Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
The concept of “normal weather” has shifted with the increase of more extreme weather events; drier droughts, wetter storms, and more historic flooding events. Today’s weather patterns are far from the weather patterns we grew up with. Climate change is favoring all weather now, and it has a profound implications for our future. As Minnesota’s first CBM broadcast meteorologist with a meteorology degree from Penn State, Paul has spent 26 years in broadcasting radio and television, web production, print and reporting. Although he grew up in Pennsylvania, he has spent nearly his entire career in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, 11 years in KARE11, and another 11 years at WCCO-TV. In addition to 3 years at WBBM-TV in Chicago, Douglas has appeared on ABC Nightline with Ted Koppel and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. A serial entrepreneur, Douglas started with EarthWatch, the first company to bring 3-D weather graphics to broadcasters in 1991. In 1998 he started Digital Cyclone, the first company to have an application on a cell phone. Garmin purchased Digital Cyclone in 2007, allowing Douglas to focus his efforts on his next venture, WeatherNation. Douglas also teamed with Barnes and Noble to write a national book on weather, “Restless Skies, the Ultimate Weather Book.” He has taught college classes on broadcast meteorology, lectured extensively on climate change, and he still writes a daily weather column for the Star Tribune newspaper. His software was used in Steven Spielberg’s movies “Jurassic Park” and “Twister, and his reporting and television weathercasting has garnered AP Awards and a local Emmy.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.