Tamitha Skov is a space weather physicist, researcher and public speaker based in Los Angeles. She is also referred to as "Space Weather Woman" in social media, where she forecasts and analyzes space weather processes - in the heliosphere and exosphere, in addition to her conducting the same in traditional media. Skov is presently serving as a research scientist at The Aerospace Corporation and as an adjunct professor of heliophysics and space weather at Millerville University.
Skov's work primarily involves observation and analysis of space weather phenomena like coronal mass ejections, solar flares, and solar particle events and the development of predictive techniques to be able to forecast future events. Her forecasting focuses on minimizing societal impacts of space weather events on the services dependent upon satellite or similar space mediated technologies, like GPS, and also on the services/systems sensitive to geomagnetic fields such as power grid systems, international space station, air traffic systems, amateur radio communications etc While conducting these forecasts mainly on social media, Skov has also appeared on mainstream media like the History Channel, NASA Television, The Weather Channel, TWiT.tv etc discussing her forecasts and the intersection of space weather and atmospheric weather in broadcasting. Skov also has a YouTube channel. In 2021, Skov received the Technical Achievement Award from the Dayton Hamvention for her forecasting work, under her call sign WX6SWW.
