John Peters

"Forecasting skills cannot really be fully developed in a classroom. You have to experience various real-life forecasting situations and the pressure to make decisions - this is an experience that IW provided. I also became a much more efficient communicator, both to clients (and subsequently to future employers), and to the non-meteorological public."

 

John Peters completed both his Bachelors and Masters degrees at UWM, the latter of which he finished in May of 2012. He is now working on his PhD at Colorado State University. John's interest in weather was spawned, like many of his colleagues, as a young child. "I initially became interested in geology and volcanology at a very young age - if I remember correctly, 3 years old. I saw a program on TV that showed footage of a volcanic eruption in Hawaii, and I became instantly fascinated. Over the years, this interest spread to other powerful natural processes, such as earthquakes, waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, and various astronomical phenomena. I suppose the interest in weather 'stuck,' since I could easily observe it in my every-day life as opposed to volcanoes, the evolution of rocks, or distant stars/galaxies." He is one of the longest tenured employees of Innovative Weather, from December of 2008 until July of 2012, and that time served him well.