EDUCATION. Charles
B. Pyke earned a B.A., an M.A., and a Ph.D. Degree, all in
Meteorology,, at UCLA. He won a national award for undergraduate
research, then studied under the world-famous meteorology professor, Dr.
Jacob Bjerknes, for his Master's and Ph.D. on western North American
precipitation distribution.
In a
four-year post-doctoral research program under the professorship of Dr. Bjerknes,
Dr. Pyke pioneered the
relationship of El Niño and La Niña to weather patterns in
the United States, from California eastward to Georgia and northern
Florida.
EXPERIENCE. Between 1960 and
1989, Dr. Pyke was an Air Force weather officer, an Assistant Professor at
California State University, Northridge, and a flood-control meteorologist
for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, before becoming President,
CEO, and Principal Scientist of
Continental Weather & Earth Sciences,
Inc., as well as its principal owner and a member of its Board of
Directors, where he served through June 2004.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS. Since
2004, Dr. Pyke has headed
Associated Science Experts, LLC,
which
offers specialized
scientific services, such as global warming climate modeling, meteorological and hydrologic
instrumentation,
pest control business development,
public lectures and The Visiting Science
Professor program, customized scientific textbooks, scientific
software, and television, DVD, and Internet science documentaries. He
is the company's Owner, Managing Member, Principal Scientist, and Webmaster.
Dr.
Pyke is
a
Founding Partner and the President, CEO, and Principal Scientist of
Environmental Science &
Energy, Inc.
He is the Principal Scientist, Primary Forensic Meteorologist and Expert
Witness, and Seasonal Forecast Specialist of
American Weather & Hydrology,
LLC
and
California Weather & Earth Sciences.
Dr. Pyke prepares
American Weather's and California Weather's long-range weather outlooks (2 weeks to 14 months), many of
California Weather's Daily Weather Planner
forecasts,
and special weather forecasts for the film industry, Disneyland,
Disney's California Adventure, and Walt Disney World, the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards, the
Emmys, the Rose Parade, the Rose Bowl, the National Football League
Kickoffs, New York Times Square New Year's Eve, agriculture, construction,
power companies, family festivals, farmers' markets, and other special
events.
In the course of his forensic discovery and expert witness testimony, Dr. Pyke obtains and analyzes certified weather data, prepares forensic
meteorological reports, and testifies in court for numerous cases
involving rain, wind, ice, snow, fog, blowing dust, extreme temperatures,
sunrise and sunset, twilight, and moonlight.
Dr. Pyke is an
official Weather Spotter for the National Weather Service and is a Member
of the American Meteorological Society and California Weather Association.
PRESENT
AND FUTURE PLANS. As President, CEO, and Principal Scientist of
Environmental Science &
Energy, Inc.,
Dr. Pyke
is
working with
Timothy E. Wright, Philip K. Barone,
Dr. William J. Trott,
Paul Braden,
and others in the
development of new-technology wind, solar,
hydroelectric, and other renewable energy for individual homes, farms,
schools, and businesses, as well as the latest-technology
scientific instrumentation. - all while Dr. Pyke continues
full-time as a
forensic meteorologist, research meteorologist, weather forecaster, and long-range weather
forecasting specialist.
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