Chief Meteorologist Sunny Wescott specializes in extreme weather events impacting emergency response, supply chain, and critical infrastructure. During her time in the US Air Force as a Lead Meteorologist, Ms. Wescott trained on continental and oceanic weather as the Top Forecaster for her support region and is considered a subject matter expert for multiple climatological events such as drought, subsidence, wildfires, tropical cyclones, and winter storms. Ms. Wescott also graduated top of her class for her degrees in Homeland Security Management, Public Safety Administration, and Atmospheric Sciences. Ms. Wescott focuses on operational forecasting by providing focused impact reports for regions, sites, security, and key interdependencies such as energy and telecommunications before, during, and after disasters.

As the Executive Director for the Geospatial Intelligence Information Sharing and Analysis Center (GEOINT ISAC), Ms. Wescott is responsible for producing actionable intelligence outputs—such as fact sheets, white papers, and map-based risk analyses—to support rapid decision-making for critical infrastructure and supply chain resilience. She manages the integration of multi-source data and collaborative workflows that ensure insights are continuously validated and refined through member engagement. As the public face of the ISAC, Ms. Wescott speaks on emerging threats, best practices, and lessons learned while actively engaging members through webinars, working groups, and advisory calls to build a trusted learning community focused on improving critical infrastructure resilience and emerging threat awareness such as extreme weather, geopolitical shifts, and interdependencies of risk.

Ms. Wescott held multiple roles across the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) such as Operations Team Leader, Geospatial Analyst, Executive Briefer, and as a Chief Meteorologist providing extreme weather support to the 16 critical infrastructure sectors across the nation along with international exercise support and climatological overviews within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Ms. Wescott has produced hundreds of presentations for stakeholders, ranging from interagency partners to various levels of the government, local utilities, tribal entities, venue owners, and supply chain operators. Within the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, Ms. Wescott now holds the role as the Deputy Program Manager for the National Hurricane Program helping communities prepare for hurricane hazards, understand evolving climatological risk, and improving evacuation preparedness applications.