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Krishna Rao was con- tor leaders, identify opportunities, and apply cutting ferred the honorary fel- edge technology to advance its mission across the re- lowship of the Indian gions of the state. Meteorological Society. Myers has received numerous awards and has been The presentation was named by Entrepreneur magazine as one of the top made at a ceremony in 528 entrepreneurs in American history. The State Col- Mausam Bhavan, New lege-based Accu Weather was founded in 1962 and has Delhi, by R. R. Kelkar, since grown into a firm that now has 15 000 business, president of the Indian media, and government clients with 500 000 subscrib- Meteorological Society. ers and 350 employees. The honor is in recognition of Rao's eminence in the field of meteorological satellites and remote sensing Alden Electronics, Inc., of Westborough, Massa- systems. chusetts, was acquired by WELS Research Corpora- Rao has been with the National Environmental Sat- tion of Boulder, Colorado, in March. ellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) and the The new corporation has retained the name of Alden National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Electronics, Inc., and the corporate headquarters is (NOAA) for 35 years. Currently the chief scientist for located in Westborough. The Westborough office will Satellite and Information Services in Washington, continue to provide its national and international cus- D.C., he has been providing guidance for research and tomers with weather information products, weather development activities at NESDIS and NOAA for over data services, and 24 hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week 10 years. customer support. The citation conferring the fellowship on Rao stated The Boulder offices will become the research and he had published over 50 scientist papers and was the development center for the company as well as con- chief editor of a book on weather satellites. He has re- tinue to provide its national and international custom- ceived several performance awards from NOAA and is also a Fellow of the AMS, the Royal Meteorologi- cal Society, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Rao is the fifth Indian scientist to have been con- ferred the honorary fellowship of the Indian Meteo- TELEVISION SEALS OF APPROVAL rological Society. 1043 Cindy Fitzgibbon 1999 Joel N. Myers, founder, president, and CEO of 1044 Aaron D. Metkowski 1999 AccuWeather, has joined "Team ," a 1045 Nick J. Morganelli Jr. 1999 partnership with 35 other Pennsylvania business lead- 1046 Darrin Bradley Arlt 1999 ers from around the Commonwealth. 1047 Mark T. Thibodeau 1999 Governor Tom Ridge, who also serves as cochair- 1048 Frank Johnson 1999 man on the board, made the appointment. Team Penn- 1049 Cam Moore 1999 sylvania is a public-private partnership that brings 1050 LeAnn Pope-Allison 1999 together Pennsylvania's businesses, its government, 1051 Eric Chilton 1999 community, and economic development leaders. Its 1052 Patrick M. Paulauski 1999 mission is to make Pennsylvania the national leader in job growth, serve as a catalyst to retain and jobs through a partnership of public and private sec-

99 7 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ers with weather forecasting products, services, and (AER). He was promoted customer support. from vice president of The acquisition and merger also adds a new office AER's Applied Research in Vienna, Austria, which provides marketing and Division. customer support for a number of customers in Aus- The TSC's activities are tria and Italy. Alden Electronics, Inc., has provided to identify, develop, and weather information and systems to commerce, indus- market atmospheric and try, education, and government for more than 50 years. environmental data prod- Its products range from the new NOAAPORT to a new ucts and services, technol- 36-hour detailed tactical forecast, and its customers ogy, and solutions based range from meteorological services to operational users. on models and algorithms developed by AER's tech- Heather Tesch has joined The Weather Channel nical groups. (TWC) as an on-camera meteorologist. As part of the A 20-year veteran at all-weather network's morning team, Tesch can be AER, Isaacs continues to direct activities in the Ap- seen as co-anchor with TWC veteran Marshall Seese. plied Research Division, composed of AER's Numeri- Prior to TWC, Tesch was a meteorologist on the cal Weather Prediction, Radiation and Climate, WCCO This Morning Show in Minneapolis, Minne- Remote Sensing, and Satellite Meteorology groups. sota. She began her career The Applied Research Division oversees AER's role as a weathercaster in Port- as the premier algorithm developer for four critical land, Maine, at WPXT- sensor payload study contracts as part of the National TV in 1992 and moved to Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite WGME-TV the follow- System Program. ing year. Later she Along with being a member of the AMS, Isaacs is worked at WGAL-TV in a member of the Optical Society of America, the In- Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ternational Society for Optical Engineering, the Air before moving on to Pollution Control Association, and the Institute of WCCO-TV in 1996. Electrical and Electronic Engineers. A native of Buffalo, Minnesota, Tesch earned Judah Cohen, a staff scientist at Cambridge-based a B.A. in journalism/ Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. broadcast from the University of Minnesota at Min- (AER), recently coauthored a paper with Massachu- neapolis St. Paul and a B.S. in meteorology from Ply- setts Institute of Technology professor Dara mouth State College in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Entekhabi about how the amount of snow cover over the land mass of Europe and Asia (Eurasia) in the fall In March, Bob Van Dillen joined the NBC6 news may help predict winter climate in the eastern United team in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a new weekend States and in western Europe. broadcast meteorologist. Van Dillen had been with Entitled "Eurasian Snow Cover Variability and WTVH in Syracuse, New York since 1997. Prior to Northern Hemisphere Climate Predictability," the pa- that he was a chief meteorologist in Utica, New York, per concluded that the extent of snow cover over for two years. Eurasia in the fall contributes to the state of the North Van Dillen is originally from Randolph, New Jer- Atlantic Oscillation—a pattern of atmospheric behav- sey, and graduated from Millersville University in ior centered over the North Atlantic that has been Pennsylvania. He received a B.S. degree in meteorol- shown to influence the climate in adjacent land re- ogy in May of 1995 and is a holder of the AMS Seal gions. The more snow in Eurasia in the fall, the colder of Approval. the winter season is likely to be in the Northern Hemi- sphere, increasing the degree of storminess over east- Ron Isaacs has been promoted to senior vice presi- ern North America and western and southern Europe. dent and executive director of the newly formed Tech- The paper was published in the 1 February 1999 issue nology Center (TSC) of Atmospheric and of Geophysical Research Letters. Environmental and Environmental Research, Inc. The connection between Eurasian snow cover and

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