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Mr. Carey is a Senior Principal Systems Engineer for Oceans, Atmosphere and Space Systems at Noblis, a nonprofit science, technology and strategy organization that helps clients solve complex systems, process and infrastructure challenges.

Mr. Carey provides strategic planning, systems engineering and project management support for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He works with federal and state clients to meet requirements for the next generation of environmental satellites; developed a science and technology roadmap and a national system for air quality products for the National Weather Service; and is providing business planning, program management and leading technical outreach for the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, a NOAA, NASA and Department of Defense partnership. Working with a team of emergency managers, NOAA scientists and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, he helped develop a prototype coastal flooding and inundation tool that is capable of aiding decisions to protecting critical infrastructure and the public.

Prior to his work at Noblis, Mr. Carey retired from the United States Air Force after serving nearly 21 years. He served as an operational analyst, developing analyses of force structure projections and presented optimum force structure allocations to senior Department of Defense leaders and serving as the Contracting Officer Technical Representative for a $10M defense modeling and simulation contract. He served as the toxic dispersion modeling program lead, implementing new dispersion modeling initiatives to forecast hot and cold dispersion modeling scenarios to help protect the military base and public communities. He also commanded a weather organization supporting front-line combat units stationed in Europe in the Gulf War, and supported warfighters in the Army on the Korean peninsula. Mr. Carey directed 52-person training and software applications sections while a part of the Air Force global weather center.

Mr. Carey has earned M.S. degrees in Technology Management from George Mason University (Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society), and Meteorology and Minor in Oceanography from North Carolina State University (Dean's List), completed a Basic Meteorology Certificate from Texas A&M University (Chi Epsilon Pi Honor Society), and graduated with a B.S. in Physical Sciences from the University of Maryland. He is a Visiting Scientist for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and Special Guest Speaker for Sixth Star Entertainment. He is also an adjunct faculty member for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), winner of the prestigious Charles Franklin Brooks Award for Outstanding Services to the AMS, chairs the AMS's Board for Private Sector Meteorologists and the National Weather Association's Professional Development Committee, and is a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences. He is also especially proud to have helped, for the last seven years, develop the curricula for and hosted a Weather Camp for high school teenagers, and mentor students in meteorology.

E-mail: Kenneth.Carey@noaa.gov