In many areas of litigation, weather factors can be crucial, sometimes decisive factors in establishing liability and the size of a reasonable settlement. As a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and expert witness with over 30 years of professional experience, including extensive experience providing testimony at trial and depositions, I can be a great ally to plaintiff and defendant alike, in separating fact from fiction, and reconstructing what actually happened.

The following areas of specialization are provided:

• Identification of weather issues relevant to the matter at hand
• Analysis of marine, coastal, urban, mountain, desert and local weather conditions
• Reconstruction of weather and sea conditions for accidents and Personal Injury (P.I.) investigations
• Determining when weather or sea conditions impact aviation, boating, auto and building construction issues
• Comparisons of observed to normal conditions
• Determining if observed conditions were foreseeable
• Estimating degrees of unusualness
• Selection, acquisition and evaluation of data that is representative of conditions at the time and place of interest
• Experienced Trial testimony, depositions, reports and analyses
• Weather factors in marketing and industry analyzed
• Weather and climatic planning for travel considerations, renewable energy and homeland security

Services: 

• Event Reconstruction
• Expert Testimony at trial or deposition
• Reports
• Site Visits to determine issues of exposure, terrain
  influence and data relevance
• Certified data acquisition that is representative of time and location of interest

Education:

•  Masters Degree (M.A.) in Meteorology, University of California at Los Angeles,
  U.C.L.A., Department of Meteorology.
•  Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in Meteorology, New York University (N.Y.U.),
  Department of Meteorology and Oceanography.
•  Nine credits in Broadcasting, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles
• Graduate with “Science Major” from Stuyvesant High School in New York City
  (rated in top five nationally among over 14,000 high schools in America)
• Various training in satellite data interpretation, radio/radar meteorology, air pollution
  meteorology and management techniques.
• United States Small Business Administration (SBA) Certificate of Executive
  Training: Track One-Management & Marketing; Awarded to Air, Weather & Sea
  Conditions, Inc.; Alabama A&M University Research Institute; February 2005
• American Meteorological Society Short Course: Forensic Meteorology: Principles,
  Practices and Procedures – Invited Presenter, 9 January 2005
• Various courses in Incident Management/Unified Command; Incident Command
  System/NIMS; Operational WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) Response; and
  Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations (CAMEO); ICS 300, 400
  (Advanced ICS Command and General Staff-Complex Incidents); Radicalization of
  terrorist groups, Event Action Plan class.

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