Walt
Dabberdt is a member of
Vaisala's Corporate Management Group. He received his
BS
degree from the
SUNY Maritime
College and his
MS
and
PhD
degrees (meteorology) from the University of
Wisconsin—Madison. Dr. Dabberdt spent fifteen years at Stanford
Research Institute (now SRI International) as Senior Research Meteorologist
and then another fifteen years at
NCAR
as Scientist, Facility Manager, and
NCAR
Associate Director.
He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from
NRC
and later a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
conducting research for one year at the University of Munich. He also created
an environmental studies program in air quality at California's Foothill
College. Dr. Dabberdt's professional interests and experience include
observing systems, mesoscale and boundary-layer meteorology, air quality, and
urban meteorology. He has served on and chaired numerous
AMS
committees and boards, including Turbulence and Diffusion, Meteorological
Aspects of Air Pollution (Chair), Measurements (Chair), and the Board on the
Urban Environment (past Chair). He was a contributing editor for the new
AMS
Glossary of Meteorology, received the 1997 AMS Editor's Award for
JAOT,
and was observing
systems editor for
BAMS.
He currently serves on several national and international committees,
including: the National Academies'
BASC;
the Canadian study on Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities (Board member);
the
NCAR
Earth Observing Laboratory External Advisory Committee (Chair);
the multi-university
CASA
program (Chair, Industrial Advisory Board); the
UCAR
Observing Systems Working Group (Co-Chair), and the Emerging Technologies Panel
(Co-Chair) of the
NSF
Facilities Assessment Study. He has authored more than 180 papers, reports and
conference presentations, including 60 refereed publications and two
layman's weather books. Dr. Dabberdt is a Fellow of the
AMS,
a Fellow of the
RMS,
and 2007
AMS
President Elect (2008
AMS
President).
