Forensic Meteorology Expert Witnesses

Naples, Florida

Meteorology, Slip Trip & Fall - forensic meteorology, weather, weather event reconstruction, property damage, roof damage, water intrusion, personal injury, insurance claims, roof collapse, hurricanes, tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, snow, hail, high winds, rain, floods, lightning, highway accidents, weather-related events

H. Michael Mogil (AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist, AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist, and NWA Digital Seal) is a seasoned meteorologist with nearly five decades of experience, three of which were within NOAA (NWS and NESDIS). This included severe thunderstorm and winter weather forecasting, warning, and preparedness. He has worked as a forensic meteorologist since the mid-1990's, handling a wide array of civil and criminal cases. Mike has honed his skills in local and regional meteorological data analysis, locating and using numerous weather data sets (both governmental and non-governmental), and crafting easy-to-understand, scientifically accurate, expert reports. Mike has the computer skills to create effective courtroom graphics, the speaking skills to testify clearly and understandably in courtroom and deposition settings, and the ability to determine a meteorologically-appropriate date of loss, when such date is unclear. He has even offered weather demonstration...

Northville, Michigan

Meteorology - Forensic Meteorology, Expert Witness, Hurricane Damage, Insurance Claims, Weather Event Reconstruc, Severe Weather, Wind Damage, Flooding, Roof Damage, Tornado Damage, Storm Damage, Hail Damage, Slip and Fall, Injury, Snow, Lightning, Flash Flooding, Car Accident, Doppler Radar Analysis, Ice

Bryan Mroczka, CCM is the owner of Streamline Weather Consulting, LLC. Bryan has a Master of Science in Meteorology from Florida State University and has earned the prestigious designation of Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM) from the American Meteorological Society. Bryan has over twenty years of meteorological experience as both a forensic meteorologist with Streamline Weather Consulting and with the United States National Weather Service (NWS) as a Science and Operations Officer (SOO), Senior Forecaster, Severe Weather Warning Forecaster, and a Decision Support / Communications Specialist. These positions have allowed Bryan to become highly skilled in the communication of meteorological concepts and the analysis / interpretation of meteorological datasets as they relate to decision support services and legal / litigation purposes. Through Streamline Weather Consulting Bryan has worked cases that include severe thunderstorm damage claims, tornado damage claims, slip and f...

Cropseyville, New York

Meteorology - Weather, Forensic Meteorology, Severe Weather, Weather Radar, Severe Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Flooding, Weather Preparedness, Slip & Fall, Weather Related Accidents, Weather Reconstruction

Dr. Alicia Wasula, President of STM Weather, formerly Shade Tree Meteorology, earned her Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Degrees in Meteorology at the University at Albany and recently earned her CCM as well. She developed a passion for severe weather and traveled to the Great Plains to study it in the field. She spent a summer in Norman, Oklahoma at the National Storm Prediction Center, doing research with Bob Johns, a prominent severe weather scientist. In graduate school, Alicia developed a skill for making difficult meteorological concepts understandable in the classroom. Alicia taught a variety of courses from upper level science to entry level courses for non science majors, earning praise for her communication style. During her post-graduate studies, Alicia continued to work closely with operational forecasters on research projects at the Albany National Weather Service Office and the the Storm Prediction Center on both her Master and Doctoral research projects. Alicia cont...

Lakeville, Pennsylvania

Meteorology, Maritime - Weather reconstruction, forensic meteorology, weather, marine meteorology, maritime, admirality law, weather routing, ship accidents, boating accidents, consulting meteorologists, tropical cyclones, hurricanes, tropical meteorology, extreme waves, oceanography, waves, marine insurance, insurance

• Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM) by the American Meteorological Society • Over 30 years experience in meteorology and physical oceanography • I am a U.S. Navy veteran with sea duty and therefore have firsthand experience in the effects of weather on operations • Past AMS board member that certifies CCM’s for technical knowledge, communication skills, and ethics • I provide quality testimony using the scientific method • My testimony is clear, concise, and technically complicated subjects are plainly described • Sound communication skills describing complex atmospheric processes are put into easily understandable words and presentations • My written testimony is quality controlled and peer reviewed to produce an error free report that stands up to scrutiny of cross examination • I keep abreast of the latest scientific developments in meteorology and physical oceanography by attending conferences, re...

Rapid City, South Dakota

Meteorology, Hydrology - forensic meteorology, heavy rain and flooding, high winds, fog, severe storms, hail, tornadoes, winter weather, heavy snow, slip and falls, icing, fire weather, weather-related accidents, agriculture weather, lightning verification, radar, satellite, and applied climate and meteorology

I believe that my clients deserve to have accurate and reliable weather information. My clients include lawyers and industries of construction, insurance, mining, and power generation. I have worked on cases involving: • analyses of tornado/hail/wind (including derecho) damage to businesses, crops, people, farm property (e.g., barns, grain bins, and irrigation systems), and housing units for insurance-related claims/lawsuits, • slip and falls related to snowfall, icing, refreezing, and freezing drizzle, • climate-, severe-, and winter-weather analyses for a mining operation, preventative planting insurance claim, crop spraying, livestock operations, and construction delays due to adverse weather days, • rainfall recurrence interval analyses for flooding of homes and flash-flood related damages to businesses and trains/railroad tracks, • snowfall and rainfall analyses for insurance protection claims for recreational events, • cloud cover, moonlight, rainfall, fog, icing, snow, and w...

Dayton, Texas

Meteorology, Environmental - weather event re-construction, air dispersion modeling, forensic meteorology, weather, air pollution, visibility, rainfall, hail, aviation accidents, marine accidents, severe storms, hurricane damage, wind analysis, tornado damage, wrongful death, property damage, personal injury

Dr. David L. Mitchell is an authority on the numerical modeling of geophysical and atmospheric data with a Doctorate in Meteorology from Purdue University. Dr. Mitchell has over 35 years of technical modeling experience in industry and consulting. Dr. Mitchell is a Court Qualified Expert in Air Modeling and Forensic Meteorology. His business experience includes various research, project management and technical consulting positions with Conoco, Getty Oil Company, Texaco, Tenneco, British Petroleum, Leviathan Gas Pipeline LLP and IBM Corporation. Dr. Mitchell has extensive knowledge of Forensic Meteorology and has published his research results on the numerical modeling of atmospheric stability and convection. Dr. Mitchell is an expert in the field of Air Pollution Meteorology with over 30 years of experience with the mathematical modeling of wave propagation in elastic media, atmospheric fluid dynamics and air dispersion modeling. He has extensive knowledge of air pollution m...

Seattle, Washington

Meteorology - Forensic meteorology, Weather analysis and forecasting, Decision support, Weather consulting, Education and training, Severe convective storms, Flash flooding, Winter weather, Fire Weather, Mountain meteorology, Weather observations, Numerical Weather Prediction, Accident site investigation

My name is Brock Burghardt and I am a Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM) with the American Meteorological Society. I received my PhD in Atmospheric Science from Texas Tech University in 2017 and prior to that a MS in Atmospheric Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013. I have 15 years of experience as a meteorologist and am a consulting member of the Association of Certified Meteorologists where I also serve on the marketing committee. My work experience has involved various roles as a researcher, developer, and forecaster for weather ranging from winter weather in the midwest, to severe storms across the southern plains, to mountain meteorology in the western United States.