Steve Mueller
Software Engineer III
Research Applications Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000
Phone: 303-497-8438
FAX: 303-497-8401
smueller@ucar.edu

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
By education, I am a planetary physicist, which is a multidisciplinary field that combines physics, astronomy, and geology. Initially, my career was devoted to understanding the origin and evolution of planets and moons in the solar system. After receiving my Ph.D., my research interests gradually shifted toward characterizing the relationship between plate tectonics and seismic hazards. I have published in several scientific journals, including Nature, and my research has addressed a wide variety of topics, ranging from the origin of Pluto to earthquake prediction.

My most recent academic position was with the Geodynamics Program in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Previous positions included a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, a one-year appointment as a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute, and a research associateship in the Department of Geological Sciences at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. In addition to technical papers, I have written a couple of magazine articles and encyclopedia entries, and my scientific research has been reported in several mainstream publications, including the New York Times and Scientific American.

After spending nearly three years with Electronic Data Systems (EDS), during which time I was involved with routine software application development (C++, Java, Oracle, etc.), I gladly returned to a scientific research environment. In early 1999, I joined the staff of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Currently, I am participating in the "Juneau Project", the objective of which is the development of data processing algorithms that will automate the detection of severe turbulence in Doppler radar observations.

My professional background is conveniently summarized in my Curriculum Vitae and publications list.

OTHER INTERESTS
My wife, Carolyn, and I are avid dancers, one consequence of which is that I maintain the Let's Dance Denver website. My two remaining non-professional interests, traveling and landscape/scenic photograpy, conveniently complement one another, and I have been fortunate enough to have acquired many great pictures throughout the US, Europe and Japan.