Bernadette Woods Placky

Bernadette Woods Placky is the director of Climate Matters at Climate Central, a program that offers data analyses, graphics, and other reporting resources to over 3,000 local TV meteorologists and journalists. An expert on the links between climate change and weather, she develops partnerships with media organizations, nonprofits, and academic institutions. Prior to this, Woods Placky was an on-air meteorologist in markets in Arkansas, Kentucky, and Maryland. An Emmy Award winning meteorologist, she holds the Television Seal of Approval and is a certified broadcast meteorologist of the American Meteorological Society, where she is an elected council member. Woods Placky is also a member of the Penn State Meteorology Advisory Council and The Weather Channel’s Pattrn advisory committee, a Watershed Institute trustee, and a science advisor for C-Change Conversations.