2011 - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ...

Williams, Eric
• CIRES Bronze Medal for leadership of field missions
during the International Polar Year that provided data
on the climate-sensitive, fast-changing region of the
Arctic.
CIRES Bronze Medal
Alexander, Curtis; Hu, Ming; and Smirnova, Tatiana
• CIRES Bronze Medal for contributions to developing
the first National Centers for Environmental Prediction
(NCEP) operational radar reflectivity assimilation
technique, which improved short-range numerical
forecasts for convective storms.
Outstanding Performance Award
for Service
Billingsley, Brendan; Brodzik, Mary J.; Collins, Julia;
Fowler, Doug; Kovarik, Jonathan; Miller, Deann; O’Barr,
Barbara; Raup, Bruce; Scott, Donna; and Truex, Stephen
• CIRES Outstanding Performance Award for Service
for contributions to the Searchlight Team, which created
a new online interface and data system infrastructure
for cryospheric data at the National Snow and Ice Data
Center (NSIDC).
Peckham, Steven
• CIRES Outstanding Performance Award for Service
for his contributions to the development of the WRF-
Chem (Weather Research and Forecasting model
coupled with Chemistry) air-quality model and his
further work supporting WRF-Chem with workshop
tutorials around the world to benefit air-quality studies.
Outstanding Performance Award
for Science and Engineering
Loto’aniu, Paul; Mayer, Leslie; Rodriguez, Juan;
and Shouldis, Mary
• CIRES Outstanding Performance Award for Science
and Engineering for successful delivery of the Phase
One Space Weather algorithms to process raw space
weather observations into useful data for the R-series
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
(GOES-R).
Nair, Manoj
• CIRES Outstanding Performance Award for
Science and Engineering for developing an empirical
prompt penetration model, which predicts electric
field variations in the equatorial ionosphere from
solar wind observations, significantly improving our
understanding of prompt penetration and directly
benefiting electrodynamic models of the equatorial
ionosphere.
Reinard, Alysha
• CIRES Outstanding Performance Award for Science
and Engineering for groundbreaking scientific work
using subsurface helicity to predict solar flares that
results in a major improvement to predict the time,
strength and location of solar flares.
Rigler, Josh
• CIRES Outstanding Performance Award for Science
and Engineering for successful delivery of the Phase
One Space Weather algorithms to process raw space
weather observations into useful data for the R-series
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
(GOES-R).
HPC Innovation Excellence Award
Compo, Gilbert, and Sardeshmukh, Prashant
• The National Energy Research Scientific Computing
Center (NERSCC) received a 2011 HPC Innovation
Excellence Award for providing supercomputing
services to the 20th Century Reanalysis Project, which
Compo and Sardeshmukh helped spearhead.
Best Posters & Presentations
Chu, Xinzhao
• Best Poster Paper Award, 25th International Laser
Radar Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Higgins, Matthew
• Outstanding Presentation Award in the 2010 Boulder
Postdoctoral Poster Symposium organized by the
Department of Commerce Boulder Labs Diversity
Council.
Kahan, Tara
• Outstanding Presentation Award at the 2011 Boulder
Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium for her
work measuring the absorption of sunlight by ozone
and hydrogen peroxide.
Yamashita, Chihiko
• Best Poster at the 26th CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics
and Dynamics and Atmospheric Regions) workshop
for elucidation of the stratospheric sudden warming
phenomenon and its effects on the atmosphere.
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