More NHC staff changes: Knabb leaves for CPHC

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More NHC staff changes: Knabb leaves for CPHC

#1 Postby Chacor » Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:13 pm

Looks like the NHC has lost one hurricane specialist and added one senior hurricane specialist. Jamie Rhome's left the NHC, it looks like. Michael Brennan's also new, I believe.

Hurricane Specialists Unit

Senior Hurricane Specialists
Lixion Avila, PhD
Jack Beven, PhD
Michael Brennan, PhD
James Franklin
Richard Pasch, PhD
Stacy R. Stewart – Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM)

Hurricane Specialists
Robbie Berg
Eric Blake
Daniel Brown
(Vacant)

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutstaff.shtml#specialists
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#2 Postby Chacor » Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:21 pm

In fact... looks like Jamie Rhome's still at the NHC/TPC, just no longer with the hurricane specialists unit. He's now apparently storm surge team lead at the Techniques Development and Applications Unit at the Technical Support Branch.
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#3 Postby HurricaneJoe22 » Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:02 pm

What about Rick Knabb?
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#4 Postby Chacor » Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:52 pm

He's apparently moved over to the CPHC in Honolulu.
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/pages/staff.php
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#5 Postby JonathanBelles » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:06 am

wow!! Thats an odd change to me. Id rather be at the active NHC, than the desolate CPHC. But I guess Hawaii has its perks.
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#6 Postby superfly » Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:51 am

fact789 wrote:wow!! Thats an odd change to me. Id rather be at the active NHC, than the desolate CPHC. But I guess Hawaii has its perks.


It's also a promotion, the page says he's the new director of operations.
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#7 Postby DanKellFla » Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:59 pm

superfly wrote:
fact789 wrote:wow!! Thats an odd change to me. Id rather be at the active NHC, than the desolate CPHC. But I guess Hawaii has its perks.


It's also a promotion, the page says he's the new director of operations.


He must have agonized over the decesion. More money and a tropical paradise. Or, just a tropical paradise.
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#8 Postby Chacor » Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:57 pm

fact789 wrote:wow!! Thats an odd change to me. Id rather be at the active NHC, than the desolate CPHC. But I guess Hawaii has its perks.


The official press release says that Knabb is actually making a return to the islands, having left University of Hawaii in 2001 to join the NHC.

http://www.weather.gov/hawaii/pages/examples/rick.pdf
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