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==Origin of the term== Conrad B. Gosset, MS (Meteor), a consulting meteorologist who worked to settle legal claims before trial and who often testified in courtrooms as an expert witness, felt that meteorologists who were providing these services should have a professional name. He introduced the phrase “Forensic Meteorologist” in the mid-1960s, as he discussed in his unpublished keynote speech at the first Conference on Forensic Meteorology, November 5–6, 1976. The conference was held in New Orleans in conjunction with the annual conference of the [[American Meteorological Society]].<ref>program of the Conference on Forensic Meteorology of the American Meteorological Society, November 5–6, 1976 New Orleans, La., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 57, No. 8 (August 1976), pp. 1053-1057.</ref> The first use of the term by ''[[The New York Times]]'' was in reference to Mr. Gosset's work in a 1982 article.<ref>"For Westchester Meteorologists, the Sky's the Limit," Gary Kriss, New York Times, 28 Feb 1982, Section 22 (Westchester Weekly), pp 1, 5.</ref>
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