Paul Miller

Dr. Miller next to weather instrument

Research and Teaching Interests

Coastal meteorology
Tropical hydroclimate
Disorganized convection
Land-atmosphere interactions
Severe weather impacts

LSU Coastal Meteorology Program

The College of the Coast and Environment at LSU offers an undergraduate concentration in Coastal Meteorology as part of its B.S. in Coastal Environmental Science

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LSU COMET Lab In The News

LSU Alumni Association

April 2024 || The COMET Lab is recognized by the LSU Office of Academic Affairs for its exceptional research productivity with the Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award. Dr. Paul Miller was also named the recipient of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society's 2024 Non-Tenured Faculty Award.

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NSF CAREER

May 2023 || The COMET Lab receives a 5-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study how Saharan dust effects drought events in the Caribbean.

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Why don't seasonal hurricane forecasts ever mention the Gulf of Mexico?

September 2021 || The LSU COMET Lab leads an effort with LSU G&A faculty Jill Trepanier to develop a first-of-its-kind seasonal hurricane forecast for the Gulf of Mexico. Check out Dr. Miller's appearance on the Louisiana PBS program The State We're In to introduce the new system

Do COVID-19 Quarantines Change the Weather?

May 2020 || The LSU COMET Lab recently received NSF support to determine how air pollution decreases during COVID-19 quarantines may lead to warmer weather.

Read more about this project in the articles below.

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The COMET Lab Puts Disney's "Frozen" to the Test!

November 2019 || Can the extreme weather shift in Disney's Frozen really happen? The COMET Lab finds out in its unique course, Modeling the Marine Atmosphere.

Read more about the experiment in articles from the AP, US News and World Report, Forbes, and more!

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