Speakers

Dr. Junhong (June) Wang received her Ph.D. in atmospheric science from Columbia University. After graduation, she worked as a Postdoc scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO and then as a scientist at Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for 15 years. June is currently the director for the New York State Mesonet (NYSM) and a research associate professor at the department of atmospheric and environmental sciences at University at Albany. Dr. Wang is an international leader in weather and climate observations and networks, surface and upper-air instrumentation and data quality, and ground-based GNSS meteorology. She has created several climate datasets to study climate variability and change and global water cycle. She has been playing leadership roles in designing, implementing and operating of two observational networks, the Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper-Air Network and New York State Mesonet. She currently serves as Vice-chair of Standing Committee on Measurements, Instrumentation and Traceability (SC-MINT) at World Meteorological Organization (WMO). June is an American Meteorological Society (AMS) fellow. June is also passionate about and has been actively involved in K-12, undergraduate, graduate and general public education throughout her long career.