Summary of Professional Achievements: Expertise in synoptic and dynamic meteorology, atmospheric and oceanic modeling, remote sensing, air-sea interaction, and weather prediction. Key member of the team that first demonstrated the beneficial impact of quantitative satellite data (temperature soundings and satellite surface winds) on numerical weather prediction. Leading expert on Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs), and the first person to have conducted OSSEs for proposed satellite observing systems in which the quantitative results of the OSSEs were confirmed after the launch of the instruments. Former member of Scientific Steering Groups for GEWEX, THORPEX, and USWRP, and the NASA Ocean Vector Winds Team. Former councilor of the American Meteorological Society, Head of the NASA Data Assimilation Office, Chairman of U.S. WOCE Advisory Group for model-based air-sea fluxes, and Project Scientist for the Zephyr Wind Lidar, and GTWS. Currently serve as Chair of the American Meteorological Society’s Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) Conference.

Education:                

   Ph.D, Meteorology and Oceanography, New York University, 1976

   M.S., Meteorology, New York University, 1973

   B.S. magna cum laude, Aeronautics, St. Louis University, 1970

Professional Employment History

   2019-present: Research Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County

   2005-present: Adjunct Professor, University of Miami

   2014-2019: Director, NOAA’s Quantitative Observing System Assessment Program

   2005-2019: Director, NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

   2003- 2005: Chief Meteorologist, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

   1998-2003: Head, NASA Data Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD

   1978-1998: Research Scientist, NASA GSFC and Adjunct Professor, Univ. of MD.

   1960-1978: Weather Forecaster, Research Scientist, and Lecturer, for U.S. Weather Bureau (now

   NWS), U.S. Air Force Air Weather Service, ABC Television Network, National Center for   

   Atmospheric Research, State University of New York, and Adelphi University

Relevant Professional Awards:

• Fellow and former Councilor, American Meteorological Society
• American Meteorological Society Banner I. Miller Award
• NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement
• Honored by National Hurricane Center for “Enduring contributions to the Nation’s hurricane 

             forecast and warning program.” (February 2019)

• Honored by U.S. House of Representatives for his service to the nation (February 2019)

Publications: Total number of publications exceeds 300. Citations exceed 7800. 14 refereed publications since retiring from federal service in 2019. Author of “Weather Forecaster to Research Scientist: My career in meteorology” published by the American Meteorological Society