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2006
 CIRES Fellow Anne Sheehan is one of 14 faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder to be awarded a fellowship for 2006-07 by the University's Council on Research and Creative Work. Awards are based in part on the "likelihood the research will contribute to academia and society," and recipients are recognized for excellence in scholarly and creative work.
Roger Barry, Director of CIRES' National Snow and Ice Data Center, was awarded the prestigious 2006 Goldthwait Polar Medal in recognition of his outstanding contributions to polar research.
CU's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and its founding director, Roger A. Pielke Jr., will be awarded a prestigious Eduard Brückner Prize Oct. 9 at the German Climate Conference in Munich, Germany.
CIRES Fellow Susan Solomon has been awarded the prestigious Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society at its annual conference in Melbourne, Australia. The award, the highest honor of the Geochemical Society, recognizes Solomon for her outstanding achievements in research regarding the Earth's ozone layer and climate.
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 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awareded an international UV Monitoring Team, including CIRES scientist Patrick Disterhoft, a prestigious Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award. The UV Monitoring Team won the award for "leadership and teamwork in collecting and analyzing ground-level UV radiation data." The Award recognizes "exceptional leadership, personal dedication, and technical achievements in protecting the Earth’s stratospheric ozone layer." Since 1990, it has been presented to 495 individuals, organizations and teams from 40 countries.
CIRES researchers won two outstanding paper awards from NOAA. The awards, for 2005, went to Dale Hurst, George Grell, and Tatiana Smirnova. In the climate category, Hurst won the award as lead author on a paper titled "Emissions of ozone-depleting substances in Russia during 2001," which appeared in the Journal of Geophysical Research in 2004. This landmark work represents the only emission study of ozone depleting substances inside the former Soviet Union and Russia. The paper, which will be cited in the 2006 WMO Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, provides policy makers with another method to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from direct observations. Grell and Smirnova were co-authors of the paper, "An Hourly Assimilation–Forecast Cycle: The RUC," which appeared in the Monthly Weather Review and won in the weather category.
CIRES Fellow Susan Solomon has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Royal Society of Chemistry is the leading organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. Solomon was one of 35 scientists worldwide admitted as Fellows this year.
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CIRES Fellow John Wahr is the American Geophysical Union's 2006 Charles A. Whitten Medalist. The medal is awarded to an individual who has made outstanding achievement in research on the form and dynamics of the Earth and planets.
 CIRES Visiting Fellow Michael Tjernström was recognized at the 86th AMS Annual Meeting for "exceptionally thorough and timely reviews of manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Applied Meteorology."
CIRES Fellow Susan Solomon, whose pioneering work in identifying the mechanism that produces the Antarctic ozone hole, was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
Mark Serreze and Roger Barry of CIRES' National Snow and Ice Data Center won an award for Best Book of 2005 from the Atmospheric Science Librarians International for their book "The Arctic Climate System."
 CIRES Director Konrad Steffen presented "Changes in the Arctic Ice Cover, the Greenland Ice Sheet, and Surrounding Oceans" as part of Western Washington University's Distinguished Lecture Series. Past presenters in the Series include Edward Albee, Maya Angelou, Freeman Dyson, Jane Goodall, and Coretta Scott King.
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