Staff Accomplishments

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2020

Jeffrey L. Stith

UCAR Distinguished Achievement Award

Jeffrey L. Stith for his 20-year leadership of the NCAR Aviation Program. 

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2020

Wen-Chau Lee, Tammy Weckwerth

American Meteorological Society Fellow

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2020

William “Al” Cooper, Julie Haggerty, Alison Rockwell, Holger Voemel, Cory Wolff

Education and Outreach Award

Alan Bol (COMET), Teresa Campos (ACOM), William “Al” Cooper (EOL), Steve Deyo (COMET), Julie Haggerty (EOL), Tony Mancus (COMET), Gary Pacheco (COMET), Alison Rockwell (EOL), David Russi (COMET), Amy Stevermer (COMET), Holger Voemel (EOL), and Cory Wolff (EOL) for their outstanding contribution to Education and Outreach found in their Atmospheric Instrumentation and Measurement Training entitled, "Synergistic Environments in Graduate and Undergraduate Education (SEGUE)." SEGUE is a comprehensive, online, interactive, multimedia course that consists of ten high-quality, instructional lessons covering the broad subject area of meteorological instrumentation, measurements, and observing systems. The reach of the program was broadened by translating to languages other than English.

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2020

Chris Burghart, Michael Dixon, Maureen Donovan, Scott Ellis, Jonathan Emmett, Wen-Chau Lee, Eric Loew, Mark Lord, Charlie Martin, James Ranson, Steve Rauenbuehler, Pei-Sang Tsai, Jothiram Vivekanandan, Kurt Zrubek

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

David Allen (CPAESS), Chris Burghart, Michael Dixon, Maureen Donovan, Scott Ellis, Jonathan Emmett, Wen-Chau Lee, Eric Loew, Mark Lord, Charlie Martin, James Ranson, Steve Rauenbuehler, Pei-Sang Tsai, Jothiram Vivekanandan, and Kurt Zrubek from EOL for the design, development, and construction of the NCAR HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR), a pod-based, W-band, scanning dual-polarization, Doppler airborne radar that is mounted under the wing of the NSF/NCAR GV aircraft. Although successfully completed in 2015, it's application to field campaigns in the years since has proven the product exceptional.

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2019

Kristen Aponte (UCAR PO), Joshua Young (Unidata), AJ Lauer (CISL), Carolyn Brinkworth (UCAR PO), Helen Moshak (NCAR Dir), Angie Pendergrass (CGD), Jeremiah Sjoberg (COSMIC), Julie Malmberg (GLOBE), Virginia Do (CISL), Matt Herring (FMSS), Allison Scott Pruitt (CU Boulder), Silvia Gentile (CGD), Mike Daniels (EOL), Diane Thompson (Univ. of Arizona), Marissa Miller

Education and Outreach Award

UCAR Diversity Award for the design and implementation of the UCAR/NCAR Equity & Inclusion (UNEION) program.

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2018

Scott Spuler, Matt Hayman, Tammy Weckwerth, Jim Ranson, Todd Bernatsky

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Scott Spuler, Matt Hayman, Tammy Weckwerth, Bruce Morley (formerly NCAR), Jim Ranson, Todd Bernatsky, Rich Erickson, Kevin Repasky (Montana State University), and Amin Nehrir (NASA) for the Micro-Pulse DIAL (MPD) instrument,  a new-generation observing system that can measure vertical variations in water vapor from the boundary layer to the mid-free-troposphere.

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2017

Michael Dixon

UCAR Distinguished Achievement Award

Michael Dixon for his valiant efforts to improve community radar and lidar analysis software, envisioning a new software paradigm, and reinvigorating NCAR's role as a leader in radar software as co-principal investigator of the Lidar Radar Open Software Environment (LROSE) project.

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2016

Richard E. Carbone

Outstanding Publication Award

Yanping Li and Richard E. Carbone (EOL), 2012: Excitation of Rainfall Over the Tropical Western Pacific. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 69, 2983-2994, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0245.1

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2016

Jim Moore, Jothiram Vivekanandan

American Meteorological Society Fellow

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2015

Vanda Grubišić

Outstanding Publication Award

Roy Rasmussen (RAL), C. Liu (RAL), K. Ikeda (RAL), D. Gochis (RAL), D. Yates (RAL), F. Chen (RAL), M. Tewari (IBM Watson Research Center), M. Barlage (RAL), J. Dudhia (MMM), W. Yu (RAL), K. Miller (RAL), K. Arsenault (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Vanda Grubišić (EOL), G. Thompson (RAL), and E. Gutmann (RAL), 2011: "High-resolution coupled climate runoff simulations of seasonal snowfall over Colorado: A process study of current and warmer climate." Journal of Climate, 24 (11), 3015-3048.

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2015

Charlie Martin

UCAR Distinguished Achievement Award

Charlie Martin for his unique vision which led to the development and integration of Field Programmable Gate Array technology into several NSF remote sensing platforms, including the HIAPER Cloud, S-Polka, and Doppler on Wheels radars as well as the 449 Megahertz Wind Profiler. 

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2014

Alison Rockwell

Education and Outreach Award

Alison Rockwell for developing EOL’s public engagement outreach program in parallel with EOL field campaigns.

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2014

Jim Ranson, Tom Wissman

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Greg Card, Rebecca Centeno-Elliott, Michael Knölker, Alice Lecinski, Ron Lull, Chris Mahan, Jim Ranson, Rich Summers, Tom Wissman, Piyush Agrawal (CU), Justus Brosche (CU), Clemens Halbgewachs (University of Freiburg), Bruce Hardy (consultant), and Courtney Peck (CU) for designing, building, rebuilding, and flying the Sunrise gondola and pointing system, which enabled groundbreaking observations of the Sun at spatio-temporal resolutions never before achieved.

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2013

Vanda Grubišić

American Meteorological Society Fellow

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2013

Al Cooper

UCAR Distinguished Achievement Award

Al Cooper for his lead role in coordinating the creation and integration of 14 externally developed instruments installed on the NSF/NCAR HIAPER Gulfstream V jet.

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2013

Britt Stephens, Pavel Romashkin, Henry Boynton, Ed Ringleman, John Cowan, Greg Bruning, Brent Kidd, Alison Rockwell, Vidal Salazar, Janine Aquino

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Britt Stephens, Pavel Romashkin, Henry Boynton, Ed Ringleman, John Cowan, Greg Bruning, Brent Kidd, Alison Rockwell, Vidal Salazar, and Janine Aquino (all EOL) for their contributions to the HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations project.

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2012

Junhong Wang, Liangying (Liz) Zhang

Outstanding Publication Award

Junhong Wang and Liangying (Liz) Zhang: "Systematic errors in global radiosonde precipitable water data from comparisons with ground-based GPS measurements." Journal of Climate, 21(10), 2218-2238.

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2012

Briesa St. Martin, Jim Moore, Jorgen Jensen, Maureen Donovan, Santiago Newbery, Steven Oncley, Wen-Chau Lee

Education and Outreach Award

Briesa St. Martin, Jim Moore, Jorgen Jensen, Kathleen Barney, Maureen Donovan, Santiago Newbery, Scott Briggs, Steven Oncley, Wen-Chau Lee with Steven Rutledge (Colorado State University), Patrick Kennedy (Colorado State University), Robert Cifelli (formerly Colorado State University), Al Rodi (University of Wyoming), and Jeff French (University of Wyoming) for organizing the 2009 Advanced Study Program Colloquium, "Exploring the Atmosphere:  Observational Instruments and Techniques".

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2011

Terry Hock, Dean Lauritsen

UCAR Distinguished Achievement Award

Terry Hock and Dean Lauritsen for their leadership and central role in developing innovative new dropsonde technology as well as transformative delivery systems.

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2011

Jim Wilson

Education and Outreach Award

Jim Wilson and Rita Roberts for teaching students, scientists, and weather forecasters how to make better forecasts of convective weather with Autonowcaster, a forecast decision system that incorporates much of their research and is now operational in selected U.S. National Weather Service, Army, and international forecast offices.

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2009

John Hubbert, Mike Dixon, Scott Ellis

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Greg Meymaris, John Hubbert, Mike Dixon, Scott Ellis for developing the Clutter Mitigation Decision (CMD) algorithm.

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2009

Jack Fox

UCAR Distinguished Achievement Award

Jack Fox for transforming the EOL Design and Fabrication Services into a world-class premier facility to design and build equipment for atmospheric and related research.

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2008

Bart Woodiel

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Gary New, Julie Harris (CISL), Steven Haynes, Dave Patterson, Dave Maddy, Brian McMillan, John Adamson, Matt Monahan, Dave Heckel, Gordon Kinn, John Harkness, Sandra Sundquist, Leonard Cooper, Bruce Kovalski, Keith White, Peter Chamberlain and Bart Woodiel for designing, implementing, and commissioning significant new ML infrastructure as part of the Bluefire Facilities Infrastructure Team.

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2008

Britt Stephens

Outstanding Publication Award

Britt Stephens: “Weak Northern and Strong Tropical Land Carbon Uptake from Vertical Profiles of Atmospheric CO2." Science, 316, 1732-1735.

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2006

Janine Goldstein

Education and Outreach Award

Dennis Ward, Dolores Kiessling, Janine Goldstein (Aquino), Jeff Weber, Linda Carbone, Tim Barnes, William Bradley for hosting Super Science Saturday in support of UCAR's mission to educate the public about the atmospheric and related sciences.

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2006

William "Al" Cooper

Mentoring Award

William "Al" Cooper for his mentoring of a long stream of postdoctoral fellows as the Director of the Advanced Study Program (ASP).

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2005

Geoff Cheeseman

Administration Award

Geoff Cheeseman (EOL) and Pat Munson (UCAR F&A) for professional excellence and innovativeness demonstrated during the acquisition of the HIAPER aircraft.

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2004

Thomas Horst

Outstanding Publication Award

Thomas Horst, “HATS: Field observations to obtain spatially filtered turbulence fields from crosswind arrays of sonic anemometers in the atmospheric surface layer” (published in 2004 in Journal of Atmospheric Science, 41, 1566–1581) and “Structure of subfilter-scale fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer with application to large-eddy simulation modeling” (published in 2003 in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 482, 101–139).

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2004

Jim Wilson

Mentoring Award

Jim Wilson for providing meaningful mentorship to a broad range of people, from junior and senior scientists, administrators, and engineers to various levels of students.

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2003

Peggy Taylor

Administration Award

Peggy Taylor for professional excellence associated with field deployment logistics for four exceptionally challenging field programs.

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2003

Jerry Dryer, James Ellis, Ken Harris, Walt Hodshon, Ed Mores, Steve Palmer, Steve Rauenbuehler, Jose Rivas, Karl Schwenz, Bart Woodiel, David Allen, Jeff Bobka

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Jerry Dryer, James Ellis, Ken Harris, Walt Hodshon, Ed Mores, Steve Palmer, Steve Rauenbuehler, Jose Rivas, Karl Schwenz, Bart Woodiel, David Allen, Jeff Bobka, and Clarke Chambellan for executing three separate, exceptionally complex and urgent projects (Passing Efficiency for the Low Turbulence Inlet (PELTI) Experiment, the University of Denver Low Turbulence Inlet (DULTI) Development, and the International H2O Project (IHOP 2002) development of an innovative antenna designed for a new mobile rapid scan radar).

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2000

Jon Lutz, Brian Lewis, Michl Howard, Paul Johnson,, Mitch Randall, Eric Loew, Bob Rilling, Dick Oye, Mike Strong, Al Phinney, Joe Vinson, Bart Woodiel

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Jon Lutz, Brian Lewis, Michl Howard, Paul Johnson, Mitch Randall, Eric Loew, Bob Rilling, Dick Oye, Mike Strong, Al Phinney, Joe Vinson, and Bart Woodiel for development of the S-Pol weather radar.

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1998

Terry Hock, Hal Cole, Dean Lauritsen, Ken Norris, Ned Chamberlain, Errol Korn, Chip Owens

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Terry Hock, Hal Cole, Dean Lauritsen, Ken Norris, Ned Chamberlain, Errol Korn, Chip Owens, Jim Franklin, Alan Goldstein and Jeff Smith for development of the Global Positioning System (GPS) dropsonde system.

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1997

Norm Zrubek

Technical Support Award

Norm Zrubek for 30 years of dedication and technical excellence in aeronautical engineering at NCAR's Research Aviation Facility. 

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1996

Mitch Randall, Eric Loew, Joe Vinson

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Mitch Randall, Eric Loew, and Joe Vinson for development of the PC integrated radar acquisition (PIRAQ) board and the VMEBus integrated acquisition (VIRAQ) board. 

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1996

Jack Fox, Jim Holt

Education and Outreach Award

Jack Fox and Jim Holt for their contribution to the Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) initiative.

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1995

Chuck Frush, Peter Hildebrand,, Wen-Chau Lee, Eric Loew, Richard Neitzel, Rick Parsons, Mitch Randall, Craig Walther

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Chuck Frush, Peter Hildebrand, Wen-Chau Lee, Eric Loew, Richard Neitzel, Rick Parsons, Mitch Randall, and Craig Walther for the development of the Electra Doppler Radar (ELDORA). 

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1994

Rit Carbone

American Meteorological Society Fellow

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1992

Brigitte Baeuerle

Administration Award

Brigitte Baeuerle for her support of the TOGA COARE project.

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1992

Anne-Leslie Barrett, Hal Cole, Terry Hock, Michl Howard, Charlie Martin, Mike Spowart

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Anne-Leslie Barrett, David Carter, Hal Cole, Warner Ecklund, Terry Hock, Michl Howard, Charlie Martin, Mike Spowart, John Wilson for developing the Integrated Sounding System (ISS) network used in TOGA COARE.

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1991

Charlie Martin, Joost Businger, Steve Semmer, Tony Delany

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Charlie Martin, Joost Businger, Steve Semmer, Tony Delany for development of the Atmosphere-Surface Turbulent Exchange Research Facility.

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1989

Dean Lauritsen, Ken Norris, Sig Stenlund, Terry Hock, Tom Gardner, Vin Lally

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Dean Lauritsen, Ken Norris, Sig Stenlund, Terry Hock, Tom Gardner, Vin Lally for creation of the lightweight long-range aid to navigation (Loran) digital dropwindsonde.

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1985

Fred Brock, George Saum, Michl Howard, Steven Semmer

Scientific and Technical Accomplishment (Technology Advancement) Award

Fred Brock, George Saum, Michl Howard, Steven Semmer for their leadership in the design and development of the second- generation portable automated mesonet.