Department of Oceanography 572C Holloway Road U. S. Naval Academy Annapolis, MD 21402 +(1) 410-293-6567 (voice) Office: Chauvenet 216

Teaching and Research Experience
2009-present:  Assistant Professor, Oceanography, U. S. Naval Academy (USA)
2007-2008:  Post-doctoral research associate, Department of Geophysics, University of Chile (CHILE)
2006-2007:  Visiting Lecturer, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz (AUSTRIA)
2005-2006:  Fulbright Fellow, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (BARBADOS)
2001-2007:  Graduate assistant, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (USA)

Education
2007:  Ph. D. in meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
2001:  B. S. summa cum laude Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

U. S. Naval Academy, Department of Oceanography
  Basic Atmospheric Processes
  Quantitative Methods for Meteorology and Oceanography

University of Graz, Department of Geophysics
  Severe and Unusual Weather and Climate Extremes
  Introductory Meteorology

University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology
  Severe and Unusual Weather
  Introduction to Meteorology

Papers in Refereed Journals
Barrett, B. S., R. Garreaud, and M. Falvey, 2009: Effect of the Andes cordillera on precipitation from a midlatitude cold front. Monthly Weather Review, 137, 3092-3109.

Barrett, B. S., and L. M. Leslie, 2009: Links between tropical cyclone activity and Madden-Julian Oscillation phase in the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific basins. Monthly Weather Review, 137, 727-744.

Wyant, M. C., Wood, R., Bretherton, C. S., Mechoso, C. R., Bacmeister, J., Balmaseda, M. A., Barrett, B., Codron, F., Earnshaw, P., Fast, J., Hannay, C., Kaiser, J. W., Kitagawa, H., Klein, S. A., Kvhler, M., Manganello, J., Pan, H.-L., Sun, F., Wang, S., and Wang, Y., 2009: The PreVOCA experiment: modeling the lower troposphere in the Southeast Pacific. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 23909-23953.

Barrett, B. S., L. M. Leslie, and B. Fiedler, 2006: An example of the value of strong climatological signals in tropical cyclone track forecasting: Hurricane Ivan (2004). Monthly Weather Review , 134, 1568-1577.

Papers Presented at Scientific Meetings
Barrett, B. S., 2009: Impact of the Andes Cordillera on a mid-latitude cold front. 13th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Salt Lake City, UT, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 11.5.

Barrett, B. S., and L. M. Leslie, 2008: Relationships between the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Atlantic-East Pacific tropical cyclone activity. Tropical Meteorology Special Symposium, New Orleans, LA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., JP3.10.

Barrett, B. S., 2006: Relationship between sea-surface temperature anomalies and precipitation across Turkey, 1st International Conference on Climate Change and the Middle East: Past, Present, and Future, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey .

Barrett, B. S., L. M. Leslie, and B. H. Fiedler, 2006: Examples of the value of strong climatological signals in tropical cyclone track forecasting. Preprints, 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorolog y, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Atlanta, GA, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 5.5.

Barrett, B. S., and L. M. Leslie, 2005: An examination of the quality of the Atlantic tropical cyclone database. Preprints, 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, San Diego, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 1.30.

Barrett, B. S., and L. M. Leslie, 2004: Tropical cyclone forecasting using climatology and NWP output. 26th Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Miami, FL, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 5C.3.

Barrett, B. S., L. M. Leslie, and C.-S. Liou, 2004: Relationship between climatology and model track, bearing, and speed errors. Preprints, 20th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/Sixteenth Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction, Seattle, WA, Am er. Meteor. Soc. 13.6.

Barrett, B. S., and L. M. Leslie, 2003: Improving landfall forecasts for tropical cyclones moving parallel to the coastline. 12th Conf. on Interactions of Sea and Atmosphere, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 8.2.