Ken Carey
(2008 AMS/BPSM Profile),
an AMS Member,
a
Fellow of the AMS,
and member of the
AMS Council (2010–2013),
is Director of Strategic Solutions at
Earth Resources Technology, Inc.
in Laurel, Maryland.
Before joining
ERT Mr. Carey was a Senior Principal Systems Engineer for the
Center for Sustainability, Earth, Energy, and Climate, at
Noblis, Inc.
a nonprofit science, technology and strategy organization that helps
clients solve complex systems, process and infrastructure challenges.
In that position Mr. Carey provided strategic planning, systems
engineering and project management support for the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
He worked with federal and state clients to create, facilitate and implement
satellite research to operations plans and meet requirements for the
next generation of environmental satellites; developed a science and technology
roadmap and a national system for air quality products for the
National Weather
Service; and provided business planning, program management and
leading technical outreach for the
Joint Center for Satellite Data
Assimilation, a NOAA, NASA and Department of Defense partnership.
Working with a team of emergency managers,
NOAA scientists and the
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Mr. Carey helped develop a prototype
coastal flooding and inundation tool that is capable of aiding decisions to
protecting critical infrastructure and the public.
Prior to his work at
Noblis, Mr. Carey retired from the
United States Air Force
after serving nearly 21 years. He served as an operational analyst, developing
analyses of force structure projections and presented optimum force structure
allocations to senior Department of Defense leaders and served as the
Contracting Officer Technical Representative for a $10M defense modeling
and simulation contract.
Mr. Carey served as the toxic dispersion modeling program lead,
implementing new dispersion modeling initiatives to forecast modeling
scenarios to help protect military bases and public communities. He
commanded a weather organization supporting front-line combat units
stationed in Europe in the Gulf War, and supported warfighters in the Army
on the Korean peninsula. Mr. Carey directed a 52-person training and software
applications section with an
Air Force Global Weather Center.
Mr. Carey has MS degrees in technology management from
George Mason
University (Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society), and
meteorology (with a minor in oceanography) from
North Carolina State
University (Dean's List).
He completed the Basic Meteorology Certificate program at
Texas A&M University (Chi Epsilon Pi Honor Society), and graduated with
a BS degree in physical sciences from the
University of Maryland.
He is a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the
University of Kentucky Center
for Risk Sciences, a Visiting Scientist for the
Royal Caribbean Cruise
Lines, and a Special Guest Speaker for
Sixth Star Entertainment.
He is also an adjunct faculty member for
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University,
and a winner of the prestigious Charles Franklin Brooks Award for Outstanding
Services to the
AMS. He chairs the
AMS Membership Committee,
and has chaired the
AMS Board for Private Sector Meteorologists, and
the
National Weather Association's Professional Development Committee.
He is a member of the
AMS Ad Hoc Committee on Security and the
Washington Academy of Sciences. He is also especially proud to have
helped, for the last seven years, develop the curricula for and hosted weather
camps for high school teenagers, and has been a guest speaker and mentored
students in meteorology.
