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Dr. Wayman Baker
Past Deputy Director at NCEP & Chief Administrative Officer for the JCSDA
Please Join Us
to Celebrate the Retirement of
Dr. Wayman Baker
With 30 Years of Government Service
- Date:
- Thursday, October 1, 2009
- Time:
- 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Location:
Martin's Crosswinds
7400 Greenway Center Drive
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
The cost to attend the luncheon buffet is $20. In lieu of a gift, please consider making a donation to the American Diabetes Association Please RSVP by September 15, 2009 to Sue Perrotta, NCEP at (301) 763-8000 ext. 7005 or Lauren Morone (301) 763-8000 ext. 7010.
Dr. Wayman Baker received his Ph.D. in atmospheric science from the
University of Missouri in 1978 after completing his dissertation at
NCAR as a member of the NWP Section. He joined the Global Modeling
and Simulation Facility at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a
research meteorologist later that year. In 1988, Dr. Baker became
Deputy Director of NCEP's Environmental Modeling Center (Development
Division at that time). He then served for 12 years as Deputy
Director of NCEP's Central Operations before joining the Joint
Center for Satellite Data Assimilation as Chief Administrative
Officer in 2005.
Dr. Baker has advocated the deployment of a space-based Doppler wind lidar in order to improve the initial conditions for numerical weather forecasts since 1985 and chaired the NASA Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (LAWS) Science Team from 1989 until 1993. He then chaired the Lidar Working Group from 1994 until stepping down in June 2009.
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