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AMU Staff

AMU Chief

Dr. Huddleston is the Chief of the Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU) for the Kennedy Space Center Weather Office. Dr. Huddleston has over 25 years of professional experience in space operations engineering and science. She has published numerous scientific and technical papers on a variety of topics including satellite remote sensing of the sea surface, data mining and complex problems, Space Shuttle Orbiter thermal tile debris impact damage monitoring and trending, and assessing the probability that any individual cloud-to-ground lightning stroke was within any radius of any launch site facility. As a thermal protection system engineer, Dr. Huddleston played a significant role working with the NASA Engineering and Safety Center root-cause analysis team investigating the operational degradation of the reinforced carbon-carbon used on the Space Shuttle Orbiter. Throughout the final years of the shuttle program, she served as the NASA Thermal Control System Subsystem Engineer for the Space Shuttle Orbiter. An accomplished researcher and fully qualified meteorologist, Dr. Huddleston is currently transitioning from Space Shuttle Orbiter systems engineering to the position of AMU Chief.

Dr. Huddleston's Education

Ph.D., Environmental Science, Florida Institute of Technology, 2002
M.S., Engineering Management, Florida Institute of Technology, 1990
B.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Missouri, 1985

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AMU Program Manager and Senior Meteorologist

Dr. Bauman is the ENSCO Program Manager for the AMU contract. He has over 29 years of federal government experience including 20 years as a meteorologist and Air Force officer and over nine years in private industry managing government programs. Dr. Bauman has been with ENSCO as the AMU as program manager since August 2003. Dr. Bauman's weather experience included nine years of operational forecasting, six years of research and development, and thirteen years of senior-level program management. Technical experience includes Doppler weather radar, mesoscale numerical weather prediction, aviation, range & aerospace meteorology and meteorological instrumentation. Dr. Bauman has been the AMU Program Manager since he joined ENSCO in 2003.

Dr. Bauman's Education

Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, 1995
M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, 1989
B.S., Meteorology, Lyndon State College, 1981

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AMU Meteorologist

Mr. Wheeler has over 38 years of experience in meteorology including 20 years as a Air Force meteorologist. Mr. Wheeler has been with ENSCO as a senior meteorologist since October 1991. Mr. Wheeler's weather experience included over 15 years of operational forecasting and 2 years of new weather program development. Technical experience includes Central Florida local climatology, satellite, weather radar, mesoscale numerical weather prediction, range and aerospace meteorology. Mr. Wheeler has over 17 years of AMU experience.

Mr. Wheeler's Education

B.S., Professional Studies with a Specialization in Science, Barry University, Miami, 1995

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AMU Senior Scientist

Ms. Crawford has over 20 years of experience working in the field of meteorology and has been employed by ENSCO since October 1994. She has been assigned to tasks ranging from analyzing radar data to modifying graphical display code. Her most current work has involved statistical analysis of large weather databases including winds and lightning in development of tools to forecast these phenomena. Ms. Crawford is also responsible for technical, grammatical, and layout editing of the AMU Quarterly Report, all final reports and all conference manuscripts written by AMU team members. Ms. Crawford has been the AMU Senior Scientist since 2007.

Ms. Crawford's Education

M.S., Meteorology, Penn State University, 1994
B.S., Meteorology, Metropolitan State College of Denver, 1990

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AMU Scientist

Dr. Watson has 5 years of experience working in the field of meteorology after earning her Ph.D. in 2006. She has been running high resolution numerical weather prediction (NWP) models on high performance modeling clusters with an emphasis on local data assimilation in support of various tasks. Dr. Watson has completed projects involving synoptic and mesoscale observational and data analyses, model analysis and verification, mesoscale modeling, and graphics generation. She is also the technical editor of the AMU Monthly report. Dr. Watson has been with the AMU since 2006.

Dr. Watson's Education

Ph.D., Meteorology, Florida State University, 2006
M.S., Meteorology, Florida State University, 2003
B.S., Environmental Science, University of Miami, 1998