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Dr. Ian Giammanco

Dr. Ian Giammanco is the Senior Director for Standards & Data Analytics and a Lead Research Meteorologist at the IBHS Research Center in Richburg, South Carolina. Ian holds a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and an M.S. and PhD from Texas Tech University in Atmospheric Science and Wind Science and Engineering, respectively. He has nearly two decades of meteorological field research experience and currently serves as the principal investigator and field coordinator for the IBHS Characteristics of Hailstorms annual field research campaign.