Jerry Brotzge State Climatologist of Kentucky, Western Kentucky University
Jerry Brotzge serves as the State Climatologist of Kentucky, the Director of the Kentucky Climate Center (KCC), and Director of the Kentucky Mesonet. He also serves as Professor of Meteorology in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences at Western Kentucky University. In these roles, Dr. Brotzge is collaborating with commercial, academic and public partners from across Kentucky to improve the collection, quality and application of environmental data. For example, his KCC research team is working with the agriculture, emergency management, health, and transportation sectors to improve their operations with more local, higher quality weather and climate data. Dr. Brotzge received a BS in Meteorology from Saint Louis University and MS and PhD in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. He now serves as Chair of the Board on Enterprise Communication for the American Meteorological Society.
Areas of Expertise: applied climatology, environmental instrumentation, high-impact weather, emergency management
Collaborative Interests: research collaborations, publications, public lectures
