Posted October 29, 2007

Geography Awareness Week Presentation: "Geography and Wind Power"

Dr. Steve Stadler.Dr. Steve Stadler of the Oklahoma State University will present "Geography and Wind Power " as part of the Department of Geography's Geography Awareness Week Activities. His presentation will be held Monday, November 12 at 7:30 pm in Morgan Hall 109.

Dr. Stadler is a Professor of Geography at Oklahoma State University and has been at OSU since 1980.  His undergraduate and M.S. degrees are from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio).  He received his PhD in Physical Geography from Indiana State University in 1979.  His specialty is applied climatology. 


He has had research grants from NOAA, NASA, and the U.S. DOE and has published in a variety of journals in geography and the atmospheric sciences and is currently working on a co-authored book on applied climatology.  He was a founder of and remains on the steering committee of the Oklahoma Mesonetwork, the premier state-run weather-observing network in the United States.  As a principal investigator in the Oklahoma Wind Power Assessment Initiative, he has helped to produce statewide maps of wind power density and prepare other electronic data layers for comparison. He has served as the President of the Oklahoma Renewable Energy Council and is the State Geographer of Oklahoma.

For more information regarding his visit to WIU, please contact the Geography Department at (309-298-1648)

The public is invited to attend. Admission is free.