Biography
CEO and Principal Atmospheric Scientist, ArcVera Renewables
Dr. Gregory Poulos is a co-founder of ArcVera Renewables, a global technical consulting firm created through the merger of V-Bar and Chinook Wind in March 2017. He joined V-Bar in 2009, became an owner in 2011 and eventually led its global solar and wind energy consulting practice. Previously, he led Clipper Windpower’s first wind resource assessment group where he oversaw wind resource analysis for 10,000 MW under development. From 1993 to 2007 he was an entrepreneurial company founder; scientific researcher; field experimentalist; and leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Throughout his career, Dr. Poulos has focused on winds and atmospheric conditions near the surface of the earth and in complex terrain; high-resolution mesoscale modeling; large-eddy simulations; weather forecasting; and atmospheric observations using meteorological towers, sonic anemometers, sodar, 3-D lidar and profiling atmospheric radar. He has a peculiar knack for forecasting heavy snowstorms in the mountains, as a consequence of a recreational interest in mountain sports.
Dr. Poulos received his bachelor’s degree in meteorology from Cornell University in 1989 before moving on to Colorado State University, where he received his M.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (1996) in atmospheric science.