Severe-Storms Researcher Tim Samaras to
Deliver NIWeek 2011 Keynote
NEWS RELEASE June 27, 2011 National Instruments today
announced that Tim Samaras, severe-storms researcher and star of
the Discovery Channel show Storm Chasers, will deliver the closing
keynote address at NIWeek
2011, the worlds largest graphical system design
conference and exhibition scheduled for Aug. 2-4 in Austin, Texas.
Samaras uses NI LabVIEW, NI CompactDAQ and NI DIAdem to
successfully acquire and analyze data from tornadoes across the
United States.
Tim Samaras and his impressive body of work demonstrate how
graphical system design can enable scientific discovery that makes
a difference, and we are very excited to welcome him to NIWeek as
this years guest keynote speaker, said Ray Almgren, vice president
of software and education at National Instruments. His passion for
his work, dedication to innovation and willingness to push
boundaries in his research will inspire the thousands of NIWeek
attendees who are working on their own projects to improve our
world.
Samaras has actively chased storms for almost 30 years and
currently spends May and June of each year in a truck tracking
tornadoes. He and his team predict where a tornado will occur and
then drop several probes in the tornados path to measure humidity,
static pressure, temperature, wind speed and direction. The
information gathered by these probes not only contributes to the
knowledge of how and why tornadoes form, but also can be used to
save lives by predicting a tornados future path. Samaras holds the
Guinness World Record for measuring the lowest pressure within a
tornado and is the only person to successfully collect video from
inside a tornado. In addition, he co-authored the book Tornado
Hunter, which details some of his most harrowing experiences
chasing storms.
Samaras is also the field coordinator for TWISTEX (Tactical Weather
Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes EXperiment), a team of
engineers and scientists whose goal is to gain a better
understanding of the near-surface internal tornado environment. He
collaborates with various universities attempting to model weather
patterns, and the National Geographic Society awarded him the honor
of Emerging Explorer in 2005 for his research.
Readers can register for NIWeek 2011 at www.ni.com/niweek. Readers also can get
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