Dr. Knupp is currently an assistant professor in the Atmospheric Science program, at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, where he teaches graduate level courses in Survey of Atmospheric Science, Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Chemistry, Cloud Dynamics and Microphysics, and Radar Meteorology. Prior to his current position Dr. Knupp held a research associate position at Colorado State University. For the past two and one-half years has been involved in the seismic detection of tornadoes concept. Dr. Knupp has conducted research in the general areas of thunder-storm structure and dynamics, severe storms and tornadoes, radar meteorology and mesoscale meteorology.  Under the area of severe storm research, he has conducted case study analyses of tornadoes and their parent thunderstorms, and has investigated the climatology of severe storms and their environment in the Southeast.  He has been involved in the study of the seismic detection of tornadoes for more than two years. He is currently utilizing field observational facilities (two Doppler radars and one boundary layer profiler) in the Huntsville region to examine the structure of severe storms and their near environment. Dr. Knupp is well-versed in design of numerical model experiments. He has been involved in the operational phase of a number of field studies examining thunderstorms and their phenomena. Other current research activities include observational cloud-scale processes. Dr. Knupp is a member of the American Meteorological Society ,The American Geophysical Union, the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.