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| Four Decades of Achievement |
2002Kenneth Aikin and Erik Richard received a Group Achievement Award from NASA for the Fourth Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX-4) Science Team.
CIRES Researchers Steven S. Brown and Thomas M. Hamill were named winners of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The National Science Foundation's PECASE program recognizes "outstanding scientists and engineers who, early in their careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of knowledge. This Presidential Award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers." Brown, of the NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, was cited for developing a technique, cavity ring-down spectroscopy, and an instrument to measure elusive atmospheric chemicals, including some that influence the stratospheric ozone layer and the production of ozone pollution in the lower atmosphere. Hamill, a meteorologist with the NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, was recognized for research in understanding what causes errors in weather forecasts. Hamill also won a 2002 Editor's Award, Monthly Weather Review. For more information, see Scientists Win Presidential Awards. Lee Church received a Certificate of Appreciation from the NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL). Steven Clifford won a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award. |
Mihail Codrescu and Geoff Dutton received 2002 CIRES Outstanding Performance Awards. Rudolph Dichtl was recognized by the American Registry of Outstanding Professionals and the American Men and Women of Science.
Oliver Frauenfeld was awarded a Dupont Fellowship by the University of Virginia. Oleg Godin received ETL (NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory) Outstanding Seminar Award. John Holloway, Donna Sueper, Greg Frost, Gerhardt Hübler, and Fred Fehsenfeld received a NOAA Outstanding Scientific Paper Award for "Observations of Ozone Formation in Power Plant Plumes and Implications for Ozone Control Strategies," Science, Vol 292, pp. 719-723, 2001. Ryerson, T.B., M. Trainer, J.S. Holloway, D.D. Parrish, L.G. Huey, D.T. Sueper, G.J. Frost, S.G. Donnelly, S. Schauffler, E.L. Atlas, W.C. Kuster, P.D. Goldan, G. Hübler, J.F. Meagher, and F.C. Fehsenfeld. 2001." Shaleen Jain took Honorable Mention in the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR) PhD Dissertation Award Competition. Xingbao Jing received an award of special recognition for contributions to AWIPS Build 5 (1999-2002) by the NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory. Michael Kay was an adjunct recipient of a Department of Commerce Silver Medal award for "development of the first highly accurate and accessible estimates of threats from tornadoes, windstorms, and large hail anywhere in the U.S." Marian Klein received an Outstanding Performance Award from NOAA/ETL for extensive service to NOAA in the development and testing of new airborne hydrological imaging capabilities. Bobbie Klein, managing director of CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research [ About the Center ] received the 2002 Harold D. Lasswell Prize, awarded annually for the best dissertation in the field of public policy, for a chapter in "Finding Common Ground: Governance and Natural Resources in the American West."
Mark McCaffrey was a finalist in the 2002 Pirelli International Award for Environmental Education for Climate Timeline Information Tool, a former CIRES Innovative Research Program award winner. Climate TimeLine has also been cited for excellence in science education by the NSTA SciLinks program, Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, and GEsource, the geography and environment hub the RDN, a collaboration of over seventy educational and research organisations, including the Natural History Museum and the British Library. |
James Miller was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Fellowship. The Communications Team at CIRES National Snow and Ice Data Center [ About NSIDC ] won a SciLinks Award for All About Snow and contributed to the Earth Observatory, which won a Sixth Annual Webby Awards People's Voice Award Winner for Science and a Scientific American Sci-Tech Web Award.
Prashant Sardeshmukh and Gilbert Compo received an outstanding scientific paper award from NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research for "Sardeshmukh, P. D., G. P. Compo, and C. Penland, 2000: Changes of probability associated with El Nino, J. Climate, 13, 4268-4286." Beth Sigren and the NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) won the FSL Web Award for Best Product for the Real Time Verification System for Forecast Quality.
Robert Stone was awarded Best Poster at the 2002 Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory Annual Meeting. Holger Voemel won a NOAA Outstanding Scientific Paper award for "Oltmans, S. J., H. Vömel, D. J. Hofmann, K. H. Rosenlof, and D. Kley, The increase in stratospheric water vapor from balloonborne frost-point hygrometer measurements at Washington D.C., and Boulder, Colorado, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 3453-3456, 2000." Ed Westwater was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Receiving recognition in the form of CIRES Career Track Promotions in 2002 were:
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The number of Fellows elected each year is limited to no more than 0.1 percent of the total membership of AGU. Bilham also was selected by the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Consortium (IRIS) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA) to be one of two presenters chosen for the inaugural year of the IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lectures Series.
Fred Fehsenfeld
Catherine Smith was named NOAA Research Partner of the Month for April 2002.