Kelvin Droegemeier could be Donald Trump’s science adviser AP/REX/Shutterstock
More than a year and a half after becoming US president, Donald Trump has finally nominated someone to be the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The position, which previously has always been held by a physicist, could go to meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier, an expert on extreme weather.
Droegemeier is currently vice president for research at the University of Oklahoma, where he has worked since 1985.
The director of the OSTP usually becomes the president’s science advisor. They are formally appointed as “the…
