LEADERSHIP
Dr. Scott McIntosh, VP Space Operations
Dr. McIntosh was the Deputy Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. Scott has over twenty five years of experience in solar and astrophysical research. He has authored or co-authored over one hundred and sixty articles in peer-reviewed journals, with fifty-seven as first author, including thirteen high-profile papers in journals like Nature and Science. His current “H-index” of forty-nine [>10,000 citations] covers subjects in solar physics, space weather research, atomic physics, and instrument development.
Scott presently serves on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Space Weather Group and is lead of its research sector. Scott is a Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers, specializing in Solar and Stellar Physics. The journal publishes nearly a hundred articles per year with topical focus editions in space weather and other areas of the discipline. Scott is chair of the American Meteorological Societies Scientific and Technological Activities Commission for Space Weather.
Our Team
Our team has nearly 100 years of combined experience in the solar, geomagnetic, and magnetospheric physics at the core of the space weather forecasting challenge. With expertise in space weather research, applications, data analysis and operational support, our team comprises a unique skill set for high-precision forecasting of space weather and its impacts across a broad range of timescales.
Dr. Robert Leamon
Strategic Advisor
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Dr. Leamon is an Associate Research Scientist at the University of Maryland—Baltimore County and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Previously, he served for 5.5 years as an IPA Program Officer at NASA HQ for the Living With a Star program.
Bob has almost 25 years of experience in solar, solar wind and solar-terrestrial research, during which he has authored or co-authored over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Those publications cover a wide range of subjects, including solar physics, fundamental plasma physics, the sun-climate connection, and El Niño; his H-index is 26 (>3200 citations).
Outside of science, Bob has completed three Ironman triathlons. He credits training for the first of those for the inspiration behind the “Solar Cycle Clock” that underpins the McIntosh-Leamon, now Lynker, solar cycle predictions.
Bob and his family reside in Washington, DC.
Dr. Tamitha Skov
Strategic Advisor
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Dr. Skov holds B.S. degrees in physics and physical chemistry, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics and planetary physics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She retired from the Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles, CA after nearly 20 years as a Senior Research Scientist in the Space Science Applications Laboratory and the Material Sciences Laboratory. She also served as a forensics analyst and instructor for the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC), funded by the Department of Justice, and at The Aerospace Institute.
Tamitha works primarily in the fields of magnetospheric and space physics and in the testing of spacecraft materials in realistic space radiation environments. In 2019, she joined Millersville University as an adjunct professor and created the core phenomenology courses in the Space Weather and Environment Science (SWEN) graduate curriculum. She has authored over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and was awarded the Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington (SPARC) Award by the American Geophysical Union for her education and public outreach efforts.
Her forecasting work as the “Space Weather Woman” is widely known on social media with over six million views worldwide. Tamitha has been featured in Popular Science Magazine, MIT Technology Review, The Scientific American, and other high-profile periodicals. She has appeared on television shows for The Weather Channel, The History Channel, BBC, Fox Weather, NASA TV, and ARTE TV along with many local news stations across the globe. She also makes regular appearances online for Ham Nation (formerly on TWiT TV), doing space weather forecasts under her amateur radio callsign WX6SWW.
Mike Cook
Strategic Advisor
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Mike is currently a Space Weather Lead at the MITRE Corporation. Prior to joining MITRE, Mike was with the Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG) at NASA Johnson Space Center as a Research Scientist. He also has experience as a Space Weather Forecaster at the DoD Space Weather Operations Center located on Offutt Air Force Base. Mike is currently an Adjunct Professor at Millersville University where he teaches his Space Weather Broadcast and Communications course. His experience is in Space Weather Operations, Impact, Policy, Education and Training. He is extremely passionate about communicating Space Weather to stakeholders and decision makers.
