{"id":2782,"date":"2021-07-20T23:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T04:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?page_id=2782"},"modified":"2024-12-02T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:56:01","slug":"about-fred-pickhardt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/maritime-weather-experts\/about-fred-pickhardt\/","title":{"rendered":"About Fred Pickhardt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am a marine forensic meteorologist with a degree in Meteorology &amp; Oceanography with 45+ years experience in weather analysis, weather forecasting, optimum ship routing, vessel performance evaluations and forensic weather event reconstructions.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the Owner and Chief Consultant of Ocean Weather Services, I currently provide optimum ship routing services and forensic marine weather reports to the maritime industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BS Degree in Meteorology &amp; Oceanography\u00a0 State University of New York Maritime College.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Sailed with American Export lines.<\/li>\n<li>45+ years as a professional marine meteorologist with extensive experience in optimum ship routing, vessel performance evaluations and forensic marine weather event reconstructions.<\/li>\n<li>Taught marine weather observations aboard SUNY Maritime\u2019s Training Ship\u00a0<em>Empire State.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>National Weather Service Cooperative Observer for over 20 years.<\/li>\n<li>Member American Meteorological Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a marine forensic meteorologist with a degree in Meteorology &amp; Oceanography with 45+ years experience in weather analysis, weather forecasting, optimum ship routing, vessel performance evaluations and forensic weather event reconstructions.\u00a0As the Owner and Chief Consultant of Ocean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/maritime-weather-experts\/about-fred-pickhardt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2782\/revisions\/3883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}