95th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards Elected Fellows 2

Jennifer Alexander Richard A. Behnke For over 22 years, Colonel Richard Behnke is Head of (Ph.D.) Jennifer Alexander has Geospace in the Division of supported Air Force, Army, and Atmospheric and Geospace NASA air and space operations Sciences at the NSF. Since throughout the United States, its inception in 1995 to Spain, Saudi Arabia and the present, he has served Afghanistan. She has also as chair or co-chair of served on a variety of AMS the Committee for Space committees, to include the Weather, the multi-agency AMS Council and Executive group coordinating federal Committee. Colonel Alexander activities in space weather is currently assigned to the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, research and operations. He has been a pioneer in integrating as Permanent Professor and Department Head, Department space weather into the AMS and serves on the AMS Scientific of Economics and Geosciences. and Technological Activities Commission Space Weather Committee. Elected Fellows 3

Anton Beljaars Cecilia M. Bitz Anton Beljaars received a Cecilia Bitz is a professor in Ph.D. in Physics and worked Atmospheric Sciences at the for 10 years in boundary layer University of Washington, and research in The Netherlands. she is part of the UW Program Then he joined the European on Climate Change. Cecilia’s Centre for Medium-Range research focus is on climate Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, and climate change in the high UK), first as Boundary latitudes, especially involving Layer Meteorologist and the cryosphere. She is currently later as Section Head with working on Arctic sea ice responsibility for the research predictability, the hydroclimate and further development of sub-grid process modelling. His of Antarctica, and climate control of snow depths on sea ice. own research is on the representation of boundary layer, land Cecilia is an active volunteer and science advisor to Polar Bears surface, sub-grid orography, air-sea interaction, hydrological International. cycle, clouds, and numerics in Numerical Weather Prediction Models. Elected Fellows 4

Larry E. Brazil James M. Cantore, CBM Dr. Brazil is the President Jim Cantore, on-camera and CEO of Riverside meteorologist and storm tracker Technology, Inc., where he for , is one provides corporate direction of the most recognized faces in for the development and weather. Known for live reports implementation of decision from severe weather events, support systems for water he has covered every major management. His work has weather event over the last 25 included applications of years. When not in the field, water resources modeling he covers the latest forecast and forecasting for water and weather news on Weather supply, hydropower, and emergency management in more Center Live. Cantore graduated with a bachelor’s degree in than 30 countries. Prior to joining Riverside, he spent 11 years from Lyndon State College. as a Research Hydrologist at the National Weather Service developing components of real-time hydrometeorological forecast systems. Elected Fellows 5

John A. Church Amy C. Clement John Church is a CSIRO Fellow Dr. Amy C. Clement is a with the Centre for Australian professor of Atmospheric Weather and Climate Research. Science at the University of His area of expertise is the Miami’s Rosenstiel School role of the ocean in climate, of Marine and Atmospheric particularly anthropogenic Science. Dr. Clement and her climate change and sea-level research group use computer rise. He is the author of over models of the climate together 130 refereed publications, over with satellite and surface based 80 other reports and co-edited observations to understand three books. He is a Fellow of how the climate changes on the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy timescales ranging from years to millennia. She received a of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from Columbia University and has been a faculty member at the University of Miami since 2001. 6 Elected Fellows

Thomas L. Delworth Qingyun Duan Dr. Thomas Delworth earned Dr. Qingyun Duan is a his Ph.D. from the University professor at College of Global of Wisconsin. He is a Physical Change and Earth System Scientist at GFDL/NOAA in Science in Beijing Normal Princeton, New Jersey, where University in China. He he uses climate models and held scientist positions at observations to study decadal Lawrence Livermore National to centennial scale climate Laboratory and NOAA variability and change. His Hydrology Laboratory. His research foci include the role of research interests include the ocean in the climate system, surface hydrology, development and decadal scale changes in hydroclimate including drought. and calibration of hydrologic models, hydrometeorological He is also a Lecturer at Princeton University in the Atmospheric ensemble forecasting, and uncertainty quantification of large and Oceanic Sciences Program. complex system models. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and Hydrology Editor of BAMS. Elected Fellows 7

Claude Frankignoul James J. Hack Claude Frankignoul is Professor James J. Hack directs Emeritus at the University the National Center for Pierre et Marie Curie in Computational Sciences, a Paris, member of the Institut DOE leadership computing universitaire de France, and complex at Oak Ridge National adjunct scientist at WHOI. Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. Prior to joining UPMC, he in Atmospheric Dynamics from worked at the Max-Planck- Colorado State University Institute für Meteorologie, spending the majority of his Hamburg, and at MIT. Current career at NCAR, serving in research foci include the a variety of roles including ocean response to stochastic atmospheric forcing, the Atlantic Climate and Global Dynamics Division Deputy Director. meridional overturning circulation, and the ocean influence on He remains active on a number of national and international the atmosphere, using theoretical models and statistical analysis advisory and steering committees among which include DOE, of observations and climate models. NOAA, and NSF appointments. Elected Fellows 8

Martin Hoerling Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr. Dr. Martin Hoerling is a Lautenbacher served as meteorologist in NOAA’s Earth Administrator of the National System Research Laboratory Oceanic and Atmospheric in Boulder, Colorado. He Administration (NOAA) from is Co-Editor of the Special 2001-2008 after four decades Supplement to the Bulletin of of Navy service retiring as Vice the American Meteorological Admiral. He serves as CEO Society on Explaining Extreme of GeoOptics, a commercial Events from a Climate weather satellite data service. Perspective. Dr. Hoerling has The Fair Weather report was published over 70 scientific issued on his watch, and papers exploring climate dynamics. These include studies on he remains dedicated to building and maintaining a unified African and Indian monsoons, middle latitude variability linked weather enterprise. He serves on the AMS Weather and Climate to ENSO, causes of extreme weather and climate events, and Enterprise Steering Committee, and Forecast Improvement climate predictability assessments. Group. Elected Fellows 9

Amanda H. Lynch Gloria L. Manney Amanda Lynch is the Director Manney is a Senior Research of the Institute at Brown for Scientist at NorthWest Society and Environment and Research Associates, an a Professor in the Department Adjunct Professor of Physics of Earth, Environmental and at New Mexico Tech, and a Planetary Sciences at Brown co-investigator on NASA’s JPL- University. Lynch has published based Aura Microwave Limb more than 100 articles, policy Sounder project. Her 160+ briefs, book chapters and books peer-reviewed publications in climate and meteorological include landmark papers using modeling and adaptation policy, satellite and meteorological particularly in the polar regions. Presently, Lynch is Chief data to quantify Arctic ozone loss, as well as studies of Editor of the journal of Weather, Climate, and Society, and stratospheric sudden warmings and dynamics and transport in President of the Society of Policy Scientists. relation to the stratospheric polar vortex, upper tropospheric jets, and the tropopause. 10 Elected Fellows

Robert D. Palmer Lorenzo M. Polvani Robert D. Palmer received Polvani has taught at Columbia his doctorate in electrical University for 25 years, for engineering from the University which he has received many of Oklahoma in 1989. Dr. accolades, including the Great Palmer currently holds the Teacher Award from the Society Tommy C. Craighead Chair in of Columbia Graduates. He the School of Meteorology at has published 130 refereed the University of Oklahoma, papers in atmospheric and and serves as the Associate climate dynamics, notably on Vice President for Research. stratospheric variability and on His research interests focus the impact of ozone depletion on the application of advanced radar signal/array processing on the climate system. He is past chair of the AMS Committee techniques to observations of severe weather, particularly formerly known as Waves and Stability, and of the Committee related to phased-array radars and other innovative system on Middle Atmosphere. designs. Elected Fellows 11

Warren L. Qualley Alan Sealls, CBM Warren Qualley is the Senior Sealls is an award-winning Weather Expert for Harris broadcast meteorologist and Corporation. He has 35+ a part-time meteorology years of aviation meteorology professor. He is a past president experience, having worked of the Chicago Chapter of the majority of his career the AMS, and a past chair of as manager of weather the AMS Board of Broadcast services at American Airlines. Meteorology. Alan Sealls has Qualley is the chair of the reached tens of thousands AMS Committee on Open of kids and adults in public Environmental Information presentations promoting Services, chairs the International Air Transport Association’s meteorology. He has produced more than 30 weather videos for Flight Operations Support Task Force, and is active in many kindergarten to college level, used throughout the U.S. other industry groups. Qualley and his wife live in the Washington, DC, area. Elected Fellows 12

Mark C. Serreze Matthias Steiner Mark Serreze is Director of Steiner is a scientific program the National Snow and Ice manager at NCAR’s Research Data Center and Professor of Applications Laboratory. He Geography at the University of is interested in mitigation of Colorado, Boulder. His research avoidable weather impacts has focused largely on Arctic on various sectors based on climate and the environmental creatively drawing upon his changes unfolding in the region. expertise in hydrometeorology, He has authored or co-authored cloud and precipitation physics, over 100 refereed articles and mountain meteorology, radar has played a prominent role in and satellite meteorology, and science communication. Serreze is lead author of the award- aviation weather. Steiner has served AMS as a member of the winning textbook, The Arctic Climate System, which is now in Radar Meteorology Committee and the Aviation, Range, and its second edition. Aerospace Meteorology committees, organizer of conferences, reviewer of countless manuscripts, and facilitator of best student paper awards. Elected Fellows 13

Gregory J. Tripoli D. Randolph Watts Professor Tripoli has published Professor Watts is an over 80 scientific papers since international expert in the beginning his career almost 50 dynamics of energetic ocean years ago with the inspiration current regimes, how they of James Witt while attending transport heat and affect ocean Lakeland High School. His circulation. He developed the research focuses on atmospheric Inverted Echo Sounder with dynamics, thermodynamics Current Meter and Bottom and microphysics on scales Pressure (CPIES), which are ranging from global to micro used to map time-varying scale. Tripoli was the original currents, probing frontal and developer of the FSU Tropical Analysis system, GFDL nested mesoscale processes over a range of space and time scales. He hurricane model, the GFDL ocean analysis system, the CSU has participated in 14 large field programs world-wide, and is cloud-mesoscale and RAMS models, and the UW-NMS model. known for outstanding mentorship and unselfish cooperation in research. 14 Elected Fellows

Frank J. Wentz Jack C. Williams Mr. Wentz is the CEO of Jack Williams helped create Remote Sensing Systems the USA TODAY Weather (RSS), a company specializing page and was its editor when in microwave remote sensing the paper began publication of the Earth. Using microwave in 1982. The USA TODAY observations from over 35 Weather Book, published in satellites, RSS produces 1991, was the first of his seven climate records of atmospheric books. It and Hurricane Watch, temperature/moisture and co-written with Dr. Bob Sheets, sea-surface temperature/winds. won AMS Battan Awards. After These satellite records span retiring from USA TODAY 35 years and contribute significantly to the IPCC Assessment in 2005, Williams wrote the AMS Weather Book, published by Reports. He is an author on over 100 refereed articles and is an the Society in 2009. He’s now a freelance writer focusing on Elected Fellow of AGU and AMS. meteorology. Elected Fellows 15

Fuqing Zhang Renyi Zhang Fuqing Zhang is a professor Renyi Zhang is holder of the in Department of Meteorology Harold J. Haynes Endowed and Department of Statistics Chair and University at Penn State University. He Distinguished Professor in the directs the Penn State center on Departments of Atmospheric Advanced Data Assimilation Sciences and Chemistry at and Predictability Techniques. Texas A&M University. He His research interests include earned a Ph.D. from MIT and atmospheric dynamics and completed postdoctoral work at predictability, data assimilation, Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion tropical cyclones, and gravity Laboratory. Zhang is editor for waves. He has 140+ journal publications. He received the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, served as editor of the AMS Clarence Meisinger Award in 2009 and the Banner Miller Journal of Geophysical Research–Atmospheres, and chaired the Award in 2015. He was elected as a fellow of AMS in 2015. AMS Atmospheric Chemistry Committee. He is also an AGU Fellow. THE Award for Outstanding THE Award for Outstanding 16 Student Chapter of the Year Chapter of the Year

Southwest Student Chapter Blue Ridge Chapter California, Pennsylvania. Blacksburg, Virginia.

For its long-standing educational outreach, its strong, For outreach in raising community awareness about severe multifaceted focus on member education, and exemplary weather, and excellence in career building through a diverse interaction with other local chapters. speaker series and networking opportunities for chapter members. The Award for an Exceptional The Award for Distinguished Science 17 Specific Prediction Journalism in the Atmospheric and Related Sciences

NOAA National Weather Service Doyle Rice Forecast Office, Norman, Oklahoma Weather Reporter, USA TODAY, McLean, Virginia.

For accurate, engaging reporting that brought forward the latest science to inform the public about a wide range of weather and climate topics. Doyle Rice has covered weather and climate for USA TODAY since 2004. He also oversees the newspaper weather page and the online weather section. A former reporter for a weekly newspaper in For detailed, life-saving forecasts provided days through hours , he graduated from Oberlin College (BA) and the leading up to the EF-5 tornado that struck Newcastle, Moore, University of Massachusetts-Boston (MA). Doyle’s most vivid and Oklahoma City on May 20, 2013. weather memories are of snowy Ohio winters in the ‘70s and of Hurricane Bob in New England in 1991. He now lives with his wife and two kids in Silver Spring, Maryland. 18 THE Louis J. Battan Author’s Award Ian Roulstone John Norbury Professor, Department of Mathematics, Supernumary Fellow, Lincoln College, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom University of Surrey, Guildford, England.

For Invisible in the Storm, which illuminates the mathematical foundation of weather prediction with lucid prose that provides a bridge between meteorologists and the public.

Ian Roulstone studied for his John Norbury obtained his Ph.D. DPhil at Oxford, supervised in applied mathematics from by Roger Penrose and Andrew Cambridge University. From Hodges. After 15 years as a 1984 John has held a fellowship research scientist at the UK in applied mathematics at Met Office, Ian joined the Lincoln College, Oxford, and University of Surrey, where he engaged in research at Oxford holds a Chair in Mathematics. University in analytical and In 2013 he published, with numerical methods for the his co-author John Norbury, solution of the equations used in Invisible in the Storm: . the role of mathematics in understanding weather, and has since been actively engaged in public outreach and school liaison. THE Louis J. Battan Author’s 19 Award—K–12

Seymour Simon For Extreme Earth Records, which, by virtue of its dynamic photos and conversational tone, engages kids’ curiosity about record-breaking events as a springboard for explaining science. Seymour Simon, whom the New York Times called “the dean of the [children’s science] field,” has written nearly 300 children’s science books. He has received the AAAS/Subaru Lifetime Achievement Award for his lasting contribution to children’s science literature, and his website, www.SeymourSimon.com, is both a Webby Honoree and one of ALA’s “Great Websites for Kids.” More than 75 books written by Seymour Simon have been designated “Outstanding Science Trade Books K-12” by the National Science Teachers’ Association. EDITOR’S AWARD 20 EDITOR’S AWARD Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Robert J. Kuligowski John W. Nielsen-Gammon Meteorologist, NOAA / NESDIS / Center for Satellite Regents Professor and Texas State Climatologist, Texas A&M Applications and Research (STAR), College Park, Maryland. University, College Station, Texas.

For providing comprehensive, For extraordinary effort and timely reviews that provided thoroughness in evaluating a valuable stylistic and technical wide range of challenging and insights with unusual precision novel studies with versatility and thoughtfulness. and perceptiveness. Bob Kuligowski has been John Nielsen-Gammon at NESDIS since 1999. He received his Ph.D. from the received his B.S. and M.S. Massachusetts Institute of degrees in Meteorology and Technology in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering joined the faculty of Texas (hydrology) from Penn State A&M University a year later. University, and also previously His research interests include worked as an operational weather forecaster. His current synoptic and mesoscale meteorology, data assimilation, air projects include developing the operational rainfall algorithm pollution meteorology, and applied climatology. He has served for the GOES-R series of geostationary satellites and improving as Chair of the AMS Board on Higher Education and President the Ensemble Tropical Rainfall Potential (eTRaP) product for of the International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology. forecasting short-term rainfall from tropical systems. EDITOR’S AWARD EDITOR’S AWARD 21 Journal of Hydrometeorology Weather and Forecasting

Faisal Hossain Craig Schwartz Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Research Meteorologist, National Center for Atmospheric Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Research, Boulder, Colorado.

For numerous detailed, For dedication to maintaining constructive, and timely the journal’s high standards reviews, often submitted well by providing perceptive and before the due date. constructive reviews of many manuscripts spanning a broad Faisal is an associate professor range of topics. at University of Washington where he conducts research Craig joined NCAR’s on satellite remote sensing, Mesoscale and Microscale water management, and Meteorology (MMM) division understanding human impacts in 2009 after completing of hydroclimatology. His his Master’s degree at the research has an underlying University of Oklahoma. His theme of making research innovation relevant for societal research focuses on using various data assimilation techniques applications and technology transfer, particularly in the to improve weather forecast models, with an emphasis on high- developing world. He has served as associate editor for the resolution numerical weather prediction. Journal of Hydrometeorology and he recently edited the water volume of Climate Vulnerability Encyclopedia. EDITOR’S AWARD 22 EDITOR’S AWARD Journal of Climate Journal of Climate

John Fasullo Courtney Schumacher Project Scientist, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado. Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. For timely and thoughtful reviews of a large number of For high-quality reviews that manuscripts. help authors place their work into a broader context. Dr. John Fasullo is a Project Scientist in the Climate and Dr. Courtney Schumacher Global Dynamics Division received her Ph.D. from the at NCAR and a Research University of Washington in Associate at the University 2003 after which she joined the of Colorado. He is actively faculty of the Department of involved in studies aimed Atmospheric Sciences at Texas at understanding climate A&M University. She has been variability and change, as well happily teaching courses on as in community activities such as the https://climatedataguide. tropical and radar meteorology ucar.edu/, Climate Data Guide, and http://www2.cesm.ucar.edu/ ever since. Dr. Schumacher’s research interests focus on working-groups/cvcwg/cvdp, Climate Variability Diagnostics convective processes and mesoscale organization. Her work Package. Dr. Fasullo served as a contributing author to both the provides insight on storm structures and how they relate to the IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports. large-scale atmospheric circulation. EDITOR’S AWARD EDITOR’S AWARD 23 Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Renzo Bechini James C. McWilliams Radar Meteorologist, Arpa Piemonte, Torino, Italy. Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. For thorough, thoughtful reviews of a large number of For timely, high-quality reviews manuscripts, completed in a of manuscripts related to timely manner. numerical ocean modeling. Renzo Bechini is a radar James McWilliams received his meteorologist at Arpa B.S. in 1968 from Caltech and Piemonte, the regional agency Ph.D. in 1971 from Harvard for environmental protection in Applied Mathematics. He in northwestern Italy. He has worked at the National Center a masters degree in physics for Atmospheric Research. In and he is currently a Ph.D. 1994 he became the Slichter candidate at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, Professor of Earth Sciences at where his research focuses on radar data assimilation into UCLA. His primary area of numerical weather prediction models. Before joining Arpa scientific research is the fluid dynamics of Earth’s oceans and Piemonte, he was a weather forecaster at CESI (Milan), a global atmosphere. He is a fellow of the AGU and a member of the provider of engineering services in the power industry. U.S. National Academy of Sciences. EDITOR’S AWARD 24 EDITOR’S AWARD Monthly Weather Review Monthly Weather Review (and) Weather and Forecasting

Jason Sippel Russ S. Schumacher HWRF Support Scientists— Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, NCEP EMC, College Park, Maryland. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

For providing insightful and For thorough reviews of a constructive feedback on large number of manuscripts, numerous submissions on a considerably improving their broad range of topics, and for scientific quality and thereby undertaking such reviews with helping maintain the high extremely tight deadlines. standards of the two journals. Dr. Sippel attended Texas A&M Russ Schumacher has been University from 1999 to 2008, assistant professor in the where he earned a B.S., M.S., Department of Atmospheric and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State Sciences. After leaving Texas University since 2011. He A&M, he spent two years received his B.S. from Valparaiso University, and earned his under the NASA Postdoctoral Program at Goddard Space M.S. and Ph.D. in atmospheric science from Colorado State Flight Center. He subsequently continued at Goddard under University. He received a CAREER award from the National the GEST and GESTAR cooperative agreements, where he Science Foundation in 2010, and students selected him primarily worked on the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel Outstanding Professor of the Year in 2012. His research and experiment. He recently left Goddard and joined the HWRF teaching interests include mesoscale meteorology, extreme team at NCEP EMC. precipitation, and numerical weather prediction. EDITOR’S AWARD EDITOR’S AWARD 25 Journal of Physical Oceanography Journal Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Laurence Padman trevor alcott Senior Scientist, Earth & Space Research, Corvallis, Oregon. Meteorologist, National Weather Service, Western Region Headquarters, Salt Lake City, Utah. For consistently providing insightful and thorough reviews For an exceptionally thoughtful in true collegial spirit. and detailed set of reviews on a complicated manuscript that Laurence Padman is Vice- provided excellent insights and President and a Senior Scientist helped improve the paper. at Earth Space Research. He received his Ph.D. in Alcott grew up in New Oceanography from the Hampshire’s White Mountains, University of Sydney in 1987, where at an early age he and then worked at Oregon developed a fascination with State University until moving mountain weather. He earned to ESR in 1997. His research his B.S. in atmospheric focuses on interactions between the polar oceans, sea ice and science from SUNY Albany in 2007, and then joined the ice shelves, including ocean-forced thinning of Antarctica’s Mountain Meteorology Group at the University of Utah, where ice shelves and how tidal currents and turbulence affect Arctic he earned a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences in 2012. Alcott’s sea ice. current research is focused on understanding predictability and improving forecasts in the complex terrain of the western U.S. EDITOR’S AWARD 26 EDITOR’S AWARD Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Evgeni Fedorovich Judith L. Lean Professor, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Senior Scientist, Sun-Earth System Research, Norman, Oklahoma. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.

For insightful, timely, and For her expert reviews that thorough reviews and re- were always constructive, reviews of several manuscripts probing, and encouraging. during the last two years. Judith Lean’s research focuses Fedorovich’s principal areas of on the mechanisms and activities are boundary-layer measurements of variations in meteorology and environmental the Sun’s radiative output at all fluid dynamics. He received wavelengths, and the effects a Ph.D. in Geophysics of this variability on Earth, (1986). Fedorovich joined including space weather, the OU in 1999 after working in ozone layer and climate change. Russia (Voeikov MGO), France (Ecole Centrale de Nantes), She was elected an AGU Fellow in 2002, a member of NAS Italy (University of Genoa), and Germany (University of in 2003, and a member of the APS in 2013. She has authored Karlsruhe). He received the Humboldt Research Fellowship 150 published papers in scientific literature and has made 300 (1991), Humboldt Research Award (2009), AMS Journal of the presentations. Atmospheric Sciences Editor’s Award and Dean’s Award from College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, OU (2008). Fedorovich is the recipient of Edith K. Gaylord Presidential Professorship, OU (2012). He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Boundary-Layer Meteorology since 2014. EDITOR’S AWARD 27 Weather, Climate, and Society

Carla Roncoli Senior Research Scientist, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

For two independent, thorough, thoughtful, constructive reviews requested simultaneously by the editor. Carla Roncoli is Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. For the last 20 years she has conducted interdisciplinary research on the human dimension of climate change, focusing on the climate knowledge and risk management strategies of smallholder farmers in Africa and in the American South. She advises global and regional agencies on the development of climate services for agriculture. Dr. Roncoli has published extensively in scholarly journals and is a contributing author for the Africa Chapter of the 5th TAR of the IPCC. The Max A. Eaton Student Prize 28 The Peter V. Hobbs Student Prize

Allison A. Wing Zhujun Li NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Ph.D. Student, University of Miami, Miami, . Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York. For her paper, “On simulated For her paper, “Physical trade-wind cumulus convection mechanisms controlling self- and cold pools.” aggregation of convection in Li graduated with a bachelor’s idealized numerical modeling degree in Atmospheric Science simulations.” from Sun Yat-Sen University Allison Wing is currently a NSF (Guangzhou, China) in 2008. Postdoctoral Research Fellow at She received a Ph.D. degree Columbia University’s Lamont- in Meteorology and Physical Doherty Earth Observatory in Oceanography in August 2014, Palisades, NY. She received her from University of Miami, Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science Florida. Li started working as in 2014 from the Massachusetts a postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Langley Research Center in Institute of Technology’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric November 2014. and Planetary Sciences. Prior to attending MIT, she received her Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude in 2008 in Atmospheric Science from Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. 95th Annual Awards banquet

Wednesday, 7 January 2015 The Robert E. Horton Lecturer in 30 The Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Hydrology for 2015 Lecturer for 2015

P. C. D. (Chris) Milly Ngar-Cheung Lau Research Hydrologist, U. S. Geological Survey, AXA Professor, Geography and Resource Management, The Princeton, New Jersey. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shantin N.T., Hong Kong.

For contributions to For pioneering work on understanding the earth’s atmospheric circulation hydrological cycle, climate- systems, from oceanic related land-atmosphere storm tracks to atmospheric processes, and implications of “bridges” connecting ocean climate trends and variability anomalies in different basins, on hydrology and water using observations and global resources. models. P. C. D. (Chris) Milly is a Ngar-Cheung Lau received research hydrologist for the the B.Sc. degree in physics U. S. Geological Survey and from The Chinese University a research affiliate at NOAA’s of Hong Kong (CUHK), in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Research interests 1974, and the Ph.D. degree in atmospheric sciences from include global hydrology, the continental land mass as part of the University of Washington in Seattle in 1978. He then the climate system, modeling of water and energy balances went to Princeton and was associated with the research and of the continents, unsaturated-zone soil-water transport, and teaching programs at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics hydrologic aspects of climate change. Milly is a Fellow of AMS Laboratory throughout the 1978-2013 period. He returned to and the American Geophysical Union and recipient of the AGU Hong Kong in 2013, to rejoin CUHK as a faculty member. Hydrologic Sciences Award. The Walter Orr Roberts Lecturer in 31 Interdisciplinary Sciences for 2015

Paul B. Shepson Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

For outstanding and unique contributions to advancing our understanding of the atmospheric processes that govern the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer. Paul Shepson was born in Elmira, New York. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the State University of NY College at Cortland in 1978, and his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry from Penn State in 1982. He worked as a Research Chemist at Mobil in 1982, the U.S. EPA from 1982-1987, and then began his academic career at York University in 1987. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at Purdue University. Special Award 32 UW-Madison CIMSS Group

For providing the weather community with valuable tropical cyclone-related Christopher Velden, Senior satellite information and derived products for over two decades. Researcher, UW-Madison-CIMSS, Madison, Wisconsin. Timothy L. Olander, Associate Instrument Innovator/Researcher, UW- Madison-CIMSS, Madison, Wisconsin. Derrick Herndon, Research Specialist, UW-Madison-CIMSS, Madison, Wisconsin. Anthony Wimmers, Researcher, UW- Madison-CIMSS, Madison, Wisconsin. David Stettner, Associate Researcher, UW-Madison-CIMSS, Madison, Wisconsin. Steven Wanzong, Associate Researcher, UW-Madison-CIMSS, Madison, Wisconsin. Sarah Griffin, Associate Researcher, UW- Madison-CIMSS, Madison, Wisconsin. Left to Right: Christopher Velden, Derrick Herndon, Steven Wanzong, Sarah Griffin, Associate Researcher, UW- David Stettner, Timothy L. Olander. Far Right, Top to Bottom: Jason P. Dunion, Anthony John Sears, Wimmers, John Sears. Madison-CIMSS, Madison, Wisconsin. Jason P. Dunion, Meteorologist, University of Miami/CIMAS-NOAA/AOML/ Hurricane Research Division, Miami, Florida. The Award for Outstanding Services 33 to Meterology by a Corporation

Lockheed Martin Bethesda, Maryland.

For over five decades of outstanding contributions to atmospheric, ocean, and heliophysic science and operational forecasting through production of satellites, radars, sensors, and information technology. Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, the company employs approximately 113,000 people worldwide. Lockheed Martin serves both domestic and international customers with products and services that have applications in defense, space, intelligence, homeland security and information technology, including cyber security. The Award for Broadcast Meteorology 34 The Henry T. Harrison Award for Outstanding Contributions by a Lisa Spencer Consulting Meteorologist Chief Meteorologist, WSMV-TV Channel 4, Nashville, Tennessee. Steven R. Hanna Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, Maine. For her professionalism and long-standing dedication to For a distinguished career of her viewers and community, providing innovative, pertinent through countless outreach solutions to clients, delivered efforts and promotion of severe with utmost integrity and weather preparedness. grounded upon broad scientific expertise. Lisa Spencer is chief meteorologist at WSMV-TV Dr. Hanna received his Channel 4 in Nashville. She Ph.D. from Penn State. He has served Middle Tennessee is a specialist in atmospheric viewers for the past 14 years, turbulence and dispersion, in and is known for her calm voice during severe storms. She the analysis of meteorological spearheads an ongoing weather safety outreach program in her and air quality data, and in the development, evaluation, and area. Lisa has earned the CBM seal from the AMS. She has application of air quality models. During his career he has served as the Chair of the AMS Broadcast Board and on several worked for NOAA, for ERT, and co-founded Sigma Research ad hoc committees relating to the creation and revision of the Corporation in 1985. Since 1997 he has had his own consulting CBM program. company, Hanna Consultants, and is an Associate Professor at Harvard School of Public Health. The Banner I. Miller Award 35 Fuqing Zhang, Yonghui Weng, John F. Gamache, Frank Marks

For valuable insights into incorporating real-time airborne Doppler radar measurements via ensemble data assimilation, leading to improvements in forecasts of tropical cyclone track and intensity.

Fuqing Zhang, Professor, Pennsylvania State John F. Gamache, Meteorologist, NOAA/ University, University Park, Pennsylvania. AOML/HRD, Miami, Florida. Fuqing Zhang is a professor in the Department of Dr. Gamache, a 1983 graduate of the University Meteorology and the Department of Statistics at the of Washington, has been a meteorologist with the Pennsylvania State University. He also directs the Hurricane Research Division of AOML since 1985. Penn State center on Advanced Data Assimilation He heads the radar group responsible for getting and Predictability Techniques (ADAPT). His research interests include quality-controlled real-time airborne Doppler-radar atmospheric dynamics and predictability, data assimilation, tropical observations and analyses from NOAA aircraft into operational and cyclones and gravity waves. He has published 140+ peer-reviewed research models. journal papers. He received the AMS Clarence Meisinger Award in Frank Marks, Director, Hurricane Research 2009 and the AMS Banner Miller Award in 2015. He was elected as a fellow of AMS in 2015. Division, AOML/NOAA, Miami, Florida. Dr. Marks was a Meteorologist at the NOAA/ Yonghui Weng, Research Associate, Penn Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorology State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Laboratory, Hurricane Research Division since Dr. Yonghui Weng graduated from Chinese Academy 1980, and Director since 2003. He received a of Sciences and has been working in Penn State B.S. in Meteorology from Belknap College and a M.S. and Sc.D. in University as a research associate for limited area Meteorology from MIT. He joined the AMS in 1971 and became atmosphere data assimilation and hurricane prediction. a Fellow in 2000. He was a member of Committee on Radar Meteorology from 1984-91. He was the recipient of the Verner E. Suomi Medal in 2011. 36 The Helmut E. Landsberg Award

Jeffrey C. Luvall Dale A. Quattrochi Senior Research Scientist, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville, Alabama.

For original contributions and leadership in using high- resolution thermal remote sensing data to understand the urban heat island effect and its environmental consequences.

Dr. Luvall’s research has Dr. Quattrochi received his focused on the use of aircraft B.S. from Ohio University, his borne visible thermal sensors M.S. from the University of to quantify the surface Tennessee, and his Ph.D. from energy budgets. These the University of Utah, all in investigations have resulted in geography. His research focuses the development of a Thermal on remote sensing of the urban Response Number (TRN) that heat island effect and the quantifies the land surface’s applications of remote sensing energy response in terms of kJ to public health. m-2 C o -1 which can be used as a functional classification of urban surfaces for use in urban climate models. The Award for Outstanding Achievement The Award for Outstanding 37 in Biometeorology Contribution to the Advance of Applied Meteorology Xuhui Lee Jon Davis Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of Meteorology, Meteorology Team Lead, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Chicago, Illinois. For masterfully combining For a distinguished career theory and observations to gain in advancing the application new insights into the nature of weather and climate and consequences of biosphere- information to the energy, atmosphere interactions. agriculture, and other weather- Xuhui Lee is the Sara sensitive industries. Shallenberger Brown Professor Davis is in his 30th year in of Meteorology, in the School the private sector focusing on of Forestry and Environmental Applied Meteorology primarily Studies, Yale University, in energy and agricultural. and the editor-in-chief for His 18 years at Citigroup, 10 the international journal, years at Chesapeake Energy, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. He received his Ph.D. and now Meteorology Team Lead at Earth Risk Technologies degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His were, and continue to be, highlighted by adopting the findings research and teaching concern the interactions between the of theoretical research to suit specific applications within the terrestrial biosphere, the atmosphere, and anthropogenic drivers. global energy and global agricultural arenas. During the past three decades, the thousands of speeches, reports, and studies by Davis and his teams have helped to “educate” the private sector to a large degree. The Francis W. Reichelderfer Award The Nicholas P. Fofonoff Award 38

Richard Smith Andrew Hogg Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NOAA/NWS Forecast Associate Professor, Australian National University, Acton, Office, Norman, Oklahoma. Canberra, Australia.

For vision, long-standing For fundamental advances in dedication, and the use of understanding the impact of innovative technologies to ocean eddies on the large-scale enhance public safety in circulation, flow through straits, preparing for, and responding and turbulent mixing. to, severe weather. Dr. Hogg undertook his Ph.D. Rick is the Warning at the University of Western Coordination Meteorologist Australia, investigating the at NWS Norman, Oklahoma, dynamics of flow through and leads the office’s decision ocean straits. His postdoctoral support, preparedness, and years were spent at the outreach activities. His National Oceanography Centre, specialties include communication and societal response to Southampton, and involved a shift towards researching large- hazardous weather. A graduate of the University of Memphis, scale ocean circulation. In 2004, he moved to the Research Rick has been with the NWS since 1992, and worked in School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University. Memphis, Tulsa, and Fort Worth before assuming his current His primary research interests include the dynamics of the position in 2002. Rick lives in Norman with his wife, Christina, Southern Ocean, and the role of eddies in the climate system. their four children, and two dogs. The Henry G. Houghton Award The Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award 39

Yi Ming Paul Markowski Head, Atmospheric and Climate Group, NOAA/Geophysical Professor of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey. University Park, Pennsylvania.

For major advances in the For advancing knowledge about understanding and modeling of the genesis of tornadoes through a the role of atmospheric aerosols rich mix of observations, theory, and in the radiative forcing of numerical modeling. regional and global climate. Paul Markowski is a Professor of Yi Ming received his Bachelor Meteorology at the Pennsylvania degrees from Tsinghua State University, where he University, and Ph.D. from specializes in severe storms Princeton University. He is research. He is the recipient of the Head of the Atmospheric the NWA’s Fujita Award, ESSL’s Physics and Climate Group Dotzek Award, AMS Editor’s at the NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and a Award, and NSF’s CAREER Award. He also co-organized the Lecturer in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes at Princeton University. His previous honors include the Experiment (VORTEX2), has co-authored a textbook, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes, and serves as Chief and the World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier- Editor of Weather and Forecasting. MUMM International Award. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers. The Joanne Simpson Mentorship Award The Kenneth C. Spengler Award 40

Eugenia Kalnay Barry Lee Myers Distinguished University Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Chief Executive Officer, AccuWeather, Inc., Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. State College, Pennsylvania.

For effectively mentoring many For outstanding, highly principled early career scientists, with leadership of the American her unstinting generosity of weather industry over five decades time and attention in providing and fostering strong cooperation advice, encouragement, between private sector and leadership, and inspiration. government weather services. Eugenia was born in 1942 Barry Lee Myers is the Chief in Buenos Aires where she Executive Officer of AccuWeather, received an outstanding free Inc., a position he has held since science education. At MIT she late 2007. AccuWeather is an was the first woman to earn American iconic brand now known around the world and is the a Ph.D. in Meteorology, under Jule Charney, and the first to globe’s largest mobile weather provider. Known for its precision become Professor. She became Branch Head at NASA Goddard and accuracy, it is estimated that AccuWeather information is (1979-1986), and Director of NOAA/NCEP/EMC (1987-1997). accessible on about 1.5 billion devices. Recognized as an expert She is a Distinguished University Professor at UMD, member in public/private relationships in the weather and weather media of the UN Scientific Advisory Board on Sustainability, and has industry worldwide, Mr. Myers has served as special advisor to advised 26 doctoral students. three separate directors of the National Weather Service. He has been an invited speaker at the World Meteorological Organization and the World Federation of Scientists, on the topics of weather data exchange and public-private sector relationships. The Charles E. Anderson Award The Cleveland Abbe Award 41 For Distinguished Service to Atmospheric Science

Dr. Kevin Kloesel Dixon Matlock Butler Director, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Consultant, Butler Consulting, Washington, DC. Norman, Oklahoma.

For over two decades of For visionary, dedicated dedication to engaging minority leadership in Earth and under-represented groups observation, science education, in the atmospheric sciences and federal management of through community outreach science which has had lasting and academic leadership. impact on the development of As Director of OCS, Kevin is Earth System Science. charged with providing weather Dr. Butler received degrees and climate data, analysis, and from Harvard and Rice and expertise to stakeholders and joined NASA in 1976 where he decision makers throughout did ozone depletion research, Oklahoma. His teaching managed stratospheric and solar terrestrial research, led the interests include an OU Presidential Dream Course on planning of EOS, and oversaw all Earth science satellite indigenous perspectives of earth sciences. Kevin also provides operations and data systems and the early development of weather forecasts and weather safety information and education EOSDIS. From 1996 to 2003 at GLOBE, he was Chief Scientist to the OU Office of Emergency Preparedness before, during, and eventually Director. From 2003 through 2010, Dr. Butler and after weather threats of all types on the OU campus. served on the staff of the House Committee on Appropriations. The Edward N. Lorenz Teaching The Charles Franklin Brooks Award 42 Excellence Award David P. Jorgensen Gary M. Lackmann Meteorologist, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State Norman, Oklahoma. University, Raleigh, North Carolina. For over two decades of For his passion and substantial contributions to, extraordinary commitment and visionary leadership of, the to teaching and mentoring Society’s all-important scientific students, and his ability to make publication process, including complex material lucid and tireless service as Publications approachable. Commissioner (2007-2012). Dr. Gary Lackmann is a Jorgensen is a research Professor and Director meteorologist and Chief of of Graduate Programs, the Warnings R&D division Department of Marine, Earth, of NOAA’s National Severe & Atmospheric Sciences, North Storms Laboratory in Norman, OK. His research career has Carolina State University. Dr. spanned 40 years, first with the National Hurricane Research Lackmann earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University Laboratory in Miami, with NOAA’s Boulder labs, finally with of Washington, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New the NSSL in Norman. He has published about 60-refereed York, University at Albany. Prior professional appointments articles in AMS journals and monographs. He has served in include a postdoctoral position at McGill University and a several capacities for the AMS including program chair of the faculty position at SUNY, College at Brockport. He joined the 1991 AMS Radar Conference in Paris, France; Co-Chief Editor North Carolina State University faculty in 1999. for Monthly Weather Review for a decade; and on the AMS Publications Commission for the last 16 years. The Henry Stommel Research Award The Verner E. Suomi Award 43

Glenn R. Flierl Frank J. Wentz Professor, Physical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of CEO, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, California. Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. For pioneering, painstaking For fundamental insights work to accurately retrieve into the dynamics of vortices geophysical parameters from and geostrophic turbulence satellite microwave instruments and their impact on marine and using these measurements ecosystems. to elucidate climate trends. While a physics student at Mr. Wentz is the CEO of Oberlin, Flierl spent summers Remote Sensing Systems in Falmouth, Massachusetts, (RSS), a company specializing with their light opera company in microwave remote sensing and discovered that physicists of the Earth. Using microwave could study the oceans. The observations from over 35 satellites, RSS produces climate graduate physics program at Harvard offered that opportunity. records of atmospheric temperature/moisture and sea-surface Allan Robinson introduced Flierl to the field of GFD, while temperature/winds. These satellite records span 35-years and studying the Gulf Stream Rings, in collaboration with the Ring contribute significantly to the IPCC Assessment Reports. He is Group that led to examining the impact of the flow on the an author on over 100 refereed articles and is an Elected Fellow ecosystem. Fascinating problems remain in both areas. of AGU and AMS. The Sverdrup Gold Medal The Jule G. Charney Award 44

Claude Frankignoul Alan Robock Emeritus Professor, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University, Paris, France. New Brunswick, New Jersey.

For profound contributions For fundamental contributions to the understanding of the toward understanding the atmosphere’s stochastic forcing climatic effects of stratospheric of the ocean and the ocean’s aerosols from volcanoes and feedback. other potential sources, and the role of soil moisture in climate. Claude Frankignoul is professor Emeritus at the University Dr. Alan Robock is a Pierre et Marie Curie in Distinguished Professor Paris, member of the Institut of climate science in the universitaire de France, and Department of Environmental adjunct scientist at WHOI. Sciences at Rutgers University. Prior to joining UPMC, he worked at the Max-Planck-Institute He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in für Meteorologie, Hamburg, and at MIT. Current research foci 1970 with a B.A. in Meteorology, and from the Massachusetts include the ocean response to stochastic atmospheric forcing, Institute of Technology with an S.M. in 1974 and Ph.D. in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, and the ocean 1977, both in meteorology. Before graduate school, he served influence on the atmosphere, using theoretical models and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. He was a statistical analysis of observations and climate models. professor at the University of Maryland, 1977-1997, and the State Climatologist of Maryland, 1991-1997, before coming to Rutgers. The Carl-Gustaf Rossby 45 Research Medal

Bin Wang Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.

For creative insights leading to important advances in the understanding of tropical and monsoonal processes and their predictability. Bin Wang is a Professor at University of Hawaii. He obtained his Ph.D. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics from Florida State University in 1984. He specializes in Climate and Atmospheric Dynamics. Wang was elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union for seminal contributions to scientific understanding of the dynamics and predictability of monsoon and tropical climate. His publications have been cited more than 20,000 times with an h-index of 78 (Google Scholar). Honorary Member 46

Richard A. Anthes President Emeritus, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.

Winner of the AMS Meisinger and Charney Awards, Rick served as president of the AMS in 2007. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and books. He developed the first 3-D model of the hurricane and was the father of the Penn State-NCAR mesoscale model MM5. He was a key player in the radio occultation proof-of-concept GPS/MET experiment and the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC), which launched six satellites in 2006. Honorary Member 47

Elbert (Joe) Friday Professor Emeritus, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

Elbert W. Friday, Jr. is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma. He is a Past President and Fellow of the AMS. He has served as the Director of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate at the National Academy of Sciences, the Director of NOAA Research, the Director and Deputy Director of the National Weather Service, and U.S. Permanent Representative to the World Meteorological Organization. He completed a 20-year career in the United States Air Force, retiring with rank of Colonel in 1981.He is the recipient of the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive, the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association’s Federal Executive of the Year for 1993, and the AMS’s Cleveland Abbe Award. Honorary Member 48

Eugenia Kalnay Distinguished University Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

Eugenia was born in 1942 in Buenos Aires where she received an outstanding free science education. At MIT she was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Meteorology, under Jule Charney, and the first to become Professor. She became Branch Head at NASA Goddard (1979-1986), and Director of NOAA/NCEP/ EMC (1987-1997). She is a Distinguished University Professor at UMD, member of the UN Scientific Advisory Board on Sustainability, and has advised 26 doctoral students.