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    Editorships

    Darrel Baumgardner, Editor, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (JTECH).

    Krista Laursen, Associate Editor, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (JTECH).

    Dave Parsons, Editor, Journal of Atmospheric Science.

    Tammy Weckwerth, Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review.


    External Scientific, Policy, or Educational Committees and Advisory Panels

    Steve Cohn
    • Member, American Meteor. Soc. (AMS) Committee on Measurements

    Charles Frush
    • Member, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
    • Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    • Member, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE)
    • Member, Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)

    Peter Hildebrand
    • Chair, American Meteor. Soc. Radio Frequency Policy Statement Drafting Committee
    • Member, U.S. Science Steering Committee, Mesoscale Alpine Project (MAP)
    • Member, American Meteor. Soc. Committee on Radar Meteorology

    Terry Hock
    • Chair, AVAPS Users Group

    Jeff Keeler
    • Chair, NEXRAD Open RDA Advisory Panel

    Steven Oncley
    • Member, American Meteor. Soc. Committee on Boundary Layers and Turbulence

    David Parsons
    • Chair, AMS Review Panel for Mesoscale Processes, Severe Storms Monograph
    • Technical Advisor, Working group on Profilers, Office of the Federal Coordinator
    • Member, ARM Open Ocean Advisory Group

    Jeffrey Keeler
    • Member, NEXRAD Open RDA Advisory Panel

    Larry Radke
    • Chair, NASA FIRE Meeting
    • Chair, NCAR/NAP Aerosol Program
    • Adjunct Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
    • Sr. Research Associate, Graduate Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Univ. of Colorado.

    Ron Ruth
    • Member, American Meteor. Soc. (AMS)

    Jeff Stith
    • Member, American Meteor. Soc. (AMS) Cloud Physics Committee
    • Storm penetrating aircraft session chairperson, Boulder, CO, 21-22 October 1999.

    Jim Wilson
    • Chair, Review Panel for Severe Convective Systems Monograph
    • Member, NOAA/NWS NEXRAD Technical Advisory Committee
    • Member, USWRP Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting Working Group

    Volker Wulfmeyer
    • Member, Global Energy & Water Cycle Exper. (GEWEX), WCRP
    • Member, AMS, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee Laser Atmospheric Studies

     

    Awards

    Ned Chamberlain
    Technical Achievement Award, December 1998.

    Peter Hildebrand
    IEEE Elected Senior Member, June 1999.

    Peter Hildebrand
    Best of Conference & Best of Session Awards for presentation "Measurement of Precipitation in Mountainous Terrain Using Airborne Doppler Weather Rader", 4th Int. Airborne Remote Sensing Conf., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 21-24 June 1999.

    Jothiram Vivekanandan
    Ice Detection Using Radiometers UCAR patent award, December 1999.


    Patents

    Issued 6/10/97 – Facility for Preparing and Deploying Sounding Devices
    Inventor(s) – Dean K. Lauritsen, Sigvard J. Stenlund
    Description – Modular launch building with wedged eve and overhead hatch that forms part of the wedged eve when fully retracted, and attachable equipment shelter.

    Issued 12/31/96 – Radar Acquisition System
    Inventor(s) Mitchell A. Randall; Eric Loew
    Description – (PIRAQ) Single board processor/converter combination of generally existing technologies never previously combined due to hardware limitations.

    Issued 9/10/96 – Portable Intelligent Whole Air Sampling System
    Inventor(s) Walter F. Dabberdt; Kenneth D. Norris; Steven R. Semmer; Anthony C. Delany
    Description – Automated sampler system for field sampling having multiple syringes mounted on a carousel where each syringe can draw an air sample of a predetermined size at a predetermined time and at a predetermined speed. The laboratory apparatus withdraws the sample by reversing the automated process.

    Issued 8/20/96 – Integrated Control system for Preparing and Deploying Sounding Devices and Managing Telemetry Therefrom
    Inventor – Charles L. Martin
    Description – Software control system for pre-launch preparation and scheduling launch. Software also displays raw data received from sonde and manipulates antenna direction.

    Issued 1/23/96 – Low Cost Telemetry Receiving System
    Inventor – Terrence F. Hock
    Description – Directional antenna with shaped beam and one rotating point. (formerly titled "NEXUS Receiver Antenna").

    Issued 11/28/95 – Receiver Antenna for Bistatic Doppler Radar Network
    Inventor(s) Mitchell A. Randall; Christopher L. Holloway; Joshua M.A.R. Wurman
    Description – See Receiver for Bistatic Doppler Radar Network

    Issued 11/21/95 – Receiver for Bistatic Doppler Radar Network
    Inventor(s) – Charles L. Frush; Joshua M.A.R. Wurman
    Description – See Bistatic Multiple-Doppler Radar Network

    Issued 4/25/95 – Bistatic Multiple Doppler Radar Network
    Inventor(s) – Charles L. Frush; Joshua M.A.R. Wurman
    Description – A multiple doppler radar network can be constructed using only one, traditional, transmitting pencil-beam radar and one or more passive, non-transmitting receiving sites. Radiation scattered from the pencil beam of the transmitting radar as it penetrates weather targets can be detected at the receive-only sites as well as the transmitter. In a bistatic system, the location of the targets in Cartesian space can be calculated from the pointing angle of the transmitting antenna and the time between transmission of a radar pulse from the transmitter and detection at a passive receiver site.

    Issued 2/16/93 – Self-Guided Recoverable Airborne Instrument Module
    Inventor - Dean K. Lauritsen
    Description – A reusable radiosonde utilizing the GPS navigation system for tracking of precise location and self-guided landing; the sonde (or other instrument package) is "unpowered" but has wing surfaces and a mechanism for steering ad guidance for precisely landing the sonde(s) at a predetermined location; any airborne "instrument" package can be carried and guided on descent – not limited to radiosonde implementation.


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