Lisa Kriederman Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

As the meteorologist for PGE's Wildfire Mitigation & Resiliency team, I look for and forecast hazardous weather that would threaten PGE's customer grid and supply, specializing in wildfire weather. Will assist in forecasting outage potential due to weather events.

Portland, Or

Serve the northwestern OR and southwestern WA area. Experienced in weather briefings, decision support and data analysis, along with Public, Aviation, Fire Weather, and Marine forecasting. Serve on the local Fire Weather Team as a co-lead, as well as the National Wildland Fire Coordinating Group as an advisor to the Fire Weather Subcommittee. I continue to be an Incident Meteorologist (IMET), dispatching to local and national incidents/wildfires to be an onsite fire weather technical specialist.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Served north-central and northeastern Colorado, including Denver, covering nearly 3.8 million people, with significant winter, flood, fire and severe weather threats annually. As a state-liaison forecast office, coordinated forecast and decision support across the state and with neighboring forecast offices with several partners including Colorado Office of Emergency Management, county-level emergency managers, the Colorado Department of Transportation and the State Department of Emergency Services. Regularly served as Forecaster in Charge facilitating staffing and allocation of resources to address operational needs in a timely and successful manner. Served as the office’s incident meteorologist (IMET), being dispatched to regional, national and international incidents/wildfires several times a year. Qualified in the National Incident Management System and the Incident Command System, as well as several media training courses, including Richard Brundage's "Crisis Communications and Media Response Training ". Have specialized training in complex terrain forecasting, fire behavior, HAZMAT, and dispersion. Regularly taught fire weather in intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior classes to local and state firefighters. As the Fire Weather Program Manager, engaged consistently with our partners to provide fire forecasts and observation data through various platforms, kept fire weather forecast verification and kept the staff trained in the latest forecasting techniques and newest applications. During the historic fire years of 2012 and 2020, I ensured our office had the information necessary to provide accurate and timely forecasts and decision support, while being dispatched to faraway places myself. As Social Media Focal Point, was responsible for training and guidance on effective messaging of forecasts and hazards through several different social media platforms.Awards received included the individual Local Cline Award and an office Regional Director Award.

Anchorage, Alaska

Produced public, marine and aviation forecasts for south-central and southwestern Alaska, including the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea. Area of responsibility covered more than 1.4 million square miles. Also prepared and issued Volcanic Ash Advisories. Began Incident Meteorologist training, and was dispatched to a large wildland fire south of Fairbanks for my first training fire. Was the CRS focal point and the Fire Weather Program focal point. Received the following awards:- Group Award from WFO Anchorage for providing excellent forecast and warning services during an unusually active winter weather period.- Group Local Special Act or Service Award from WFO Anchorage, for producing superior quality Digital Products, among seven individuals leading the office in small scale detail, meteorological improvement and consistency in time and with adjoining areas- Group National Bronze Medal Award, for coordinating accurate warnings and issuing timely public information during the prolonged eruptions of Augustine Volcano during the 2005-2006 winter season- Individual Local Special Act or Service Award from WFO Anchorage, for assisting in warning coordination and media service during a high impact flood event- Group Local Special Act or Service Award from WFO Anchorage, for redesign of the WFO Anchorage Intranet page- Individual Local Special Act or Service Award from WFO Anchorage, for production of first ever Office newsletter and revising CRS instructions for the office including training the staff

Honolulu, Hi

Gathered meteorological data from the Hawaiian Islands for records and analysis. Produced daily phone recordings of the public and surf forecast. Trained on the Aviation Desk, where I produced Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts for up to 15 airports across the Pacific, Pacific Basin Route Forecasts, Significant Meteorological Advisories (SIGMETs) and Airman's Meteorological advisories (AIRMETs). Also trained on the Marine desk, where I produced surf forecasts, and Pacific-wide surface analyses by coordinating with the Ocean Prediction Center. Was the Spotter Program Focal Point and gave numerous spotter training sessions to the local Oahu residents. Had the opportunity to ride the NOAA G-IV during a Winter Weather Study where dropsondes were used on flights from Hawaii to Alaska. Completed WSR-88D Radar Operations Course and Advanced Warning Operations Course.Received Individual Local Special Act or Service Awards for: rapid completion of the intern program, updating the Spotter program, developing and delivering Spotter Training, and providing training to the office of the new Spotter location system in the Local Storm Report program.

Tucson, Arizona

Interned while finishing up my senior year at University of Arizona (was a SCEP student). Sat with forecasters to learn about the tools, process and theory of forecasting around southeastern AZ. Studied the North American Monsoon. Helped produce the forecasters rotational schedule. Produced the office newsletter that was sent out to spotters and partners. Gave storm spotter training. Local individual Special Act or Service Award for completing two important projects for the office: editing and mailing spotter newsletter, and creating operational phone list.

Tucson, Arizona

Worked for the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory where I participated in a field study of dust devils in order to gain a better understanding of the phenomena on Mars which is believed to be interfering with spacecraft electronics. Assisted in data input, processing, and interpretation of the location, timing and wind velocities of the dust devils. Worked with Excel and assisted in web page managing to display results. Collaborated with scientists across the country from such organizations as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA-Goddard to analyze the data from our observations.

University Of Arizona, Tucson, Az

Under the NASA Space Grant, researched and prepared a paper on the climatology and characteristics of dust storms for a better understanding of the phenomenon, precursors, awareness, and emergency preparedness. Many references were used to attain the background knowledge of dust storms such as weather plots, literature research, scientific papers, and newspaper articles on accidents that occurred from these storms. Research was presented at the 2001 Arizona NASA Space Grant Symposium.