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WeatherBrains - April 20, 2010

Our guest panelist is Nicolle Morock from whatever-weather.com. She has a meteorology degree and a communications degree from North Carolina State University. Her web site launched just last December. It is a job site for meteorologists, matching candidates with job. She is also a Skywarn trainer.

Our special guest for this episode is Bob Baron from Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL. Bob founded Baron Services after 22 years of broadcast meteorology experience. Mr. Baron received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and concluded additional studies at Pennsylvania State University and The University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has been a long-standing member of the American Meteorological Society and in 1982 received the American Meteorological Society seal of approval for television. In 1996 his peers recognized Mr. Baron as the small business executive of the year, and in 2004 he was a finalist in Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year award. Mr. Baron was honored by the National Weather Association with a Special Achievement Award in November, 2006.

 

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Our special guest for this show is author John M. Barry. He is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose books have won more than twenty awards. In 2005 the National Academies of Science named The Great Influenza, a study of the 1918 pandemic, the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine, and the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Pathogens gave Barry its 2005 “September Eleventh Award” for his contributions to pandemic preparedness. In 2006 the National Academies also invited him to give its annual Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture; he is the only non-scientist ever to give that lecture. In 1998 Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians for the year’s best book of American history.

Both The Great Influenza and Rising Tide have proven influential in recent years. Barry was invited by the Bush and Obama administrations to advise on pandemic preparedness and response, and he has advised other federal, state, United Nations, and World Health Organization officials on influenza, water-related disasters, crisis management, and risk communication. A member of advisory boards at M.I.T’s Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Barry was also the only non-scientist on a federal government Infectious Disease Board of Experts.

 

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http://weatherbrains.com/audio/wb050410.mp3

Guest panelist on WeatherBrains tonight is Dr. Josh Durkee. Dr. Durkee is a Professor of Meteorology at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY, and has been since 2008. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Western Kentucky University and his Masters Degree and doctorate from the University of Georgia. WKU has a small and relatively new meteorology program with the first graduating class coming soon.

Joining us this week as our special guest WeatherBrain is Sheldon Kusselson. Sheldon is a graduate of Penn State University. He is an Accu-Weather alumnus and has spent the last 31 years as a part of NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS). His branch actually does all hazards analysis besides precipitation.
Other discussions in this weekly podcast include topics like:

• find out what a hill topper is
• another wild, wild week
• Nashville, TN, declared a disaster area due to flooding
• Cumberland River in Nashville crested about 13 feet above flood stage
• 29 fatalities in the flooding across Tennessee
• over 17 inches of rain in the vicinity of Nashville
• windy day across Rockies – gust to 113 mph in Colorado
• and more!

 

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Might as well revive this thread for storm-chasing episodes of WeatherBrain with a link to the show that talks about the revival of StormTrack

http://weatherbrains.com/weatherbrains/?p=4575