1997-1998

Kenneth Aiken, Geoffrey Dutton, Dale Hurst, Fred Moore, Eric Ray, Pavel Romashkin, and Holger Vömel received the NASA Group Achievement Award for POLARIS Project Team.

Susan Avery was awarded Elizabeth Gee Memorial Lectureship Award. Avery was also appointed Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Rebecca Bendick was recognized for Outstanding Student Paper at the Fall AGU (American Geophysical Union) Meeting.

Roger Bilham was elected to Fellowship in the American Geophysical Union at the Fall Meeting.

Shelley Copley received the Mortar Board Honor Society Outstanding Professor Award.

David Costa received a NOAA Outstanding Performance Award.

Geoffrey Dutton received a NOAA Outstanding Science Papers of the Year award.

Allan Frei was selected as a finalist for the Association of American Geographers 1998 Nystrom Award, awarded for a paper based upon a recent dissertation in geography.

Ru-shan Gao received a NOAA/ERL Outstanding Scientific Paper award as a co-author.

Daniel Gottas received a NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL) Certificate of Recognition for outstanding contributions meeting the data management and analysis needs. Gottas also received a NOAA/ETL/ET7 Team Achievement for CALJET.

John Holloway presented an invited talk to an undergraduate colloquium at Fort Lewis College.

Yong Han received a NOAA/ETL Certificate of Recognition for contributions to the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurements Program.

Patrick Hayes was part of team that received a bronze medal for NOAA/NASA Pathfinder work.

William Hay was Keynote Speaker at both the 6th ECOD Workshop (Sundvolden, Norway) and the 2nd European Paleontological Congress (Vienna, Austria)

Troy Holcombe received Chandler-Misener Award, presented annually to the author of the peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Great Lakes Research judged to be "most notable."

James Lander was recognized for outstanding and long term research contribution by the 7th International Conference on Natural and Man-made Hazards, Crete.

William M. Lewis, Jr. was elected President, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, the leading professional organization for researchers and educators in the field of aquatic science. Also in 1998, the International Society of Limnology honored Lewis with its highest medal, a lifetime achievement award, for his contributions to the study of lakes, ponds, and rivers. Lewis also received the Naumann-Thiemann Medal, from the International Society for Pure and Applied Limnology, Dublin, Ireland.

Brian Mapes received an Editor's Award from the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Richard Marchbanks received NOAA recognition for critical contributions to the NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL).

Leroy Miller received an NSF International Research Fellow Award.

Lev Ostrovsky received an Orson Andersen Fellowship for research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Ostrovsky was also included in the 1998-99 edition of Strathmore's Who's Who and the new editions of Marcius' Who's Who in the World; Who's Who in America; and Who's Who in Science and Engineering, as well as the reference book "Renowned Russians."

Ola Persson received a NOAA Silver Medal Award as lead scientist for CALJET research team.

A.R. Ravishankara was awarded the 1998 Polanyi Medal from the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom.

Karen Rosenlof received the 1998 NOAA/ERL Outstanding Paper Award.

Received NOAA/ETL recognition for outstanding performance
Christoph Senff

Patrick Sheridan received a Letter of Appreciation from editors of Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of Geophysical Research for the quality of his manuscript reviews.

Tatiana Smirnova received a FAA Aviation Weather Research Program award (RUC/MAPS Implementation group).

Theodore Speiser served as a Judge for Best Student Posters, Fall AGU (American Geophysical Union) Meeting.

Paul Sperry and Valery Zavorotny were listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering.

Hartmut Spetzler was awarded a 3-month fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Spetzler was also on of CU faculty honored during Spring Academic Recognition.

David Thompson received an award for one of the top three posters in the Research and Development category at the National Instruments Worldwide Conference on Measurement and Automation.

Annette Varani was awarded a Editor Seat of the AM-1 outreach web site, study section, Earth Observer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

John Wahr was awarded a Vening Meinesz Medal from the Universities of Utrecht and Delft, The Netherlands.

Jeffrey Weil was chosen to serve as Chairman, AMS Committee on the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution.

Allan White received a Department of Commerce Silver Medal, ET7 Division Achievement for CALJET.

Lingling Zhang was recognized by NOAA for work in the Cloud Radar Project.

Receiving recognition in the form of CIRES Career Track Promotions in 1997-1998 were:

Michael Alexander
Wayne Angevine
James Burkholder
Don Hooper
Lev Ostrovsky
Jeffrey Whitaker