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Greg Carbin, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK
Since 1996, Greg has worked as a severe weather outlook forecaster, fire weather forecaster, mesoscale meteorologist and lead forecaster at the SPC. He is the SPC's spokesperson and subject matter expert on thunderstorm forecasting, the climatology of severe local storms, and tornadoes. In his role he also develops and conducts a wide array of informative and educational presentations. Prior to starting his career with the National Weather Service in Charlotte, NC in 1993, Greg was a private sector meteorologist in New York and Vermont. He earned his B.S. degree in Meteorology from Lyndon State College in 1985. Greg has served as chair, or co-chair, on the National Severe Weather Workshop Planning Committee since 2007 and has presented his “Year-in-Review” presentation to the NWA Annual Meeting every year since 2004.
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John Wetter, Skywarn Coordinator, NWS
Chanhassen, MN
John Wetter is currently the coordinator of Skywarn radio operations at the National Weather Service in Chanhassen, MN. He has been involved with Skywarn since 1997. While attending St. Cloud State, he was a member of Stearns County Skywarn where he was a Net Control Station coordinator and also a member of the board of directors. John has presented several studies locally and regionally specializing in radar interpretation and pre-storm environmental parameters, as well as Skywarn operations. He also has produced the last three Skywarn training videos for use by the NWS Chanhassen Office. John works in the IT field and lives in Maple Grove with his wife Jamie.
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Todd Krause, Warning Coordination Meteorologist,
NWS Chanhassen, MN
Todd Krause graduated from Bethel College in Arden Hills, majoring in
Math/Physics, then he received his M.S. in Meteorology from the South
Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. He started his
career with the National Weather Service as an intern in Huron, South
Dakota in 1985. Todd also worked as an intern in Wichita, Kansas before
becoming a forecaster in the Twin Cities in 1989. He has been the
Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service Twin
Cities office since 1994.
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Mike Griesinger, Forecaster,
NWS Chanhassen, MN
Mike is a native of southwest Michigan and took his life long interest in the weather off to Central Michigan University, where he received a B.S. degree in 2004. Mike then traveled to Lubbock, TX, where he received an M.S. in Atmospheric Science from Texas Tech University in 2006. While at Texas Tech, he conducted a research project surrounding the topic of convective initiation along the dryline and also assisted research teams in the spring with investigating the RFD environment through the use of in situ observations using mobile mesonet equipment. Mike joined the National Weather Service as in intern in the fall of 2006 at the Atlanta office in Peachtree City, GA and joined the forecast team at the Twin Cities off at the beginning of 2009. Since coming to the Twin Cities, he has be an active participant in the Skywarn program, having taught several classes and updated the skywarn presentation given by the office in 2012.
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Dan Miller, Science and Operations Officer,
NWS Duluth, MN
Dan Miller has been the Science and Operations Officer at the National Weather Service forecast office in Duluth, MN since 2005. Originally from southern Minnesota, Dan earned his meteorology degree from Iowa State University in 1992. Dan has worked at several offices during his 17 year career including Limon CO, Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN, and Norman, OK, in addition to Duluth. Dan's primary areas of interest and expertise include severe convective storms and tornadoes, weather radar, and effective/timely communication of weather information and services to the user community. Since 2005, Dan has participated extensively in NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed activities, and has also participated on several national NWS teams working toward the ongoing operational deployment of the Dual-Pol upgrade to the WSR-88D network. Dan is also the current chair for the American Meteorological Society Science and Technical Activities Committee on Severe Local Storms.
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Rick Hluchan, Forecaster,
NWS Duluth, MN
Rick Hluchan is a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Duluth, MN. Originally from Texas, Rick earned both his Bachelors degree (2008) and Masters degree (2011) in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. As a graduate student assistant from 2007-2010, Rick operated the NSSL experimental Phased Array Radar (PAR) as part of the National Weather Radar Testbed (NWRT) spring experiments. During that same time period, Rick also provided radar support during the VORTEX-2 field experiment, and assisted in designing phased array radar scanning strategies. He also was a student research meteorologist at NSSL from 2006-2008. Rick has worked for the National Weather Service in Duluth since May 2011.
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Tom Hultquist, Science and Operations Officer,
NWS Chanhassen, MN
Tom is a New England native, but has lived in the Great Lakes and Midwest since 1994. Tom received his B.S. in Meteorology from Lyndon State College in Vermont in 1992, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Land and Atmospheric Science at the University of Minnesota. He joined the National Weather Service as a Meteorologist Intern in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1994, and later became a forecaster in that office. He moved to Marquette, Michigan in 2001, where he took the position of Science and Operations Officer. Tom assumed the role of Science and Operations Officer in the Twin Cities in October 2007. Tom's current primary areas of professional interest include meso-scale dynamics, numerical weather prediction, and warm season convective forecasts and warnings.
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Dr. Kenneth Blumenfeld, Department of Geography,
University of Minnesota; Department of Natural Sciences, Metro State University
Dr. Kenneth ("Kenny") Blumenfeld is a Director of Projects at ORC International, and teaches physical geography, meteorology and natural hazards courses in an adjunct role at the University of Minnesota and Metropolitan State University. His research focuses on the climatology of severe and hazardous weather--especially in cities, and he is currently engaged in a project assessing the relative impacts of tornadoes in urban versus rural areas. In addition to his lifelong interest in extreme and hazardous weather, Kenny is an avid cyclist, a very amateur musician, an experimentalist in the kitchen, and a father of two wonderful and energetic boys. Although Kenny has recently lived in that state on the other side of the river, he is now back, happily, in downtown St. Paul (albeit still on the other side of the river).
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Chris Karstens, Mesonet Team Lead, TWISTEX; Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University
Chris is originally from Atlantic, Iowa and earned his Bachelor and Master degrees in Meteorology from Iowa State University in 2007 and 2009, respectively. From 2007 to 2011, Chris participated in the Tactical Weather Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes Experiment (TWISTEX) as a student volunteer and quickly worked to become a team leader for one of the mobile mesonet vehicles. He also provides software development and technical support for TWISTEX. Chris is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Meteorology at Iowa State University. His research interests include near-surface vortex dynamics, tornado and RFD evolution, tornado damage surveying, geo-spatial analysis using GIS, data mining and visualization, and severe weather warnings.
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Jeff Chapman, Forecaster,
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Jeff Chapman is currently a forecaster for the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, SD. A lifelong Twins fan and native of Le Sueur, the wild Minnesota weather inspired him to pursue a B.S. in Meteorology from Iowa State University (1988) and do graduate work at the State University of New York at Albany. Jeff started his NWS career in 1993 with a posting as intern in Medford, OR, but it did not take long to realize that his heart was with the weather of the northern plains. He has served as a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls since 1995, with focus on hydrology, fire weather, and verification. Jeff enjoys sharing science through outreach talks and conference presentations, and is a mentor in the AMS DataStreme project.
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Greg Gust, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NWS Grand Forks, ND
Greg is currently the WCM serving the northwest quarter of Minnesota and eastern third of North Dakota, including the Red River and Devils Lake Basins, a position he has held since 2000. A true MinnDakota native, Greg was born in Grand Forks, raised on a farm in Polk County MN, and graduated from St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN, with degrees in Math and Physics. He received a commission in the Air Force in 1983, after which he received his undergraduate credentials in meteorology at Texas A&M University, and then his M.S. in Meteorology from Penn State University in 1992. While in the Air Force, Greg crisscrossed the nation providing severe weather support to global military operations. Since 1992, Greg has served as Forecaster, Lead Forecaster, and Science and Operations Officer in NWS offices spanning the Rocky Mountains and Northern Plains states. He has chased, caught, and released tornadoes in thirteen states... but spends most of his time now on local, national, or international warning coordination issues... before, during, and after the BIG events.
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