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Education • Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics, Moscow State University, 2004 • M.S. in Astrophysics, Baku State University, 2000 • B.S. in Physics, Baku State University, 1998...
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Dr. Curtis Alexander (NOAA/OAR/GSL) received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Pennsylvania State University (1999) and the University of Oklahoma (2002, 20...
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Fundamentally, my research focuses on improving our understanding on convection and improving our ability to represent convection in numerical weather models. I am current...
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Randy Barnett IT Operations Manager Education B.S. Computer Information Systems - Regis University (1994) M.S. Computer Information Systems - Regis University (2000) Ex...
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Specializing in observational weather data processing for instruments from the ground up including meteorological and hydrological surface, aircraft, profiler, and other o...
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Stan is the senior scientist/advisor for advanced modeling systems, NOAA Global Systems Lab. Stan grew up in the DC area but also lived in Canada for 2 years during eleme...
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My work straddles the interface between research and operations in numerical weather prediction. As the Acting Chief of the GSL Earth Prediction Advancement Division, I co...
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After writing a (borderline mediocre) Ph.D. thesis on the use of isentropic trajectories to diagnose vertical motion in the extratropical atmosphere, Rainer’s career starte...
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DaNa L. Carlis, Ph.D. is a meteorologist and serves as the Deputy Director at GSL since September 2020. He comes to GSL from the Weather Program Office (WPO) where he est...
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I lead communications for the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory. Research Interests • Science communications • Aviation weather forecasting • Severe weather forecasting • So...
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I grew up in Iowa and developed a penchant for weather at a young age watching severe weather roll through during the spring and summer (TWC was one of my most-watched ch...
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I started working in GSL in 2015, where I conducted Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) to evaluate the impacts of targeted dropsondes on winter storm forecasts...
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Ken Fenton, Physical Scientist, FAA Program Manager Ken Fenton is a Physical Scientist at NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) and works in the Forecast Impact and Quali...
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Bio I am from Boulder, CO and am living in the same house that I grew up in. I have always loved to travel, and after working as IT support at the Aeronomy Laboratory (the...
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Dr. Guoqing Ge’s work focuses on developing and testing modifications in data assimilation for numerical models. He maintained the community version and provided community ...
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Penny Granville has been GSL’s Administrative Officer since 2005. She manages the administrative staff working on Facility Access, Deemed Exports, and Property accountabil...
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Born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, I became interested in meteorology at a very young age. I pursued this interest after high school, obtaining three degrees (B.S....
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Bio Dr. Georg Grell is the chief of the Earth Prediction Advancement Division (EPAD) at NOAA/ESRL/GSL. Georg received his Ph.D. as a collaborative dissertation (NCAR and ...
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Education • M.S. Computer Science, University of Kentucky, 2006 • B.S. Computer Science, University of Kentucky, 2003 • B.S. Art Studio, University of Kentucky, 2003 • Mi...
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Venita is a Software Engineer in the AVID Verification group. She grew up in Southern California, tried out the DC area for a few years, and then moved back West. She has...
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Jeff Hamilton Jeff developed a love for meteorology at an early age and was fortunate enough to live in different areas of the country with extreme weather growing up. Se...
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Nate is a Research Physical Scientist specializing in helping National Weather Service National Centers and International partners develop and implement new operational t...
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I am the author of NetCDF-4, a freely available software library for scientific data, used by NASA, NOAA, the ESA, and climate and meteorology scientists around the world. ...
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Name Siwei He Research Scientist I at CIRES Bio My research mainly focuses on the land surface modeling, especially on the subgrid processes and snow processes. I have ...
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Craig is currently GSL's webmaster. He has worked as an IT Director, senior software engineer, full-stack developer, a mountaineering guide, a professional photographer, an...
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Bio Christina has spent her career developing and supporting the development of a variety of numerical weather prediction systems. In graduate school, she focused on applyi...
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Kirk Holub IT Specialist I am an aerospace engineer and computer scientist who served for 11 years as a civilian research scientist supporting multiple national defense pr...
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Ming is a Research Physical Scientist who played a key role in development and implementation of the NOAA operational Rapid Refresh (RAP) and High Resolution Rapid Refresh...
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I joined GSL (then GSD) within the Assimilation and Verification Innovation Division (AVID; formerly the Assimilation and Modeling Branch AMB) in 2010. Since that time, ...
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My research is mainly focused on ensemble-based data assimilation, the design of ensemble forecasting systems, and ensemble statistical post-processing. As a part of resea...
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Bio I am a fan of hockey, outdoors, and everything IT Security! I cut my teeth in the financial industry for 10 years before coming to NOAA. I have extensive experience in...
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Darrel Kingfield, Ph.D. has been with NOAA since 2007 where he has worked at the intersection of National Weather Service (NWS) watch/warning evolution, hazardous weathe...
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Terra is a Research Physical Scientist focused on data assimilation to improve convective allowing weather prediction for high impact weather events. In particular, she ...
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I work in AVID mainly on data assimilation, I am involved in transferring HRRRv4/RAPv5 into FV3. We install capabilities required for DA in FV3 including latent heat forc...
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Tony Liao, Ph.D., is a senior research associate of ATD (Advanced Technologies Division). He is also a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engine...
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3D Visualization & Software Developer Sung Chu Liao (Sam Liao) is a 3D Visualization & Software Developer with experience in System programming and Game development...
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Liaofan joined NOAA/OAR/Global Systems Laboratory as an affiliate of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) in 2019. He is a member of the NOAA ...
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Bio Bob Lipschutz received his BS (1974) and MS (1980) in Meteorology from Penn State University. He was a Scientific Assistant in the Atmospheric Physics Section at Argonn...
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Jennifer Mahoney is the Director of the NOAA’s Global Research Laboratory (GSL). She leads a staff of nearly 200 meteorologists, software engineers, and support staff dedi...
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Kevin grew up in NW PA where he experienced the 31 May 1985 tornado outbreak that affected eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania and that piqued his interest in severe we...
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Ian develops software for NOAA's Science on a Sphere project and for GSL/AVID’s verification team. He uses C++, Python, OpenCV, Flask, and other technologies to implement f...
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Bill is a semi-retired physicist who works on evaluating the skill of weather prediction models. He is also an expert in automated weather observations by commercial aircra...
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Raffaele has been leading design and software development efforts aimed at building NOAA’s next-generation operational forecasting systems for atmospheric chemistry, air qu...
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Titles: • GSL CIRES lead • FACETs Program Manager • WISE Project Manager, Budget Analyst, CIRES supervisor Sylvia began her career as a Surface Warfare Officer and Ocean...
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Scott Nahman graduated from the University of Colorado Naval ROTC program and served aboard the USS Germantown as the Electronics Material Officer and Electronic Warfare O...
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Profile Daniel is the Chief of the Evaluation and Decision Support (EDS) Division at GSL. His background is rooted in integrating science (physical science and social scien...
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Joe is the primary developer of the boundary layer and surface layer schemes used in the operational Rapid Refresh (RAP) and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) forecast...
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My work is mainly focused on numerical weather model development, verification and support. I participate in enhancing transition of innovations in Numerical Weather Predi...
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Hilary came to CU Boulder to study secondary science education after receiving a BS in Zoology and Dance at the University of Wyoming, taking 8 years to travel, ski bum in ...
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Missy Petty serves as the Associate Director for Administration in the Global Systems Laboratory (GSL). In this role, she oversees the administrative and financial function...
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Randy is a professional software engineer. After graduating with degrees in Physics and engineering he worked for ten years developing advanced hardware and software used...
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Stephen Pon is a Research Assistant of the Advanced Technologies Division (ATD),who has been served as a project manager for the task #4 of NOAA-Taiwan CWB (Central Weathe...
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Greg Pratt Deputy Advanced Technologies Division, Chief Innovative Weather Delivery Systems Branch. Bio Design and develop prototype weather information delivery systems ...
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Role Software Engineering and Web Application Development (CIRES) Research Interests • Research and development aimed at improving the weather information provided to ai...
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Research Interests: • Fluid turbulence • Geophysical fluid dynamics • Phenomenology • CFD • Algorithm development • HPC Education • Ph.D., Physics, University of North ...
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Jordan Schnell - Research Associate Research Interests • Chemical transport modeling and air quality forecasting • Weather-chemistry interactions and feedbacks • High-re...
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Keith is the technical lead for NOAA Science On a Sphere® (SOS) and project manager with the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC). For SOS, he leads the development team a...
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I am the web developer for Science On a Sphere. I've been doing web development professionally since 2006, with a couple of breaks for grad school and a few stints as a us...
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I am a senior scientist in Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) working for Earth Prediction Advancement Division (EPAD) in Global Systems...
Learn MoreMolly 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 f...
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Jebb Q. Stewart is the lead of the Informatics and Visualization Branch with the NOAA Global System Laboratory in Boulder Colorado. With a unique background in both Mete...
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I progressed from software engineering into Project and Program Management as I began to see how I could be more effective to ensure the success of software projects in t...
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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 ye...
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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 for...
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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. A...
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Dr. Zoltan Toth is a Senior Scientist at the Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) with NOAA Research. His research has covered topics in atmospheric and related dynamical syst...
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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...
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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 ...
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I started out in renewable energy, specifically solar energy resource modeling for a large clean energy developer. I transitioned to verification of meteorological product...
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Jeff VanBuskirk joined the U.S. Army after graduating high school in 1973 and served as an infantry mortar crewman towards the end of the Vietnam War. After several years ...
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Matthew Wandishin leads the Forecast Impact and Quality Assessment Services (FIQAS) Branch, which evaluates aviation weather forecast products for the Federal Aviation Ad...
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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...
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Stephen S. Weygandt, Ph.D., is a supervisory meteorologist, who has helped to direct the development of data assimilation systems that provide initial conditions for the ...
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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 compu...
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I joined NOAA/GSL, affiliating with CIRES in 2013. Before this appointment, I was a research scientist in ensemble data assimilation group at CSU/CIRA. My research was to a...
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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 p...
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Bio Technical leader for Hazard Services for WFOs project. Research Interests Python, cloud, docker, Education • M.S in Computer Science - University of Wyoming, Lar...
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