Janice DeCosmo Tel: (206) 685-8542/221-6178 Fax: (206) 543-0179 Mail: Box 351310         University of Washington         Seattle, WA 98195-1310 E-mail: jdecosmo@u.washington.edu

Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 1991

M.S., Physics, University of Oregon, 1984

B.S., Physics, University of Iowa, 1979

Experience

Assistant Dean, Office of Undergraduate Education, University of Washington, 7/02-present.

Director, Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium, University of Washington, 7/97-present.

• Oversee statewide program, including policy setting, monitoring budgets and supervising staff;
• Evaluate Consortium member projects and collaboratively define new directions;
• Design, develop and teach science courses and workshops for K-12 teachers and undergraduates;
• Create, execute and evaluate new UW-Space Grant projects;
• Administer undergraduate scholarship, research and graduate fellowship programs;
• Direct development efforts to raise program matching funds.

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington, 1/00—present.

Director, Undergraduate Research Program, Office of Undergraduate Education, University of Washington, 1/00-present.

Acting Assistant Dean, Office of Undergraduate Education, University of Washington, 11/01-7/02.

Research Assistant Professor, Geophysics Program (now ESS), University of Washington, 12/94—1/00.

• Perform research in air-sea interaction and in teaching and learning science.

Associate Director, Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium, University of Washington, 4/94—7/97.

• Duties as for director (above) without Consortium oversight responsibilities.

Meteorology Instructor, University of Washington Extension, 11/91—10/99.

• Designed, wrote study guide for and taught on continuing basis Atmospheric Sciences C101.

Instructor (part-time), Seattle Central Community College, 9/93—4/96.

• Created and taught Global Climate Change, an interdisciplinary science course for non-majors.

Science Education Coordinator, Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium, (Concurrent appointment as post-doctoral research associate, Geophysics) , 4/92—12/94.

• Duties as for associate director (above) without administrative/supervisory responsibilities.

Post-doctoral Research Associate, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 7/91-4/92.

• Co-wrote a funded NSF grant for two research programs in experimental air-sea interaction.

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 9/84-6/91.

• Performed air-sea interaction field experiments and data analysis, including computer programming.
• Taught sections and labs for Atmospheric Sciences 101 and 462.

Science Teacher, Elementary school summer program, Eugene, Oregon, 6/84-7/84.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Physics, University of Oregon, 9/83-6/84.

Physics Teacher, U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, Lycée de Kpodji, Kpalimé, Togo, West Africa, 6/80-6/83.

• Taught high school physics, created a laboratory program and assisted with teacher training.

• National Council of Space Grant Directors
• Council on Undergraduate Research
• American Geophysical Union
• American Meteorological Society
• Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
• Washington Science Teachers Association
• National Science Teachers Association

Selected Publications and Presentations

Andreas, E. L. and J. DeCosmo: The signature of sea spray in the Hexos turbulent heat flux data. Boundary Layer Meteorology,103: 303-333, 2002.

Andreas, E.L. and J. DeCosmo: Sea Spray Production and Influence on Air-Sea Heat and Moisture Fluxes over the Open Ocean. In Air-Sea Exchange: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics,, Gary Geernaert, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 578 pp., 1999.

Andreas, E.L. and J. DeCosmo: Partitioning the air-sea heat fluxes into interfacial and spray contributions. The Oceanography Society meeting on Ocean Interfaces, Seattle, WA, April 1-4, 1997.

DeCosmo, J. and Edgerton, R.T.: Implementation of Interactive World Wide Web-Based Science Curricula, National Educational Computing Conference, Seattle, WA, June 30-July 2, 1997.

Winn, W., DeCosmo, J., Emerson, T., and Yu, R.: Global Change, Virtual Reality and Learning. In Proceedings of the National Science Foundation Workshop, Seattle, WA, 1997.

DeCosmo, J., Katsaros, K.B., S.D. Smith, R. J. Anderson, W.A. Oost, K. Bumke, and H. M. Chadwick: Air-sea exchange of water vapor and sensible heat: The Humidity Exchange Over the Sea (HEXOS) results. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 101, 12,001-12,016, 1996.

DeCosmo, J.: Global Climate Change: A General Interest Science Course at the Community College. Fifth Symposium on Education, American Meteorological Society, January 28-February 2, 1996, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996.

Katsaros, K.B., J. DeCosmo, R.J. Lind, R.J. Anderson, S. D. Smith, R. Kraan, W. Oost, K. Uhlig, P.G. Mestayer, S.E. Larsen, M.H. Smith, and G. deLeeuw: Measurements of Humidity and Temperature in the Marine Environment During the HEXOS Main Experiment. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol, 11, 964-981, 1994.

Oost, W.A., C.W. Fairall, J.B. Edson, S.D. Smith, R. J. Anderson, J.A.B. Wills, K.B. Katsaros and J. DeCosmo: Flow distortion calculations and their application in HEXMAX, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 11, 357-365, 1994.

DeCosmo, J.: Weather: A Study Guide for Atmospheric Sciences C101. University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, 1993;revised 1997.

DeCosmo, J., K.B.Katsaros, S.D.Smith, R.J.Anderson,W.Oost, K.Bumke and A.L.M. Grant: Air-Sea Water Vapor and Sensible Heat Fluxes in High Winds--Observations and Model Predictions. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 73, 76, 1992.

Smith, S. D., R.J. Anderson, W.A. Oost, C. Kraan, N. Maat, J. DeCosmo, K.B. Katsaros, K.L. Davidson, K. Bumke, L. Hasse and H.M. Chadwick: Sea Surface Wind Stress and Drag Coefficients: the HEXOS Results. Boundary-Layer Meteor., 60, 109-142, 1992.

DeCosmo, J. and K.B. Katsaros: Air-sea Exchange of Sensible Heat and Water Vapor Over Breaking Waves. Fifth Conference on Meteorology and Oceanography of the Coastal Zone, May 6-10, 1991, American Meteorological Society, Miami, Florida, 1991.

Katsaros, K.B. and J. DeCosmo: Evaporation at high wind speeds, sea surface temperature at low wind speeds: Examples of atmospheric regulation. In Proceedings of Workshop on Modelling the Fate and Influence of Marine Spray, June 5-7, 1990, Luminy, France, E.C. Monahan and P.G. Mestayer, eds., 1990.

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