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Consultant
EXPERTISE AND SERVICES
Hurricane, Tropical Cyclone, Forecaster, Meteorologist, Expert ConsultantExpertise in atmospheric science, hurricane emergency management, operational advice, establishment, staffing, training, equipping and implementation of national weather service forecasting offices, warnings and forecast, and severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.
As an atmoshpneric scientist and hurricane specialist, this KKAI associate provides advisories and warnings on tropical cyclones, hurricane evacuation plans, damage surveys and training workshops, evaluating hurricane forecast accuracy and error characteristics, flood and cyclone warnings.
Additional specialties include tropical cyclone disaster consulting, ways to mitigate effects of future tropical cyclones, satellite image interpretation, hurricane evacuation plans, weather and forecasting, applied meteorology, operational techniques for forecasting tropical cyclone intensity and movement.
Highly experienced in areas including models of tropical upper tropospheric cold core cyclones, hurricane seasons, hurricanes and tropical meteorology, and models for the prediction of tropical cyclone motion and intensity
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, Hurricane Planning
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Graduate Study in Atmospheric Science , Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
B.S., Mathematics and M.S., Mathematics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
B.S., Meteorology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.
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Providing expertise in meteorology, atmospheric science, hurricane and tropical cyclone operational planning, hurricane consulting and forecasting, forensic investigation and analysis, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.
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Hurricane and Tropical Storm Operational Consultant
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Provided operational advice and information to a wide variety of clients during hurricane emergencies. Coordinated hurricane operational plans and provides instruction on tropical cyclones for clients.
Meteorologist in Charge, National Weather Service Forecast Office, Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
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Managed the establishment, staffing, training, equipping and implementation of a new NWS Forecast Office. Supervised a staff of twenty-five; responsible for the issuance of warnings and forecasts for a forty-six county area of the Carolinas and Georgia.
Deputy Meteorologist in Charge and North Carolina Area Manager, National Weather Service Forecast Office, Raleigh, NC
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Supervised a staff of fifteen in the issuance of warnings and forecasts for North Carolina. As Acting Area Manager served as overall manager of six NWS offices across North Carolina.
Adjunct Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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Taught Atmospheric Science courses and presented seminars. Served on three thesis committees and faculty search committees. Co-Principal Investigator on three NCSU-NWS COMET (Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training) projects. NWS Representative to the Southeast Consortium on Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes.
Hurricane Specialist and Guidance Forecaster, National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL
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Issued advisories and warnings on more than one hundred tropical cyclones. Served as NWS project leader and tropical cyclone consultant to the World Meteorological Organization and the Agency for International Development on eight missions to more than twenty countries worldwide, including India, Bangladesh and Thailand, as well as Central America and the Caribbean. Developed hurricane evacuation plans, performed damage surveys and conducted training workshops around the entire Atlantic-Caribbean hurricane-prone area. Served as the NHC focal point for evaluating hurricane forecast accuracy and error characteristics.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Served as consultant to the U. S. Agency for International Development, on the Bangladesh Flood and Cyclone Warning Project to assess the country’s warning system, to critically evaluate the AID-funded project, and to coordinate the AID project with ongoing projects in Bangladesh.
Served as mission leader of Hurricane Liaison Mission to the Western Caribbean and Central America to coordinate hurricane operational plans with government officials in Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Honduras, Belize and Mexico.
Served as consultant to the India Foundation following the Andhra Pradesh tropical cyclone disaster. Upon completion of an inspection tour of the disaster area and forecast centers, prepared a report on the causes of the disaster and recommended ways to mitigate the effects of future tropical cyclones.
Leader of an international team of tropical cyclone specialists at World Meteorological Organization sponsored meeting in Bangkok, Thailand to formulate the contents of the WMO Tropical Cyclone Forecast Manual. Edited the manual, which was published.
Member of Hurricane Liaison Mission to the Eastern Caribbean. The mission team coordinated hurricane operational procedures with officials in Curacao, Trinidad, Barbados, Martinique, and Puerto Rico.
Served as WMO consultant on satellite meteorology at the Caribbean Meteorological Institute in Barbados. Taught at short course in satellite image interpretation to meteorologists from ten countries.
Participated in the NATO Advances Study Seminar on the Boundary Layer of Oceans and Atmospheres, which was held on the Isle of Man, United Kingdom.
Lectured at the World Meteorological Organization Region IV Hurricane Committee Conference in Nassau, Bahamas.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Distinguished Service Award, National Hurricane Conference
Elected Fellow of the American Meteorology Society
NOAA Award for Unusually Outstanding Performance
North Carolina Governor's Award: Order of the Long Leaf Pine
(Highest NC Civilian Award - For role in developing NC’s first comprehensive hurricane evacuation plan)
North Carolina Emergency Management Award
Project GALE Certificate of Recognition
Recipient of five academic scholarships and fellowships including National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Presented talks on tropical cyclones at more than ten national conferences, including National Hurricane Conferences and the AMS Conferences on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
PUBLICATIONS
Author, co-author and editor of numerous publications on topics including weather and forecasting, applied meteorology, operational techniques for forecasting tropical cyclone intensity and movement, numerical model of tropical upper tropospheric cold core cyclones, hurricane seasons, hurricanes and tropical meteorology, models for the prediction of tropical cyclone motion and intensity over the North Atlantic, analysis of Atlantic tropical cyclone forecast errors, tropical cyclone forecast errors and the multimodal bivariate normal distribution, and more.
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