Invited Speaker Bios
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12th Annual AMS Student Conference Austin, TX January 5-6, 2013 Invited Speakers Wendy Abshire Wendy Schreiber-Abshire is a Senior Project Manager for UCAR’s COMET Program in Boulder, CO where she leads internationally recognized training efforts currently in the areas of satellite meteorology, hydrology, climate, tropical meteorology, and space weather. Her primary duties include managing sponsor relationships and supervision of both scientists and instructional designers who conduct courses and create and publish materials to the MetEd website. She began her career at NCAR in 1983 where she participated in several landmark field programs and research studies, including JAWS and microburst research, convection initiation investigations, and she served as a radar meteorologist during GALE. Wendy joined the COMET Program in 1990 as a staff meteorologist and contributed to numerous training endeavors supporting the National Weather Service modernization. In 2003, after years spent developing training modules on a variety of topics, Wendy became the COMET Residence Course Coordinator which provided her the opportunity to interact with many atmospheric science professionals. Through the years Wendy has authored and co-authored over 50 scientific papers including journal articles and conference preprints. She earned a degree in Meteorology from Metropolitan State College of Denver (B.S. 1985) and a degree in Atmospheric Science from the University of Wyoming (M.S. 1989). Wendy is a long-time member, past Councilor, and 2012 Vice-President of the National Weather Association. She is also a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the Denver-Boulder Local AMS Chapter. Wendy served 4 years as chair of the AMS Board on Outreach and Pre-college Education where she led the creation of the AMS statement on the value of K-12 earth science education and 7 years on the AMS Local Chapter Affairs Committee. She is currently an active member of the AMS’ Membership Committee and Planning Commission. Wendy has also experienced career growth through participation in the 2001 AMS Summer Policy Program, the 2004 UCAR Leadership Academy program, and in 2009 she was appointed and continues to serve as an Ombudsperson for UCAR. In these capacities Wendy has learned a great deal about communication, coaching, and conflict resolution. Wendy’s current career objective is to: “increase both scientists’ and the public’s knowledge of atmospheric science to improve forecasts and weather-related decision-making and to benefit policy decisions affecting the earth-atmosphere system.” She continues to have a great deal of passion for mentoring others in the geosciences and owes her own mentors a great debt for the opportunities that have been afforded to her! When she’s not working, Wendy enjoys being married to the love of her life, spending time with her two “twenty-something” aged sons, and her friends. She loves sports, especially Colorado Rockies baseball, and most recently started collecting antique aprons and post cards. Lamont Bain Lamont Bain attended the University of Oklahoma where he received his B.S. in Meteorology. During his stint at OU, Lamont was very much vested in weather forecasting and was heavily involved with the Oklahoma Weather Lab (OWL), a student forecasting organization at OU. In addition to his involvement with OWL, Lamont volunteered at the National Weather Service in Norman, OK and was an undergraduate research assistant at the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorology. Lamont now resides in Huntsville, Alabama, where he is attaining his Masters of Science in Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His research interests include synoptic meteorology as well as polarimetric radar observations of convective phenomenon. He currently works under Dr. Lawrence Carey and is examining kinematic, microphysical, and lightning properties of convection across the northern Alabama region from the field phase of the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry Experiment. He also continues to volunteer at the National Weather Service Office in Huntsville, AL. Lamont’s passions/hobbies include weather forecasting, Sooner Football, and playing tennis. Once finished with his graduate schooling, Lamont hopes to attain a position within the National Weather Service. Dr. Mary Barth Dr. Mary Barth received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering (University of Colorado) in 1985 and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences (University of Washington) in 1991. She is a Scientist III in the NCAR Earth System Laboratory’s Atmospheric Chemistry and Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Divisions and is head of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Section. Throughout her career, Dr. Barth’s research focus has been on interactions between clouds and chemistry. Her scientific activities have included examining aerosol sulfate production to investigating the effects of clouds on ozone chemistry. Using the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry, Dr. Barth has led the computationally-intensive project to examine the cloud-scale effects of the North American Monsoon on upper troposphere composition at the regional scale. Dr. Barth is one of the Principal Investigators for the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry field campaign that occurred in May-June 2012. This field campaign collected comprehensive measurements of storm physics, dynamics, and lightning parameters with chemical composition of the inflow and outflow regions, as well as chemical composition of the convective outflow region 0-24 hours after active convection. Dr. Barth is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorology Society. She served on the International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation for 8 years and was the secretary for Atmospheric Chemistry of the American Geophysical Union for 2 years. She is currently a member of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Scientific Steering Committee and the Advisory Committee for NSF Geosciences Directorate. Dr. Tom Bogdan Dr. Thomas J. Bogdan is the 6th president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). A world authority on solar-terrestrial physics, Tom began his science career at the State University of New York at Buffalo, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1979 with a degree in physics and mathematics. He earned a doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago in 1984, specializing in plasma astrophysics, and came to UCAR as a postdoctoral researcher to NCAR’s High Altitude Observatory (HAO), where he researched solar magnetic activity and basic magnetohydrodynamics. He has completed advanced training programs in leadership and business management from the Federal Executive Institute and the E.I DuPont de Nemurs Corporation. Bogdan spent time in Germany in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a Visiting Gauss Professor at Göttingen University Observatory and as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute. He returned to HAO in 1995 to lead the observatory’s Solar-Terrestrial Research Program; during this time, he also began developing and teaching graduate courses at the University of Colorado Boulder. From 2001–2003, Bogdan served as the National Science Foundation’s program director for solar-terrestrial physics in Washington, D.C. He was instrumental in developing NSF’s first bridged faculty program in the space sciences. Bogdan returned to NCAR in 2003 to assume senior management positions as the acting director of the Advanced Study Program and the acting associate NCAR director for societal and environmental programs. In 2006, he left NCAR to join the Senior Executive Service and lead the country’s civil operational space weather program, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Program. As director, he represented the space weather enterprise across every affected sector of government and society, working with federal and commercial stakeholders at home and abroad. Under Tom’s leadership, the NWS’ National Centers for Environmental Prediction successfully transitioned the first numerical space weather prediction model into operations and increased its customer base six-fold between 2006 and 2012, when he left government service to rejoin UCAR. Bogdan, who has published more than 100 scientific papers, is a fellow of the AMS and the Royal Astronomical Society. He is an active member of numerous other scientific societies including the American Astronomical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the International Astronomical Union, Sigma Xi, National Defense Industry Association, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He works closely with the World Meteorological Organization as the U.S. point of contact for space weather issues and has chaired and served on numerous NSF, NASA, and National Research Council committees and panels that advise federal agencies and policymakers. He has extensive experience working with a wide variety of federal stakeholders and developing international and commercial partnerships not only in basic research but also operational prediction. Barbara Mayes Boustead Barbara Mayes Boustead is a forecast meteorologist and climate program manager at the National Weather Service office in Omaha/Valley, NE. A Michigan native, Barbara obtained her Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Central Michigan University in 2000, with majors in meteorology, geography, and English, and minors in