury, MD.
Matyas, C. J. and A. J. Vega, 1997. “Pacific/North American Teleconnection Variations and Precipitation Fluxes in the Conterminous United States,” delivered at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Geographical Society, Oct 31, York, PA.