{"id":30056,"date":"2026-05-28T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=30056"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:17:13","slug":"bowden-named-sco-director-and-state-climatologist-of-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/05\/bowden-named-sco-director-and-state-climatologist-of-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowden Named SCO Director and State Climatologist of North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am happy to introduce the new State Climatologist for North Carolina,  Dr. Jared Bowden, who started as the director of the North Carolina State Climate Office on May 1. He brings a wealth of information and experience to the position and I hope those of you who are in North Carolina will take advantage of his expertise as well as that of their entire group of applied climatologists. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/blog\/2026\/05\/bowden-named-sco-director-and-state-climatologist\/\">https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/blog\/2026\/05\/bowden-named-sco-director-and-state-climatologist\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/05\/image-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/05\/image-5.png\" alt=\"Dr. Jared Bowden, new North Carolina State Climatologist\" class=\"wp-image-30057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/05\/image-5.png 950w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/05\/image-5-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/05\/image-5-768x428.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to introduce the new State Climatologist for North Carolina, Dr. Jared Bowden, who started as the director of the North Carolina State Climate Office on May 1. He brings a wealth of information and experience to the position and I hope those of you who are in North Carolina will take advantage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":30057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30058,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056\/revisions\/30058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}