SATURDAY NIGHT KEYNOTE: MICHAEL LOWRY
partnership with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).
Previously, Lowry served as on-air hurricane specialist and tropical program lead for The Weather Channel (TWC) from 2012-2016. While at TWC, he provided network coverage for hurricanes and nor’easters, including Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the Boston blizzard in 2013, and Hurricane Matthew in 2016, filing reports for NBC Nightly News, TODAY, MSNBC, and CNBC.
Lowry has also served as a lead scientist at the NHC in Miami, Fla., where he was responsible for the development of new tropical cyclone-related products, including new watches and warnings, for the National Weather Service (NWS). Other positions have included Senior Scientist at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in Alexandria, Va., and emergency manager and meteorologist for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, where he provided support for nine presidentially declared disasters, including seven hurricane disaster declarations in 2004 and 2005.
Lowry is the recipient of the 2013 National Hurricane Conference Outstanding Achievement Award in Meteorology. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in meteorology from Florida State University.
Tamitha Skov holds B.S. degrees in physics and physical chemistry, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics and planetary physics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2004 she joined The Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles where she is currently a Research Scientist in the Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tamitha works primarily in the fields of solar and space physics research and in the testing of spacecraft materials in realistic space radiation environments. She is an instructor at The Aerospace Institute and has served as an audio forensics analyst and instructor for the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC), funded by the Department of Justice. Her forecasting work as the “Space Weather Woman” is widely known on social media such as You Tube, Twitter, and Facebook. Tamitha has been featured in Popular Science Magazine and on television shows for The Weather Channel and The History Channel. She makes regular appearances on TMRO.TV for Space News and TwiT TV for Ham Nation, doing space weather forecasts under her amateur radio callsign WX6SWW.
