Millennium Magazine_6th Ed

298 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine C harles J. Fisk received a Master of Science in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin in 1984 and quickly dove into an over 30-year long career as a climatologist and meteorologist. Since 1986, he has served as a climatologist and meteorologist for the Naval Base of Ventura County in Point Mugu, California. Additionally, since 1996, he has worked as a consultant providing services and products for other professional meterorologists. Throughout Mr. Fisk’s career, a shining achievement was his master’s thesis, in which he reconstructed a long temperature, 1820 to 1869, record for Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota area. From the establishment of the weather service from 1870 forward, they had self instruments that recorded maximum to minimum temperatures midnight to midnight. The 1820 to 1869 period had a summary of the day temperatures taken by a different method by the military. With his thesis, Mr. Fisk reconstructed the old record and converted the observations to the modern method. In reconstructing it, he can present it graphically in the same form as the present day records with floating bars, like stock prices. Mr. Fisk likes the research, the statistical methods of data and using his creativity to come up with operationally useful products. He has learned over the course of his career that if you really like what you do, it is just a matter of time until success comes your way. He credits much of his success to his management at Naval Base Ventura Count, who have given him the freedom to explore new techniques and the means, software second computer power, to implement them. Mr. Fisk is a member of the American Statistical Association and American Meteorological Society. He is the author of “The First Fifty Years of Continuous Recorded Weather History In Minnesota (1820-1869) - A Narrative Chronology,” as well as a contributor of 29 articles to professional scientific conferences and proceedings. In his free time, Mr. Fisk enjoys reading, traveling, web publishing, geneaology and exercising. Looking forward, he intends to experience the continued success of his career. CHARLES J. FISK METEOROLOGIST, RESEARCHER, CONSULTANT Naval Base of Ventura County Newbury Park, CA SCIENCES, PHARMACEUTICALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY