Matt Kelsch
WAS*IS Organizer

I have lived and worked in Boulder since 1986 and I am currently with UCAR’s Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET). I have coordinated and served as an instructor for the many hydrology-related courses at COMET, but I have also worked in mesoscale meteorology, emergency management, aviation weather, and winter weather. My personal interests include communicating weather and climate phenomena to the media and the public, the impacts of land use on hydrologic responses, and climate change. I am the cooperative climate observer for Boulder and I help train a couple hundred volunteer precipitation observers in Boulder and Broomfield counties that are part of Colorado’s Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow (CoCoRaHS) network. I am a local media contact but I also get some national exposure; in 2005 I was interviewed or quoted by the National Institutes of Health, National Public Radio, CNN, the Associated Press, and National Geographic. I have an M.S. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma, and a B.S. from the State University of New York at Oswego. As a Long Island, NY native I was always rooting for the blizzards and hurricanes that were headed our way. As a long-time Boulder resident I wish it rained more, but I enjoy the windstorms, snowstorms, lightning, and spectacular rainbows. I am an avid hiker, gardener, and bicycle commuter. I also like to rescue older dogs that need a place to call home.