Glenn Field has been the Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) for the
National Weather Service (NWS) Forecast Office in Taunton/Norton, MA since
October, 1993. As WCM, he is responsible for ensuring that customers of
weather forecasts and warnings are able to receive the products and that they
understand what they mean. He gives many presentations to police, fire,
emergency managers, and school groups and always listens to suggestions for
improvement of services. Also, he is responsible for coordinating and
implementing new procedures at the NWS, for the quality assurance of products,
and is in charge of the SKYWARN volunteer weather observers program. Also,
Glenn works with towns to enable them to become "StormReady," another National
Weather Service community preparedness program. Prior
to coming to Taunton/Norton, Glenn was a Lead Forecaster at the NWS in Raleigh,
NC; a Forecaster at the NWS in Milwaukee, WI; and a Satellite Meteorologist at
the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service’s Synoptic
Analysis Branch in Washington, D.C. Glenn holds a M.S. Degree in
Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he also received
his B.S. in both Meteorology and Economics (the 2 sciences that one can’t
predict, he jokes.)