Paul Joe

Paul  Joe is a research scientist within the Meteorological Service of Canada.  His area of expertise is Doppler Weather Radar and Severe Weather.  He was involved with various projects including: lead scientist for the Canadian National Radar Project and the Canadian Radar Decision Support system, the radar lead for the NinJo workstation project, principal investigator for SNOWSAT, science lead for the Vancouver 2010 project,  He was the chair of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) on Radar Meteorology, was one of the principal investigators the WWRP Nowcasting Forecast Demonstration Projects in Sydney and the Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010 FDP’s. He is a member of the WMO Commission on Instruments, Methods and Observations and on the Nowcasting Working Group.  He has taught in previous EUMETCAL, WWRP and CIMO radar courses. Paul graduated with a Bachelor's in Engineering Science (Geophysics) and then studied Cloud Physics for his Master’s and Ph.D. He enjoys sports (skiing, golf, soccer) and photography.