Honors & Awards


Welcome to our laurels pages, which include

Our most recent honors from national and international organizations are highlighted below.


Recent National & International Honors


American Astronomical Society

Karen Harvey Prize

Matthias Rempel - 2011

for groundbreaking work on the structure of sunspots and on flows and magnetic fields in the solar convection zone, and particularly for bringing state-of-the-art numerical methods to bear on these problems

American Geophysical Union

Yoram J. Kaufman Award for Unselfish Cooperation in Research

Alex Guenther - 2011

for broad influence in atmospheric science through exceptional creativity, inspiration of younger scientists, mentoring, international collaborations, and unselfish cooperation in research

American Meteorological Society

Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal

Joseph Klemp - 2011

for illuminating the dynamics of mountain waves and thunderstorms and for his contributions to improvements in numerical techniques and community models. News Release

Charles Franklin Brooks Award

Joseph Klemp - 2011

for outstanding and sustained contributions to the advancement of AMS publication and educational goals. News Release

Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award

George Bryan - 2011

for innovative research into the explicit modeling, theory, and observations of convective-scale motions

Cleveland Abbe Award

Brant Foote - 2011

for leadership of a major laboratory that has successfully implemented state-of-the-science methods for addressing problems that affect people’s lives. News Release

Editor's Award

Wojciech Grabowski - 2012

Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, for frequent, timely, and in-depth reviews and re-reviews

Yuko Okumura - 2011

Journal of Climate, for consistently providing highly constructive reviews that helped the authors improve their papers

Henry G. Houghton Award

Hugh Morrison - 2012

for wide-ranging contributions to improving the understanding and modeling of cloud microphysical processes

Austrian Ministry of Science and Education

ASciNA Science Award

Thomas Karl - 2011

for the paper "Efficient Atmospheric Cleansing of Oxidized Organic Trace Gases by Vegetation"

CEDAR

Service Award

Barbara Emery - 2010

for outstanding service to the Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions community over nearly 25 years

Heinz Family Foundation

Heinz Award for the Environment

Joan Kleypas - 2011

for her groundbreaking research into the role humans play in tropic coral reef ecosystems

National Space Club

NOAA David Johnson Award - 2011

Lidia Cucurull-Ector - 2011

For innovative contributions to weather prediction through developing and implementing a methodology to assimilate satellite-based Global Positioning System-Radio Occultation observations into the National Weather Service’s operational global weather prediction model and demonstrating how these data improve the skill and extend the range of weather forecasts

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Award

Hugh Morrison - 2011

with A. Solomon, P.O.G. Persson, M.D. Shule, and J.W. Bao for "Investigation of Microphysical Parameterizations of Snow and Ice in Arctic Clouds during M-PACE through Model-Observation Comparisons"

NXP Semiconductors N.V.

High Performance RF Design Challenge Grand Prize Winner

Brad Lindseth - 2011

for his 2-kW amplifier for a portable 449-MHz spaced antenna wind profiler radar. News Release

President of the United States of America

National Medal of Science

Warren Washington - 2010

for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of Earth's coupled climate system through numerical simulation, leadership in U.S. science policy, and inspiring mentorship of young people of all backgrounds and origins. News Release

Springer Science & Business Media

Springer Thesis

Asuka Suzuki-Parker - 2011

for her thesis An Assessment of Uncertainties and Limitations in Simulating Tropical Cyclone Climatotogy and Future Changes

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