A BCDEGHJKLMNOPSTUVW Invited Speakers Biographies 13th Annual AMS Student Conference Opportunities in the New Job Climate and Beyond February 1{2, 2014 Atlanta, GA 13th Annual AMS Student Conference A BCDEGHJKLMNOPSTUVW Howard Altschule President/Forensic Meteorologist Forensic Weather Consultants, LLC Howard Altschule is a forensic meteorologist and the president of Forensic Weather Consultants, LLC, a New York-based weather expert firm that provides weather information, opinions and reports for claims, litigations and climate studies in the U.S. and abroad. Howard has worked on over 2,000 cases ranging from slip and fall on snow and ice cases to testifying in a double homicide trial in New York. Howard has appeared on The Today Show, MSNBC, NBC, Court TV, CNN, Fox, Fox Business News and many other outlets. He was appointed by the Governor of New York to serve on the Panel on Homeowners Insurance Coverage and holds his American Meteorological Society TV Seal of Approval. His website is Www.WeatherConsultants.Com and he can be reached via email at
[email protected]. Kristen Averyt, Ph.D. Associate Director for Science Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) University of Colorado Kristen Averyt is the Associate Director for Science at the ooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of ColoradoC, and the Director of the NOAA-funded Western Water Assessment. Averyt received a Ph.D. in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University. She has earned several awards and honors, including a Fulbright Fellowship to New Zealand (1998), and a NOAA Congressional Fellowship (2005), during which she worked in the US Senate.