Randy Cerveny is a professor who specializes in weather and climate in the Department of Geography at Arizona State University. His work has ranged from looking at the weather associated with prison escapes (for the Department of Defense) to computing the weather of the next 10,000 years (for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the design of their waste depository at Yucca Mountain Nevada). He also manages the Arizona Thunderstorm Chase Project, an effort between ASU and the National Weather Service to better forecast and warn about summer monsoon thunderstorms, and is an editor of the popular-based weather magazine Weatherwise. Currently he is working with the World Meteorological Organization to develop a global database of extreme weather records.