Heidi Cullen Heidi finished her assignment as a postdoctoral research scientist on a NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction in New York, comes to NCAR with expertise in two distinct areas: history and climate variability. She earned a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern religions and history from Juniata College before going to Columbia University for a bachelor's in engineering and operations research and a Ph.D. in climate variability.
Combining her interests, Heidi has studied historic drought and climate variability in the Middle East as well as the application of forecasts to water resource management in the La Plata Basin of South America. Her doctoral research at Columbia focused in part on the dynamics of the North Atlantic Oscillation as well as its impact on freshwater supplies in the Middle East.
Here's a few other pics of Heidi when she doesn't have the "in studio" glamour shot look going:
Doing the earthy hippy-scientist look (she's the one on the right): 
Here she does the scientific woman look:
A younger Heidi getting ready to take on the evil corporate powers of the world:
The first pix of Cullen is obviously one taken by Weather Channel photogs AFTER the beauty consultants have re-made all of the on-camera female meteorologists. The pix of Cullen with the blue border is shockingly similar to Hilary Clintoon. This picture is probably most closely aligned with Cullen's true personality. Yuck.