Bob Henson
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What I do
I work at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which operates the National Center for Atmospheric Research. At UCAR/NCAR I write and edit:- the UCAR Quarterly, a newsletter serving UCAR's 70 member universities
- Highlights<, the magazine-style summary of UCAR/NCAR/UOP research and support activities published every two years;
- and a number of other UCAR/NCAR publications.
- I'm the author of The Rough Guide to Climate Change (2006, Rough Guides/Penguin), The Rough Guide to Weather (2002), and Television Weathercasting: A History (McFarland, 1990).
- I wrote more than 100 scripts for"The Weather Notebook." This daily series, which ended in 2005, is sponsored by the Mount Washington Observatory and broadcast on more than 100 public and commercial radio stations across the United States, as well as worldwide through the U.S. Armed Forces network.
- I'm a contributing editor for Weatherwise, the chief U.S. trade magazine covering weather.
- I've written on weather and other topics for such magazines as Nature, Scientific American, Audubon, AIR & SPACE/Smithsonian, Discover, and American Scientist.
Where I'm from
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On July 20, 1960, I was born in the Great Plains metropolis of
Oklahoma City, my hometown through high school. Surrounded by wild weather, I grew up fascinated by it.
My bachelor's degree at Rice University, completed in 1983, featured an interdisciplinary major in meteorology and psychology. I went to graduate school in both meteorology and journalism at the University of Oklahoma. For my M.A. thesis in journalism, I studied the broadcasting of severe weather warnings on local television.
Some other interests
- Bicycling.
I've done several tours of 200-800 miles and spend a lot of
my transportation time on two wheels.
- Storm photography. Over the past 20 years, while on research experiments and personal travel, I've seen around 20 tornadoes and a vast array of severe thunderstorms.