Valbona Kunkel VALBONA KUNKEL Research to Operations Program Coordinator Dr. Kunkel is a contractor working as the Research to Operations Program Coordinator at the Weather Program Office (WPO). Prior to WPO, Dr. Kunkel supported the transition of the models from a research system to a fully operational system operated by the National Weather Service National…
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Kristina earned her B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder and her M.P.S. (Master of Professional Science) in Tropical Marine Ecology from the University of Miami.
Christine Bassett Christine Bassett S2S Program Coordinator Christine is a FedWriters contractor supporting the NOAA/OAR/WPO Subseasonal to Seasonal Research program. Prior to joining WPO, Christine was a Knauss Fellow with the National Weather Service Office of Observations where she supported NWS in intra-agency, interagency and international organizations to support weather, water, ocean and climate programmatic objectives…
Krishna Kumar, PhD Krishna Kumar, PHD EPIC Program Coordinator and Senior Program Scientist Dr. V. Krishna Kumar is a contractor who provides technical support and oversight as the EPIC Program Coordinator and Senior Program Scientist to EPIC Program, EPIC Contracts, WPO Management and OAR and EPIC Cloud Projects. Krishna is the Project Manager for multiple…
Jennifer Vogt supports the Weather Program Office (WPO) as an Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) Program Physical Scientist.
Mark Olsen Mark Olsen S2S Program Manager Mark is the Program Manager of WPO’s Subseasonal to Seasonal program supporting NOAA’s goal of a Weather-Ready Nation by enabling and coordinating research to improve the predictive capability across time scales that bridge weather and climate. Prior to joining WPO, Mark was a research scientist working under a…
Sandy LaCorte Sandra LaCorte Observations Program Coordinator Sandra (“Sandy”) LaCorte is a contractor supporting the Weather Program Office (WPO) as an Observations Program Coordinator. Prior to WPO, Sandy worked as a National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist for just shy of 12 years at Weather Forecast Offices located in Huntsville, AL, Wilmington, NC and Greenville-Spartanburg, SC.…
Jon received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and his dissertation focused on the growth and culture of early-stage venture capital in Philadelphia. Jon also received his Masters in economics and history from The New School and his Bachelors in economics and history from the University of Iowa
Alison Agather Alison Agather FACETs Coordinator & Social Science Program Competition Manager Alison supports the Weather Program Office (WPO) as a contractor for Science and Technology Corporation. She is the FACETs Coordinator and the Social Science Program’s Competition manager. Prior to supporting WPO, she was a Knauss Fellow and split her time between the Ocean…