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Honors and Awards, 2010
Abdalati, Waleed
• Named Chief Scientist at NASA, where he will serve
for two years as the principal adviser to the NASA
administrator on agency science programs, strategic
planning and the evaluation of related investments.
Barry, Roger
• Humboldt Research Fellowship in Geophysics, Bavarian
Academy of Sciences, Commission on Glaciology, Munich,
Germany, Aug. 2–Oct. 30, 2010.
Cherney, David
• Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution
Ph.D. Fellowship from the Morris K. Udall and Stewart
L. Udall Foundation.
Davis, Sean
• Alan Berman Research Publication Award, Naval
Research Laboratory (NRL), recognizing outstanding
publications from within each division of NRL, awarded
to the authors of Bucholtz et al., Directly measured
heating rates of a tropical subvisible cirrus cloud.
Elespuru, Peter
• NASA Earth Science Data Systems Software Award
given to the Space Physics Interactive Data Resource
(SPIDR) team for development of Representational State
Transfer (ReST) web-services.
• NOAA/CIRES Customer Service Award to the
customer service team of the SPIDR group.
Herzfeld, Ute
• NASA Group Achievement Award and Ames Honor
Award to members of the Characterization of Arctic
Sea Ice Experiment (CASIE) team for outstanding
accomplishments in the execution of CASIE in Svalbard,
Norway.
Jimenez, Jose Luis
• Rosenstiel Award in Marine and Atmospheric Science
from the Rosenstiel Foundation and the Rosenstiel
School of the University of Miami, for outstanding
contributions and a significant and growing impact in
the last decade in marine and atmospheric science.
Lack, Steven
• CIRES Cash Award received for work on highly
visible convective evaluations.
Layne, Geary
• CIRES Cash Award received for work on highly
visible convective evaluations.
Lewis, William
• Baldi Memorial Lecture Award, International Society
of Limnology.
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Michelson, Sara
• CIRES Bronze Medal for her work to develop the
modeling component of the Coastal Atmospheric
River Monitoring and Early Warning System for the
Hydrometeorological Testbed (HMT), an atmospheric
water vapor flux tool that combines observations and
numerical model output to document and monitor the
atmospheric river conditions that often lead to excessive
precipitation.
Molnar, Peter
• Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, Oberlin College.
Moran, Kenneth
• Special Recognition Award from the Department of
Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)
Program, recognizing original work in the design,
development and deployment of the 35 GHz Millimeter
Cloud Radars for the ARM program over the past 15 years.
Noone, David
• National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career
Development Award.
Rajagopalan, Balaji
• Distinguished Achievement Award from the
Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural
Engineering, University of Colorado.
Russell, Elizabeth
• NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Global
Systems Division Web Award for Most Improved Site
for the improvements to the Science On a Sphere® (SOS)
site, http://sos.noaa.gov, enabling visitors to explore
SOS, get help on the system and access a large collection
of Earth System visualizations.
Shah, Anju
• CIRES Bronze medal for advancing the nation’s ability
to recognize, mitigate and adapt to drought through
the development of the United States Drought Portal at
http://www.drought.gov.
Solomon, Susan
• Career Achievement Service to America medal for her
pioneering atmospheric research, including identifying
the cause of the ozone hole.
Tolbert, Margaret
• Named University Distinguished Professor by Board
of Regents, University of Colorado.
Vaida, Veronica
• American Chemical Society E.B. Wilson Award in
Spectroscopy.
Watts, Laurel
• National Instruments Graphical System Design
Achievement Award for Wireless Monitoring and
Editor’s Choice Award for the application ‘Monitoring
Atmospheric Ozone on the Global Hawk UAV With
CompactRIO.’