Edward J. Hopkins

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Assistant State Climatologist and Lecturer, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

Honorary Associate Fellow

Center for Climatic Research
1407 Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Science Bldg.
1225 W. Dayton St.
Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1695

Phone: (608) 262-1605
Fax: (608) 263-4190
Email: hopkins@aos.wisc.edu


Research Interests

Ed Hopkins' area of interest is in Wisconsin's climate, climatic change and science education. He has co-authored a book entitled Wisconsin Weather and Climate (University of Wisconsin Press) with Prof. Joseph M. Moran of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He has contributed to the operation of the State Climatology Office for more than ten years. In addition, he has at least twenty years of experience teaching the introductory level meteorology courses, both at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Northern Illinois University. Ed has been actively involved with the education activities of the American Meteorological Society and the National Geographic Society. He has prepared a resource listing of meteorological educational materials directed for elementary and secondary school teachers.

Selected Publications

Bryson R.A. and E.J. Hopkins, 1993: A note on the performance of climate forecasts of Asia based on the periodic portion of the data: 1986–1987. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet. Sci.), 102, 105–112.

Bryson R.A. and E.J. Hopkins, 2001: Climates of the periglacial region in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. Preprints, IAGLR 2001 meeting of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, Green Bay, WI, June 2001.

Geer, I.W. (editor, with K.M. Ginger; J.M. Moran; E.J. Hopkins; R.S. Weinbeck and D.R. Smith), 1996: Glossary of common meteorological and related oceanic and hydrologic terms. American Meteorological Society, Boston. 272 pp.

Hopkins, E.J., 2001: Course Guide for Meteorology 100: Weather and Climate.. University of Wisconsin – Learning Innovations. Madison, WI. 339 pp.

Hopkins, E.J.; R. Holle and R.J. Vavrek, 1998: Resource listing for weather/climate instruction. (Adapted for Powers of Nature, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia). An on-line version is available at the URL address: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/resources/.

Lettau, H.H. and E.J. Hopkins, 1990. Evapoclimatonomy III: The reconciliation of monthly runoff and evaporation in the climatic balance of evaporable water on land areas. J. Appl. Meteor., 30, 776–792.

Moran, J.M. and E.J. Hopkins, 2002: Wisconsin's Weather and Climate. Univ. of Wisconsin-Press, Madison. 321 pp.

Awards

Special American Meteorological Society Award for "decades of outstanding contributions to the advancement of pre-college education in the atmospheric sciences", awarded Jan. 2000 at AMS Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA.