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Matthew A. Lazzara
Matthew A. Lazzara, co-investigator of the AMRC project, is a Senior Research Specialist and Meteorologist at the Space Science and Engineering Center
(SSEC), University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). In the AMRC, Lazzara supports and maintains the generation and archive of Antarctic weather data, including the
Antarctic satellite composite images and the processing of SSEC's Automatic Weather Station (AWS) data collected by the AWS network in Antarctica. Additionally, he
investigates meteorological phenomena in the Antarctic and conducts educational outreach activities with schools and organizations. He has worked on site at McMurdo
Station, Antarctica (deploying 5 times), and at UW-Madison from 1995 to the present.
As a Research Specialist at SSEC from 1991 to 1999, Lazzara supported users, tested software, and trained and demonstrated SSEC's Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS).
Matthew Lazzara graduated from Lyndon State College (LSC) in Vermont in 1991 with a B.S. in Meteorology and minors in Mathematics and Physics. While at LSC, Lazzara
organized weather data for an electronic weather bulletin board, maintained the school's meteorology lab, served as a weather intern at WLNE Channel 6, in Providence,
RI, and worked at WWLR-FM radio in Lyndonville, Vermont. He also substitute taught science at the King Philip Regional High School, in Wrentham, MA during and after college.
Lazzara also holds a M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the UW-Madison, with a thesis on Atmospheric Predictability during the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere/Couple
Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA/COARE). He is presently pursuing a Ph.D. (currently a Ph.D. dissertator) in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences with a minor
in Curriculum and Instruction from the UW-Madison. His thesis will be a Diagnostic Study of Local Fog Events in the Ross Island Region of Antarctica.
Lazzara is currently a member of the American Meteorological Society, National Weather Association, Mount Washington Observatory, and American Geophysical Union. He
has been awarded the Antarctic Service Medal.
Matthew Lazzara was born July 15, 1969, and is married to Cara Gay Lazzara. They have a son, Noah, and daughter, Jane. His interests and hobbies including fishing, water skiing, camping, and poetry.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants Nos. OPP-0537827, OPP-0338147, and OPP-0230028. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Science Foundation.
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