Research & Writing

Tornado Science & Storm Chasing

My current research investigates the history of storm chasing in the United States, especially in the period post-WWII, as tornado science ramped up and a culture of storm chasing grew in Tornado Alley. I hope to explore questions about citizen science versus professional and academic research, the ways that we use technology to understand our environment and how those understandings shape our relationship to environment, and the role of local knowledge in these understandings. I also hope to explore questions of risk, class, emotion, and gender through the identity of storm chasers.