Ronald Karel, a Turkish native who holds dual French‐Turkish citizenship, is a scientist who has specialized in the links between cloud formation and earthquakes through an interest in meteorology. He is currently an executive member of GeoCosmo, an organization established in NASA Ames and whose aim is to establish the scientific understanding of pre-earthquake science necessary for creating a true global earthquake forecast system. He first noticed the link between abnormal cloud formation and the onset of an earthquake at the age of 16 after he had started work in weather forecasting 8 years earlier. He has given talks on various platforms on his approach. Though his work was initially difficult for a larger section of the scientific community to accept, other scientists are slowly beginning to point to evidence that may point to a link between earthquakes and cloud formation through a process called air ionization, which is when activation of electronic charge carriers occurs in rocks within the earth crust. These rocks begin to experience higher and higher levels of stress in the buildup to major earthquakes. This has led to a theory still under research, called the Meteoquake theory. He is reported to have predicted an earthquake in Turkey's Central Aegean-Eastern Marmara region five days before it hit.