96th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards

Sunday, 10 January 2016 Elected Fellows 2

Jeffrey Anderson Linnea M. Avallone After a postdoc at NCEP’s Linnea Avallone is a chemist Analysis Center, specializing in the development Jeffrey Anderson spent the of instrumentation for next decade at NOAA’s measuring atmospheric trace GFDL building atmospheric gases. She has participated in models, developing software more than 20 field campaigns infrastructure for climate to investigate ozone chemistry, system models, and exploring the impact of rocket emissions, ensemble prediction. Since and cirrus formation. Dr. 2001 he has been a scientist at Avallone has worked on several NCAR, leading development of initiatives to foster inclusivity the Data Assimilation Research Testbed, a community software and diversity in science. She is manager of NSF’s Lower facility for ensemble data assimilation. He has developed a Observing Facilities and serves on interagency number of algorithms that facilitate high-quality ensemble data groups for research aviation and Earth observation. assimilation for geophysical problems. Elected Fellows 3

David C. Bader Lidia Cucurull Dave Bader is the Climate Lidia Cucurull received her Program Leader at Lawrence Ph.D. in Physics on the Use Livermore National Laboratory. of Global Navigation Satellite He has been a researcher Systems in Numerical Weather and project leader at three Prediction. Since then, she has Department of Energy (DOE) worked at UCAR, NASA, and Laboratories and has assisted NOAA. She has won several DOE Office of Science national awards, including the leadership in program UCAR Outstanding Scientific development, including and Technology Advancement serving as Advisor to the Award and the NOAA David Office of Science Director. Bader has held memberships on Johnson Award. She currently leads the Global Observing the AMS Applied Committee and Board on Data Systems Analysis (GOSA) Group within the NOAA ESRL Stewardship. He received his Ph.D. from Colorado State Global Systems Division and is the NOAA Program Scientist University in 1985. for the COSMIC-2 mission. Elected Fellows 4

Christopher A. Davis Rong Fu Chris Davis received his Ph.D. Rong Fu is a professor in the in from MIT in Department of Geological 1990. After a fellowship in Sciences, the University of the NCAR Advanced Study at Austin. She studies the Program (ASP), he became an mechanisms that control rainfall NCAR Scientist and later the seasonality and variability over ASP Director. He now directs the Americans with focus on the Mesoscale and Microscale the role of land–atmospheric Meteorology Laboratory interaction. She has developed (MMM) of NCAR. Chris has a drought early warning for the published more than 100 peer- U.S. Great Plains with water reviewed papers in the areas of cyclone dynamics, mesoscale resource managers. Her earlier research addresses tropical convective systems, orographic flows, forecast verification and its transport of water vapor and pollutants over techniques, and tropical cyclones. the global tropics and Asian monsoon–Tibetan Plateau. Elected Fellows 5

Henry E. Fuelberg Rolando Garcia Henry Fuelberg is a professor Rolando R. Garcia is a Senior of meteorology at Florida State Scientist at the National Center University. He has participated for Atmospheric Research. in 10 NASA airborne field He holds degrees from New projects, performed research York University (Physics) to better forecast lightning, and the University of Miami and worked with the NWS to (). His improve various aspects of research interests include their forecasts. He has been ozone and other minor species, the major professor for 105 atmospheric waves and theses and dissertations and their effects on atmospheric won numerous awards at FSU for outstanding graduate and circulation and chemistry, and numerical modeling of dynamics undergraduate teaching and mentoring. He was the recipient of and chemistry. He has served twice as editor of JAS and was the 2011 AMS Teaching Excellence Award. named Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer for 2010 by the AMS. 6 Elected Fellows

John R. Gyakum Harry H. Hendon John Gyakum is the Canada Harry Hendon is a Senior Steamship Lines Professor Principal Research Scientist and Chair of the Department at the Bureau of Meteorology, of Atmospheric and Oceanic where he has led the Climate Sciences at McGill University. Processes Team since 2001. His Since receiving his Ph.D. from main focus is on developing MIT in 1981, he has published and improving intraseasonal more than 100 refereed papers to seasonal climate forecasts and has supervised more than using coupled climate models. 50 graduate students. His He studied Meteorology as current research interests focus an undergraduate at UCLA on Arctic airmass formation, extreme freezing events, and and received a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at the University oceanic cyclogenesis processes. He is a Fellow of the Canadian of Washington in 1985. He previously spent 13 years at the Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Climate Diagnostics Center in Boulder. Elected Fellows 7

Albert A.M. Holtslag Anthony Illingworth Albert A.M. (Bert) Holtslag Anthony Illingworth obtained is a Senior Professor of his Ph.D. at Cambridge Meteorology at Wageningen University in 1972 studying University, the Netherlands. lightning. While at the His expertise is on atmospheric University of Manchester, boundary layers; land– he was converted to radar atmosphere interactions; meteorology by a chance visit and parameterization studies to Chilbolton on 6 July 1983, for weather, air quality, and where was able to steer the climate. He also cochairs 25m dish and observe values the GEWEX Atmospheric of differential reflectivity of Boundary Layer Study (GABLS). In the past he was affiliated 8.3dB. Since 1993 he has been at the University or Reading with Utrecht University, the National Center for Atmospheric using polarisation radar to improve rainfall estimates. He is lead Research (NCAR) in Boulder, and the Royal Netherlands European scientist on the EarthCARE satellite to be launched Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in De Bilt. in 2018. Elected Fellows 8

George Kiladis Sukyoung Lee George Kiladis is a research Sukyoung Lee is a professor meteorologist at the Physical of Meteorology at The Sciences Division of the Pennsylvania State University. NOAA Earth System Research Much of her research focus Laboratory. His work is has been to understand the focused on the dynamics of general circulation of the the tropical atmosphere and atmosphere. Her research , through comparisons of topics include atmospheric observations with theory and zonal jets, storm tracks, models. His interests include planetary-scale overturning equatorial waves, tropical– circulations, tropical waves, extratropical interaction, and the coupling between convection and troposphere–stratosphere exchange. From a theoretical and large-scale circulations. Dr. Kiladis has served on several perspective, she has also performed Arctic climate research AMS Committees and was also an editor of the Journal of the since 2011. She is currently serving as an editor of the Journal Atmospheric Sciences. of the Atmospheric Sciences. Elected Fellows 9

Xu Liang Norman G. Loeb Xu Liang is a William Kepler Dr. Norman G. Loeb is a Whiteford Professor at the Physical Scientist in the University of Pittsburgh, Science Directorate at NASA Pittsburgh. Her research Langley Research Center. He interests include surface is the Principal Investigator ; land surface of NASA’s and the model development; data Earth’s Radiant Energy System assimilation; data analytics; (CERES) project, which and integrated data and model observes Earth’s radiation system development through budget from space. Dr. Loeb building cyberinfrastructure, has over 110 peer-reviewed sensors, and wireless sensor networks for the hydrological publications aimed at better understanding climate variability sciences. She received a Ph.D. in hydrology from the University and change, Earth’s energy budget, clouds, and aerosols. He of Washington and completed postdoctoral work at Princeton received his Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. University. Xu is the recipient of the 2014 Carnegie Science Environmental Award. 10 Elected Fellows

James A. Moore Vernon R. Morris James A. Moore, a 30+ year Dr. Morris is a Professor in veteran Project Manager the Department of Chemistry with the National Center for and jointly appointed in Atmospheric Research, has Atmospheric Sciences and managed and participated in Environmental Engineering some of the most significant at Howard University. He is atmospheric science field the Program Director of the projects of recent decades. Atmospheric Sciences and He has worked with the top Director of the NOAA Center atmospheric scientists in the for Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. world to design and conduct Morris’ research activities observational programs to better understand our weather and include field measurements of aerosols and trace gases, climate. He has provided data management support to NSF laboratory studies of aerosol chemistry and microphysics, and Arctic scientists and projects for the last two decades. environmental chemistry. Dr. Morris is the proud father of three daughters and the favorite uncle of six nieces and nephews. Elected Fellows 11

Barry Lee Myers Bette L. Otto-Bliesner Barry Lee Myers is CEO of Bette Otto-Bliesner is a Senior AccuWeather, Inc. Recognized Scientist at the National as a global expert in public/ Center for Atmospheric private relationships in the Research. She is a nationally weather and weather media and internationally recognized industries, Myers served as leader in integrating climate advisor to three directors of the models and proxy indicators U.S. National Weather Service. to dissect the mechanisms He has been an invited speaker that explain past , at the World Meteorological from the pre-Quaternary and Organization, World Federation glacial–interglacial to the last of Scientists, the Congress, and other venues. He millennium, and address their relevance to future change. She holds a J.D. from Boston University Law School and served on has served on numerous international and national committees, the Graduate faculty of Penn State University. including two IPCC assessment reports. Bette received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Elected Fellows 12

Robert S. Pickart Andrew Pitman Bob Pickart is a senior Andy Pitman is a professor scientist at the Woods Hole in climate science at the Oceanographic Institution. University of New South He began his sea-going career Wales and Director of the in the Gulf Stream and has ARC Centre of Excellence for been moving north ever since. Climate System Science. His Currently he works in both the research extends across climate Pacific and Atlantic sectors modeling, climate change, of the Arctic Ocean studying climate impacts, and land-cover shelf–basin exchange, deep change. He was a lead author water formation and circulation, on the Intergovernmental Panel and air–sea interaction. When not at sea, he enjoys outdoor on Climate Change Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, and activities, especially Nordic skiing. He and his wife Anne have he is a review editor of the Fifth Assessment Report. five children. Elected Fellows 13

Steven Platnick Roger M. Samelson Steven Platnick is Deputy Roger Samelson is a professor Director for in the of Oceanic and Atmospheric Division at the Sciences in the College of NASA Goddard Space Flight Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Center, a position he’s held Sciences at Oregon State since January 2015, and the University. His research focuses NASA Earth Observing System on the physics, dynamics, and Senior Project Scientist (since interaction of the ocean and 2008). His research includes atmosphere, with emphasis theoretical/experimental on the coastal, mesoscale, and studies of cloud and aerosol large-scale regimes and on . He has participated in numerous airborne field simplified models of fundamental processes. He is the author campaign studies and leads the NASA algorithm development of a text on large-scale ocean circulation theory and a former efforts for the MODIS and S-NPP VIIRS cloud optical and editor of the Journal of Physical Oceanography. microphysical products. 14 Elected Fellows

Chris Snyder Kathryn D. Sullivan Snyder is a Senior Scientist Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, at the National Center for Administrator of NOAA, Atmospheric Research, where plays a central role in directing he leads the Data Assimilation work on weather, water, and Section of the Mesoscale climate science and services. and Microscale Meteorology Previously, Dr. Sullivan served Laboratory. He has served on as Director for a center for math AMS conference committees and science education policy and as editor of the Journal at The Ohio State University of the Atmospheric Sciences. and President/CEO of a leading He is a partially reformed science museum. She was one atmospheric dynamicist, whose current research interests of the first female astronauts at NASA and the first American include data assimilation, ensemble prediction, quantifying woman to walk in space. She holds a doctorate in geology from systematic errors in weather and climate models, and mesoscale Dalhousie University. dynamics. Elected Fellows 15

J. (Vivek) Vivekanandan Minghua Zhang Vivek’s research is centered Minghua Zhang is professor of on his pioneering effort to Atmospheric Sciences, Dean characterize the microphysics and Director of the School of clouds and of Marine and Atmospheric using remote sensors. He is Sciences, Stony Brook among a handful of researchers University, State University in the international community of New York (SUNY). who mastered the theory, His research is on climate modeling, and observational modeling, cloud–climate aspects of atmospheric feedback processes, and remote sensing. He has made integration of atmospheric significant contributions in applied research and technology field experimental data for the development and evaluation of transfer to the user community. The breadth of his research physical parameterizations in general circulation models. and development includes polarimetric radar, dual-wavelength radar, phased array radar, lidar, and microwave radiometer. THE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CHAPTER THE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING STUDENT 16 OF THE YEAR CHAPTER OF THE YEAR

West Central Florida Ohio University Tampa, Florida Athens, Ohio

For its strong membership programs and active community For its commitment to community service, including hosting an involvement, including educational workshops for teachers and annual symposium open to the public, support of StormFest, becoming a Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador. and outreach to local elementary schools. THE AWARD FOR AN EXCEPTIONAL THE AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED 17 SPECIFIC PREDICTION SCIENCE JOURNALISM IN THE ATMOSPHERIC AND RELATED SCIENCES NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office, Buffalo, New York Ian James Reporter, The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, .

For weaving together science, history, economics, and data analysis to create a comprehensive, compelling, and engaging picture of the prolonged drought in the southwestern United States. Ian James is a reporter who writes about water, climate change, and environmental For unprecedented forecast accuracy, detail, and warning lead issues for The Desert Sun in time for the record-breaking 17–21 November 2014 lake-effect Palm Springs. He is a member snowfall event in western New York. of the newspaper’s investigative team and his work also regularly appears in USA Today. His recent projects include a series about the impacts of groundwater depletion in the United States and other parts of the world. James previously worked as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the Associated Press. 18 THE LOUIS J. BATTAN AUTHOR’S AWARD THE LOUIS J. BATTAN AUTHOR’S AWARD K-12 Adam H. Sobel Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Columbia Emily Morgan University, New York, New York. Author, NSTA Press, Washington, D.C.

For Storm Surge: Hurricane For an engaging, inquiry- Sandy, Our Changing Climate, based book, Next Time You and Extreme Weather of the See a Sunset, which stimulates Past and Future, which makes readers’ sense of wonder accessible the sophisticated as they learn about our science behind Hurricane atmosphere by observing the Sandy, highlighting the critical Sun. connection of severe weather Emily Morgan is the author of prediction to our lives and a the Next Time You See nonfic- warming world. tion picture-book series and Adam Sobel is a professor coauthor of the Picture-Perfect at ’s Science Lessons series, both Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and School of Engineering from the NSTA Press. She is a former elementary and middle and Applied Sciences. He studies the dynamics of climate and school science teacher. Emily has a bachelor’s degree in educa- weather phenomena, particularly in the tropics, and directs tion from Wright State University and a master’s in education the Columbia Initiative on Extreme Weather and Climate. In from the University of Dayton. Her work focuses on the integra- recent years Sobel has received awards from the American tion of science and literacy in the elementary grades. Meteorological Society, the AXA Research Fund, and the American Geophysical Union. He is author or coauthor of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles. EDITOR’S AWARD EDITOR’S AWARD 19 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Journal of Hydrometeorology

Mark W. Govett Viviana Maggioni Chief, High Performance Computing Section, NOAA Earth Assistant Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado. For outstanding reviews that For very thorough reviews improved the quality and acces- of several manuscripts, sibility of manuscripts relating including excellent insights on to high-performance computing precipitation error modeling. applications. Viviana Maggioni is an assistant professor of Mark leads the High Perfor- Environmental and Water mance Computing Section at Resources Engineering at NOAA’s Earth System Re- George Mason University. search Laboratory. The group Dr. Maggioni received her supports development, porting, Ph.D. degree in Environmental and parallelization of weather Engineering from the prediction models to high-performance computers and con- University of Connecticut in 2012 and her B.S. and M.S. ducts research on new and emerging computing architectures degrees from the Politecnico of Milan, Italy, in 2003 and 2006, including GPU and MIC processors. Mark received his master’s respectively. Her research activity focuses on the analysis degree in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of and validation of Earth observations—including satellite Colorado. He has a background in compiler development and retrievals—for hydrologic applications, stochastic error has created two directive-based Fortran compilers. modeling, and land data assimilation systems. EDITOR’S AWARD 20 EDITOR’S AWARD Journal of Hydrometeorology Weather and Forecasting

W. Troy Baisden Nathan M. Hitchens Senior Scientist, Isotope Biogeosciences, National Isotope Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ball State Centre, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. University, Muncie, Indiana.

For a series of rigorous and For consistently providing detailed reviews on an isotope many in-depth and insightful modeling manuscript, resulting reviews that have maintained in a substantially improved the quality of the journal. paper. Nathan Hitchens is an Troy Baisden started his career assistant professor at Ball with an Earth Sciences degree State University. He received from Dartmouth College, where his Ph.D. from Purdue and he published research on the completed a postdoctoral delivery of trace elements and fellowship through the acidity in snowfall. He earned National Research Council at his Ph.D. in the Department the National Severe Storms of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the Laboratory. His research interests include forecast evaluation University of California, Berkeley, and has worked for the last and verification, hazardous and severe weather, weather and 15 years in New Zealand on isotope techniques to constrain society, and heavy and extreme precipitation. carbon, nitrogen, and water dynamics. EDITOR’S AWARD EDITOR’S AWARD 21 Journal of Climate

Justin J. Wettstein Bruce T. Anderson Assistant Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Earth and Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

For consistently outstanding For frequent and consistently and insightful reviews of high-quality reviews of manuscripts on atmospheric manuscripts on various topics and climate dynamics. in climate dynamics. Justin is an assistant professor Bruce T. Anderson is in the College of Earth, Ocean, a professor in Boston and Atmospheric Sciences University’s Department of at Oregon State University Earth and Environment. He has and also an adjunct associate also been a Visiting Fellow in professor in Large-Scale The Frederick S. Pardee Center Atmospheric Dynamics with for the Study of the Longer- the Geophysical Institute Range Future, a Grantham at the University of Bergen in Norway. Justin’s research is Institute for Climate Change Visiting Fellow, a Royal Society concentrated on the wave–mean flow dynamics of large-scale Visiting Scientist, a National Research Council Fellow, and a atmospheric variability patterns and on their interactions with NOAA Visiting Scientist Fellow. His research interests include other climate system components, including how anthropogenic global and regional climate variability and change, atmosphere forcing projects onto midlatitude jets and storm tracks. and ocean dynamics, and hydrology. EDITOR’S AWARD 22 EDITOR’S AWARD Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Hassan Al-Sakka Andrew Stewart Scientist, Radar and Meteorology, Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Selex ES GmbH, Neuss, Germany. Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California.

For generously agreeing to For providing careful, review a large number of insightful, and constructive manuscripts and returning reviews of several papers for clear reviews promptly. multiple editors. Dr. Hassan Al-Sakka received Andrew Stewart is an assistant his Ph.D. in Radar and professor in the Department Meteorology from University of Atmospheric and Oceanic of Versailles, France, a Masters Sciences at UCLA. His in Technology and Information research explores the physical Systems from University of processes that support the ocean Technology of Compiègne, circulation, particularly around France, and an Engineering the margins of Antarctica and Diploma in Telecommunication and Electronics from Lebanese in the abyssal ocean, via a combination of theoretical analysis University, Lebanon. He currently works at Selex ES GmbH and numerical simulations. Major themes include the dynamics as a scientist in radar and meteorology. Dr. Al-Sakka worked of mesoscale eddies, exchanges of water masses across the as a researcher for four and a half years in the Radar R&D Antarctic shelf break, and ventilation of the abyssal ocean via department at Meteo France. Antarctic Bottom Water production. EDITOR’S AWARD EDITOR’S AWARD 23 Monthly Weather Review Monthly Weather Review (and) Weather and Forecasting

Thomas J. Galarneau Matthew R. Kumjian Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Assistant Professor, Department of Meteorology, , Tucson, Arizona. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

For an impressive ability to For providing timely, deliver a large number of penetrating, and constructive high-quality reviews with short reviews that have ensured the deadlines. publication of high-quality Tom received his Ph.D. in research. atmospheric science in 2010 Matt received his Ph.D. from the University at Albany. in Meteorology from the In August 2010, he began University of Oklahoma in postdoctoral study at NOAA/ 2012. Afterwards, he served as ESRL. In June 2011, he joined an Advanced Study Program NCAR as a project scientist I postdoctoral fellow at NCAR. in the MMM Laboratory. After He has been at Penn State since four years at NCAR, Tom joined the faculty of the University of January 2014, where he uses radar observations and numerical Arizona in August 2015. His research interests are in synoptic– models to study cloud and precipitation microphysics in high- dynamic and mesoscale meteorology, with an emphasis on impact weather events such as severe convective storms and dynamics and prediction of rotating convective systems. winter storms. In addition, Matt is the principal violist in the Nittany Valley Symphony Orchestra. EDITOR’S AWARD 24 EDITOR’S AWARD Journal of Physical Oceanography Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Jonathan Nash Tanya L. Spero Professor, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Research Physical Scientist, Atmospheric Modeling and Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Analysis Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

For contributing a prolific For timely, detailed and number of reviews possessing thought-provoking reviews that substantial physical insight and led to significant manuscript logical clarity across an array improvements. of disciplines. Tanya Spero (formerly Tanya Jonathan Nash is a professor Otte) develops and applies of physical oceanography regional-scale meteorological at Oregon State University, models for operations and Corvallis. He seeks to use novel research. Her current research instruments and analytical focuses on improving regional techniques to understand climate modeling techniques to the dynamics of small-scale examine the impacts of climate physical processes, internal waves, and turbulence, and change on air quality, human health, and ecosystems. She holds to quantify their effects on the overlying flow. His studies degrees from Rutgers and Penn State. A federal government span from deep ocean to coastal internal tides, river plumes, employee for 20 years, Tanya is currently working for the U.S. nonlinear internal waves, small-scale near-surface processes in EPA. She is also the proud Mom of three active boys. the tropics, and high-latitude ice–ocean interactions. EDITOR’S AWARD EDITOR’S AWARD 25 Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Weather, Climate, and Society

Edwin P. Gerber Peter J. Webster Associate Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Sciences, New York University, New York, New York. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

For clear, insightful, and well- For accepting difficult and reasoned reviews on a broad complex assignments and range of topics, from basic fluid helping ensure the scientific dynamics to climate modeling. accuracy of the final papers. Edwin Gerber is an associate Peter J. Webster is a Professor professor at the Courant of Earth and Atmospheric Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the Georgia Sciences at New York Institute of Technology, Atlanta, University. His research focuses Georgia. His main interests are on the dynamics and circulation the atmospheric and oceanic of the atmosphere, with the dynamics of the tropics with a goal of better understanding particular interest in monsoons. the climate system and improving our ability to simulate and During recent years he has worked on developing extended predict it. He is particularly interested in links between natural prediction schemes for intraseasonal variations of the monsoons variability and climate change, and the use of idealized models and hazards in developing countries especially slow-rise floods to connect theory with the real atmosphere. and tropical cyclones. THE SPIROS G. GEOTIS STUDENT PRIZE 26 EDITOR’S AWARD Weather, Climate, and Society Cameron Kleinkort Walker S. Ashley Graduate Research Assistant, Electrical and Computer Associate Professor, Meteorology Program, Department of Engineering Department at Colorado State University, Geography, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois. Fort Collins, Colorado.

For providing an outstandingly For his paper, “3D Shape thorough, specific, and Reconstruction of Snowflakes thoughtful review, ensuring the from Multiple Images, highest scientific standards of Meshing, Dielectric Constant WCAS are upheld. Estimation, Scattering Analysis, Dr. Walker Ashley is an and Validation by Radar atmospheric scientist and Measurements.” physical geographer with Cameron Kleinkort is interests in hazards and societal currently pursuing his M.S. interactions, severe storms, in electrical engineering in and applied meteorology. As a the Electromagnetics Lab at professor in the Meteorology Colorado State University. His Program at Northern Illinois University, he teaches courses in research focuses on the computational scattering characteristics meteorology, climatology, and disaster science. His research of individual snowflakes and their comparison with dual- focuses on quantifying how human exposure contributes to polarization radar. His interests include image processing, weather-related disasters, how urbanization and other land three-dimensional reconstruction techniques, computational uses influence thunderstorm formation, severe thunderstorm electromagnetic scattering, hydrometer modeling, and large data , and weather hazard impacts on transportation processing techniques. systems. 96th Annual Awards banquet

Wednesday, 13 January 2016 THE ROBERT E. HORTON LECTURER IN 28 THE BERNHARD HAURWITZ HYDROLOGY FOR 2016 MEMORIAL LECTURER FOR 2016

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou John C. Marshall Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Joseph T. and Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography , Department Rose S. Ling Chair in Environmental Engineering, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

For outstanding scientific, For seminal contributions programmatic, and educational to atmospheric, oceanic, contributions distinguished and climate dynamics and by their breadth, quality, the creation of innovative sophistication, and creativity, modeling tools and educational advancing the science of resources. hydrometeorology. John Marshall is the Cecil Efi Foufoula-Georgiou is and Ida Green Professor a University of Minnesota of Oceanography in the McKnight Distinguished Department of Earth, Professor and the Joseph T. and Atmospheric and Planetary Rose S. Ling Chair in Civil, Sciences at MIT. He has broad Environmental and Geo- Engineering. Her research focuses interests in climate and the general circulation of the atmosphere on hydrology and geomorphology, with special interest on and . His research is directed at understanding the cause space-time modeling of precipitation and landforms. She is the of the general circulation of the oceans, its interaction with recipient of the John Dalton Medal of EGU, the Hydrological the atmosphere and its role in the global climate and climate Sciences Award of AGU, and Fellow of AGU and AMS. She is change. the President of the Hydrology section of AGU. THE WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURER IN 29 INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES FOR 2016

Venkatachalam Ramaswamy Director, NOAA, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey.

For pioneering scientific achievements that have synthesized atmospheric radiation, physics of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and state-of-the-art Earth system modeling. Venkatachalam (“Ram”) Ramaswamy is Director of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL, Princeton, NJ) since 2008. Ram got his master’s (Physics) from Delhi University (India) and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from State University of New York at Albany, and he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, CO). His research at GFDL focuses on modeling Earth’s climate system and understanding the mechanisms driving climate change and how they impact global-to-regional climate. SPECIAL AWARD 30

Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. Norman, Oklahoma Mobile Development Team

Mike Wolfinbarger, VP Mobile Development Justin Greenfield, Senior Mobile Software Engineer Robb Andrew Young, Senior Software Engineer Stdrovia Blackburn, Mobile Creative Director Ross Kimes, Mobile Developer

For tireless efforts to develop and improve their RadarScope mobile application, enabling widespread access to professional quality weather radar information by meteorologists and the public. Justin created the first version of RadarScope based on software developed at the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. Mike, Justin, and Stdrovia formed Base Velocity, LLC, to further develop RadarScope and market it to a wide audience. Robb joined the team to bring RadarScope to Android. Ross joined in 2012 and has been instrumental Back, left to right: Ross Kimes, Mike Wolfinbarger, Justin Greenfield. in enhancing the user experience and feature set. The team Front, left to right: Stdrovia Blackburn, Robb Young. joined WDT in 2012, where RadarScope is now backed by world-class content, operations, and support teams. THE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE AWARD FOR BROADCAST 31 SCIENCE REPORTING BY A BROADCAST METEOROLOGY METEOROLOGIST Danny Satterfield, CBM Pierce Legeion, CBM Chief Meteorologist, WBOC TV, Salisbury, Maryland. Meteorologist & Digital Journalist—WNCT-TV Greenville, North Carolina.

For raising the scientific For a distinguished career of literacy of his audience serving his viewers as a trusted by clearly explaining the source of weather information regional impacts of climate and as a tireless educator change. of atmospheric and Earth sciences. Pierce graduated from The Pennsylvania State University Dan Satterfield has worked as in 2005. He started his career a broadcast meteorologist for at his hometown TV station, over 35 years. He’s a graduate WNCTV, in West Newton, PA. of the University of Oklahoma Then, in 2012, he went on to with a degree in meteorology, work for WDTV in Clarksburg, and a master’s in Earth science. WV where he served as morning and noon meteorologist and Dan is Chief Meteorologist for WBOC TV in Maryland and reporter for 2½ years. Pierce currently works as the weekend writes about science for the American Geophysical Union and morning meteorologist and digital journalist at WNCT in his 42,000 followers on social media. In 2010 he was a guest of Greenville, NC. His three-part series “Climate Change & WV” the NSF at the South Pole and later witnessed the recovery of is recognized tonight. the NEEM ice core in Greenland. THE HELMUT E. LANDSBERG AWARD 32 THE HENRY T. HARRISON AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS BY A CONSULTING METEOROLOGIST Michael Schatzmann Professor Emeritus, Meteorological Institute, Walter A. Lyons, CCM University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. President, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado.

For a career crossing several For exceptional leadership, sectors of meteorological mentorship, and contributions education and practice, to fundamental knowledge consistently demonstrating of urban boundary layers, innovative solutions, integrity, bridging meteorology and and client focus. engineering with practical Walter A. Lyons, CCM received applications for the urban his B.S. from Saint Louis environment. University (1964) and Ph.D. Dr. Michael Schatzmann from the University of Chicago graduated in 1971 from the (1970). Interests in mesoscale Technical University of processes, atmospheric Hanover and received a Ph.D. electricity, and public outreach were pursued within academia, in 1976 from the University of Karlsruhe. In 1982 he joined private consulting, and broadcasting. Investigations have Hamburg University as a professor of Meteorology. During explored coastal meteorology, air pollution transport, mesoscale several sabbaticals he worked at the Imperial College of modeling, lightning detection networks, and transient luminous London, Cambridge University, Argonne National Laboratory, events above thunderstorms, serving as PI on awards from over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Colorado State three dozen agencies and organizations while conducting 400+ University. He chaired the Meteorological Institute in Hamburg forensic investigations. for many years. He retired 30 September 2011. THE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING THE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING 33 ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOMETEOROLOGY CONTRIBUTION TO THE ADVANCE OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY William J. Massman Meteorologist, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Michael A. Steinberg Station, Fort Collins, Colorado. Senior Vice President, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, Pennsylvania.

For innovative and rigorous For numerous visionary theoretical advances that have innovations and improved the biomicrometeor­ ­ accomplishments in meeting ological measurement and public and industrial needs for modeling of mass and energy weather information. exchange between plants and the atmosphere. Michael Steinberg is AccuWeather Senior Vice William Massman is an President and Emeritus member atmospheric scientist and forest of the Board of Directors, micrometeorologist with the U.S. Forest Service. For his Ph.D. interacting in a wide variety of degree (University of Wisconsin– scientific, tactical, and strategic Madison) he conceived the global atmospheric gravity wave part areas. Mike has specialized of the TWERLE, a Southern Hemisphere balloon experiment. over the past 40 years in severe and disruptive weather After graduating he researched the hydrology of an aerial aquatic events and their impact on public safety, health, logistics, and ecosystem (old-growth Douglas fir canopies) and participated infrastructure. Mike specified and managed the development of in the stratospheric ozone program at NASA Goddard, where he many AccuWeather systems and innovations, including the first also worked on land surface modeling for GCMs. At present he complex operational digital forecast database, the AccuWeather continues researching and modeling the exchange of energy and Global Forecast Engine. trace gases between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere. THE FRANCIS W. REICHELDERFER THE NICHOLAS P. FOFONOFF AWARD 34 AWARD Josh Willis John D. Horel Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Pasadena, California. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

For development and For creative research in leadership of the MesoWest determining the circulation and observational network in heat content of the ocean and support of operations, research, their contribution to sea level and education to improve change. understanding and forecasting Josh Willis received his of mountain meteorology. doctorate in Physical Professor John Horel has Oceanography from the Scripps been a member of the Institution of Oceanography Atmospheric Sciences faculty before coming to NASA’s Jet at the University of Utah since Propulsion Laboratory, where 1986. His research focusses on the observation, analysis, and he continues to study sea level simulation of weather and climate processes in mountainous rise and its causes. He currently serves as the Project Scientist regions. He has coordinated collaboration between University for the Jason missions to measure sea level from space and is of Utah staff and students, National Weather Service personnel, the Principal Investigator on NASA’s new airborne mission, and individuals at many other institutions since the 1990’s to Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG), which will study ocean–ice provide environmental observations for public safety, research, interactions in Greenland. and educational applications. THE CLARENCE LEROY MEISINGER THE HENRY G. HOUGHTON AWARD 35 AWARD Fotini Katopodes Chow Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ankur R. Desai University of California, Berkeley, California. Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

For insightful studies of the For innovative contributions atmospheric boundary layer toward improving the and flows over complex terrain observation and modeling using large-eddy simulation. of biosphere–atmosphere Tina’s current research interests exchanges across a range of are in performing large-eddy spatial and temporal scales. simulations of atmospheric Ankur Desai lives in Madison boundary layer flows, with with his wife and three a focus on the development daughters. He teaches and and testing of new turbulence studies biosphere–atmosphere models and improved boundary interactions at the University of conditions. She and her students Wisconsin. His lab addresses have worked on applications to mountain meteorology, urban roles of spatial and temporal scales in these interactions using dispersion, wind energy, and land–atmosphere coupling, among eddy covariance flux towers and land surface model data others. Tina received a B.S. in Engineering Sciences from assimilation. Ankur is honored to receive this award and hopes Harvard University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and to not meet the same fate of disappearing in a hot air balloon as Environmental Engineering from . Dr. Meisinger. THE JOANNE SIMPSON MENTORSHIP THE KENNETH C. SPENGLER AWARD 36 AWARD Paul A. Pisano Ada R. Monzón, CBM Team Leader, Federal Highway Administration, Meteorologist, Univision Radio, WKAQ 580 AM, Washington, D.C. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

For selfless, dedicated For working strategically mentoring of Latino students and collaboratively to raise and early career professionals, awareness of weather’s impact exemplary commitment to on surface transportation and STEM education, and inspiring guiding the development of a new generation of Puerto tools to enhance public safety. Rican scientists. Mr. Paul Pisano is the Team Ada Monzón is the first female Leader of the Road Weather meteorologist from Puerto and Work Zone Management Rico, AMS Fellow and CBM, Team in the Federal Highway and the Founder/President of Administration (FHWA), Office the Board of Directors of the of Transportation Operations. EcoExploratorio: Science Museum of Puerto Rico. Currently, she Mr. Pisano has worked for the FHWA for over 30 years, and is the meteorologist for Univision Radio (WKAQ 580 am) and in his current capacity he is responsible for two programs: the lenteviral.com. Her professional career began as Forecaster in program that addresses the effects of weather on transportation NOAA NWS WSFO San Juan in 1989, and later she became Chief safety and operations, and the program that seeks to improve Meteorologist of Univision P.R. She is dedicated to producing transportation safety and mobility in and around work zones. STEM and disaster mitigation educational campaigns and social media, as well as production of science exhibitions for the museum. THE CHARLES E. ANDERSON AWARD THE CLEVELAND ABBE AWARD 37 FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO José Delores Fuentes ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Professor, Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Gordon A. McBean Professor Emeritus, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.

For outstanding, sustained For exceptional service to the efforts to promote diversity meteorological community in the atmospheric and through leadership of national environmental sciences through and international programs education, research, and aimed at advancing the community service. atmospheric and related Jose D. Fuentes is a sciences and their application. professor in the Department Gordon McBean is now of Meteorology at The President, International Council Pennsylvania State University. for Science and Professor He received his graduate Emeritus at Western University, degrees in micrometeorology Canada. He was earlier a from the University of Guelph, Canada, and his bachelor of professor at the University of British Columbia. He was a weather science from Millersville University, Pennsylvania. Fuentes forecaster, leading researcher on atmosphere–ocean systems, and has made contributions to the promotion of diversity in the Chair of the World Climate Research Program (1988–94) and atmospheric and environmental sciences. His research focuses Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (2006–11). He was Assistant on the understanding of the processes controlling emissions, Deputy Minister, Meteorological Service of Environment Canada, atmospheric transport, and chemistry of reactive gases produced and member, WMO Executive Council (1994–2000). He is a by the biosphere. Member, Order of Canada, and Fellow, AMS, RSC, and AGU. THE EDWARD N. LORENZ THE CHARLES FRANKLIN BROOKS 38 TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD AWARD

Jonathan E. Martin James F. Kimpel, CCM Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Scientist Emeritus, NOAA/NSSL/OU, Norman, Oklahoma. University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

For outstanding teaching and For decades of faithful service mentoring that combine boundless and enlightened leadership in enthusiasm with consummate the Society, guiding it to remain skill to educate and inspire a vigorous, relevant, and focused generation of undergraduate and on the future. graduate students. James (Jeff) Kimpel became a Professor Jonathan Martin meteorologist while serving in joined the Wisconsin faculty the U.S. Air Force including in 1994 after completing his a tour in Vietnam (Bronze Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences Star). He earned a Ph.D. at at the University of Washington. the University of Wisconsin He is a native of Peabody, MA, and a graduate of St. Louis before joining the faculty at the University where interactions with a number of inspirational University of Oklahoma. He served as Department Chair, Dean, faculty encouraged his pursuit of an academic life. His research and Provost before joining NOAA as Director of the National expertise is in midlatitude weather systems and he has authored Severe Storms Laboratory. He is a Fellow, CCM, and Past over 50 scientific papers as well as a leading textbook on President of the AMS where he led several initiatives including midlatitude atmospheric dynamics. the Ethics and Societal Impacts Committees. THE HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES MEDAL THE REMOTE SENSING PRIZE 39

Randal D. Koster Richard James Doviak Research Scientist, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Senior Engineer, NOAA/NSSL, National Weather Center, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland. Norman, Oklahoma.

For ground-breaking For fundamental contributions contributions to the to weather radar science and understanding of land– technology, with applications to atmosphere interactions and observations of severe storms their effects on hydroclimatic and tropospheric winds. predictability and prediction. Dr. Dick Doviak received Dr. Koster received his B.S. a BSEE from Rensselaer at Caltech and his M.S. and Polytechnic Institute and a Sc.D. at MIT. He has worked at MSEE and Ph.D. from the NASA/GSFC since 1987 and is University of Pennsylvania. currently with GSFC’s Global He is Senior Engineer at Modeling and Assimilation Office. Most of his tenure at GSFC the National Severe Storms has been dedicated to two research thrusts: (i) the development Laboratory and affiliate professor of Meteorology and EE, of improved treatments of land surface physics for Earth system University of Oklahoma. His short-term affiliations include models, and (ii) the analysis of interactions between the land the University of Kyoto, Australian National University, and atmosphere, using these models. National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Institute for Environmental Disasters—Tsukuba, Indian Institute of Science—Bangalore. He’s an IEEE and AMS Fellow. THE HENRY STOMMEL RESEARCH AWARD THE VERNER E. SUOMI AWARD 40

Robert S. Pickart Steven Platnick Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Deputy Director for Atmospheres, Earth Science Division, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

For pioneering work in the For cutting-edge research exploration of high-latitude and leadership in spaceborne water masses and currents observations of the atmosphere, and for advancing the particularly remote sensing of understanding of their climatic cloud properties. impact. Steven Platnick is Deputy Bob Pickart is a Senior Director for Atmospheres in the Scientist at the Woods Hole Earth Science Division at the Oceanographic Institution. He NASA Goddard Space Flight began his sea-going career in Center, a position he’s held the Gulf Stream and has been since January 2015, and the moving north ever since. Currently he works in both the Pacific NASA Earth Observing System Senior Project Scientist (since and Atlantic sectors of the Arctic Ocean studying shelf–basin 2008). His research includes theoretical/experimental studies exchange, deep water formation and circulation, and air–sea of cloud and aerosol remote sensing. He has participated in interaction. When not at sea, he enjoys outdoor activities, numerous airborne field campaign studies and leads the NASA especially Nordic skiing. He and his wife Anne have five algorithm development efforts for the MODIS and S-NPP children. VIIRS cloud optical and microphysical products. THE SVERDRUP GOLD MEDAL AWARD THE JULE G. CHARNEY AWARD 41

Michael J. McPhaden Wayne H. Schubert Senior Scientist, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Science, Laboratory, Seattle, Washington. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

For fundamental and extensive For landmark advances in contributions to understanding, theoretical understanding of observing, and forecasting convective parameterization, tropical oceanic and marine stratocumulus, balanced atmospheric climate variability. atmospheric flows, and tropical Michael J. McPhaden is a cyclone intensity and structure. NOAA Senior Scientist whose Wayne Schubert joined the research has focused on large- CSU Atmospheric Science scale ocean dynamics, ocean– Faculty in 1973 after atmosphere interactions, and completing his Ph.D. at the ocean’s role in climate. He UCLA. He has taught classes received his Ph.D. in physical in atmospheric dynamics and oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography tropical meteorology. His research areas have included the in 1980 and has published over 250 articles in the refereed parameterization of deep convection, the marine boundary literature. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological layer, simplified models of balanced flows, and the dynamics of Society, the Oceanography Society, and the American Geo­ tropical cyclones. He has had the great pleasure of working with physical Union. He is also a Past President of the American an outstanding group of approximately 30 research colleagues Geophysical Union. and graduate students over the last several decades. THE CARL-GUSTAF ROSSBY 42 RESEARCH MEDAL

Edward J. Zipser Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

For fundamental contributions to tropical meteorology through insightful analysis of observed moist convective systems, and for sustained leadership in airborne field programs. Zipser has been a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah since 1999. Before that, he was a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University. From 1966 to 1989 he was a scientist at NCAR. He has emphasized the involvement of students and junior scientists, often on board research aircraft, in some 35 field campaigns studying the structure of storms over tropical oceans, in midlatitudes, and aimed at validating data from satellites, notably the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. HONORARY MEMBER HONORARY MEMBER 43

Donald R. Johnson Robert Ryan Emeritus professor and research scientist, SSEC, Consultant-CCM/CBM, McLean, Virginia. University of Madison-Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

Donald R. Johnson received Bob Ryan was born loving his Ph.D. in 1965 from the the weather. When he University of Wisconsin- watched freezing rain form Madison, where he taught for on the bill of his Brooklyn 30 years. An expert on global Dodgers cap on his paper circulation and atmospheric route, he knew he wanted energetics, Johnson was to be a meteorologist. But instrumental in developing after Sputnik, learning a pedagogy of Earth system about shift work, knowing science recognized by the AMS he loved to sleep late, he and the AGU. Johnson led decided he would build numerous scientific committees rockets and pursue a career and continues to mentor former students and colleagues. He is in physics. Most of his model rockets blew up, but he a recipient of the Charles Franklin Brooks Award and an AMS made it through Maxwell and met Dr. Bernard Vonnegut at and AAAS Fellow. just the right time in his life. He has been a cloud physics researcher, author, broadcaster, president of the AMS, a devoted spouse, father, and grandfather. He still loves weather, especially snowstorms. HONORARY MEMBER 44

Jagadish Shukla University Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Jagadish Shukla is a University Professor at George Mason University (GMU). His research interests include weather and climate predictability, monsoon dynamics, land-climate interactions and deforestation. He is a fellow of AMS, AGU, and India Met Soc. (IMS). He received Walker Gold Medal from IMS; Rossby Medal from AMS; International Meteorological Organization Prize from WMO, and Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal of NASA. He is author/co-author of 200 scientific papers, and Ph.D. advisor to 20 students. He has contributed to a large number of national and international weather and climate research programs. He has helped in the establishment of weather and climate research institutions in India, Italy, Korea and Brazil. In the US he is the founding director of COLA, and founded AOES Department, and Climate Dynamics Ph.D. program at GMU. He has also established Gandhi College in his native village in India for education of girls.