Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, USA;Dr. Anthony R. Lupo is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences in the Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Missouri. He earned his BS in Meteorology from the State University of New York at Oswego in 1988 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1991 and 1995, respectively. His research has been in the areas of large-scale atmospheric dynamics, climate dynamics, and climate change, including modeling, and he has more than 140 peer-reviewed publications between each of these areas. Additionally, he edited and contributed to the book Recent Hurricane Research: Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts (published in 2011), and in 2014, 2015, and 2018, he was the Lead Guest Editor of the publication “Advances in Meteorology Special Issue: Large-Scale Dynamics, Anomalous Flows, and Teleconnections”. He has been a member of the American Meteorological Society since 1987 (Certified Consulting Meteorologist #660) and the National Weather Association since 1998. As a CCM, he served on the governing board from 2014–2017, serving as Board Chair during 2017. He was a Fulbright Scholar during the summer of 2004 to Russia, studying climate change at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He won Fulbright scholarships to teach and research at Belgorod State National Research University in Russia for 2014–2015 and fall 2017. Additionally, he has served as an expert reviewer and/or contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (sponsored by the United Nations, World Meteorological Organization). His other professional associations include the Royal Meteorological Society (Fellow), the American Geophysical Union, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Missouri Academy of Science (Fellow).