Nov 8, 2016
Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain #1 is currently a forecaster for the National Weather Service at Blacksburg, VA. His interest in remote sensing and drone technology was piqued during his time spent at NOAA/NESDIS "flying" GOES weather satellites. During his time outside of the weather office, Mike is an avid mountain biker and self-professed "bird nerd". Michael Sporer, welcome to WeatherBrains! Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain #2 has been the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service Office in Charleston, SC for 8 years, and has been in the NWS for 25 years. He has been a Lead Forecaster in Tampa and a SOO at CRP. Ron Morales, welcome to WeatherBrains. Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain #3 is an Unmanned Systems Atmospheric Scientist at Cherokee Nation Technologies (CNT), working in support of the NOAA UAS Program Office. Prior to that, John worked in various positions, supporting the NASA Natural Environments branch in development of the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, the University of Alabama in Huntsville as a research meteorologist, and the Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation as a consultant meteorologist. John Walker, welcome to the show!