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Dr. Chuck Doswell, Senior Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Metorological Studies, Norman, OK
Dr. Doswell has been an author of over 90 peer-reviewed meteorological papers, has authored chapters or sections of 15 books, and is widely known as one of the top severe weather researchers in the world. He is also an avid semi-professional photographer and videographer, having helped to develop some of the original spotter training materials and continues to contribute to the community in helping to understand both the visual representation of storms as well as the meteorological background that produces them. Dr. Doswell authored what is known as the defining paper regarding storm spotting and Skywarn.
Dr. Doswell received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his Masters and doctoral studies at the University of Oklahoma following active duty with the US Army. He spent six years with the Techniques Development Unit at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center, in Kansas City, MO. Then, he moved to Boulder, CO, where he spent four years with the Weather Research Program. Following that, he moved to the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, OK, in the fall of 1986 and retired from Federal service there in January 2001. Since then, he has been working part-time as a Senior Research Scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), which is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma.
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John Wetter, Skywarn Coordinator, NWS
Chanhassen, MN
John Wetter is currently the coordinator of Skywarn radio operations at the National Weather Service in Chanhassen, MN. He has been involved with Skywarn for over 12 years. While attending St. Cloud State, he was a member of Stearns County Skywarn where he was a Net Control Station coordinator and also a member of the board of directors. John has presented several studies locally and regionally specializing in radar interpretation and pre-storm environmental parameters, as well as Skywarn operations. He also has produced the last three Skywarn training videos for use by the NWS Chanhassen Office. John works in the IT field and lives in Maple Grove with his wife Jamie.
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Todd Krause, Warning Coordination Meteorologist,
NWS Chanhassen, MN
Todd Krause graduated from Bethel College in Arden Hills, majoring in
Math/Physics, then he received his M.S. in Meteorology from the South
Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. He started his
career with the National Weather Service as an intern in Huron, South
Dakota in 1985. Todd also worked as an intern in Wichita, Kansas before
becoming a forecaster in the Twin Cities in 1989. He has been the
Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service Twin
Cities office since 1994.
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David Hintz, Warning Coordination Meteorologist,
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Having lived in the Midwest his entire life, Dave has seen the full spectrum of weather that the plains have to offer. He knew he wanted to be a Meteorologist from a very early age. After high school, Dave enrolled in the Meteorology and Climatology program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he received his B.S. in Meteorology and Climatology in 1991. While in college, Dave began his career at NWS headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. There he worked in the Techniques Development Lab, becoming involved in the early origins of the L.A.M.P model. Later on he also worked at the Omaha forecast office. Upon graduation in 1991, he was transferred to the Rapid City, South Dakota office as an Intern Forecaster. In 1994 he was promoted to Journeyman Forecaster and moved to the Bismarck, North Dakota office. In 1998 he was selected as a Senior Forecaster at WFO Aberdeen, and became the WCM at the same office in the spring of 2009.
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Matt Friedlein, Forecaster,
NWS Chanhassen, MN
Matt Friedlein is in his fifth year of working as a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Chanhassen. Before that, Matt graduated from Northern Illinois University and worked at NWS offices in Chicago, IL and Paducah, KY. While loving the challenges of Midwestern forecasting, Matt is also active with outreach, providing in and outside of office training, and conducting local research. He has composed dozens of severe weather reviews for public use, as well as scientific and operational mortems for fellow forecasters. Besides learning from these past reviews, Matt also believes that success in severe weather operations comes from strong, well-practiced teamwork with those in and out of the workplace, such as with Skywarn storm spotters. He has been active with the Skywarn spotter training every year of his career and it always is one of the most enjoyable aspects of his job.
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Erik Westgard, NY9D, Minnesota Packet Network
Erik Westgard, NY9D, is an ARRL Life Member who lives in St Paul, Minnesota. He is the Volunteer Medical Communications Director for the Medtronic Twin Cites Marathon, and is employed as a consultant in the telecommunications industry. He led the development of the www.14567.org Statewide Packet/D-Star data network in Minnesota. He has an MBA from Metropolitan State University, and is a frequent contributor to QST and Redmond magazine and speaker at Amateur Radio events.
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Dr. Kenneth Blumenfeld , Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Dr. Kenneth ("Kenny") Blumenfeld is a Lecturer at the University of
Wisconsin-Platteville, and a Research Associate at the University of
Minnesota. His research focuses on the climatology of severe convective
storms, extreme rainfall, as well as blizzards, and he has just begun a
collaborative project investigating the persistence of tornado "scars" on
built and natural landscapes in the Upper Midwest. In addition to his
lifelong interest in extreme and hazardous weather, he is an avid cyclist,
a reformed hockey player, a very amateur musician, a sourdough bread-baking
fanatic, a father of two energetic boys, and he is married to a very
talented and relentlessly curious artist. Kenny's family currently lives in
the southwestern part of that state on the other side of the Mississippi
river...but he will always consider himself a Minnesotan.
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Paul Huttner, Chief Meteorologist, Minnesota Public Radio
Paul Huttner is the first Chief Meteorologist with Minnesota Public Radio. Paul heads up weather coverage and delivers daily weather perspective and commentary on KNOW 91.1FM and on Minnesota Public Radio's 38 station network. Paul served two stints as a meteorologist with WCCO-TV in Minneapolis (1988-1994 and 2006-2007). Paul also served as Chief Meteorologist at KGUN9 in Tucson from 1997 through 2005, and was the first meteorologist for the WGN Morning News program from 1994-1996.
Paul's first living memory is of the 1965 Twin Cities tornado outbreak. Professionally he has covered and broadcast live during the Halloween Mega Storm in 1991, the Chicago Heat Wave in 1995, and countless severe weather outbreaks including the August 19th 2009 Twin Cities tornadoes.
Paul was born and raised in Minnesota and is a member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and has earned the AMS Television Seal of Approval and the AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) designation.
Paul lives in the west metro at the Huttner Weather Lab near Lake Minnetonka.
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Kevin Kraujalis, Forecaster, National Weather Service, Duluth, MN
Kevin Kraujalis is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in
Duluth, Minnesota. He came to the Duluth Office this past October from
the Williston, North Dakota National Weather Service Office where he
began his National Weather Service career in August 2008. In the
previous ten years, Kevin was a FAA certified weather observer for major
airports in Chicago, Orlando, Milwaukee, Daytona Beach and South Bend.
Kevin is a graduate of Northern Illinois University.
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Carol Christenson, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service, Duluth, MN
Carol Christenson KC0MAK graduated from the University of Wisconsin- Madison with a degree in meteorology. She started her career with the National Weather Service in Lacrosse, WI way back in 1982 as a summer helper obtained through the county job services. She was accepted in the NWS cooperative learning program in 1983 and spent four years at WSO Madison while earning her degree. Carol was an intern at WSO Duluth before being part of the first batch of forecasters at Wichita, KS in 1992. She returned to Duluth as the WCM in 1994. Carol has volunteered as a ham radio operator for Grandma's Marathon and is the Sunday School leader at her church. She is also an avid biker and gardener and is currently learning to play the guitar. She lives in Hermantown with her husband, who is retired from the NWS, two daughters, two dogs, and cats.
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