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Bob Henson
Writer/editor/media relations associate
bhenson@ucar.edu | Voice: 303-497-8605 |
Fax: 303-497-8610
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What I do
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Edit the UCAR Quarterly. The Quarterly brings news from UCAR and its member institutions to the research community.
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Edit Highlights, the magazine-style summary of UCAR/NCAR/UOP research and support activities published every two years.
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Help write news releases and assist with media inquiries, particularly those involving severe weather (tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.).
My background
On July 20, 1960, I was born in the Great Plains metropolis of Oklahoma City, my hometown through high school. Surrounded by wild weather, I grew up fascinated by it. My bachelor's degree at Rice University featured an interdisciplinary major in meteorology and psychology. I went to graduate school in both meteorology and journalism at the University of Oklahoma. For my M.A. thesis in journalism, I studied the broadcasting of severe weather warnings on local television.
I've been at UCAR since 1989, covering the wide range of research and related activities conducted by NCAR, UOP, and UCAR's members and affiliates.
I enjoy freelance writing on a variety of topics. I am a contributing editor of Weatherwise magazine and was a frequent correspondent for the The Weather Notebook radio show. I've written Television Weathercasting: A History (McFarland, 1990), The Rough Guide to Weather (Rough Guides/Penguin, 2002), and The Rough Guide to Climate Change (Penguin, 2006).
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Some other interests
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Bicycling: I've done several tours of 200-800 miles and spend a lot of my transportation time on two wheels.
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Storm photography: Over the past 25 years, while on research experiments and personal travel, I've seen around 30 tornadoes and a vast array of severe thunderstorms. To the right is a photograph of a rotating LP (low-precipitation) supercell near Wray, Colorado, on June 2, 1999, with a small rain core impersonating a tornado.
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