Satellites Oral Histories

This collection features oral histories with NOAA staff who worked with NOAA's satellites, including scientists and meteorologists.
Artist's rendering of NOAA's GOES-T, which will provide coverage of the western U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, the eastern and central Pacific Ocean to New Zealand.

Artist's rendering of NOAA's GOES-T, which will provide coverage of the western U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, the eastern and central Pacific Ocean to New Zealand. (Image credit: NOAA)

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Tim Schmit shows off two brightly patterned ties in front of a photo that matches one of them.
Tim Schmit

Tim Schmit, a satellite meteorologist with NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service in Madison, Wisconsin, likes to say he spent his entire career in one building… even in the same cubicle.

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Thomas Wrublewski, NOAA Satellites Tenure at NOAA: 1980-present
Tom Wrublewski

Tom Wrublewski knows the importance of having every detail in place when it comes to satellites. He has worked on and witnessed many successful satellite launches over the course of his 40-year career with NOAA.

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