Dave Knollhoff, an AMS Member, and an AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist, is an Industrial Meteorologist with Westward Environmental, Inc. in Boerne, Texas. He works on air quality permitting projects and conducts air dispersion modeling analyses for all types of industry. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Knollhoff provided site-specific weather forecasts for the PGA Tour across the continental United States. From 1999 through early 2002, he worked at NOAA's National Weather Service Forecast Office near Des Moines, Iowa as an operational weather forecaster. In 2002, he changed his career path to concentrate on air quality related work by joining the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) which led him to his professional consulting position at Westward Environmental in 2005. Mr. Knollhoff has a BS degree in meteorology (1996) from Florida State University and an MS degree in meteorology (2001) from Florida State University. In 2008, Mr. Knollhoff became AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist #651. His professional goals are to acquire consulting work, including but not limited to, such as state-level NSR, Title V and PSD air quality permitting and modeling projects and forensic meteorological analyses associated with litigation. He hopes to someday get a Ph.D. degree in meteorology or environmental engineering related to numerical weather prediction. Additionally, he is a volunteer county coordinator with the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, & Snow (CoCoRaHS) network in Texas. Outside of his work and meteorological passions, he enjoys the outdoors, fishing and hunting and spending time with his wife and 2 kids and family and friends.