David is a member of the Steering Committee of PCAPS. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the WMO Polar Prediction Project, 2013-2022, and is the lead of the Year of Polar Prediction in the Southern Hemisphere (YOPP-SH) that concludes at the end of 2024. David earned a M.Sc. in Meteorology from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. in Meteorology (now Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He is a Research Professor with the Atmospheric Sciences Program of the Department of Geography, The Ohio State University (OSU), and heads the Polar Meteorology Group (PMG) at the Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center of OSU. The PMG has broad interests in the weather and climate of the Antarctic and Arctic. It conducts both observational and modeling investigations. Of note is the development and maintenance of the polar version of the Weather Research and Forecasting model that is a leading tool used by the global scientific community to study polar atmospheric processes. The PMG has had sustained interest in numerical weather prediction and reanalyses for the Antarctic and Arctic.

Research interests:
Polar weather and climate | Coupled numerical weather prediction| Arctic System Reanalysis