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ISET Calendar Item DetailsNOAA-ISET Seminar: Dr. Louis W. Uccellini, NCEP/NWS/NOAA, 2-2:45PM, NC A&T Alumni Foundation Event Center, Ballroom # 101 02-26-2010 “Advancing the Prediction of Extreme Weather Events”
Speaker: Dr. Louis W. Uccellini Director, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) National Weather Service (NWS) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Location: North Carolina A&T State University Alumni Foundation Event Center Ballroom 101 Time: 2:00PM
Short bio
Dr. Louis W. Uccellini is the Director of the National Weather Service’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction in Camp Springs, Md. In his position, he is responsible for directing and planning the science, technology and operations related to NCEP's Central Operations, Environmental Modeling Center, Ocean Prediction Center, Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, Climate Prediction Center, National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo., and the Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City, Mo. Prior, Dr. Uccellini was the Director of the National Weather Service’s Office of Meteorology from 1994 to 1999; Chief of the National Weather Service’s Meteorological Operations Division from 1989 to 1994; and Section Head for the Mesoscale Analysis and Modeling Section at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Laboratory for Atmospheres from 1978 to 1989.
He received his Ph.D. (1977), Masters (1972) and Bachelor of Science (1971), degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Uccellini has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books on subjects including analysis of severe weather outbreaks, snowstorms, gravity waves, jet streaks, cyclones and the use of satellite data in analysis and modeling applications. He is the co-author of a widely acclaimed book entitled Snowstorms along the Northeastern Coast of the United States: 1955 to 1985, which was published by the American Meteorological Society in 1990; and authored chapters in the 1990 AMS Publication Extratropical Cyclones that provides a research review of explosive cyclogenesis, the 1999 AMS publication The Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones that provides a historical review of advances in forecasting extratropical cyclones at NCEP, and the 2008 AMS Publication, Synoptic Dynamic Meteorology and Weather Analysis and Forecasting. Also he is the co-author of a two-volume book, Northeast Snowstorms, published by the AMS in 2004.
Dr. Uccellini has been interviewed by countless media outlets, including Tom Skilling at WGN and has received many awards in recognition of his research and operational achievements including the Maryland Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist Award (1981), the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (1985), the American Meteorological Society's prestigious Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award (1985), and the National Weather Association's Research Achievement Awards for Significant Contributions to Operational Meteorology (1996). He was elected as a Fellow to the AMS in 1987. In 2001 he received the U.S. Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award and in 2006 he received the U.S. residential Distinguished Rank Award.
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction is the central component of the National Weather Service, which is under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). |