Austin Cross austin@gts.skew-t.com

Twice successful entrepreneur. Digital marketer. Content creator. Professional Activist. Emmy award-winning storm chaser. 🌪⛈ Married to Sara. Choctaw.

Focused on weather, hiking and photography (mostly landscape, storms, astro)

numerical weather prediction – data assimilation – NOAA GDAS/UFO development – formerly Univ. Wisconsin / SSEC / CIMSS. Header courtesy of KC Phillips, Doomsday LLC, Seattle. Pic taken from the Great Wheel in Seattle. There's suddenly a lot of Seattle in this bio, but I'm really a Wisconsin person. Big fan of Seattle, though. Great place, no complaints.

I'm interested in genetics, molecular and evolutionary biology, botany, native plants, native bees, ecosystem restoration and rewilding, climate change, bioinformatics, health, epidemiology, demographics, anthropology, history, technology, AI, systems, our future, art, and a few other things.

I obtained a BE in Mechanical Engineering to work in alternate energy. After my bachelors, I joined the U.S. Peace Corps and was a high school math teacher in Kenya (1983-85) during the time of a severe drought. This led me to pursue a graduate degree in Atmospheric Sciences, which has turned out to be one of the best decisions I have ever made. I teach and conduct research on Alaska/Arctic climate variability and change. I am lucky to work with people from various disciplines. Always learning!

Award winning extreme weather and night skies photographer. My passion is chasing dramatic condensed water vapor. You'll also catch me stargazing.

Baltimore County, Maryland, USA. (he/him)

:baltco: :maryland: :react: :csharp: :bash: :radio_tower: :masonic: :vim: :BLM: :ally:

Work: Software Developer, System Architect, Team Lead.

Hobbies: #HamRadio Operator, #Freemasonry (PM #93 AF&AM :maryland:), #Flashlights, #Scouts, #PTA, #RaspberryPi.

Interested in: #React, #RubyOnRails, #Python, #DevOps, #ProjectManagement, #SocialJustice, #Equity, #LocalGovernment, #LocalSchools.

🌊 NWS Meteorologist | ⚡ National Weather Association Board Member & Social Media Committee Chair | 💬 #NWSSAVI | 🤷🏼‍♀️ Obnoxiously overuse y'all | 🌹 AOII | 💛 FSU | ♥️ Ball U | 🤫 Views are alllllll mine

Sailor. Lawyer. Dad. Apple enthusiast. Weather forecasting and routing for sailboat racing.
Chair, US Sailing Offshore & Technology Division
Also @MattGallagherWX on Twitter

Chicago IL

Climate scientist at UCLA, NCAR, and The Nature Conservancy studying extreme events like floods, droughts, and wildfires. For the time being, this "contingency" Mastodon account will only be used to automatically repost my Twitter content--I am not actively monitoring replies or messages.

AWC met ✈️. I tell planes where they shouldn't fly and then they do anyway. Previously NWS MQT (2018-22), M.S. Stony Brook (2018), B.S. Valparaiso (2015). All thoughts/opinions mine only. He/him.

Go Birds.

Cloud lover. Photographer. Storm Chaser. Small business owner. Anti-Racist.