Areas of Expertise:
• Expert Witness Testimony
• Depositions & Trial Preparation
• Litigation Consulting
• Meteorological Data Acquisition and Analysis
• Climate Studies
• Report Preparation
• Table and Charts for Courtroom Presentation
• Site Investigations
• Project support for any activity requiring meteorological expertise. Data reduction and development of reports for engineering, failure analysis, public works, insurance or legal activities.
• Lectures & Training - Meteorological workshops on topics of current interest.
• California Bar MCLE activity "Weather Information for Litigation"
Credentials:
Certified Consulting Meteorologist, American Meteorological Society (#564)
BS Atmospheric Science, University of california Davis, 1974
MA Geography, San Jose State University, 1992
Summary of Experience:
24 years with the National Weather Service, including 13 as Lead Forecaster in the San Francisco Bay Area. Adjunct Professor of Meteorology since 1987 at San Francisco State University.
Media spokesman and El Nino expert with over 200 television interviews, including News Hour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, Weather Channel and Good morning America.
8 years with his private consulting firm, Golden Gate Weather Services, providing a broad range of research and forensic meteorology.