Amanda Siems-Anderson is a road weather scientist in the Research Application Laboratory’s Transportation Meteorology Applications Program (RAL/TMAP). She has extensive experience in road weather research and development. Her main research focus is connected and automated vehicles, obtaining weather-relevant observations from the vehicles as well as communicating adverse weather risk back to the connected driver. Through this work, she is a co-inventor of the Pikalert® System, a road maintenance and traveler information decision support system. With an emphasis on agency operations support, she has worked extensively within the transportation industry and has PI-ed multiple Department of Transportation-sponsored projects. She is also active in verification of Earth system models and decision support tools in diverse areas including transportation, wildland fire, high impact precipitation, and energy, specializing in verification metrics that serve end-user needs.

In the community, Amanda is an active associate member of the World Road Association’s (PIARC’s) Technical Committee 1.5 on Disaster Management and Working Group 1 on Extreme Weather. She is also a current member of the AMS Board on Economic Enterprise Development (BEED). Additionally, she is active in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students and early career professionals through UCAR/NCAR mentorship programs and always happy to network with students interested in road weather and applied research.