Robert Banks is a graduate meteorology student at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL and works with the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) at Innovation Park in Tallahassee. He recently graduated with his B.S. in Meteorology from Florida State. Robert has served as the Secretary of the North Florida Chapter of the AMS since the 2003-04 chapter year. He hails from Virginia Beach, VA, where his parents live today, and was recently married to his wife Cassie.