Executive Board Members
Jonathan Jennings
PRESIDENT
David Yorty
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Sean Collier
SECRETARY / TREASURER
Dan Breed
PAST PRESIDENT
Tom DeFelice
EDITORTom DeFelice.
Laurie Capece
EXEC. SECRETARY/TREAS.Laurie Capece has held the position of Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the WMA since 2012. She has been the office manager for Northern American Weather Consultants for the past 10 years. Prior to the WMA, Laurie had over 8 years' experience as an Executive Director for nonprofit organizations, where she helped organize medical missions in several third world countries.
Trustees
Dan Martin
GOVERNMENT SECTOR TRUSTEE(2024)
Dr. Dan Martin is a Research Engineer with the USDA-ARS Aerial Application Technology Research Unit and has over 30 years of training and experience in aerial spray application technologies for precision agriculture and weather modification. He has held various leadership positions in professional societies and is recognized as a leading authority in manned and unmanned aerial application systems for precision agriculture and pest management.
Daryl O'Dowd
PRIVATE SECTOR TRUSTEE(2024)
Daryl O'Dowd has been a private sector consultant in meteorology for more than 30 years. Working as a summer student with the Alberta Research Council hail suppression project in the 1980's, he later joined weather modification innovator Irving P. Krick to coordinate Alberta ground-generator seeding. At the same time he flew with the late Jim Heimbach and a Langer IN counter (Langer Banger) over industrial plants with that data forming the basis for his M.Sc. (University of Alberta 1995) and subsequent Journal of Weather Modification articles. He's contracted as radar meteorologist to both WMI and SOAR, working in Istanbul and Texas, and has had roles in seeding program design and evaluation for corporate and government clients, including the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District #1. He sits on the JWM editorial board and holds WMA accreditation as certified operator (CO) and Canadian (CMOS) accreditation as consulting meteorologist. He's based in Calgary, Alberta.
Binod Pokharel
UNIVERSITY SECTOR TRUSTEE(2024)
Dr. Binod Pokharel is a Research Scientist and Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Plants, Soils and Climate at Utah State University. Dr. Pokharel obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Wyoming, where his research focused on glaciogenic cloud seeding. He has been actively engaged in cloud seeding research for over a decade. His areas of expertise encompass mountain meteorology, winter orographic cloud seeding, extreme weather events, climate variability, and climate change. Dr. Pokharel has an extensive publication record, having authored more than fifteen peer-reviewed research articles on cloud seeding in high-impact journals. He was the inaugural recipient of the North American Weather Modification Council Scholarship in 2012, recognizing his significant contributions to the field.
In addition to his work in the United States, Dr. Pokharel is involved in international research collaborations in Nepal and Thailand, concentrating on air pollution and forest fire research. Notably, his previous work included a research-to-operations project that developed a cloud-seeding weather forecasting model and tools tailored for the Utah region.
Committees
| AWARDS: |
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| Dan Breed (Chair) |
| Duncan Axisa |
| Pat Golden |
| Darin Langerud |
| LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS: |
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| Darin Langerud (Chair) |
| Tom DeFelice |
| Augustus Doricko |
| Jonathan Jennings |
| MEMBERSHIP: |
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| Laurie Capece (Chair) |
| Bria DeCarlo |
| Dave Yorty |
| NOMINATING: |
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| Derek Blestrud |
| Bruce Boe |
| Sean Collier |
| Shaun Parkinson |
| Mark Schneider |
| PUBLIC INFORMATION: |
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| George Bomar (Chair) |
| Corey Clay |
| Kala Golden |
| Harry Thomas |
| STANDARDS & ETHICS: |
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| Andrew Detwiler (Chair) |
| George Bomar |
| Dan Breed |
| Thomas DeFelice |
| Don Griffith |
Ad Hoc Committees
| INTERNATIONAL: |
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| Farren Hiscutt (Chair) |
| Frank Kasparek |
| WEBSITE: |
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| Erin Fischer (Chair) |
| Bria DeCarlo |
| Don Griffith |
| Kelli Schroeder |
| WMA ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT: |
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| Derek Blestrud (Chair) |
| Bruce Boe |
| Pat Golden |
| Frank McDonough |
Boards
| EDITORIAL: |
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| Tom DeFelice (Editor), Chair |
| Bob Cyzs (2023-2028) |
| Don Griffith (2023-2028) |
| Jonathan Jennings (2023-2028) |
| Richard Stone (2023-2028) |
| CERTIFICATION: |
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| Mark Schneider (Chair) |
| Don Griffith |
| Darin Langerud |
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