Staff Profiles

Phil joined the National Weather Service in 1993 and started at the National Meteorological Center in Camp Spring, MD.  He has served as the Science and Operations Officer at the Weather Forecast Office in ...

Julia Simonson is a Research Scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder.  She joined CIRES in 2022 as a postdoctoral associate in the Assimilation, ...

Molly grew up in a desert part of California, and became interested in weather after the 1997-1998 El Niño turned her normally dry hometown into a lake. When it was time for college, she ...

Shan Sun is a meteorologist at GSL. She came to GSL more than 10 years ago from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, where she had worked for 12 years, ...

Xia Sun works on the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Weather Models and the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP). Xia is interested in topics aiming at improving the forecasting of high-impact weather events and air ...

I was born in the mid 1950s in Worcester, Massachusetts, an interesting area for a variety of weather, and I knew at a young age that I wanted to become a meteorologist.  After considering ...

Michael Toy is a Research Scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Dr. Toy began his career as a mechanical engineer in petroleum refining ...

The focus of my research is to better understand various processes that act upon and within the boundary layer (e.g., convective initiation, turbulent redistribution of water vapor, aerosol, and energy, land-atmosphere interactions, etc.) and ...

I started out in renewable energy, specifically solar energy resource modeling for a large clean  energy developer. I transitioned to verification of meteorological products upon arriving at GSL.  Aviation weather products are the primary ...

Jamie Vickery is a Research Social Scientist and the Decision Support Research and Evaluation (DSRE) Branch Chief within the Global Systems Laboratory’s Weather Informatics and Decision Support (WIDS) Division. She is currently serving as ...

Matthew Wandishin leads the Forecast Impact and Quality Assessment Services (FIQAS) Branch, which evaluates aviation weather forecast products for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Weather Service (NWS) and develops weather decision ...

My current work focuses on improving skills of weather and air quality prediction through data assimilation and information blending for FV3 and Community Multi-scale Air Quality Model (CMAQ)  models.  Research Interests 3/4D Variational/Ensemble data ...

Fire Weather Testbed Social & Behavioral ScientistWeather Informatics and Decision Support Division Research Interests Needs Assessment Decision Science Decision Support Hazard Communication Weather Product Improvement Education Ph.D. in Engineering & Public Policy Carnegie Mellon ...

Screenshot I am currently working as user support for RDHPCS. I have experience in both software development and scientific research, familiar with numerical models and parallel computation.  Research Interests  High performance computing; Data assimilation; Real-time ...

My work focuses on the development of complex coupled modeling systems to simulate atmospheric composition, air quality, weather and their interactions. I am one of the primary developers for  Scientific development of the next ...

Man Zhang is a CIRES Research Scientist at the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory and the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC). Her research focuses on advancing atmospheric physics for both research and operational forecasting systems, with ...

Technical leader for National Weather Service Forecast Office Hazard Services Research Interests Python, cloud, docker, Education M.S  in Computer Science – University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY Ph.D in Soil Biochemistry – Chinese Academy of ...