George Millward, geospace model transition

in NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, won for his uncommon scientific creativity and resourcefulness in transitioning an academic geospace model (from the University of Michigan) into operations. This model serves NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) forecasters and stakeholders, including power grid operators.

Millward’s successful efforts involved developing software tools for the transition, innovating new ways to operate the model and visualize output, and working through political and administrative challenges encountered along the way. The results of his work will enable continuous, minute-by-minute, short-term forecasts of geospace conditions that are useful for both space weather operations and for the broader scientific enterprise, his nominators wrote.