 and a Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 1994 and 2000, respectively.He was on the steering committee, was a principal investigator (PI), and was field coordinator (FC) for the VORTEX2 field project in 2009-2010.Dowell is a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) at OU.