Dr. Jack Beven has served as a Senior Hurricane Specialist at NOAA’s Tropical Prediction Center since 1999. Previously, he worked as Lead Marine and Aviation Forecaster for the Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch. Dr. Beven’s work has been focused on observation of hurricanes and tropical cyclones.

Dr. Ginis is actively involved in both the U.S. and international tropical cyclone research and forecast communities. His ground-breaking work in developing a coupled hurricane-ocean interaction model has led to significant improvement in hurricane forecasting. The National Weather Service embraced this model, making it an official operational hurricane model for the National Hurricane Center in 2001.

John Cangialosi is a hurricane specialist at NOAA’S National Hurricane Center in Miami, FL. His job involves issuing track, intensity, and wind radii forecasts for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific Oceans. John also works to create the watches and warnings associated with these tropical cyclones. His first taste of hurricane forecasting came with his work on the Hurricane Rainband and
Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX), an aircraft investigation of hurricane intensity changes.

Dr. Gerry Bell is a hurricane climate specialist and research meteorologist at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) in Camp Springs, Maryland. Dr. Bell’s extensive research into the climate factors controlling seasonal hurricane activity contributed to the establishment of NOAA’s seasonal Atlantic hurricane outlooks in 1998. Since that time he has been the lead scientist and forecaster of NOAA’s Seasonal Hurricane Outlook Team, and lead author of the Atlantic hurricane outlooks. Also, Dr. Bell specializes in monitoring global climate variability, especially patterns related to the El Niño, the multi-decadal cycle, and other large-scale atmospheric processes.