Joseph D’Aleo is a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. He has over 53 years’ experience in professional meteorology.
D’Aleo's first role after his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and thesis on Explosive Development in East Coast storms, was as forecaster for WCBS-TV and radio in NYC during his pursuit of his doctorate at NYU.
He was recruited to be a college professor of Meteorology at Lyndon State College where he helped establish a successful program that grew from 37 to 137 students during his six years there. Among his many accomplishments there, he inaugurated the Northeast Storm Conference, now in its 48th year and helped establish campus based and private forecast services and an AFROTC program.
In 1980, D’Aleo left to join John Coleman as Weather producer for ABC's Good Morning America. With John, D’Aleo was a co-founder and the first Director of Meteorology at the cable TV Weather Channel responsible for hiring the staff and designing the on-air products.
D’Aleo next was recruited to be the Chief Meteorologist at WSI and content manager and “Dr. Dewpoint” for WSI’s popular Intellicast.com web site. He helped develop statistical models using atmospheric, oceanic and solar factors for seasonal and long-range climate forecasting. He was a partner to start a successful hedge fund for energy and agriculture using those relationships.
D’Aleo is currently co-chief Meteorologist, Weatherbell Analytics LLC founded in 2011 and since 2008, editor and blogger for Icecap.us, a site devoted to weather and climate extremes and the natural factors that produce climate cycles and weather extremes.
He has authored a resource guide on El Nino and La Nina and authored and presented a number of papers on advanced applications enabled by new technologies on how research into ENSO and other atmospheric and oceanic phenomena has made skillful seasonal forecasts possible. He was a contributing author with seven papers in Elsevier’s Evidence Based Climate Science now in its Second Edition.
D’Aleo has also authored many articles, white papers and peer reviewed papers, and made numerous presentations on the role that cycles in the sun and oceans have played in climate change and the integrity issues we have with surface temperature measurements. He was also a contributor to the NIPCC and the ISPM and AMICUS briefs to the DC Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.
D’Aleo is a Certified Consultant Meteorologist and was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He has served as a member and then chairman of the American Meteorological Society’ Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, and has co-chaired national conferences for both the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association. D’Aleo was elected a Councilor for the AMS, the only private sector meteorologist that had been selected by their peers.
D’Aleo’s areas of expertise include long range climate forecasting, microclimatology, natural factors involved in climate change including ocean cycles, the many solar factors, volcanism as well as man’s role in local changes from urbanization and land use changes.
