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 Climate 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 cloud 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 Atmosphere 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 Climatology 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 meteorology from MIT in Department of Geological 1990. After a fellowship in Sciences, the University of the NCAR Advanced Study Texas 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 convection 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 (Atmospheric Science). 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 rain 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 ocean, 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 hydrology; land surface of NASA’s Clouds 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