Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

2003

Kenneth Aikin, José Jimenez, Fred Moore, Erik Richard, and Margaret Tolbert were recoginzed for their work on the Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers - Florida Area Cirrus Experiment (CRYSTAL-FACE) Science Team. They were awarded a NASA Group Achievement Award for outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the successful CRYSTAL-FACE campaign conducted from Key West, Florida in July 2002.

The "Antarctic Megadunes: Research at the Edge of the Earth" Web site from CIRES' National Snow and Ice Data Center [ About NSIDC ] received a Merit Award from the Society of Technical Communications for for site design, content, and for achieving its purpose for users.

For Eduardo Araujo-Pradere, the STORM model was adopted by NOAA-SEC as an operational product and was included in the global model IRI as the storm-time correction, and in the International Standard Plasmasphere-Ionosphere Model (SPIM) as the storm-time correction.

The Dean of Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder acknowledged Roger Bilham for his gift of several hundred maps of India and Nepal to the University Library system. Many of the maps are extremely rare, including the 1928 inch to the mile map of Mt Everest. Bilham also was named 2003-04 IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturer.

The Climate Timeline Information Tool, a former CIRES Innovative Research Program award winner, was selected by Science Educators SciLinks from NSTA, listed in the ENC's Digital Dozen and featured in NOAA Magazine Online.

The Communications Team at CIRES' National Snow and Ice Data Center [ About NSIDC ] contributed to NASA's Earth Observatory, winner of the Seventh Annual Webby Award and People's Voice Award Winner in the education category.

Rudolph Dichtl of CIRES' National Snow and Ice Data Center [ About NSIDC ] and Vladimir Ostashev were recognized with biographica listings in Who's Who.

Christine Ennis was part of a group that received an honorary NOAA OAR (Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) Outstanding Scientific Publication Award, for the 1998 international WMO/UNEP scientific assessment on the ozone layer and was Coordinating Editor of the report.

Timothy Fuller-Rowell gave invited presentations at the Spring EGS/AGU Conference in Nice, the Fall AGU Conference in San Francisco, the IUGG Conference in Japan, the AIAA Conference in Big Sky, Montana, the CISM Data Assimilation Workshop in Boulder, and at a Coast Guard workshop in Arlington, Virgina.

Alex Goetz was featured in a film about swelling soils research that was titled "Down and Dirty", produced by American Institute of Physics, and aired on 100 independent TV channels.

Daniel Gottas and Allen White, of the to the PACJET Research and Development Team, receieved a NOAA/OAR Bronze Medal Award for the development of a snow-level algorithm for boundary-layer wind profilers which will improve national winter weather forecasts. Gottas also received the NOAA/ETL 2003 Outstanding Performance Award for designing, developing, and maintaining intricate instrumentation operations and data acquisition software and a Web site for real-time data access.

Vijay Gupta was named Memorial Lecturer, Indian Society for Hydraulics Annual Conference, Pune, India.

Jeffrey Hare received a NOAA ETL Award for Outstanding Performance for "major contributions in the development and execution of measurements of air-sea fluxes from NOAA ships." Hare also received the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Outstanding Scientific Paper for 2002 (January 2003): "Parameterization and Micrometeorological Measurements of Air-Sea Gas Transfer" by Fairall, Hare, Edson, and McGillis.

Michael Husler was awarded an SXI Champion medallion on March 11, 2003.

Leslie Hartten of the NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory [ About this Lab ] accepted an invitation to serve a three-year term on the AMS (American Meteorological Society) Board on Women and Minorities, starting at the Annual Meeting in 2003.

José Jimenez received a received an Excellence in Reviewing Award from the ACS Journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Sandra Laursen was recognized with a Certificate of Appreciation from the St. Vrain Valley School District for her support of the Assessment Projects and Essential Benchmarks for Secondary Science.

Brian Mapes was one of three keynote-invited speakers at BMRC Australia's annual workshop on convection. Mapes also was awarded the 2004 Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, one of the highest honors granted by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Melinda Marquis of CIRES' National Snow and Ice Data Center [ About NSIDC ] received Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA Group Achievement Award for her work with the ADEOS-II NASA Ground Network Project Team and the Aqua Mission Team.

Fred Moore received the Best Poster award at the CMDL/NOAA Annual Meeting. Moore also received a NASA Group Achievement Award for his work with the CRYSTAL-FACE Science Team, the SOLVE Science Team, and the POLARIS Project Team.

Andreas Muschinski was a member of program committee for the 10th International Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar (Piura, Peru, May 2003).

Randall Nishiyama gave an interview for a British documentary concerning infrasound, a BBC television interview about infrasonic detection of tornadoes by Tom Heap, and a CBC Vancouver radio interview concerning infrasound and avalanches.

Thomas Painter was awarded Best Paper at the Western Snow Conference for "Incorporating Net Radiation Data into an Index Snowmelt Model in an Alpine Basin," a paper he co-authored.

The paper "Characteristics of the Tropical Tropopause as Revealed by Radiosondes" (Journal of Geophysical Research 106, 7857-7878, 2001, by Dian Seidel, Rebecca Ross, James Angell (NOAA Air Resources Lab), and George Reid (CIRES and NOAA Aeronomy Lab) was awarded an Outstanding Paper Award by NOAA and by CIRES.

Mark Parsons of CIRES' National Snow and Ice Data Center [ About NSIDC ] saw the Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX) named one of NASA's Top Earth Science Accomplishments of 2003. Parsons was also recognized by the International Permafrost Association Council and Executive Committee for creation of the Circumpolar Active-Layer Permafrost System (CAPS).

Steven Peckham received First Place in the air quality forecasting contest at the Environmental Protection Agency's National Air Quality Conference in 2004.

Ola Persson was invited to present a paper at the High-Latitude NWP Workshop Invited, participate in a mini-conference on Arctic change at Lamont-Doherty, and be on AMS Coastal Ocean Environment committee.

Balagi Rajagopalan received the Young Researcher Award from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering.

Akkihebbal R. Ravishankara was named the Centenary Lecturer for the Royal Society of Great Britain for 2003. Ravishankara is the first scientist in atmospheric chemistry named to this position.

Vera Schulte-Pelkum was keynote speaker for the Gordon Research Conference (Interior of the Earth, Mount Holyoke)

Former CIRES Director and Fellow Robert Sievers received the Robert Stearns Award from the University of Colorado Alumni Association. Sievers was selected to receive the award, the highest Alumni recognition for members of the current CU-Boulder faculty and staff, for 2003 by the CU Center for the American West. The award honors exceptional achievement or service in any one, but usually a combination of the following areas: outstanding teaching, extraordinary service to the University, exemplary work with students, significant research and/or off-campus service to the community. Susan Avery won the award in 1999. Sievers also was chosen to jury for the Award of Willard Gibbs Medal, for a three-year term.

Catherine Smith received a NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center [ About CDC ] WAC award for work on a report for Congress on the May 2003 tornado outbreak. The work included preliminary examination of tornado outbreak/climate connections and preparation of figures.

Susan Solomon, CIRES Fellow and NOAA Aeronomy Lab [ About this Lab ] Scientist, received a 2003 Distinguished Presidential Rank Award at a White House ceremony. The award is the most prestigious recognition given to career government senior executives and scientists. Solomon was cited for her scientific contributions, particularly for her leading role in the international effort to discover the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole and her research in evaluating the environmental impacts of newly proposed substitutes for the now-banned ozone-depleting compounds.

Aaron Swanson was an invited ACCESS (Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists) participant.

Vincent Troisi of CIRES' National Snow and Ice Data Center [ About NSIDC ] received a NASA/GSFC Group Achievement Award for the ADEOS-II NASA Ground Network Project Team in recognition of outstanding teamwork.

John Wahr received a 2003 Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing from the American Geophysical Union. Wahr also was awarded a Faculty Fellowship.

Ed R. Westwater received the IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing's Distinguished Achievement Award, which was established to recognize individuals who have made significant technical contributions within the scope of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRS-S), usually over a sustained period. Westwater was cited for "outstanding research in remote sensing of the ocean and atmosphere with emphasis on passive radiometry."

Klaus Wolter of the NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center [ About CDC ] was profiled in a full page article in the Denver Post in June 2003.