Faisal S. Boudala is a research scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). After earning his Ph.D., he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He has authored over 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals, covering a wide range of atmospheric science topics, including atmospheric mercury, black carbon, cloud physics, satellite and radar remote sensing, atmospheric radiation, climate modeling, precipitation, and aviation-related severe weather phenomena.
George A. Isaac is the president of Weather Impacts Consulting Incorporated. He formed that company after retiring as a senior research scientist from Environment and Climate Change Canada. He is currently an adjunct professor at York University and Dalhousie University, a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the Royal Meteorological Society, and a recipient of the 2008 Patterson Distinguished Service Medal for service to meteorology in Canada. He is the author/co-author of over 135 papers in referred journals on topics such as aircraft in-flight icing, short-term weather forecasting or nowcasting, meteorological instrumentation, aviation forecasting, cloud physics and microphysics, clouds and climate, numerical weather prediction model parameterizations, weather modification, etc.
Jason Milbrandt is a senior research scientist for the High Impact Weather Research section of the Meteorological Research Division at Environment and Climate Change Canada. He has co-developed two widely recognized bulk microphysics schemes and continues to conduct research on the representation of cloud microphysics in numerical models. Since 2000, he has served on the International Committee for Clouds and Precipitation and has been a member of the Nowcasting and Mesoscale Research working group of the World Meteorological Organization.
Daniel Michelson is the research manager of the High Impact Weather Research section of the Meteorological Research Division at Environment and Climate Change Canada. He also serves as the chair of the World Meteorological Organization’s Expert Team on Operational Weather Radar. From 1994 to 2015, he worked at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, first in research, and then operations and project management.
Robert Reed is a radar engineering technologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada. He is responsible for the calibration, installation, and data collection of various surface-based and airborne cloud microphysical instruments, including radar and lidar. He has participated in several national and international field campaigns, including the WINTRE-MIX project.
Stephen Holden is a senior project engineer for the High Impact Weather Research section (HIWR) of the Meteorological Research Division at Environment and Climate Change Canada. He has worked in the Strategic Engineering group at the Meteorological Service of Canada, designing automatic weather stations for Aviation, and he has been the National Manager of both the Aviation and Radar Programs. He now works to enable and support the scientific research activities of HIWR, managing the laboratory space, field infrastructure, and instruments, while managing the technical team. He has been registered as a licensed PEO engineer since 1988.
