NATIONAL STORM CHASER SUMMIT
2023 Summit Presenters
Just like the 2022 summit, the 2023 summit will have loads of presentations with great content. Take a browse through the 2023 presenters. We will slowly be adding more presenters as time gets closer to the summit date!
Tim Marshall's bio will be coming to you shortly. Please stay tuned to this page for the latest. We will see you at the conference in February.
Individual bios will be coming to you shortly. Please stay tuned to this page for the latest. We will see you at the conference in February.
Tim Marshall is an American structural and forensic engineer as well as meteorologist, concentrating on damage analysis, particularly that from wind and other weather phenomena. He is also a pioneering storm chaser and was editor of Storm Track magazine.
Tim Marshall
Meteorologist + Structural Engineer
Individual bios will be coming to you shortly. Please stay tuned to this page for the latest. We will see you at the conference in February.
Mike Bettes is an award-winning meteorologist for The Weather Channel. No stranger to severe weather, he has covered nearly every extreme weather event since he began at The Weather Channel in 2003, including the Joplin, Missouri tornado in 2011 and the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado in 2013.
Mike Bettes
Meteorologist
Individual bios will be coming to you shortly. Please stay tuned to this page for the latest. We will see you at the conference in February.
Dr. Jason Persoff has 3 decades of storm chasing experience and is fascinated in the relation between severe weather and human interaction. Dr. Persoff is a medical doctor and the Assistant Director of Emergency Preparedness at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Dr. Jason Persoff
Physician + Storm Chaser
Individual bios will be coming to you shortly. Please stay tuned to this page for the latest. We will see you at the conference in February.
Erik has been chasing since 1995 and has been a field correspondent since 2016 for Weather Nation. Before being a correspondent, he was a DOD forecaster from 2010-2015. Erik started NSCS in 2019 with James Menzies.
Erik Fox
Correspondent
Brian Bledsoe is the Chief Meteorologist at KKTV in Colorado Springs, CO. He has been in broadcast meteorology for over 20 years. Aside from tv, he runs his own private forecasting business and does seasonal and long range weather consulting for various interests across the country.
Brian Bledsoe
Meteorologist
Individual bios will be coming to you shortly. Please stay tuned to this page for the latest. We will see you at the conference in February.
Jeff Piotrowski
Storm Chaser
Josh Morgerman is well known for intercepting the most powerful hurricanes and typhoons on Earth. Josh has been formally chasing tropical systems since 1991. Josh runs the page iCyclone and collects scientific data on his intercepts.
Josh Morgerman
Hurricane Chaser
Individual bios will be coming to you shortly. Please stay tuned to this page for the latest. We will see you at the conference in February.
Rick Smith
Meteorologist
Jeff Piotrowski has documented and filmed well over 900 tornadoes, 24 Hurricanes, ice storms, wild fires and every extreme of mother nature. Jeff’s company, Storm Productions, holds the world’s largest private collection of historic weather events and survivors stories.
Rick Smith is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Norman Forecast Office. He manages NWS Norman’s hazardous weather preparedness, outreach and education activities for the office’s 56 county area of responsibility. Rick has been a meteorologist with the NWS since 1992.
Jen Walton is the founder of the Girls Who Chase initiative, and has been storm chasing since 2018. She's a self-taught forecaster and chaser, and is committed to bringing her learnings to empower and inspire others to pursue their own joys of the sky.
Jen Walton
Storm Chaser
Jennifer Brindley Ubl is a professional studio portrait photographer and has been a well-known storm chaser since documenting her first tornado fifteen years ago. She has over fourteen years experience in documentary photography and is an eleven-year partner to Skip Talbot on storm chase pursuits.
Jennifer Brindley Ubl
Photographer + Storm Chaser
Roger Edwards is a lead forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center, and has worked at SPC and its predecessor (SELS in Kansas City) since 1993. A Dallas native, Roger has been chasing and shooting storms across the Plains for over 37 years.
Roger Edwards
Lead Forecaster - SPC
Serving in the Air Force Reserve, Amaryllis Cotto is an Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer for the hurricane hunting AFR 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. She also works as a National Weather Service Forecaster in Houston, Texas.
Amaryllis Cotto
Hurricane Hunter + Storm Chaser
Dr. Ashton Robinson Cook is a weather forecaster, research, and innovator. He is a Research Affiliate with the University of Oklahoma South Central Climate Science Center and meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, MD.
Dr. Ashton Robinson Cook
Forecaster - WPC
Dee is the Assistant Chief of Police for Davis, OK. He is passionate about safety and making sure storm chasers make good choices when out on the roads.
Dee Gregory
Asst. Chief of Police - Davis, OK
Eddie is a career police officer who has worked in several departments in Kansas and Missouri. He is very passionate about storm chasing and the safety component of it.
Eddie Aldrine
Police Officer
Cameron studies hodographs, and how they impact storm behavior. He is a PhD candidate at Central Michigan University, with a focus on how to predict large hail. He has also developed the "hodograph map", and created a tool for predicting deviant tornadoes.
Cameron Nixon
Meteorologist