UCAR

The purpose of the UCP External Advisory Committee (EAC) is to better enable UCP to anticipate the evolving scientific landscape and community needs for Earth system sciences. The UCP EAC provides guidance, advice, direction, and regular feedback on UCP's activities and management of its centers and programs, consistent with UCP's vision, goals, and objectives.

The UCP EAC is composed of leading scientists with a broad view and deep understanding of the field of Earth system sciences, where it is going, and how UCP Programs and Centers may contribute to the advances of Earth system science, in close collaboration with the community.

EAC members

Ana Barros

Ana P. Barros

University of Illinois

Ana P. Barros is the Donald Biggar Willett Chair of Engineering and Head and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research interests are in Hydrology, Hydrometeorology, and Environmental Physics with a focus on water-cycle processes in the coupled land-atmosphere-biosphere system particularly in regions of complex terrain, remote sensing of the environment, climate predictability, extreme events, and risk assessment of natural hazards.

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Mona Behl, EAC Vice Chair

Mona Behl, EAC Vice Chair

University of Georgia

Mona Behl is the associate director of University of Georgia's Sea Grant college program where she also holds public service and academic appointments. Her research interests include building the adaptive capacity of local communities to manage the impacts of weather and climate, preparing people for the future work, and broadening participation in geosciences.

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DaNa L. Carlis

DaNa L. Carlis

NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)

DaNa L. Carlis, Ph.D., is an award-winning meteorologist and serves as the director at NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). At NSSL, he leads the premiere severe weather research laboratory with more than 180 scientists, engineers, and administrators. Carlis also serves on the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Council.

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Brad Colman

Bradley R. Colman

American Meteorological Society President, Retired

Bradley R. "Brad" Colman is the president-elect of American Meteorological Society (AMS). In this role, he provides leadership to 13,000 members. In his previous role, as director of Weather Strategy for Bayer/The Climate Corporation, he set Enterprise weather priorities, and worked to provide tailored decision-support information to Bayer's global agricultural industry. Before working for Climate, he was principal program manager on a Microsoft team charged to develop a sole-source weather service for their ecosystem. He has authored or coauthored more than 30 journal articles and a NRC report, contributed content to 4 books, and coedited award winning volumes.

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Belay Demoz, EAC Chair

Belay Demoz, EAC Chair

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Belay Demoz is a Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and is the current Director of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET). He is also the current Principal Investigator and Executive Director for the Goddard Earth Sciences technology and Research II (https://gestar2.umbc.edu/). His research interests include mesoscale observation and instrumentation in atmospheric physics and climate as well as atmospheric science influence in climate policy.

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Bill Gail

William B. Gail

Advisor and Consultant to Weather and Remote Sensing Organizations

William B. Gail is an advisor and consultant to weather and remote sensing organizations. He was previously co-founder and CEO at Global Weather Corporation, an industry-leading provider of weather forecast services to the media, energy, and transportation industries, and product lead for weather and climate at Google. Gail is a past President and Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. He serves or has served on a variety of other editorial, corporate, and organizational boards, including the US Commerce Data Advisory Council and NOAA Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG), and has testified in Congress on multiple occasions regarding weather issues.

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Sanjay Khanna

Sanjay Khanna

SK Futures Inc.

Sanjay Khanna is Chief Futurist of SK Futures Inc., a strategic foresight consultancy dedicated to enhancing the resiliency of individuals, organizations, and communities. Khanna is also an Adjunct Professor at McMaster University, where he lectures in, and is an advisory board member of, the Master of Public Policy in Digital Society Program. He is on the Program Faculty of the Law of Emergencies Certificate Program at Osgoode Professional Development, York University. He is currently Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art (RCA) and Project Partner of its new Liveable Planet Challenge Lab.

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Tim McHale

Timothy McHale

US Geological Survey (USGS)

Timothy "Tim" McHale is a Senior Science Advisor and Executive Council member in the US Geological Survey (USGS) Office of the Associate Director for Water Resources Mission Area. He has held numerous leadership roles within USGS, focused on coordination of regional to national science initiatives with an emphasis on workforce development and enhancing workplace culture.

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Allison Miller

Allison Miller

Schmidt Ocean Institute

Allison Miller joined Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) in 2013. Her portfolio includes all research grants, contracts, and agreements undertaken by SOI, the impacts and outcomes of these projects, and international permits for working with R/V Falkor (too) in other countries.

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Gretchen Mullendore

Gretchen Mullendore

NSF NCAR Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory

Gretchen Mullendore is the Director of the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory at NCAR. In this role, she is responsible for advancing MMM's mission to advance the understanding of the mesoscale and microscale aspects of weather and climate and to apply this knowledge to benefit society. Her research interests include convective mass transport, gravity waves, and numeric modeling.

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Peter Neilley

Peter Neilley

The Weather Company

Peter Neilley is Director of Weather Forecasting Sciences and Technologies for The Weather Company (TWC). He leads a team of scientists, engineers, and forecasters responsible for all weather content used and distributed by the company. Neilley is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

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Alison Nugent

Alison Nugent

University of Hawaii

Alison D. Nugent is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Nugent's research interests include orographic convection and precipitation, shallow cloud dynamics, cloud microphysics, aerosol-cloud precipitation interactions, extreme precipitation, and observations and modeling.

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Marty Ralph

Martin Ralph

University of California San Diego/Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Martin Ralph is a synoptic and mesoscale Research Meteorologist. Since 2013, he has been at the University of California San Diego/Scripps Institution of Oceanography where he is developing the "Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes." Ralph is focused on understanding the physical processes that create extremes in precipitation ranging from flood to drought, and on advancing associated observations, predictions, climate projections, and decision support tools. A primary topic has been atmospheric rivers and their role in mid latitude precipitation.

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Roger Wakimoto

Roger Wakimoto

University of California Los Angeles

Roger Wakimoto is University of California Los Angeles' (UCLA) Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities who oversees extramural funding that exceeded $1.7B in 2021-2022. Wakimoto is an atmospheric scientist specializing in research on mesoscale meteorology, particularly severe convective storms, tornadoes and radar meteorology. He is a faculty member in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

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Sepi Yalda

Sepi Yalda

Millersville University

Sepi Yalda is a professor of meteorology, the director of the Millersville University’s Center for Disaster Research and Education (CDRE) and serves as the coordinator for the emergency management programs. In her role as CDRE director, she is involved in local, regional, national, and international efforts related to disaster education, mitigation, planning, and response. Yalda is an official consultant for the United Nations and a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers, American Geophysical Union, and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

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