Joe Witte is a TV weathercaster at News Channel 8 in Wash. DC and a PhD candidate in Climate Change Communication at GMU. Joe spent 20 years at the NBC TV network as chief meteorologist reporting on TODAY, CNBC, and Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. (He continues his work as the voice-over talent for TODAY.) Interestingly he began his career after college in climate science field work:  he first worked as a USGS glaciologist on South Cascade Glacier and his studies on ice island T-3 yielded a MS degree. Next was a year at NOAA’s GFDL in Princeton, home of climate change computer modeling. He is participating in NOAA’s pilot “Climate Stewards” program. He was part of the NEEF/AMS/NCAR advisory group which produced the COMET “Climate Puzzle”, an online 2 hour lesson designed for TV weathercasters and NOAA line forecasters. His desire to do something about climate change communication has evolved into a NSF funded project about how to engage the 1300+ local TV forecasters as climate communicators.