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 The Weather Channel, 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 meteorology 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.