WeatherBrains

Our Guest WeatherBrain for this episode is Lans Rothfusz. Lans is a veteran on WeatherBrains having appeared on Episode 314 and more recently on Episode 493.  Lans has had a varied career in the National Weather Service including serving as the Meteorologist-in-Charge of the Atlanta, GA, office and heading the Olympic Weather Support Team for the 1996 Summer Olympics. Lans now works in the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK.

Tonight's Guest Panelist , Chris Bovitz, has experience in a husband/wife meteorologist relationship.  His B.S. is in Computer Science and his Master is in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Wisconsin.  He has worked for the National Weather Service and is very involved in meteorology everyday.  He and his wife Lori both worked shifts at the NWS in Fort Worth from the mid 1990s to 2000.  Our Guest WeatherBrains are Ari Sarsalari and Jen Watson, a husband and wife team of meteorologists, talk about their careers and how they balance their jobs, marriage, and a growing family. Jen has been on WeatherBrains on episode 324 and episode 581.

Our guest this week is the retiring meteorologist, Dave Freeman. Dave is appearing for the fourth time and has appeared on several WeatherBrains shows including episode 211, episode 325, and episode 403. He retired from KSN-TV earlier this month.

Guest WeatherBrain #1 grew up obsessed with lightning and severe weather. He has a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from SUNY Albany. He is currently employed at Earth Networks (WeatherBug) where he spends his work days making custom forecasts and monitoring the weather for a wide variety of industries. Mark Ellinwood, welcome to WeatherBrains!  And Guest WeatherBrain #2 caught the weather bug watching tall cumulus towers build in the deserts of Arizona during monsoon season. James’s meteorology interests include radar, satellite/remote sensing and observational networks. James holds a Masters degree in Emergency Management from North Dakota State University and a bachelors in Geospatial Information Systems from Millersville University. James Hyde, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Our special guest WeatherBrain tonight comes from Warning Decision Technologies (WDT) in Norman, OK. Joining us is Mike Wolfinbarger who works at WDT and was one of the key people who developed RadarScope.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a senior meteorology student at OU. She will graduate this month with her B.S. in Meteorology with minors in Broadcast Meteorology and Mathematics. She already has a TV job lined up in New Bern, NC, when she graduates. Ashley Pratt, welcome to WeatherBrains.

Our guest WeatherBrains this week include Dr. Laura Myers, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Advanced Public Safety, University of Alabama, and Kevin Laws, Science and Operations Officer with the National Weather Service in Birmingham, AL. Each of these distinguished people have been on WeatherBrains before.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the Chair of the American Meteorological Society Board on Enterprise Economic Development, under the AMS Commission on Weather and Climate Enterprise. He is also an Engineering Fellow with Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems in Aurora, CO. Dr. Shawn Miller, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Joining us on this episode is Tony Rice who prepares our astronomy outlook. Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain is a Senior Information Security Engineer at Cisco and a Solar System Ambassador at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory by day, and a contributor to WRAL-TV and WeatherBrains by night. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Computer Science, beginning his career as a software engineer at BAE Systems/British Aerospace. He has also worked as a Senior Member of Scientific Staff at Nortel Networks. Most of us know Tony Rice best for his weekly contribution to WeatherBrains as our resident astronomer. Tony Rice, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Our guest WeatherBrain this week is Dr. Leigh Orf from Wisconsin-Madison.  Also joining us is Mark T Jelinek from "What Is It With The Weather" Podcast.