Photo: Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Associate Director and Undergraduate Coordinator for ATSC Program Contact info Email: johnknox@uga.edu Office: Geog-Geol Bldg, 210 Field Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, Room 139 Phone Number: 706-542-2118 Research Interests: Physical geography, specifically dynamics of weather and climate, geoscience education, atmospheric hazards, meteorological applications of social media data https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=k3mBeMEAAAAJ CV: John Knox CV Jan 20 2025.pdf (443.56 KB) I study the wind: why it blows, where it blows, what it blows around, and how to protect people from it. This subject is called atmospheric dynamics, and I teach the core courses in this subject in our atmospheric sciences major. I also teach a wide variety of classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Like my own professors in college at UAB, I put students first, and devote much of my time to teaching, academic advising, student organization advising, and mentoring. Education Education: Ph.D. (1996), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Atmospheric sciences B.S. (1988), UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Mathematics Grant Support Grants: Extramural and Intramural Grants (28; Total activity: $6.77 million; To UGA: $1,210,119) Since 2020: WRF in the GEOG 1112 Curriculum. UGA Franklin College Teaching Enhancement and Innovation Grant. $3000; Funded 8/23-5/24. Creation of Student-Run, On-Campus Numerical Weather Forecasting Model. UGA Student Technology Fee One-Time Funding Allocation. $43,000; Funded 1/23-4/25. Developing new storm design criteria for natural hazards planning research and practice (co-PI); 2021 (UGA) Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant. $135,052; ($43,894 to Knox); Funded 1/22-6/23. AV Equipment for AthensGAWeather/North Geography Weather Authority Broadcast Studio. UGA Student Technology Fee One-Time Funding Allocation. $2,644; Funded 1/22-4/22. Weather and Climate Software License for Teaching and Forecasting Applications. UGA Learning Technologies Grant. $13,500; Funded 7/21-6/22. Hidden Figures in the Atmospheric Sciences. UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Innovation in Multicultural Curriculum Grant. $2000; Funded 12/20-5/21. Of Note Of note: National/International Research Awards: Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2020 T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award, National Weather Association, 2010 Highly commend, Royal Meteorological Society‘s IBM Award for Meteorological Innovation That Matters international competition, 2009 Campus/System/Regional/National Teaching Awards: University System of Georgia Felton Jenkins, Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award, 2024 Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award, American Meteorological Society, 2020 Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Geography, 2020 (first-ever geography professor selected) Excellence in Teaching Award, SouthEastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG), 2016 "Best 300 Professors" selection, The Princeton Review, 2012 (only geographer in U.S. selected) http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/three-uga-professors-named-among-the-nations-best-by-princeton-review/ Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, UGA, 2013 http://columns.uga.edu/news/article/award-winners-early-career-faculty-members-recognized-for-excellence/ Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award, UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, 2011 UGA Student Government Association Professor Recognition Award, 2005, 2010, 2011 Who‘s Who Among America‘s Teachers, 2004 UW-Madison Wahl Meteorology Teaching Award, 1994 UW-Madison Teaching Fellow, 1994-95 National Educational Publication Awards: William Henry Fox Talbot Prize for Visual Excellence in a College Textbook, Society of Academic Authors, 2003 APEX Grand Award for Publication Excellence in Writing, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 2007 Institutional Outreach and Service Awards and Nominations: NASA/GISS Best Popular Science Award, 1997 UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Advisor Award nominee, 2005, 2008, 2010 National Weather Forecasting Awards: "Final Four" forecaster, WxChallenge national weather forecasting contest tournament, 2011 1st-place trophy for best faculty forecast for New Orleans, LA, WxChallenge contest, 2012 2nd-place trophy for best faculty forecast for Providence, RI, WxChallenge contest, 2012 Selected National Academic Awards and Honors: U.S. Presidential Scholar, 1983 NSF Graduate Research Fellow, 1988 Rhodes Scholar Finalist, 1988 Phi Kappa Phi National Fellow, 1988 Research Projects Clear-air turbulence forecasting Geoscience education research at the pre-college and college levels Wind-related hazards at the ground (e.g., windblown bounce houses) Tornado debris research Inertial instability and its role in weather and climate Hyperthermia and its effects on athletes Extreme climate indices Course Instruction Courses Regularly Taught: GEOG 1112 GEOG 4/6121 Research Selected Publications: Since 2020: Martinez, C. J., D. Das, E. F. Bloomfield, J. D. Abraham, J. A. Knox, R. Simmonds, D. C. Hilderbrand, J. Giovannettone, A. M. Gouw, and A. RoyChowdhury, 2024: Bridging the COSMOS: How the Inclusion of and Collaboration with Faith-Based Understandings and Indigenous Knowledges Can Transform the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105, E1734-E1754. Knox, P., J. Knox, E. Pauline, C. Scarborough, and H. Stuckey, 2024: The weather and climate of Wormsloe and surrounding areas. Chapter 2 of Social Roots: Lowcountry Foodways, Reconnecting the Landscape, ed. Sarah V. Ross. UGA Press, pp. 26-39. Preece, J. R., T. L. Mote, J. Cohen, L. J. Wachowicz, J. A. Knox, M. Tedesco, and G. J. Kooperman, 2023: Summer atmospheric circulation over Greenland in response to Arctic amplification and diminished spring snow cover. Nature Communications, 14, 3759. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39466-6 Knox, J. A., 2023: Atmospheric Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Recipients: Trends, Early Career Earnings, and Student Debt, 2015–19. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, E99-E106. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0162.1 Knox, J. A., T. E. Gill, C. A. Williamsberg, J. M. Smith, L. V. Boggs, A. W. Black, and H. E. Skypek, 2022: Wind-related bounce house accidents: Meteorological, regulatory, and outreach contexts. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, E2323-E2340. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0160.1 Estimated potential audience reach of media coverage of article: > 500 million people Harvey, V. L., and J. Knox, lead authors, 2022: Upper Stratosphere and Lower Mesosphere. Chapter 11 of SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison (S-RIP) Final Report, Masatomo Fujiwara, Gloria L. Manney, Lesley J. Gray, and Jonathon S. Wright (Eds.), SPARC Report No. 10, WCRP-6/2021, doi: 10.17874/800dee57d13, available at www.sparc-climate.org/publications/sparc-reports. Fujiwara, M., G. L. Manney, L. J. Gray, J. S. Wright, J. Anstey, T. Birner, S. Davis, E. P. Gerber, V. L. Harvey, M. I. Hegglin, C. R. Homeyer, J. A. Knox, K. Kruger, A. Lambert, C. S. Long, P. Martineau, B. M. Monge-Sanz, M. L. Santee, S. Tegtmeier, S. Chabrillat, D. G. H. Tan, D. R. Jackson, S. Polavarapu, G. P. Compo, R. Dragani, W. Ebisuzaki, Y. Harada, C. Kobayashi, K. Wargan, and J. S. Whitaker, 2021: Introduction. Chapter 1 of SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison (S-RIP) Final Report, Masatomo Fujiwara, Gloria L. Manney, Lesley J. Gray, and Jonathon S. Wright (Eds.), SPARC Report No. 10, WCRP-6/2021, doi: 10.17874/800dee57d13, available at www.sparc-climate.org/publications/sparc-reports. Fujiwara, M., G. L. Manney, L. J. Gray, J. S. Wright, J. Anstey, T. Birner, S. Davis, E. P. Gerber, V. L. Harvey, M. I. Hegglin, C. R. Homeyer, J. A. Knox, K. Kruger, A. Lambert, C. S. Long, P. Martineau, B. M. Monge-Sanz, M. L. Santee, S. Tegtmeier, S. Chabrillat, D. G. H. Tan, D. R. Jackson, S. Polavarapu, G. P. Compo, R. Dragani, W. Ebisuzaki, Y. Harada, C. Kobayashi, K. Wargan, and J. S. Whitaker, 2021: Synthesis Summary. Chapter 12 of SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison (S-RIP) Final Report, Masatomo Fujiwara, Gloria L. Manney, Lesley J. Gray, and Jonathon S. Wright (Eds.), SPARC Report No. 10, WCRP-6/2021, doi: 10.17874/800dee57d13, available at www.sparc-climate.org/publications/sparc-reports. Pauline, E., J. A. Knox, L. Seymour, and A. J. Grundstein, 2021: Revising NCEI’s Climate Extremes Index and the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index to Analyze Climate Extremes Vulnerability across the United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102, E84-E98.
