Greg Carbin is Chief of Forecast Operations Branch for the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Prediction Center (WPC), in College Park, Maryland. Since early 2016, Greg has supervised over 30 meteorologists at WPC with responsibilities for issuing rainfall, snowfall, and medium range forecasts for the nation. Prior to returning to the East Coast, Greg served as the Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) for the NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC), in Norman, Oklahoma, since 2007. Greg’s career with SPC spanned 20 years and he performed in a variety of operational capacities at the center responsible for all tornado and severe storm watches for the nation. Greg began his career with the NWS in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1993, and also worked in the private sector, in New York and Vermont, after earning a B.S. degree in Meteorology from Lyndon State College in 1985. In addition to graduate course work at the University of Oklahoma, Greg is a 2011 graduate of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Executive Leadership Development Program and a 2019 graduate of OPM’s Federal Executive Institute. In September 2016, Greg received the Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award from the National Weather Association, "For his groundbreaking work on severe weather climatology which has revolutionized the way the meteorological community visualizes and uses severe weather statistics".
Greg Carbin
