Matthew J. Parker, CCM

Fellow Meteorologist

Atmospheric Technologies Group

Savannah River National Laboratory

Washington Savannah River Company

Bldg. 735-7A

Aiken, SC 29808

(803) 725-2805

matt.parker@srnl.doe.gov

Mr. Parker has worked at the US Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) since 1989 in the Savannah River National Laboratory's Atmospheric Technologies Group (ATG). He received his Bachelor of Science (1986) and Master of Science (1989) in Meteorology from North Carolina State University in Raleigh. His specialty is meteorological instrumentation including the oversight and development of ATG’s 14 tower on and offsite tower network and applied studies in meteorology including wind assessments. Other activities include providing weather forecast and emergency response dispersion modeling support to SRS operations. Mr. Parker has written numerous reports and given talks on topics ranging from severe weather events at the SRS, standards for meteorological instrumentation, novel fiber-optic meteorological instrumentation, satellite ground-truth data collection methodologies, tall-tower anchor rod examinations, and weather entrepreneurship. Mr. Parker is co-inventor of “Nondestructive Test Method for Assessment of Subterranean Tower Anchor Rods” (US Patent 6,311,565).

Mr. Parker is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist (#570) as determined by the American Meteorological Society AMS (www.ametsoc.org) and is also a Fellow of the AMS. Mr. Parker is a Past President of the National Council of Industrial Meteorologists (www.ncim.org) and is also the Chairman of the AMS’ newly created Board on Enterprise Communication. Past committee memberships include the AMS' Board of Private Sector Meteorology, the Ad Hoc Committee on the Continuing Professional Development of CCMs and the AMS Committee on Measurements. Additional activities include organizing three AMS Short Courses (On Weather Entrepreneurship (2000), Weather Entrepreneurship Workshop (2002), and the Business Tools for the Weather Entrepreneur workshop (2004)). Additional professional affiliations include the Nuclear Utility Meteorological Data Users Group (NUMUG), the ANSI/ANS 3.11 Working Group, the Air & Waste Management Association, and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).