Meteorology Expert Witnesses in British Columbia

Meteorology - Past weather reconstruction, all weather related accidents, certified weather records and reports, weather graphics, expert testimony, slip and fall.

Certified Consulting Meteorologist. President and Chief Meteorologist, over 40 years experience providing warnings, general forecasts, weather analysis, reports, and studies to commercial users. Tom, an Aurora, IL native is a degreed meteorologist and has been with Murray and Trettel and Weather Command since 1975. Tom has more than 45 years of experience in the field of meteorology with more than 30 years in positions of management. In 1987, he was named President of the Operational Forecast Division. In 1991, he was named Executive Vice President of the Company and in 2001 he became the President and CEO. In addition to his administrative responsibilities as President, Tom earned the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM) designation, earning CCM # 661 in 2010. He provides expert testimony and reports for a variety of legal cases. Tom is also the CIO of the company handling all aspects of information technology, computer systems and appl...

Hydrology, Meteorology - Flooding, Road Motor Vehicle Accidents, Ocean Flooding, Bridge/Pipe Hydraulics, Forensic Flood Damage Assessment, Agricultural Drainage, Mine Tailings Pond Failures, Dam Failure, Land Drainage, Drowning Assessment, Stormwater Modelling, Flood Risk Assessment, Dams and Reservoirs, Levee Failure

I am the founder and President of LaCas Consultants Inc. (LCI) since 1991, a hydrology and hydrotechnical consulting engineering company located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I have over three decades of hydrotechnical engineering experience specializing in the modeling of surface water resource systems, forensic hydrology and hydraulics, and alternative flood control mitigation. He has been qualified as an expert witness in the Supreme Court of Canada and has experience testifying as an expert witness. In 2019, I received the Certificate of Fellowship (FEC) from Engineers Canada in honour of exceptional contributions to the engineering profession in Canada. Since 2002, I have been a technical reviewer for the Engineers & Geoscientists, of British Columbia carrying out confidential reviews of Professional Engineers for standard practice review and for technical support for potential disciplinary action by the association. As a former Toastmaster and enjoy public speaking...