As a distinguished scientist and engineer, Jason began his journey with a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Louisiana at Monroe (1996), where a focus on instrumentation, training on operational forecasting through the UCAR COMET program, and experience in the campus Climate Center provided extensive knowledge on the critical importance of observational networks, radar and satellite, and numerical modeling for understanding and predicting extreme weather events in real-time and for planning horizons associated with infrastructure design and emergency management.

He continued his education at North Carolina State University, completing an M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences focused on the uncertainty in numerical weather prediction models for major snowstorms in North Carolina. As part of the CSTAR program, Jason engaged with supercomputing centers, local television meteorologists, multiple National Weather Service Offices, and the State Climate Offices of North and South Carolina to improve forecast skill to provide improved decision-support services to local officials, first responders, and emergency management.

Jason then worked as the Severe Weather Liaison as a Climatologist II for the SC Department of Natural Resources, which led to a cross-over Ph.D. in water resources engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder (2013). Over the 20 years that followed SCDNR, Jason served as a hydrometeorologist at the NOAA Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center, a civil engineer with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and over a decade in the private sector working on contracts for various entities ranging from the Tennessee Valley Authority to British Columbia Hydro, from the States of Colorado and New Mexico to South Carolina, and from municipal government in California to Duke Energy in the Carolinas.

With extensive experience in translating complex data and methods to stakeholders across the spectrum from the general public to local town leadership and from corporate executives to multi-degreed geophysicists, Jason is committed to serving the role of education in the field of hydrometeorological sciences and hazards and risk engineering. That is why his company Weather & Water has the slogan “From Data in the Cloud to Decisions on the Ground, We Model Excellence”. We seek to advance that knowledge through structured stakeholder engagement processes, on-the-ground planning efforts and funding support, technical assistance with water resources engineering projects, and tool development for integration of multiple local needs into single-source visualization portals.

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