 Susan Zevin
Deputy Assistant Administrator
for Operations
National Weather Service
Silver Spring, MD
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 BS, Pittsburgh
(Geography)
MS, Univ. of Tel
Aviv (Geography)
PhD, Arizona
(Hydrology) |
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Deputy Assistant
Administrator for Operations |
"My job is very interesting -- very exciting. I am responsible for the
daily operations of The National Weather Service, so that I am involved in
a broad spectrum of activities on any given day, having to do with
insuring and listening and making sure that we can bring a hurricane home
and provide the services that required by the public for that. So
overseeing that on a day-to-day basis is a part of my job."
Dr. Zevin was selected as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Operations
for the National Weather Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration in September 1994. In this position, she is responsible for
managing the daily operations of the National Weather Service. Prior to
her accepting this position, Dr. Zevin served a six-year tenure as Eastern
Regional Director and a year as Deputy Director. Zevin also served as
senior hydrologist for Program Plans and Analysis at National Weather
Service Headquarters and as a services focal point in the modernization of
the program office. Her career has also included service with the World
Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Operational Multipurpose Subprogramme
in the United States, Caribbean Hydrologic Institute in Barbados, and
flood forecasting projects in Jamaica and the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers in
China. She is a member of the WMO Commission for Hydrology, and the WMO
Commission for Basic Services. Dr. Zevin is a Fellow of the American
Meteorological Society, having contributed to numerous activities of that
group. She received the University of Arizona Alumni Distinguished Citizen
Award in 1996. Dr. Zevin received her bachelor's degree in geography from
the University of Pittsburgh in 1971; a master's in geography from the
University of Tel Aviv, Israel (Cum Laude) in 1974; and a Ph.D. in
hydrology and water resources from the University of Arizona in 1986.
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