Biographical Sketch

Dr. Willoughby is a Director of the Hurricane Research Division at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, where he has worked since 1975. He uses instrumented aircraft to study hurricanes and formulates theoretical models of tropical cyclone motion and intensification. He has made nearly 400 research and reconnaissance flights into the eyes of typhoons and hurricanes. During his time at HRD, he was Chief Aircraft Scientist for TCM-93 operations from Guam (July-August, 1993); occupied the G. J. Haltiner Visiting Research Chair at the Naval Postgraduate School (January-July, 1991); was a Visiting Research Scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia (June-July, 1988); and was a Visiting Lecturer at the Shanghai Typhoon Institute (December 1985). He is married and has two children.

Before joining HRD, he was a commissioned officer in the U. S. Navy. He served as a flight meteorologist in Airborne Early Warning Squadron ONE (1970 1971) and on the Military faculty of the Naval Academy (1971-1974), where he taught meteorology, oceanography, geology, and computer science to midshipmen. He left active duty as a Lieutenant (O3).

Dr. Willoughby has the following academic degrees: Ph.D. (1977, Atmospheric Science) from the University of Miami, M.S. (1969, Meteorology) from the Naval Postgraduate School, and B.S.(1967, Geophysics Geochemistry) from the University of Arizona. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and Sigma Xi. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, immediate past chair of the AMS Committee on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, and an Associate Editor of the Monthly Weather Review.

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