President Donald Trump has nominated experienced meteorologist and University of Oklahoma researcher Kelvin Droegemeier to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), according to a White House statement published earlier this week (July 31). If confirmed, Droegemeier would fill a position that has been vacant since Trump took office 19 months ago.
“I’m pleasantly surprised,” Marshall Spencer, a meteorologist at the University of Georgia, tells The Atlantic. “Up to this point, many of the appointments on the science side have been odd, but Kelvin is solid on all grounds. He is very well respected in our field and has spent a career teaching the fundamentals of climate science.”
Droegemeier has served on the National Science Board under former US Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He has also led several of the board’s advisory committees. “He combines a lot of qualities in somebody you’d like to see ...
