Paul Gross Biography
Paul Gross is an Emmy award winning certified Consulting meteorologist working at at WDIV-TV Channel 4, the NBC affiliate station in Detroit, Michigan.
How old is Paul Gross? – Age
Gross was born in Detroit. He has not disclosed his date of birth to the public.
Is Paul Gross married? – Family – Wife
He has been married to Nancy and the couple has two sons. He is a Reform Jewish synagogue.
Paul Gross Education
Paul majored in meteorology at the University of Michigan’s Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science, which has a particularly difficult curriculum due to its location in the esteemed College of Engineering.
What is Paul Gross salary?
His salary is said to be between $ 20,000 – $ 100,000 annually.
Paul Gross Career
Storms terrified him at first, but after his second grade teacher took him to the school library and pointed out a section of books about weather, his fear turned to fascination. Paul became more interested in thunder and lightning as he read more about it, and at the tender age of seven, he announced to his family that he was going to be a weatherman at Channel 4 someday. WDIV meteorologist Mal Sillars chose Paul to be the station’s first ever weather intern during his sophomore year. Bob Warfield, the news director at WDIV, took a chance on Paul in the middle of his senior year and hired him for a part-time, off-camera job.
Later that year, Paul was hired as an on-air weekend meteorologist at Lansing’s WJIM-TV (now WLNS-TV), and two years later, he was hired as a back-up meteorologist at WKBD-Ten TV’s O’Clock News.
Paul was on the air at all three television stations at the same time by 1986, and on two of them on the same day on occasion. Paul became one of the youngest meteorologists ever selected to serve on the American Meteorological Society’s Board of Broadcast Meteorology in 1987, and was named chairman in 1990, owing to his enthusiasm for the subject. However, it is Paul’s science and environmental reporting that has helped to shift the broadcast meteorology paradigm. Paul began pleading with producers to let him work on science stories early in his career. Paul has since researched, written, and produced eight half-hour documentaries for WDIV, in addition to numerous science, historical, and environmental stories. During this time, Paul continued to preach at conferences to his colleagues about the importance of doing more of the same type of work.
After discovering in 1997 that Michigan law did not require public schools to conduct tornado safety drills, Paul made one of his most significant professional achievements. Paul approached a state legislator, who agreed and introduced legislation to require tornado safety drills under state law. Paul testified about the tornado threat in Michigan before the State House and Senate Education Committees, and later joined Governor John Engler when the “Gross Weather Bill” was signed into law.
Paul is a court-qualified meteorology expert who also consults with the legal community in meteorology-related litigation and has testified in nearly four dozen trials since 1986. Paul also pays close attention to the science of global warming and frequently gives talks to share the scientific truth about the planet’s changing climate. He is regarded as one of the nation’s foremost communicators of scientific findings.
Paul Gross Awards
His work began to garner Emmys and other honors, as well as national attention, when his documentary, “Forecast: Overlord,” about the weather’s impact on D-Day in World War II, was deemed historically significant enough to be added to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library’s D-Day archives, the British Meteorological Archives, and the permanent collections of the Muppet Theater. Paul has received nine Emmys from the Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences, as well as a first place award from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters for his live, 45-minute climate change webcast that aired on ClickOnDetroit.com in 2014. He is regarded as one of the country’s foremost communicators of the scientific truth about climate change, free of political bias.