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Chris Kridler is a storm chaser from Florida's Space Coast who travels yearly to Tornado Alley. Her photographs have appeared in several magazines and books, including the covers of The Journal of Meteorology, the book Winderful, and the new edition of Wallace and Hobbs' Atmospheric Science textbook. Chris' video has appeared in several television documentaries, including "National Geographic Explorer" and programs on The Weather Channel, The Learning Channel, the BBC and The History Channel. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, Premiere, Maryland Poetry Review, and a number of newspapers, including Florida Today, where she works as a reporter. She lives with her husband, George, and their storm-chasing dogs, Gracie and Wally.

Here are some of her credits in list form:

Writing etc.

• News articles, features, and book and movie reviews in The Baltimore Sun, The Miami Herald, The Charlotte Observer, Florida Today and several other newspapers
  • Winner of a Bronze in the Land Travel category of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, sponsored by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, 1999
  • Co-winner of 2002 Waldo Proffitt Award for excellence in environmental journalism in Florida
  • Second place, general excellence in science writing, 2003 Florida Press Club awards
  • Writer on Florida Today space reporting team that, for its coverage of the Columbia disaster and its section on the future of human space flight, was key to the newspaper winning a Gannett Gold Medal for 2003; second-place 2003 Best of Gannett awards for spot news and investigative reporting; various quarterly Well Done awards from the company; and first place in Associated Press Managing Editors' online convergence awards
• "My Turn" essay in Newsweek
• Humor in Premiere and bOING bOING
• Cartoons in Indie File
• Poetry in The Maryland Poetry Review, The Charlotte Poetry Review and Face of the Assassin
• Novels ... written but not (yet) published

Hey! You're upside-down! (Photo by George Jenkins)

Photography

My photos have appeared in:
• Cover of Journal of Meteorology (July/August 2004); first-place contest winner
• Cover of Winderful (book from Firenze University Press, 2004)
• Cover of Wallace and Hobbs' Atmospheric Science, Second Edition textbook
• Storm Chasing Handbook, 2nd Edition
• Power Zone Magazine Vol. 9-Issue 1, Going to Extremes (textbook from Thomas Nelson Publishing)
• Spotter's Guide to Weather (book from Usborne Publishing)
• Wild Winds (book from Learning Media)
• Divine Wind: The Hurricane In History, Art, And Science by Kerry A. Emanuel (book from Oxford University Press)
• Weather Guide Calendar
• Hong Kong's Next Magazine
• The Baltimore Sun, Florida Today and other newspapers

Video

A sampling:
• BBC: "Medical Mysteries: Lightning" (2001)
• BBC Worldwide: "Tornado Diary" (1999)
• National Geographic Explorer: "Tornado Hunters" (1998) and "Lightning Strikes" (1998); "National Geographic's Most Amazing Moments II" (2006)
• History Channel: "Nature Tech: Lightning" (2003)
• GRB Productions: "Now See This!" (2002)
• Pioneer Productions/The Learning Channel: "Storm Force: Tornadoes" (1999)
• SurfGuru.com: "Vital Signs" (2001)
• The Weather Channel: "Storm Stories" (2004), spot weather, "Full Force Nature" (2006)
• WSMV-4, Nashville NBC affiliate: tornado footage (1997)