The MSU team and its collaborators typically give 15-25 presentations per year at conferences, symposiums, and mixed venues such as Rotary clubs, workshops, National Weather Service offices, invited seminars, etc. Some of the talk contents overlap and are not shown here. Below is a diverse sample of presentations over the years of unique presentations or containing our most recent research results.  The speaker is denoted with an * .

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., 2010. (Almost) born in a hurricane --- an academic biography. Geosystems Research Institute monthly seminar, May 26, Starkville, MS. PDF file (2.0 Mb)

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., Y. Lau, C. M. Hill, T. V. Wamsley, B. Jelley, and E. Valenti, 2010. Myths about the cause of Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge. 29th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, May 10-14, Tuscon, AZ. PDF file (4.6 Mb)

Hill*, C. M., P. J. Fitzpatrick, and Y. H. Lau, 2009. Examination of 2008 and 2009 tropical cyclones with COSMIC data. Fourth FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop, October 27-29, Boulder, CO. PDF file (1.8 Mb)

P. Fitzpatrick*, C. M. Hill, J.H. Corbin, Y.H. Lau, and S.K. Bhate, 2009. Summertime precipitation patterns associated with the sea breeze and land breeze in southern Mississippi and eastern Louisiana. European Geosciences Union General Assembly, April 19-24, Vienna, Austria. PDF file (4.6 Mb)

Xiao, Q., X. Zhang, C. A. Davis, J. D. Tuttle, G. J. Holland, and P. J. Fitzpatrick*, 2009. Experiments of hurricane initialization with airborne Doppler radar data for the Advanced-research Hurricane WRF (AHW) model. 63rd Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference, March 2-5, St. Petersburg, FL. PDF file (4.3 Mb)

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., 2009. Unmanned aircraft hurricane reconnaissance. MMS Gulf of Mexico Information Transfer Meeting, Jan. 6-8, New Orleans, LA. PDF file (2.2 Mb)

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., 2009. Hurricanes and climate. MMS Gulf of Mexico Information Transfer Meeting, Jan. 6-8, New Orleans, LA. PDF file (3.1 Mb)

Blackwell*, K. G., A. Wimmers, C. Velden, P. J. Fitzpatrick, and B. Jelley, 2008. Hurricane Katrina's eyewall replacement cycle over the northern Gulf and accompanying double eyewalls at landfall: A key to the storm's huge size and devastating impact over a three-state coastal region. 28th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, April 28-2 May, Orlando, FL. Recorded presentation. [Similar presentation from Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference: PDF file (4.8 Mb)][Supplemental PDF file on double eyewall impact on storm surge, 2.1 Mb]

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., and A. Fernandez, 2008: Some lesser-known hurricane events which impacted society. Presidential History Symposium. 88th Annual American Meteorological Society. PDF file (4.3 Mb)  Recorded presentation.

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., C. M. Hill, Y. Lau, Y. Li, J. Corbin, and H. Karan, 2008. A theory on the expansion of Hurricane Katrina’s wind field. 28th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, April 28-2 May, Orlando, FL. PDF file (2.6 Mb).

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., C. M. Hill, N. Tran, Y. Lau, Y. Li, and H. Karan, 2008. The impact of Louisiana’s levees and wetlands on Katrina’s storm surge. 2nd Annual Northern Gulf Institute Conference, May 13-14, Biloxi, MS. PDF file (3.6 Mb).

Steed*, C. A., P. J. Fitzpatrick, T. J. Jankun-Kelly, A. N. Yancey, and J. E. Swan, 2008. North Atlantic hurricane trend analysis using parallel coordinates and statistical techniques. Fifth International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Geospatial Visual Analytics Workshop, Sep. 23-26, Park City, UT. IEEE Computer Society. PDF file (4.9 Mb)

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., S. Bhate, Y. Li, Y. Lau, E. Valenti, B. Jelley, and B. Jacobsen, 2007: Storm surge issues of Hurricane Katrina. 21st Conference on Hydrology. 87th Annual Conference of the American Meteorological Society. PDF file (8.2 Mb) 

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., X. Zhang, Q. Xiao, N. Tran, S. Bhate, and Y. Lau, 2006. The impact of Terra, Aqua, TRMM, AVHRR, and dropsonde data on Hurricane Lili simulations. Proceeding of the 10th Symposium on IOAS-AOLS, 86th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. January 29-February 2, Atlanta, GA. PDF file (2.7 Mb)  Recorded presentation.

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., E. Valenti, and Y. Li, 2006. XM Satellite Marine Weather - The successful result of Stennis Space Center’s technology cluster. NOAA Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership, 86th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. January 29-February 2, Atlanta, GA. PDF file (3.1 Mb)  Recorded presentation.

Anantharaj, V. G., P. J. Fitzpatrick*, Y. Li, S. Bhate, and Y. Lau , 2005. Incorporation of MODIS land data into mesoscale weather prediction models. Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions (EIGS) Research Symposium, August 10, Stennis Space Center, MS. PDF file (1.8 Mb)  . Supplementary equations PDF file (0.48 Mb)  

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., X. Zhang, Q. Xiao, N. Tran, S. Bhate, and Y. Lau , 2005. Applications of Four Dimensional Analysis to examine intensity variations of Hurricane Lili using Aqua, Terra, and other satellite data. Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions (EIGS) Research Symposium, August 10, Stennis Space Center, MS. PDF file (7.7 Mb) . Animation of SST cooling due to mixing from Lili  MPG file (3.3 Mb) 

In early 2000, MSU was involved in a project called the Distributed Marine Environment Forecast System (DMEFS). This was one of the projects that originally brought me to MSU. Below are a couple of internal presentations and an AMS presentation:

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., A. Mehra, T. Haupt, J. Corbin, J. McCaffrey, T. Haupt, P. Bangalore, G. Henley, R. Moorhead, J. van der Zwaag, and M. Bettencourt, 2002. The Distributed Marine Environment Forecast System (DMEFS). 18th International Conference on IIPS. Preprints, 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, January 13-17, Orlando, FL. PDF file (3.3 Mb) 

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., 2003: Advantages of DMEFS for COAMPS. PDF file (2.0 Mb) 

Fitzpatrick*, P. J., Y. Li, S. Bhate, T. Haupt, J. van der Zwaag, S. Ghafoor, and B. Raman, 2002. DMEFS for meteorology applications. PDF file (2.3 Mb)