1. Joe Witte recently retired as an Outreach Specialist for Aquent, a contractor of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA.
15 Facts About Joe Witte
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Joe Witte adapted science content for use by 2,000 television meteorologists around the country.
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Joe Witte started his career as a glaciologist for the USGS, working on the ice of South Cascade Glacier, in the northern Cascades of Washington State, as well as the Nisqually Glacier of Mt.
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Joe Witte was the principal investigator on ice island T-3 in the Arctic Ocean studying the Greenhouse infrared radiation budget as well as the ice crystals of the Arctic clouds, winter and summers.
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Joe Witte has been a part of numerous skunk-work projects that have turned into viable endeavors: Joe Witte was part of the original concept-team that resulted in the NSF-funded "Climate Matters" program, now helping 1,000 TV meteorologist communicate the science and solutions of climate change.
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Joe Witte has worked for WCBS-TV, WABC-TV, and WNBC-TV in New York City, as well as at stations in Seattle, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.
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Joe Witte served as the weatherman for the former NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise from 1983 to 1999, and as the weatherman and occasional fill-in host for Sunday Today from 1992 to 1995.
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Joe Witte has filled in for John Coleman on ABC's Good Morning America, and for Willard Scott, and Al Roker on NBC's Today.
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Joe Witte helped make John Coleman's beta project tape for the initial Weather Channel.
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Joe Witte then served 4 years reporting on the weather's effects on the business world for CNBC from 1999 to 2003.
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Joe Witte performed voiceover work for sponsor idents that appeared before various segments of NBC's Today.
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Joe Witte has often reported on NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC as a weather expert and was chief meteorologist for NBC's Super Channel NBC Asia, and NBC Europe.
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Joe Witte has made appearances as a meteorologist on MSNBC.
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Joe Witte was on the air non-stop for Hurricane Gloria in 1985, and for the Blizzard of 1996 for over eight hours each for both events.
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Joe Witte is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society as well as of The Explorers Club.