Dr. Moninger is a physicist currently developing data quality assurance, data analysis and display systems for meteorological data. These applications make heavy use of the World Wide Web. Current application areas include
Dr. Moninger has been displaying scientific results on the web since 1995, and was founding chair of his laboratory's World Wide Web Working Group.
From 1986 until 1993, Dr. Moninger also served as special adviser on artificial intelligence applications for the Environmental Research Laboratories (now a part of NOAA Research). In that capacity he pursued several artificial intelligence research areas including expert system development and studies of judgment and decision-making in weather forecasting. He also lectured extensively on this work and on other AI applications within the environmental sciences.
Dr. Moninger was founding chair of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science of the American Meteorological Society, and of the AIRIES workshops (Artificial Intelligence Research In Environmental Science).
He joined NOAA in 1976 as a physicist with the Meteorological Radar Group of the Wave Propagation Laboratory. While in that position, he performed research in: electromagnetic scattering theory as applied to dual polarization radar measurements, acquisition and analysis of dual polarization radar data, multi-Doppler storm reconstruction and analysis, and mathematical and computer techniques for the acquisition, analysis, and display of radar data. He is the inventor of the TRACIR technique for using chaff as a tracer in clouds and precipitation.
Dr. Moninger is the author of over 100 publications in these areas and in artificial intelligence, and the recipient of several awards.
Prior to joining the Environmental Research Laboratories, he was Chair of the Physics Department at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.