Jim Noel is currently the Service Coordination Hydrologist at the NOAA/National Weather Service’s Ohio River Forecast Center (OHRFC). He started in the National Weather Service in 1992 and has been with the OHRFC since 1996 as a hydrologist. His first weather job was forecasting for the newspaper industry starting in Dubuque, Iowa in 1985.

His main areas of focus are in weather, climate and river forecasting along with high resolution precipitation estimates. He has taught climate and rainfall research and forecasting seminars for NOAA.

He works closely with the agricultural and universities to provide hydrology and climate decision support services. He is a part of the agronomy team at Ohio State University and his articles can be seen in the Ohio State University CORN Newsletter at http://corn.osu.edu/ .

He works on precipitation estimates and impacts over the Great Lakes and North America. He sits on the International Coordinating Committee for Basic Hydrologic and Hydraulics for the Great Lakes. He works in close partnership with Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Midwest Climate Center at the Purdue University. The Bi-National Precipitation Estimate Tool is  https://mrcc.purdue.edu/cliwatch/northAmerPcpn/getArchive.

His education and degrees are from Northern Illinois University and Ohio State University.