January 22-28, 2018

Bob Perciasepe, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions president, former EPA deputy administrator
Perciasepe is president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. He served as deputy administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2009 to 2014. While at the EPA, he worked to set stricter auto emissions and mileage standards, increase protections for the nation’s streams and rivers, and develop carbon emissions standards for power plants. Perciasepe holds a master’s degree in planning and public administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Science degree in natural resources from Cornell University.

Dr. Leigh Orf, University of Wisconsin scientist
Dr. Orf received his Ph.D. in atmospheric science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. Since then, he has served as faculty at the University of North Carolina – Asheville and more recently at Central Michigan University. In 2015, following a major breakthrough in his research on supercells and tornadoes, Orf began working as a scientist at his alma mater (UW-Madison), where he continues to conduct numerical simulations of tornado-producing supercell thunderstorms on one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

Dr. Gerald Galloway, retired U.S. Army brigadier general
Dr. Galloway served 38 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as brigadier general, and eight years in the federal government related to water resources management. He is currently a Glenn L. Martin Institute professor of engineering at University of Maryland, where his focus is on water resources policy and management. He is also a visiting scholar at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for water resources. He holds a master’s in engineering from Princeton, a master’s in public administration from Penn State (Capitol Campus), a master’s in military art and science from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and a Ph.D. in geography (water resources) from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill).

Col. Joseph Benson, retired U.S. Air Force colonel, special operations command
Col. Benson, retired U.S. Air Force, served 22 years in the military, 20 of those with special operations units in team, detachment, squadron, group and command. He served as the Air Force special operations command liaison to the U.S. Army special operations command. He tallied 18 deployments oversees — including Afghanistan (five times), Africa (four times), Iraq, the Balkans, Haiti, Oman, Jordan, Turkey and Qatar — where he provided rotary wing aviation weather support for Army joint special operations command. Benson studied broadcast meteorology at Florida State University.

Joel Tumbiolo, retired civilian U.S. Air Force launch weather officer
Tumbiolo served as a civilian Air Force meteorologist launch weather officer at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where his team monitored and ensured weather was safe for launches from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral. He supported more than 400 manned and unmanned launches from 1991 to 2013. He currently works as an adjunct professor of meteorology at Florida Institute of Technology. Tumbiolo holds an associate degree in geology from Vincennes University, a bachelor’s degree in atmospheric science from Purdue University and a master’s degree in atmospheric science from Texas Tech University.

Dr. Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research distinguished senior scientist
Dr. Trenberth is a distinguished senior scientist in the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. He earned his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been prominent in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientific assessments and has also extensively served the World Climate Research Programme, most recently as chair of the Global Energy and Water Exchanges project. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Rob Marciano, ABC News senior meteorologist
Marciano is senior meteorologist of ABC’s World News Tonight and the weekend edition of Good Morning America. Since joining the network in 2014, he has reported on nearly every natural disaster to hit the U.S. Most recently, he’s been on the ground during the hurricanes that devastated Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico. Before joining ABC News, Marciano was the co-host of Entertainment Tonight and also worked at CNN, where he reported from the field during Katrina and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He earned a bachelor’s degree in meteorology from Cornell University and holds the American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval.

Reynolds Wolf, The Weather Channel meteorologist
Wolf serves as co-host of AMHQ Weekend at The Weather Channel. He previously worked as a studio meteorologist and field correspondent at CNN covering wildfires, floods, tornadoes, heat waves, winter storms and earthquakes and providing live reports from many hurricanes and tropical storms. Before joining CNN, he worked at local TV stations across the U.S., with stops in St. Louis, Orlando, Detroit, Austin, San Luis Obispo and Anniston, Ala. Wolf is a graduate of Jacksonville State University and has a Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University. He holds the American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval.

Art delaCruz, Team Rubicon chief operating officer
DelaCruz is the COO for Team Rubicon, which has responded to more than 220 disasters, including Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, since 2010. DelaCruz served in the U.S. Navy for 22 years, with notable tours including working as an instructor at the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Topgun) and as the commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron TWO TWO (VFA-22). During his career, he made six deployments as an F-14 and F/A-18 Naval Flight Officer. He earned a bachelor’s in physics from the U.S. Naval Academy and a master’s in operations management from the University of Arkansas.