Kait Parker
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Kait Parker is an atmospheric scientist who currently works for weather.com and The Weather Channel app. She can also occasionally be seen on Good Morning America where she fills-in for meteorologist Rob Marciano on weekends.[1]. Prior to her role with weather.com, she was an on-camera meteorologist and host of America's Morning Headquarters Weekend Edition alongside Reynolds Wolf. She left The Weather Channel television network in early 2016[2]
Kait made national headlines [3] in 2016 with a rebuttal to Breitbart.com[4] , a far-right website that used a video of her in an article claiming that the Earth was cooling rather than warming. The Webby Awards chose the video as an honoree in the category of viral in 2017[5]. She has gone on to create dozens of additional videos with a focus on climate change and the environment for weather.com.
In 2016, Kait released a mini-documentary called Toxic Lake: The Untold Story of Lake Okeechobee about cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and water management in Florida where she was both producer and correspondent. The project has gone on to win The Society of Professional Journalists' top honor for Digital Video[6], the New York Press Club's award for science feature, the Atlanta Press Club's Award of Excellence for Videography, Third Place for Online Video at the Headliner Awards, and nominated for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards for Outstanding Science and Environmental Reporting[7].
She was also named to the Grist 50 list of Climate Fixers[8] in 2017 and was featured in Marie Claire Magazine's first issue on sustainability[9].
Kait has a Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Science from The University of Missouri in May of 2009. While in school she was heavily involved in the Meteorology Club and also instructed a university course for freshman called "Storm Chasing". Kait has also earned her Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval from the American Meteorological Society.[10]She has also instructed an American Meteorological Society and NASA designed graduate program called Datastreme Earth's Climate System[11] while she lived and worked in Florida.
Kait began her career by filling-in at KOMU-TV in Columbia, MO in 2006 while still enrolled at the University of Missouri. Upon graduation in May of 2009, she became weekday morning and midday meteorologist for WAKA-TV in Montgomery, AL[12]. Form there she went on to WPTV-TV[13] in West Palm Beach, FL where she was first hired as weekend meteorologist but was quickly put into a weekday role. Kait left WPTV-TV in early 2014 and went to work for The Weather Channel.[14]
Kait was born and raised in Grapevine, Texas and she often points to her mother and father as the source of her interest in science. She is currently married but has no children.
References
- ^ Parker, Kait (2016-06-25). "Good morning from @GMA ! I'm in all weekend :)pic.twitter.com/6eYlxdp6YB". @weatherkait. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ "Kait Parker Leaving TWC". twctodayforums.com. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ NPR. Don't Use Our Content to Mislead on Climate Change (2016) http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/07/504676327/weather-channel-tells-breitbart-not-to-use-its-content-to-mislead-on-climate-cha
- ^ Note to Breitbart: The Earth is Not Cooling, weather.com (2016)
- ^ "A Message to Breitbart from Weather.com | The Webby Awards". Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ "Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award Winners".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Weather.com Nominated for Two Emmys in Latest of Several Major Awards | The Weather Channel". The Weather Channel. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ "Grist 50: Meet the Fixers". Grist. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ "Meet Meteorologist Kait Parker: The Woman Debunking Fake News Surrounding Climate Change". Marie Claire. 2017-07-27. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ "TV Contract » Kait Parker". tvcontract.com. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ "DataStreme Earth's Climate System". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ Tv, Central Alabama (2009-05-27). "Central Alabama TV: More Details on Meteorologist Kait Praker". Central Alabama TV. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ admin (2010-12-13). "Kait Parker Joins WPTV - SFLTV - South Florida TV". SFLTV - South Florida TV. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ "WPTV Meteorologist Kait Parker Joins The Weather Channel". www.adweek.com. Retrieved 2017-08-16.