Joel Lisonbee
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Joel Lisonbee is a senior associate scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder where he supports National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Integrated Drought Information System (drought.gov) mission as the coordinator for the Southern Plains Drought Early Warning System. He has a Master of Science in atmospheric sciences from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, USA, and a PhD in applied climatology from the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Australia. Lisonbee has 16 years of experience providing weather and climate information, first with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and for the last 6 years for NOAA. His goal is to build resilience and create value for people impacted by drought.