Bio
Jeff Waters came to Ohio University from Gaithersburg, Maryland. He is a 2009 graduate of Ohio University, receiving his BS in Meteorology with minors in Physics, Mathematics and Business. He has been a member of the Meteorology club since 2006-2007, serving as the Treasurer during 2007-2008 and
President in 2008-2009. He acted as a both a volunteer forecaster for Scalia Lab and Teaching Assistant (TA) for various meteorology classes
throughout the course of his undergraduate career.
Jeff is pursuing a career in tropical meteorology and spent the
summer of 2008 as an intern at the NOAA Central Pacific Hurricane Center in
Honolulu, Hawaii. Working with Meteorologist In Charge James Weyman and
Hurricane Forecaster Kevin Kodama, he is writing computer programs that work
to decode and display various types or hurricane reconnaissance data.
Jeff will attend Penn State University for graduate school beginning in the fall of 2009, and will continue to study tropical meteorology. In the future, Jeff would like to specialize
in tropical meteorology or climatology and eventually become a hurricane
forecaster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida.
