EDUCATION. Charles
B. Pyke earned a B.A., an M.A., and a Ph.D. Degree, all in
Meteorology,, at UCLA. He won a national award for undergraduate
research, then studied under the world-famous meteorology professor, Dr.
Jacob Bjerknes, for his Master's and Ph.D. on western North American
precipitation distribution.
In a
four-year post-doctoral research program under the professorship of Dr. Bjerknes,
Dr. Pyke pioneered the
relationship of El Niño and La Niña to weather patterns in
the United States, from California eastward to Georgia and northern
Florida.
EXPERIENCE. Between 1960 and
1989, Dr. Pyke was an Air Force weather officer, an Assistant Professor at
California State University, Northridge, and a flood-control meteorologist
for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, before becoming President,
CEO, and Principal Scientist of
Continental Weather & Earth Sciences,
Inc., as well as its principal owner and a member of its Board of
Directors, where he served through June 2004.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS.