Tim Dye
Tim Dye joined Sonoma Technology, Inc. (STI) in 1990 and is responsible for strategic planning and management of STI’s forecasting/public outreach, meteorological analysis, and radar wind profiler (RWP) business areas. Dye has managed all of STI’s ozone mapping and forecasting programs including the Sacramento, California, ozone forecasting program (1996-2006); the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) West Coast Mapping Center (1999-2001); and the EPA’s AIRNow program (2002-2006). He led the development of forecasting programs for both ozone and particulate matter (PM) throughout the United States and internationally. Dye was lead author for the EPA’s guidance document for setting up ozone and PM2.5 forecasting programs; he also developed a wide range of objective forecasting tools to predict air quality.