Jacob Horton

I graduated with a Meteorology-Geography degree in 2018 and with a minor in Recreation Management. During my time at OU, I was involved with OUCAMS all 4 years and was elected to the Fundraising Chair for OUCAMS for the 2017-18 school year. I interned at the Athens County EMA Office in Spring 2017 and Franklin County EMA Office in Winter ’17-’18. I have helped with COOP observations for NWS Charleston as well as a volunteer forecaster for Scalia Lab for Fall ’17. As for my future, I plan on attending Millersville University to pursue a Master’s degree in Emergency Management starting in Fall 2018 and will be a Student Volunteer for NWS Charleston, WV for Summer 2018. My goal is to get into the NWS or Emergency Management field. My email for future reference will be jtank2wx@gmail.com. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions! I’m willing to help out and be a resource.

Jon Harvery

Jon Harvery graduated from Ohio University in 2007 with a major in Meteorology and minors in Physics, Math, and Geology. Originally from Zanesville, Ohio and Jon has now moved on to the Geology Graduate Program at Utah State. He enjoys outdoor activities, especially backpacking, mountain biking, storm chasing, and photography. In his time in the OU Meteorology program Jon served as the Meteorology Club President in the 2006-2007 school year and also contributed to the 2007 version of the scalialab.com website. During summer 2006, he worked for NOAA in Boulder, Colorado with the NOAA Profiler Network.

Kirk Groeneveld

Kirk Groeneveld, O.U. Meteorology student from 1992-96, lives in Athens with his wife and two children. He is the chief meteorologist at WTAP TV, Parkersburg, where he has worked since 1996. He also studied through Mississippi State University’s Meteorology program earning a certificate of Broadcast Meteorology in 1998 after two years of study, during the period they developed an internet testing program. Groeneveld served as Athens County’s cooperative weather observer for the Charleston NWS office for two years, 1994-96. He enjoys science fiction, reading about the late 60s and early 70s turbulent years, and beading.

Nicole Grams

Nicole Grams graduated in 2011 with her B.S. in Meteorology (Departmental Honors) and minors in mathematics and physics. She was a member of the OU Synchronized Skating Team, an Ohio University Outstanding Senior, member of the “Voices of OHIO” campaign, and AMS Student Chapter president. Nicole also served 2 years as Co-Chair of the national AMS Student Conference Planning Committee. Yet, via her internships in the NOAA Student Career Experience and Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship programs, Nicole realized that meteorology was not, in fact, her primary calling and decided to pursue a Master’s degree in Geoinformatics and Hydrology at the University of Oklahoma. She graduated from the “other OU” in 2013 and is currently a Geospatial Analyst Senior Specialist at Weather Fusion/CoreLogic. Nicole resides in Milwaukee, WI with her NWS meteorologist fiancé and still spends her free time on the ice and at microbreweries.

Michael Garberoglio

Michael spent his 4 years at Ohio University participating heavily in OUCAMS. He started as events coordinator and moved his way up to Vice President, where he ran the mentor-mentee program during his last year. He also spent his time splitting his focus between severe weather and climate. He took part in the newly-offered radar meteorology class as well as the one-time Antarctic climate and history class, and loved both of them. He also participated twice in the storm chasing study abroad class with Dr. Houser. Michael’s undergraduate career culminated in the research he did with Dr. Fogt, taking him to Boulder, CO and the NCAR Mesa Lab. After spending a full year doing research and coding, he completed his undergraduate honors thesis in April of 2018, titled The Influence of Tropical Sea Surface Temperature Variability on Antarctic Climate during the 20th Century.He greatly enjoyed working with both of his advisors, and taking all of the special classes they offered.

Post-graduation, Michael will be starting a summer volunteer internship at NWS Cleveland, before heading to Iowa State in the fall to start towards a masters degree in Atmospheric Sciences, and hopes to study severe weather.

Ryan Fliehman

Ryan is from Lowell, Ohio, near Marietta. He is a 2010 graduate of Ohio University, having majored in Meteorology and minored in Math, Physics, and Geology. He is a 2006 graduate of Fort Frye High School. Ryan was a member of the Ohio University Meteorology Club and is a member of the American Meteorological Society. Ryan will be attending graduate school at the University of Arizona in Fall 2010, and plans on focusing in the Hydrology field. Ryan enjoys snow and water skiing, hunting, four wheeling and relaxing with friends and family.

Mike Ferian

Mike Ferian is originally from Berea, OH. He obtained a B.S. in Geography-Meteorology from Ohio University in 2006, and an M.A in Geography from Ohio University in 2008. Mike’s thesis was titled “The Effect of Global Temperature Increase on Lake-effect Snowfall Downwind of Lake Erie”. He also served as the Associate Director of Scalia Lab from 2006-2008. Currently, he is employed with Garrad Hassan, a renewable energy consulting company, as a meteorologist in the short term forecasting of wind energy.

Mike’s research interests include many aspects contained in the fields of meteorology and climatology. He has also developed an interest in air quality issues, and spent time forecasting air quality for Northeast Ohio.

In his free time, Mike is obsessed with both playing and watching a plethora of sports. He enjoys living in the Midwest due to the diverse weather conditions throughout the year, but he would love to one day reside and forecast the weather in his favorite state, Florida.

Nick Engerer

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Nick is originally from Silver Lake, Ohio and majored in Meteorology with minors in Math and Physics. He served as the Meteorology Club President during 2007-2008 and as Vice President in 2006-2007, he also served as the Weather Systems Administrator for Scalia Laboratory and webmaster of Scalialab.com for 2007-2008. During his senior year and summer 2008, Nick played a large part in creating the WRF Model Resources that are now available to students.

Nick is currently pursuing a career in research meteorology and spent summer 2007 in Norman, OK at NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory where he worked closely with Dr. David Stensrud and Dr. Michael Coniglio in analyzing the environmental changes associated with the passage of Mesoscale Convective Systems through the state of Oklahoma using archived data from the Oklahoma Mesonet. During his time in Norman, Nick was also able to spend many of his days storm chasing throughout Oklahoma, check out his photo album for all of his storm chasing pictures and don’t miss the chance to check out his tornado video.

Nick is currently pursuing his education at the Graduate Level, pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. at The University of Oklahoma, working with Dr. Ming Xue, Director of CAPS under a NDSEG Fellowship. During his time in Norman, Nick is hoping to secure a spot working on the VORTEX-II Project.

Ethan Emery

When transferring to Ohio University, Ethan had dived into multiple opportunities that the Meteorology program had here at Ohio University. From becoming an OUCAMS member and becoming an RA in Residential Housing, Ethan wanted to get as involved as possible. As Ethan’s classes further progressed, he would soon be elected as Treasurer for OUCAMS as well as forecast for Scalia Laboratory and on WOUB-TV ran by the Scripps School of Journalism. Under all of this, Ethan had gained experience from not one but two internships from Cincinnati, Ohio and Charleston, South Carolina, respectively, in broadcast meteorology.

These opportunities more than helped him propel into the job market after graduation. Ethan was quickly offered and accepted a job at KOTA-TV and KEVN-TV in Rapid City, South Dakota as an on-air Meteorologist. He is currently ‘living the dream’ as this is something he’s wanted since he was 6 years old. If you ever go exploring out west to the Black Hills, Badlands, Big Horns, or are around Rapid City, don’t be shy as Ethan would love to show you the most difficult place to forecast weather in the United States (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-city-has-the-most-unpredictable-weather/)!!“

Clark Earick

Clark graduated from Ohio University with his M.S. and served as Associate Director of the Lab. Currently he is Senior Director of Business Development for Delta AirElite Business Jets and has served Delta airlines for five years now.