Greg Hakim is a leading scientist in the areas of predictability and atmospheric dynamics. His research interests include hurricanes, past climates, and polar circulation patterns. Greg is a member of the American Meteorological Society and the America Geophysical Union. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, and on the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's President's Advisory Committee on University Relations, the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Atmosphere-Ocean Fluid Dynamics, and an international expert panel on atmospheric regional modeling and state estimation (TIGGE-LAM). He has undergraduate degrees in Math and Atmospheric Sciences, and a PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University at Albany, State University of NY. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the Advanced Study Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Greg joined the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 1999 where he is now Associate Professor.