Assistant Professor
Office: Turlington Hall 3138
she/her/hers
ORCID: 0000-0002-4370-6375
Affiliate Member
UF Water Institute
University of Oklahoma South Central Climate Adaptation Center
School of National Resources and the Environment
Focus Areas
Research Statement:
My research interests surround precipitation variability – in particular in its extremes (drought, floods), as well as climate dynamics, and climate adaptation. My other joys are in mentoring undergraduate research, supporting stakeholder science through assisting with climate data interpretation, and assisting in a recent early-career workshop facilitated by CS-CASC. I had the privilege of co-authoring the Southern Great Plains Chapter of the National Climate Assessment (NCA4). At the University of Florida, I will be expanding the meteorological teaching and research within the department of Geography. I will also continue to work with colleagues at OU on the PRES2iP project, which aims to improve our understanding and prediction of heavy precipitation at seasonal to sub-seasonal lead times.
Recent Funded Projects
NSF-AGS Physical and Dynamic Meteorology 2021-4 (PI: $294,440) Thermodynamic Modification of Winter Storms
Recent Publications
Williamson, M., Ash, K., Erickson, M. J., & Mullens, E. (2023). Damages associated with excessive rainfall outlooks (ERO) and missed flash floods. Weather and Forecasting, 38(6), 971-984.
Mullens, E., & McPherson, R. (2023). The Changing Nature of Hazardous Weather and Implications for Transportation: Example from Oklahoma, USA. Climate, 11(2), 32.
Júnior, R. D. S. N., Olivier, L., Wallach, D., Mullens, E., Fraisse, C. W., & Asseng, S. (2023). A simple procedure for a national wheat yield forecast. European Journal of Agronomy, 148, 126868.
VanBuskirk, O., Ćwik, P., McPherson, R. A., Lazrus, H., Martin, E., Kuster, C., & Mullens, E. (2021). Listening to stakeholders: Initiating research on subseasonal-to-seasonal heavy precipitation events in the contiguous United States by first understanding what stakeholders need. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(10), E1972-E1986.
Mullens, E. D. (2021). Meteorological cause and characteristics of widespread heavy precipitation in the Texas Gulf watershed 2003–2018. International Journal of Climatology, 41(6), 3743-3760.
Mullens, E. D., & McPherson, R. (2017). A multialgorithm reanalysis-based freezing-precipitation dataset for climate studies in the south-central United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 56(2), 495-517.
Mullens, E. D., Leslie, L. M., & Lamb, P. J. (2016). Synoptic pattern analysis and climatology of ice and snowstorms in the southern Great Plains, 1993–2011. Weather and Forecasting, 31(4), 1109-1136.
Chen, S., Zhang, J., Mullens, E., Hong, Y., Behrangi, A., Tian, Y., … & Zhang, X. (2015). Mapping the precipitation type distribution over the contiguous United States using NOAA/NSSL national multi-sensor mosaic QPE. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53(8), 4434-4443.
Educational Background
- PhD in Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2014
- B.Sc. in Meteorology, University of Reading, 2007
Current Graduate Students
Alumni Graduate Students