Who is on the team?
Individuals on the team include producers, animal and livestock association and organizational representatives, and State and Federal governmental animal production and health professionals. Represented industries include beef, dairy, swine, sheep, goats, and cervids. Other species groups are welcome and encouraged to participate.
Tony Praino and Lloyd Treinish work full-time on the weather modeling project, spending most of their time on Deep Thunder. Mr. Treinish is a space scientist by training, focuses primarily on visualization, modeling, applications and overall system architecture. Mr. Praino is a research engineer who has been an active in the meteorological community since 1970. He works on data ingest, forecast verification, and automation, with a particular interest in winter weather phenomena in the northeast United States. A former member of the Deep Thunder team, Zaphiris Christidis, is on international assignment in Beijing, working with government weather center customers in Asia. Mr. Christidis is a computational meteorologist; he contributed to the initial modeling, computational, architectural, and system components of Deep Thunder. These three engineers can be reached through e-mail.
