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 Mark L. Walton is a hydrologist with the National Weather Service and manages the hydrologic program for the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received his B.S. in Watershed Management at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1980, and his M.S. in Natural Resources/Remote Sensing at the University of Michigan in 1983. He joined the National Weather Service in 1984, and for six years worked as a research hydrologist in the Hydrologic Research Laboratory of the National Weather Service's Office of Hydrology in Silver Spring, Maryland. There he worked on the Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) project. He then spent four years as a Service Hydrologist at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in White Lake, Michigan, before taking on his present position in 1995 as a Service Hydrologist with the National Weather Service Office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He also serves on the board of the Michigan Stormwater-Floodplain Association, is a charter member and Vice Chairman of the Michigan Committee for Severe Weather Awareness, and serves as a member of the NEXRAD Technical Advisory Committee. |
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