Flagstaff NWS getting Alaskan guy

(Edited 12DEC08)I was reading the Anchorage NWS website on 12DEC and stumbled onto a note about one of their staff switching down to the Flagstaff NWS office.

Here is the snippet they wrote about him:

By Renee Wise
Dave Vonderheide, HMT at WFO Anchorage, will be transferring to Flagstaff, AZ in December. Dave has been a part of the Alaska Region since 1990. He worked at WSO St. Paul and WSO Yakutat in the early 1990s. While in Yakutat, Dave built a two mile long foot trail from the Dangerous River road to reach the base of the mountains overlooking Harlequin Lake. This took two summers working on the trail on days off. The trail runs through Tongass National Forest and Russell Fjord Wilderness. The National Forest Service named the trail the Von der Heydt Trail, a misspelling Dave never had corrected.
At the Anchorage WFO, Dave became very involved in the climate program. He studied temperature microclimate patterns across the city, especially those occurring on clear nights. In early 1998, Dave was featured in a Daily News article documenting for the first time the differences in temperature across the city. During the deep cold spell of January 1999, he measured a minimum temperature of -45 degrees F in east Anchorage. Because of his enthusiasm for measuring this effect he was given the nickname “cold pocket hunter”.
Through the years, Dave has been an active member of the American Meteorological Society, National Weather Association, Mount Washington Observatory, American Birding Association, Anchorage Audubon Society, Alaska Geology Society, and the Geological Society of America. His input and enthusiasm will be sorely missed. We wish you all the best in Flagstaff, Dave!

Here's a link to the newsletter that describes him. Sounds like he is going to be a breath of fresh air for Flagstaff! I can hardly wait to see his signatures on the AFD's!