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Dr. Steven G. Perry
AMD Staff
Education:
- B.S., Physics and Mathematics, Austin Peay St. Univ., 1974
- M.S., Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State Univ., 1977
- Ph.D., Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State Univ., 1985
Professional Experience:
1998-Present – Meteorologist, Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division, Air Resources Laboratory, NOAA, Research Triangle Park, NC. Assigned to Fluid Modeling Facility.
1985-1998 – Meteorologist, Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division, Air Resources Laboratory, NOAA, Research Triangle Park, NC.
1981-1985 – Air Quality Planning Meteorologist, North Carolina Division of Environmental Management, Raleigh, NC.
Professional Activities & Memberships:
- American Meteorological Society
- Sigma Xi
- Sigma Pi Sigma
- AMS/EPA Regulatory Model Improvement Committee
Awards:
EPA Bronze Medal, 1997: “For developing, in conjunction with industry, spray drift assessment tools and methods which facilitate pesticide labeling resulting in reduced off-site drift of pesticides”
EPA James Ackerman Award, 1999: “For exemplary collaboration with the pesticide industry’s Spray Drift Task Force to provide cost-effective methods for evaluating risk to the spray drift of pesticides”
NOAA, ARL Accomplishment of the Year 2000: “For the development of the AERMOD atmospheric dispersion model”
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications (since 1990):
Cimorelli, A. J., S. G. Perry, A. Venkatram, J. C. Weil, R. J. Paine, R. B. Wilson, R. F. Lee, W. D. Peters, and R. W. Brode, 2004: AERMOD: A dispersion model for industrial source applications Part I: General model formulation and boundary layer characterization. (accepted for publication) Journal of Applied Meteorology.
Perry, S. G., A. J. Cimorelli, J. C. Weil, A. Venkatram, R. J. Paine, R. B. Wilson, R. F. Lee, and W. D. Peters, 2004: AERMOD: A dispersion model for industrial source applications Part II: Model performance against seventeen field-study databases. (accepted for pulication) Journal of Applied Meteorology.
Perry, S. G., D. K. Heist, R. S. Thompson, W. H. Snyder, and R. E. Lawson, Jr, 2004: Wind Tunnel Simulations of Flow and Pollutant Dispersal around the World Trade Center Site. Environmental Manager, February, 2004, 31-34.
Vette, A., S. Gavett, S. Perry, D. Heist, A. Huber, M. Lorber, P. Lioy, P. Georgopoulos, S. T. Rao, W. Petersen, B. Hicks, J. Irwin, and G. Foley, 2004: Environmental Research in Response to 9/11 and Homeland Security. Environmental Manager, February, 2004, 14-22.
Venkatram, A., R. Brode, A. Cimorelli, R. Lee, R. Paine, S. Perry, W. Peters, J. Weil, R. Wilson, 2001: A complex terrain dispersion model for regulatory applications. Atmospheric Environment, 35, 4211-4221.
Bird, S. L., S. G. Perry, S. L. Ray, M. E. Teske, 2001: Evaluation of the AgDRIFT aerial spray drift model. Environment Toxicology Chemistry, 21. 672-681.
Teske, M. E., S. L. Bird, D. M. Esterly, T. B. Curbishley, S. L. Ray, S. G. Perry, 2001: AgDRIFT: A model for estimating near-field spray drift from aerial applications. Environment Toxicology Chemistry, 21, 659-671.
Bird, S. L., D. Esterly, S. G. Perry, 1996: Off-target deposition of pesticides from agricultural aerial spray applications. Journal of Environment Quality, 25, 1095-1104.
Perry, S. G., 1994: Reply to Comments on “CTDMPLUS: A dispersion model for sources near complex topography. Part I: Technical formulations.” Journal of Applied Meteorology, 34, 288-289.
Perry S. G., 1992: CTDMPLUS: A dispersion model for sources near complex topography. Part I: Technical formulations. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 31, 633-645.
Paumier, J. O., S. G. Perry, and D. J. Burns, 1992: CTDMPLUS: A dispersion model for sources near complex topography. Part II: Performance Characteristics. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 31, 646-660.