Ph.D.
Director of New York State Mesonet at University at Albany
SUNY Albany
Albany, NY
Dr. Junhong (June) Wang received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Columbia University. After graduation, she worked as a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and then as a scientist at the Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for 15 years. June is currently the Director of the New York State Mesonet (NYSM) and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University at Albany.
Dr. Wang is an international leader in weather and climate observations and networks, surface and upper-air instrumentation and data quality, and ground-based GNSS meteorology. She has created several climate datasets to study climate variability and change and the global water cycle. She has played leadership roles in the design, implementation, and operation of two observational networks: the Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper-Air Network and the New York State Mesonet.
She currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Measurements, Instrumentation and Traceability (SC-MINT) at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). June is also passionate about education and has been actively involved in K–12, undergraduate, graduate, and public education throughout her career.
