Biography
Adjunct Professor, University of South Alabama
Alan Sealls retired from a career in broadcast meteorology, having worked in Albany, GA., Milwaukee, WI., Chicago, IL., and in Mobile, AL. He most recently was Chief Meteorologist at WPMI-TV in Mobile. After earning a B.S. in meteorology from Cornell, he received a M.S. in meteorology from FSU. Alan is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and a Past President of the National Weather Association. He is a 16-time regional Emmy winner who went viral on YouTube for his 2017 coverage of Hurricane Irma. Alan teaches a weather broadcasting course at the University of South Alabama; writes a weather column for Lagniappe Newspaper; and serves as a weather consultant and expert witness. Alan has authored three books and produced over 100 weather videos used domestically and internationally by K-12 educators.
I look forward to serving the Council and students as a broadcaster/communicator voice of the private sector, while increasing the ethnic diversity resources of the Council, Cornell, and the student body.