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Bob Ryan is the Chief Meteorologist for News NBC4 at WRC-TV. He held the position since 1980. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Ryan began his career in the atmospheric sciences as an associate researcher in the Physics Section with Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, Mass. While at ADL, Ryan began to work part time as a broadcast meteorologist in Boston. Eventually his broadcast career became full-time and his research career part-time. Ryan became the principal meteorolgist with WCVB-TV in Boston, and regularly appeared on the Today Show from 1978-1980. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Ryan garnered several awards including regional Emmys for Weathercasting and the Ted Yates Emmy for outstanding service to the community. He received the University of Albany Distinguished Alumni Award, the Charles Franklin Brooks Award from the AMS, for his outstanding service, and was one of the 1996 Washingtonians of the Year.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Since 1984, Ryan's annual Almanac provided weather and environmental information and data to readers, and raised over $500,000 for local children's charities. [CR-LF][CR-LF]He previously served as the American Meteorological Society president. Ryan was also on the National Academy of Science Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. He currently serves on a committee of the National Research Council and the Advisory Committee of the Geoscience Directorate of the National Science Foundation. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Ryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, and a Master of Science degree in Atmospheric Science from the University at Albany.

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