Daniel Sobien
NWS Forecast Office
Ruskin, FL
202-420-1043
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William Hopkins
NWS Forecast Office
Lubbock, TX
202-420-1045
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Eastern Region Chair
David Solano
State College, PA
814-231-2403
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Southern Region Chair
John Werner
Mobile, AL
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Central Region Chair
Martin Lee
Duluth, MN
218-729-0645
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Western Region Chair
Robert Baruffaldi
Lincoln, CA
916-979-3045
Alaska Region Chair
Jim Brader
Fairbanks, AK
907-458-3700
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Pacific Region Chair
Barry Hirshorn
Honolulu, HI
808-689-8207 ext. 302
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NESDIS Vice President
Hugh Sharkey
Wachapreague, VA
757-824-7438
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Marguerite Matera
Gloucester, MA
202-907-3234
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National President Dan Sobien
Bachelor of Science in Meteorology – Florida State University
Master’s of Business Administrations – Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Dan Sobien is considered an expert in the areas of marine meteorology, air-sea interaction and coastal flooding. He has published several scientific papers on those topics. Dan started his career in the National Weather Service in 1991.
Mr. Sobien became involved with the National Weather Service Employees Organization (NWSEO) in 1996, serving as the Steward in the Weather Forecast Office in Tampa Florida. He became an activist in the late 1990s to help hold off funding cuts to the National Hurricane Center and the NWS’s Southern Region. Mr. Sobien was elected Southern Region Chairman of the NWSEO in 1999. In 2002, Mr. Sobien became the Executive Vice President of the NWSEO and President in 2005.
Vice President William Hopkins
David Solano
NWSEO
Secretary Treasurer and Eastern Region Chair
Bachelor of Science in Meteorology - Penn State University
Mr. David A. Solano has been employed by the National Weather Service for more than 22 years. Mr. Solano has been a long time NWSEO member. He serves as a Board member on the NWSEO National Labor Council and has served as NWSEO representative on numerous national, regional and local workgroup teams.
Dave is the recipient of the Regional Isaac Cline award in Hydrometeorology (2007), Bronze Medal Group award (2007), NWS Eastern Region Employee of the Month award (2006), Bronze Medal Group awards (2005, 2004, 2001 and 1997), Gold Medal Group award (1997) and numerous Special Act or Service awards.
Dave and his wife, Linda, have three children: Maria, Nicole and David. He has many hobbies including hiking, hunting, fishing and collecting Lionel trains.
Southern Region Chair John Werner
Information and Biography in the works. Please check back.
Central Region Chair
Martin Lee
Western Region Chair Robert Baruffaldi
Bachelor of Science in Physics - San Francisco State University; Minor in Mathematics and Meteorology
Master of Science in Atmospheric Sciences - UCLA
Robert Baruffaldi is the Senior Meteorologist at the Sacramento WFO with the responsibility of issuing forecasts and warnings for the public, aviation and fire weather communities. He has experience with a variety of computer systems including AFOS, AWIPS and Hydromet. Mr. Baruffaldi has received numerous awards throughout his career for forecasts and warnings, especially for extreme and unusual events.
Mr. Baruffaldi is an active member of NWSEO since 1996, when he was first elected as the Western Region Vice Chair. In 2003, he became the Western Region Chair. He has served on NWSEO's Finance Committee and is currently the Constitutional Chairperson for NWSEO. He enjoys fishing on his spare time and has recently joined the Gold Prospectors Association of America.
Alaska Region Chair Jim Brader
Bachelor of Science in Meteorology - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jim is a lead forecaster at WFO Fairbanks. He started his career as an intern at WSO St Paul Island, Alaska, in 1987 and was transferred to WFO Fairbanks just before the great cold wave of January 1989. It’s a good thing Jim likes cold weather because his office is located approximately 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
In addition to specializing in marine, aviation, and public forecasting for the Arctic, Jim also specializes in Dispersion Forecasting of Air Pollution in the sub-Arctic. He served as an IMET for five years and is a Special Service Award recipient for fire weather. Jim’s involvement in NWSEO started in 1999 when he became the local steward. He has served as Vice Chair and Regional Chair.
Jim's long term support of the Literacy Council of Alaska has been recognized with an Alaska Adult Education Association Volunteer Award. Jim is currently the director of a family running event benefitting the organization.
Pacific Region Chair
Barry Hirshorn
Bachelor of Arts in Geophysics from University of California, Berkeley - 1984
Barry Hirshorn is a Geophysicist for the National Weather Service at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. He started his career with the National Weather Service in 1996 after working for ten years at the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program.
Barry, a NWSEO member since 1996, was elected the Pacific Region Chair in 2006 after serving as the steward for the PTWC. “This Union is vital to almost every aspect of our working life at the NWS. By helping each other collectively, we are better off individually. I believe in the” all for one and one” for all approach as opposed to the “me for me” approach.
Barry enjoys photography and backpacking in his spare time.
NESDIS Vice President
Hugh Sharkey
Vice President for NOAA Attorneys’ Guild
Marguerite Matera
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