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Thomas Bogdan

 Dr. Thomas Bogdan has been the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, located in Boulder, Colorado, since May of 2006.  In this capacity he serves as the principal representative for civil space weather operations in the United States and is the national liaison to the World Meteorological Organization for space weather matters.  He is also a co-chair of the multi-agency National Space Weather Program.  Dr. Bogdan earned his Doctorate in Physics at the University of Chicago in 1984, and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in mathematics/physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979.  He is the author of over 100 papers in solar-terrestrial research, was the recipient of the Gregor Wentzel and Valentine Telegdi Prizes from the University of Chicago.  He spent the summer of 1989 as a Visiting Gauss Professor at the Universitäts Sternwarte in Göttingen.