Education & Outreach

Education Activities
Workshops and Colloquia
Seminars and Presentations
Non-technical and Outreach
Editorships
Honors and Awards
Panels
Other (Education & Training outside K-12 college world)


Education Activities

Staff Name

Teaching Appointment

Department

Institution

Shel Gerding

Adjunct Professor

Electrical Engineering

Univ of Colorado-Denver

Kent Goodrich

Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Marcia Politovich COMET Mentor to Chris Buonnano, LRK SOO
- UCAR

Hatim Sharif

Taught "Hydrologic Cycle" part of grad level class

PAOS

Univ of Colorado

V. Vivekanandan

Adjunct Professor

Electrical Engineering

Univ of Washington

Tom Warner

Research Professor

PAOS

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Staff Name

Advising on Graduate Research

Department

Institution

Kent Goodrich

Douglas Norris, Ph.D

Mathematics

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Roy Rasmussen

Robert Tardif, Ph.D

PAOS

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Jenny Sun

Tianfeng Chai, Ph.D

Mechanical Engineering

University of Iowa

Tom Warner

Eric Thaler, Ph.D

Applied Math

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Staff Name

Thesis Committee

Department

Institution

Kent Goodrich

Emily Salvo, MA

Mathematics

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Kent Goodrich

Craig Tennenhouse, MA

Mathematics

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Kent Goodrich

Kerri Kornelson, Ph.D

Mathematics

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Kent Goodrich

Tressa Fowler, MS

Mathematics

Univ of Colorado-Denver

Roy Rasmussen Robert Tardif, Ph.D PAOS Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Jenny Sun

Tianfeng Chai, Ph.D

Mechanical Engineering

University of Iowa

V. Vivekanandan

Marios Anagnostou, Ph.D

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Univ of Connecticut

Tom Warner

Eric Thaler, Ph.D

Applied Math

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Tom Warner

Jamie Wolff, MS

PAOS

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Tom Warner

Lansing Madry, Ph.D

PAOS

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Tom Warner

Robert Tardiff, Ph.D

PAOS

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Tom Warner

Tom Hopsn, Ph.D

PAOS

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

Tom Warner

Allison Grimsdell, Ph.D

CIRES

Univ of Colorado-Boulder

David Yates

Molly Hellmuth, Ph.D

Civil Engineering

Univ of Colorado

David Yates

David Wiberg, Ph.D

Civil Engineering

Univ of Colorado

David Yates

Joseph Alpheri, MS

Geography

Univ of Colorado

David Yates

Charles Bardeen, MS

PAOS

Univ of Colorado

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Workshops and Colloquia

Staff Name

Title/Subject

Dates

Sponsor

Barb Brown

Verification of Climate Forecasts (Speaker)

Jan, 2002

AMS

Barb Brown

Workshop on Making Verification More Meaningful (Organizer)

30 July - 1 Aug

FAA, NCAR

Fei Chen

IHOP Surface, Soil, & Vegetation Workshop

5-6 Aug

NCAR Water Cycle Initiative, RAP MMM

Fei Chen

WRF/LSM Working Group Workshop

4-5 Sept

RAP

Tressa Fowler

Workshop on Making Verification More Meaningful (Co-Organizer)

30 July - 1 Aug

FAA, NCAR

Rose Lundeen

Railroad Weather Symposium

17 - 18 Oct

Federal RR Admin., Assoc. of American RR, NCAR

Hatim Sharif

Writing Workshop of the Hydrologic Information Systems subcommittee of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (participated in writing proposal)

24-25 June

National Science Foundation

V. Vivekanandan

Specialist Meeting on Microwave Remote Sensing (Co-Chair)

6-8 Nov

NCAR, NOAA, IEEE, Radio Science, NASA

David Yates

IHOP Surface, Soil, & Vegetation Workshop

5-6 August

NCAR Water Cycle Initiative, RAP, MMM

David Yates

WRF/LSM Working Group Workshop

4-5 September

RAP

Seminars and Presentations

Staff Name

Name of Presentation

Brief Description

Group presented to

Dan Breed

"Aerosol and cloud droplet measurements in the United Arab Emirates"

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AMS 11th Conf. On Cloud Physics

Dan Breed

Radar meteorology and Titan/CIDD Display

Tutorial and workshop on using radar data

UAE meteorologists

Barb Brown

"Development of an Observation - and Forecast Based Climatology of In-Flight Icing Conditions"

Seminar

National Climatic Data Center, Nov. 01

Barb Brown

"Implications of Non-Systematic Observations for Verification of Forecasts of Aviation Weather Variables"

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AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 01

Barb Brown

"Verification of Probability Forecasts"

AMS Short-course on Verification of Climate Forecasts

AMS Annual Meeting, Orlando FL, Jan. 02 (Invited)

Barb Brown

"Summary: Workshop on Verification of Climate Forecasts."

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AMS, 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in Atmospheric Sciences, Orlando, January 2002

Barb Brown

“Diagnostic Forecast Verification.”

American Meteorological Society Short-course on Verification of Climate Forecasts

AMS Annual Meeting, Orlando FL, January 2002.(Invited)

Barb Brown

“Improved Approaches for Measuring the Quality of Convective Weather Forecasts.”

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AMS, 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, Orlando, FL, January 2002

Barb Brown

“Verification of Gridded Weather Forecasts.”

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NWS Integrated Forecast Production System Verification Workshop, NWS Headquarters, Silver Spring, MD, January 2002

Barb Brown

“Verification and Tech Transfer of AWRP Products”

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Oceanic Weather Product Development Team, Science Meeting, November 2001

Barb Brown

“Verification of Aviation Forecasts,”

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Presentation to CAA visitors. December 2001

Barb Brown

“Icing Severity as an Extreme Value Problem: Background and Possible Solutions.”

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Presentation to ESIG and NSF visitor (Brown & Politovich). February 2002

Barb Brown

"Verification of the In-flight Icing Diagnostic Algorithm."

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AMS, 10th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, Portland OR, May 2002

Barb Brown

"Today's Convective Metrics,"

2nd Workshop on Aviation Weather for Air Traffic Management: Requirement, Metrics, and State of the Science

Mitre Corp., McLean, VA, July 2002

Barb Brown

"Statistical/Meteorological Verification of Convective Forecasts."

Weather Forecasting Accuracy for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Traffic Flow Management (TFM) Workshop

National Research Council, Georgetown, VA, June 2002

Barb Brown

"Development of an Object-Based Diagnostic Approcah for QPF Verification."

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USWRP Science Symposium, Boulder, April 2002

Barb Brown

"Verification Strategies for Oceanic Weather."

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Oceanic Weather Product Development Team Science Meeting, Monterey, CA, April 2002

Janice Coen

"Wildfire Research at NCAR: Wildfire Simulations, Observations of Fire Dynamics, & Applications for Hazard Management"

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3rd Intl. Conf. On Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry (11/7/01)

Janice Coen

"Coupled Atmosphere-Fire Model Simulations in Various Fuel Types in Complex Terrain"

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4th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology (11/13/01)

(Coen, Wagoner, Bob Harriss)

"Wildland Fire R&D Collaboratory"

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UCAR Management Committee (12/20/01)

Janice Coen

"Weather Impacts on Fire"

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Steamboat Weather Summit (Invited) 1/22/02

Janice Coen

"Wildland Fire Research & Development Collaboratory" (Coen, Wagoner)

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NCAR Advanced Studies Program Seminar (1/23/02)

Janice Coen

"Fire Behavior Modeling & Observations"

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Geographical Area Coordination Center (GACC) Meteorologist Meeting (4/10/02)

Janice Coen

"Fire Weather Modeling"

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COMET Mesoscale Analysis & Prediction Course 2002 (6/18/02)

Janice Coen

"Tech Tools for the 21st Century: Wildland Fire Modeling"

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Colorado Mitigation & Wildfire Conference (9/27/02)

Janice Coen

"Wildland Fire Modeling"

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Wildland Fire Collaboratory 10/9/02

Lidia Cucurull

3dvar assimilation of GPS & meteorological observations in MM5 during the December 14th 2001 storm event over the western Mediterranean sea.

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12th MM5 workshop, June 2002, sponsored by NCAR

Andrew Crook

"Wind & thermodynamic retrievals in a supercell thunderstorm: 4DVar results"

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Presented to 15th Conference on Numerical Wether Prediciton, San Antonio, TX

Andrew Crook

"Short-term numerical prediction of severe convection using numerical models"

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Presented at WWRP conference on Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting, Reading University, UK

Tressa Fowler

"Subjectively Evaluating Turbulence and ITFA"

Taught how to evaluate turb/ITFA, & fill out questionnaires for subjective study of ITFA

COMAIR dispatchers & United meteorology staff

Tara Jensen

Overview of the UAE Rainfall & Chemistry Experiment

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Weather Modification Assoc. annual meeting

Cathy Kessinger

NEXRAD Data Quality: An Update on the AP Clutter Mitigation Scheme

Description of progress made on the AP Clutter Mitigation Scheme

18th IIPS Conf. AMS

Bill Myers

DICAST/Overview of DICAST system

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University of Washington & MURI Consortium

Alex Praskovsky

"Theoretical Background of the UCAR-STARS Method"

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Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Eleanor Praskovskaya

"Application of UCAR-STARS to the MU Radar"

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Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Alex Praskovsky

"SA Measurements in the Atmosphere: Comparison of Techniques"

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Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Alex Praskovsky

"UCAR-STARS: An Alternative Approach to Atmospheric Measurements for Spaced Antenna Radars"

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Institute for Space Science & Center for Space & Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

Alex Praskovsky

"UCAR-STARS: Theoretical Background"

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Institute for Space Science & Center for Space & Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

Alex Praskovsky

"Application of the UCAR-STARS Method to the MU Radar Data: The First Results"

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NCAR-RAP Seminar

Roy Rasmussen

"Freezing Drizzle Formation in Supercooled Clouds"

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University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Vidal Salazar

"Designing and Testing of a Flare Testing Facility"

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Wx Modification Assoc. Mtg/Reno, NV April 2002

Hatim Sharif

"Impact of Radar-Rainfall Estimation Error on Distributed Hydrologic Model Predictions: A Simulation Framework"

Presented some statistical approaches for application in real-life

NCAR-wide seminar attended by people outside NCAR

Jenny Sun

"The Assimilation of Radar Data for Weather Prediction"

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David Atlas Symposium, AMS annual meeting

Jenny Sun

"The Assimilation of Radar Data for Prediction of Convective Systems"

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Third US-Korea Joint Workshop on Storm Scale & Mesoscale Wx Analysis & Prediction

Francois Vandenberghe

"Ground Based Atmospheric Remote Sensing by Microwave Radiometry"

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Invited Seminar/ Meteo France, Toulouse, France

Francois Vandenberghe

Workshop on Cost Action 720 "Integrated Ground-Based Remote Sensing Stations for Atmospheric Profiling"

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Early Career Scientist Assembly, L'Aquila Italy (20 June)

V. Vivekanandan

"Effects of Scattering on Down-welling Radiation

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10th Conf. On Aviation, Range & Aerospace Meteorology

V. Vivekanandan

"Remote Estimation of Temperature Inversion"

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10th Conf. On Aviation, Range & Aerospace Meteorology

V. Vivekanandan

"Rain-snow Discrimination with Polarization Radar Measurements"

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10th Conf. On Aviation, Range & Aerospace Meteorology

Chuck Wade

"Progress Towards Drizzle Detection on ASOS"

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AMS Aviation, Range & Aerospace Meteorology Conf., Portland, OR

John Williams

"Evaluation of Remote Icing Detection Techniques Using X-, Ka, and W-band Radar & Microwave Radiometer Observations"

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10th Conf. On Aviation, Range, & Aerospace Meteorology

John Williams

"Turbulence Prediction & Warning System FY02 Flight Test Data Analysis" and "Comparative Analysis Update"

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NASA-FAA Industry Airborne Turbulence Detection Systems Workshop #5 at FAA-LAACO

Jim Wilson

"Quantitative Precipitation Nowcasting"

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USWRP 4th Symposium/Boulder, CO

Jim Wilson

"Status of Nowcasting in North America"

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Intl. Conf. On Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting/Reading, England

Jim Wilson

"IHOP Research Objectives"

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IHOP Convcetion Initiation Workshop/Baltimore, MD

David Yates

"Evaluating the Effects of Climate Change & Other Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystem Goods and Services of the San Francisco Bay Watershed"

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NCAR RAP Seminar Series

David Yates

"Integrating Commercial & Customized Elements into a Hydro-Meteorological Application"

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Geographic Information System Initiative Workshop/presented at NCAR

David Yates

"Global Change Impacts on Aquatic Ecosystem Services"

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Energy Modeling Forum, sponsored by Stanford Univ. & Electric Power Research Institute

Guifu Zhang

"Range Interferometry Technique to Determine Radial Wind"

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Intl. Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, Toronto

Greg Thompson

"Detailed comparisons of aircraft icing environments and model-predicted microphysics"

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Pacific Northwest Winter Weather Workshop/sponsored by Univ. of Washington/Seattle/March 2002

Greg Thompson

"Detailed comparisons of aircraft icing environments and model-predicted microphysics"

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IMPROVE-2 (field project) data meeting/sponsored by Univ. of Washington/Seattle/July 2002

Marcia Politovich

"Icing Conditions Remote Sensing"(Andy Reehorst, NASA GRC, Charles Ryerson, CRREL and Marcia Politovich, NCAR)

Describes progress in icing remote sensing research and development conducted by these three organizations

SAE AC-9C InFlight Icing Subcommittee

Marcia Politovich

"Issues in Predicting Icing Severity" (Marcia Politovich, Frank McDonough and Ben Bernstein)

Conference presentation on some of the problems faced with predicting icing severity

AMS Aviation Weather Conference

Marcia Politovich

"An Unusual Icing Case" (Marcia Politovich, )

A description of an icing case in Denver that greatly affected airline operations

AMS Aviation Weather Conference

Marcia Politovich

"Icing Severity as an Extreme Value Problem: Background and Possible Solutions" (Marcia Politovich and Barb Brown)

Described how we might look at forecasting icing severity as an extreme value analysis

NSF Review of NCAR Programs in ESIG

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Non-technical and Outreach

Staff Name

Name of Presentation

Brief Description

Group presented to

Dan Breed

Latitude and Longitude

mapping exercise to familiarize with latitude & longitude

4th and 5th grade at Mapleton

Dan Breed

Science Fair (Judge)

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Casey Middle School

Dan Breed

Lightning

slide show and demonstration on storms, light production and lightning safety

4th grade at Douglas Elemenatry School

Janice Coen

Educational video-Demonstration of Greenhouse Effect- with elementary school teacher Mike Celaya

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Jim Cowie


General Weather talk

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3rd grade at Hygiene Elementary School (4/29/02)

Tara Jensen

The basics of the TITAN & CIDD radar display software/

a multi-part introductory tutorial on TITAN& CIDD/System

Administrators at Dept. of Water Resource Studies, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Tara Jensen


Introduction to Atmospheric Science

lecture summarizing basic principles of Atmospheric Science8

Physical Geography Class at Naropa University, Boulder

Tenny Lindholm

Advances in Aviation Weather

LTA Flying Safety Seminar

Pilot Group from Eastern Colorado

Tenny Lindholm

Aviation Weather R&D

Presentation at Annual Symposium, Kansas City

National Air Traffic Controllers Association

Tenny Lindholm

Advances in Aviation Weather

Presentation at Annual Symposium

Airline Dispatcher Federation

Tenny Lindholm

Oceanic Weather and Aviation Weather Research Program

Seminar Describing Advances in Aviation Weather Information

Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney and Melbourne

Tenny Lindholm

Oceanic Weather and Aviation Weather Research Program

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Presentation to AirServices Executives/AirServices Australia, Canberra

Tenny Lindholm

Oceanic Weather and Aviation Weather Research Program

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Presentation to Qantas Dispatch on Advances in Aviation Weather/Qantas Airlines

Tenny Lindholm

Turbulence Detection and Oceanic Weather/

Briefings to Airline Dispatch and Management

American and United Airlines

Tenny Lindholm

Cockpit-based Weather Product Dissemination/Display/Panel Presentation

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Friends and Partners in Aviation Weather

Tenny Lindholm

Oceanic Weather and Aviation Weather Research Program

NASA Weather Accident Prevention Industry Review

Presentation to NASA Industry Review Team

Tenny Lindholm

Oceanic Weather

Information Briefing

Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures Program Office, FAA

Tenny Lindholm

Aspects of Oceanic Weather

3 paper presentations

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Niles Oien

Presented software engineering work to school kids as part of Careers Day

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Vidal Salazar

General talk about weather and meteorological phenomena for a class from NAROPA University studying introduction to meteorology(class came to visit RAP)

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NAROPA University at NCAR

John Williams

"Shadowing Day" presentation on turbulence detection and artifical intelligence work

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High school students from Colorado Christian Academy at NCAR

Greg Thompson


Weather slide show

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Pacific Northwest Winter Weather Workshop/Invited speaker at banquet

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Editorships

Staff Name

Description

Barb Brown

Associate Editor, Weather and Forecasting

Andrew Crook

Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review

Lidia Cucurull

Chief Editor of Physics & Chemistry of the Earth for the publication of the proceedings of the 2001 European Geophysical Society, special session on Geodesy and Meteorology (G5). Volume 27 (4/5), April 2002

Marcia Politovich

Editor, Journal of Atmospheric Technology

Daran Rife

Reviewer, Journal of Applied Meteorology

V. Vivekanandan

Associate Editor for Radio Science Special Issue on Microwave Remote Sensing

Honors and Awards

Staff Name

Description

Barb Brown

Best Poster runner-up, international Conference on QPF, Reading, England, Sept. 2002

Andrew Crook

2001 Annual Publication Award (with Jenny Sun)

Lidia Cucurull

Best Paper award (GPS Meteorology Session) at the 14th Institute of Navigation (ION) GPS conference

Lidia Cucurull

Summer school on Inverse Techniques and Data Assimilation at Oregon State University, sponsored by NASA

Kent Goodrich

Teaching award given by the CU dorms

Tenny Lindholm

2002 Turning Goals into Reality Award, NASA, March 2002

Niles Oien

Scientific Achievement Award from UCAR

Marcia Politovich

2002 FAA Excellence in Aviation Award (to AWRP Team)

Marcia Politovich

NASA Turning Gooals into Reality Award (to InFlight Icing Team)

Tom Warner

NCAR Outstanding Scientific and Technical Advancement Award

Tom Wilson

AMS Remote Sensing Lecture Award

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Panels

Staff Name

Description

Barb Brown

WWRP Verification Team, Sydney Forecast Demonstration Project

Fei Chen

Deputy Chair, WRF Land Surface Modeling Group

Lidia Cucurull

Paper: 3dvar assimilation of GPS and meteorological observations in MM5 during the December 14th 2001 storm event over the western Mediterranean sea, L. Cucurull, F .Vandenberghe, D. Barker, E. Vilaclara and A. Rius. Submitted to Monthly Weather Review.

Andrew Crook

Participated on panel on Weather Forecasting Accuracy for FAA Air Traffic Control hosted by Ntl Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

Andrew Crook

Panel member for WWRF conference on Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting, Reading University, UK

Cathy Kessinger

Member, AMS Artificial Intelligence Committee

Tenny Lindholm

RTCA Special Committee 195 Plenary, Working Group 1

Tenny Lindholm

Joint Safety Implementation Team

Tenny Lindholm

MDCRS Working Group

Marcia Politovich

SAE AC-9C InFlight Icing Subcommittee

Marcia Politovich

NCAR Scientist Classification Review Panel

Marcia Politovich

AIAA Atmospheric Environment Committee (Lead of InFlight Icing Subcommittee)

Marcia Politovich

FAA InFlight Aircraft Icing Committee (advisor)

Hatim Sharif

Participated in activities of the Hydrologic Information Systems subcommittee of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science. Attended workshop and several teleconferences. Contributed to drafting the white paper to be presented to NSF next month. Included in the list of authors of the white paper.

François Vandenberghe

Reviewer for the NSF GLOBE program

Tom Warner

Tools for Tracking Chemical/Biological/Nuclear Releases in the Atmosphere: Implications for Homeland Security, sponsored by NAS, NRC, BASC/22-24 July

David Yate

NASA, Solid Earth and Natural Hazards proposal Reviewer

David Yates

National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC), proposal reviewer

David Yates

Climatic Change (peer review paper reviewer)

 

Other (Education & Training outside K-12 college world)

Staff Name Description

Tressa Fowler, Jamie and Cory Wolff

Comair dispatcher training on CAT and how to use ITFA for CAT predictions. Also conducted evaluation training & expressed why they are important to the developers.(Dec 2001)

Tressa Fowler, Jamie and Cory Wolff

United Airlines meteorologists training on ITFA & how to use it for CAT predictions. Also conducted training on the mountain wave algorithm & evaluations of this. (Jan 2002)

Laurie Carson, Doug Lindholm, Daran Rife

ATEC User Training/March 2002/White Sands Missile Range
Laurie Carson, David Hahn, Doug Lindholm, Daran Rife

ATEC User Training/May 2002/Dugway Proving Ground
Laurie Carson, David Hahn, Doug Lindholm, Daran Rife

ATEC User Training/June 2002/Aberdeen Proving Ground
David Hahn, Doug Lindholm, Daran Rife, Rebecca Ruttenberg

ATEC User Training/August 2002/Yuma Proving Ground
Laurie Carson, David Hahn, Doug Lindholm, Daran Rife ATEC User Training/Sept. 2002/Cold Regions Test Center

V. Vivekanandan

Impart values to the children and art of right thinking among the youth of Indian origin/ Bi-weekly program: Boulder House of Children

 

 

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