DR. MAURA HAHNENBERGER
PRESIDENT
Maura is an Associate Professor in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at Salt Lake Community College, where she teaches and advises in the Atmospheric and Climate Sciences in both face to face and online settings. Maura is the founder of the WaterGirls outreach program which provides middle school girls with field experiences conducting water science. She also serves on the boards of the Utah Chapter of the American Meteorological Society and the SLCC Chapter of the Utah Women in Higher Education Network. Her research and teaching interests center around natural and human-caused environmental hazards including dust storms, air pollution, and hazardous weather. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Meteorology and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Utah studying dust storms in the eastern Great Basin of Utah.
DR. MONA BEHL
PRESIDENT ELECT
Mona serves as the associate director of NOAA's Sea Grant Program at the University of Georgia, where she also holds public service and academic appointments. She is responsible for providing administrative and financial leadership to Georgia Sea Grant that includes developing the program’s strategic plan, directing its research and education portfolios, building partnerships, and demonstrating the relevance and impact of Sea Grant’s work in Georgia. Mona is a national award-winning teacher, who co-led the development of Sea Grant's 10-year diversity, equity and inclusion vision, and is the founding member of the American Meteorological Society’s Early Career Leadership Academy. She earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics (Honors) from Panjab University, India; and Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from Florida State University, USA.
DR. LANGLEY DEWITT
TREASURER
Langley is the director of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project. For the IGAC Project, she facilitates international collaboration on atmospheric chemistry to advance the field towards a sustainable world. She also coordinates regional working groups in areas with a growing field of atmospheric chemistry to develop intraregional networks and connect scientists in these regions to the global scientific community. Langley has worked as a consultant air monitoring specialist for industry in the Houston area, helped establish a climate observatory and air quality monitoring network in Rwanda, and worked on air quality and tropospheric atmospheric chemistry issues in France and the US. Her PhD is from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Analytical and Atmospheric Chemistry, with a focus on astrobiology, and her B.S. is from Furman University in Chemistry and English.
DR. MIMI ABEL
SECRETARY
Mimi is a Research Meteorologist in the Hydrology Applications Division of NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory, and leads the Hydrometeorological Modeling team of the division. Mimi's research focuses on improving our understanding of the physical processes that control precipitation and water resources in both current climate and in climate projections, especially in the western United States, and on applying that understanding toward improving NOAA’s water forecasting tools. Mimi has a dual B.S. in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, and a M.S. and PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles.
DR. MEREDITH HASTINGS
PAST PRESIDENT
Meredith is a Professor at Brown University in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Her research focuses on the reactive nitrogen cycle, with interests ranging from air quality to the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen in the earth system via formation of nitric acid (or nitrate), a major component of acid rain and a source of biologically available nitrogen. Meredith has a Bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and Chemistry from University of Miami and a Ph.D. in Geosciences from Princeton.
