Everette Joseph joined NSF NCAR as director in 2019. Prior to his time at NSF NCAR, he was director of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where he co-led the New York State Mesonet for advanced weather detection and the New York State Center of Excellence for the Weather Enterprise.

He has served as principal or co-principal investigator on research grants totaling over $90 million from agencies including NSF, NOAA, NASA, and the Army High Performance Computing Research Center.

Joseph joined the UCAR Board of Trustees in 2011, where he was elected vice chair in 2015 and chair in 2017. He has been a member of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine since 2014. He has also served on the Steering Committee of the NASEM Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from space; the NOAA Science Advisory Board; and the American Meteorological Society Commission on the Weather, Water and Climate Enterprise.

Prior to his position at the University at Albany, Joseph served as director of the Howard University Program in Atmospheric Sciences, director of the Howard University Beltsville Center for Climate System Observations, and deputy director of the NOAA Center for Atmospheric Science at Howard University.

Joseph has supervised close to 20 Ph.D. students and mentored numerous undergraduate students.

He earned his Ph.D. in physics with an emphasis on atmospheric science from the University at Albany.