Louis W. Uccellini, Ph.D.

...weather services starting February 10 and he will be the 16th director of NOAA’s National Weather Service, which marks its 143rd anniversary this Saturday. Laura K. Furgione, who served as acting director of the National Weather Service since May 2012, will return as the agency’s deputy director.

Since 1999, Uccellini has led the NWS’ National Centers for Environmental Prediction, which, in 2012, moved to a new state-of-the-art facility in College Park, Maryland. At NCEP, he was responsible for directing the planning, science and technology, and operational responsibilities related to NCEP’s Central Operations and Environmental Modeling, as well as seven national centers, including the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, and Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. Uccellini is also a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and just completed his term as the society’s president.