“Science on the Sound” is a monthly, in-person lecture series at the Coastal Studies Institute on the ECU Outer Banks Campus in Wanchese that brings perspectives from all over the state and highlights coastal topics in northeastern North Carolina.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologists David Glenn and Ryan Ellis are to give a glimpse of how forecasts are made now and looking ahead at this month’s “Science on the Sound.”
“The National Weather Service: Where We Are and Where We Are Going. A Look into the Current and Future State of Weather Forecasting” is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday at the Coastal Studies Institute on the East Carolina University Outer Banks Campus in Wanchese.
Both based at the National Weather Service forecast office in Newport, Glenn is the meteorologist-in-charge and Ellis is the science and operations officer. The talk will focus on how weather projections are made and delivered to decision-makers, and how forecasting could evolve as new technology is incorporated.
Glenn began his career with NOAA’s National Weather Service in 2008 at the Portland, Maine, Weather Forecast Office. He was promoted in 2010 as forecaster at the Newport office and became the science and operations officer in June 2016. Glenn became the meteorologist-in-charge of the Newport office in October 2018.
Ellis has been with the Newport office since 2019. He was a meteorologist for 10 years with the Raleigh office and a student intern at the office in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ellis received his bachelor’s from the University of Miami and his master’s in meteorology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Ellis is an adjunct professor at East Carolina University in the Department of Geography.
The Coastal Studies Institute offers the monthly, in-person lecture series that highlights coastal topics and the public is encouraged to attend. The talk will be live-streamed on the CSI YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/live/MzxTqhyC1pg.