AMS is pleased to recognize outstanding individuals and organizations of the weather, water, and climate community through its Awards and Honors program. Join us in congratulating the 2023 recipients who will receive their award or honor at the 103rd AMS Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado.
The AMS 2023 Awards Brochure is now available, which includes bios of the recipients.
AMS would like to thank its members and friends for nominating colleagues and peers who are so deserving of these awards.
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Sue Barrell
Kathryn Sullivan
Roger Wakimoto
THE CARL-GUSTAF ROSSBY RESEARCH MEDAL
Bruce Albrecht
For fundamental contributions to the measurement and understanding of boundary layer clouds and the turbulent and microphysical processes controlling them
THE HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES MEDAL
Paolo D'Odorico
For seminal contributions in eco-hydrology, desertification, and for exploring the fragilities of the connected virtual water and food trade network
THE HENRY STOMMEL RESEARCH MEDAL
Susan Wijffels
For exceptional contributions to understanding oceanic and freshwater storage and transport of heat and monitoring changes in the global hydrological cycle
THE VERNER E. SUOMI TECHNOLOGY MEDAL
V Chandrasekar
For leadership in developing techniques to observe precipitation processes using dual-polarization and spaceborne radar
THE SVERDRUP GOLD MEDAL
Gerald Meehl
For seminal work integrating observations, models, and theory to understand variability and change in the ocean and atmosphere.
THE JULE G. CHARNEY MEDAL
Dale Durran
For fundamental contributions to mountain meteorology through the understanding and numerical simulation of orographically modified flow
THE WARREN WASHINGTON RESEARCH AND LEADERSHIP MEDAL
Gordon McBean
For outstanding research and leadership in advancing earth sciences and promoting global actions to spur noteworthy societal benefits
THE CHARLES FRANKLIN BROOKS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE SOCIETY
Richard Rosen
For outstanding service as Secretary-Treasurer, STAC Commissioner, President, as well as visionary leadership as founding editor of Journal of Climate and State of Climate reports
THE CLEVELAND ABBE AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO THE ATMOSPHERIC AND RELATED SCIENCES
Stanley Benjamin
For a career of pioneering work that has revolutionized regional to global high-impact weather prediction in the United States and around the world
THE ROBERT H. AND JOANNE SIMPSON MENTORSHIP AWARD
Ralph Kahn
For an exceptional career filled with dedication to mentoring with compassion, generosity, encouragement and scientific integrity
THE EDWARD N. LORENZ TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD
Paul Sirvatka
For lifelong, impactful education and mentoring of diverse learners, and for trailblazing and championing experiential learning, innovative curriculum, and accessible data visualization
THE KENNETH C. SPENGLER AWARD
Neil Jacobs
For leadership in fostering community collaboration across the weather, water, and climate enterprise through the perspectives of science, policy, and business
THE JOANNE SIMPSON TROPICAL METEOROLOGY RESEARCH AWARD
Christopher Thorncroft
For theoretical advances in the meteorology and climate dynamics of Africa and the tropical Atlantic, and for leadership of international research in Africa
THE SYUKURO MANABE CLIMATE RESEARCH AWARD
Jonathan Gregory
For vital contributions to our understanding of climate sensitivity and rising sea level, and for assessments that communicate this understanding to policy-makers and the public
THE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE ADVANCE OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY
Marshall Moss
For his innovative contributions to utilizing Artificial Intelligence to enhance weather, water, and climate prediction
THE HENRY T. HARRISON AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS BY A CONSULTING METEOROLOGIST
Jan Null, CCM
For a career of exemplary service as an AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist and for his tireless work to raise public awareness on the issue of heatstroke deaths in vehicles
THE CHARLES E. ANDERSON AWARD
Ada Monzon
For being a tireless champion for diversity by broadening the knowledge of sciences through education and outreach in all communities throughout Puerto Rico and beyond
THE HELMUT E. LANDSBERG AWARD
Dev Niyogi
For decades of leadership and pathbreaking discoveries related to assessing urban climate extremes, their prediction and mitigation using data-model integration, and local to global partnerships
THE FRANCIS W. REICHELDERFER AWARD
Thomas LeFebvre
For 40 years of public service to incorporate new science into developing tools that improve forecaster efficiency resulting in countless life-saving products
THE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOMETEOROLOGY
Hans Peter Schmid
For exemplary accomplishments combining theoretical and experimental work to produce numerical models for studying biosphere-atmosphere exchanges of mass, energy, and momentum
THE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICES BY A CORPORATION
Plume Labs
For groundbreaking work collecting, creating, and disseminating air pollution data and for promoting partnerships to maximize the utility and utilization for improved air quality awareness
SPECIAL AWARD
David Lubar
For leadership, enthusiasm, and commitment to spectrum management in support of the weather, water, and climate enterprise over the last two decades
THE LOUIS J. BATTAN AUTHOR’S AWARD—ADULT
Ramalingam Saravanan
For "The Climate Demon: Past, Present, and Future of Climate Prediction", a thoughtful and approachable guide to the history, philosophy, and process of climate modeling – which informs an important discussion of science's role in policymaking
THE LOUIS J. BATTAN AUTHOR’S AWARD—K-12
MK Reed and Jonathan Hill
For "Science Comics, Wild Weather, Storms, Meteorology, and Climate", a comprehensive, entertaining, and engaging story that accurately discusses weather and climate in a strongly visual comic format
THE AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SCIENCE JOURNALISM IN THE ATMOSPHERIC AND RELATED SCIENCES
Kay Nolan
For vital, in-depth reporting on language barriers, translation challenges, and dialect nuances that experts experience when providing crucial, life-saving weather information to Spanish-speaking communities
THE JUNE BACON-BERCEY AWARD FOR BROADCAST METEOROLOGY
Bernie Rayno
For his entertaining and informative television and internet weather videos and his training of other distinguished television weather broadcast meteorologists
THE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE REPORTING BY A BROADCAST METEOROLOGIST
Angie Lassman, CBM
For documenting the unprecedented climate change impacts occurring in Australia and their relationship to the potential climate challenges threatening South Florida's future
THE CLARENCE LEROY MEISINGER AWARD
Angeline Pendergrass
For original insights into the processes associated with precipitation variability and extremes and envisioned changes in variability due to global warming
THE AWARD FOR EARLY-CAREER PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
Violeta Yas
For exceptional service as an early career professional advancing bilingual science communication, STEM outreach, and public safety in support of the AMS mission
THE NICHOLAS P. FOFONOFF AWARD
Lijing Cheng
For high quality, impactful research on ocean observations and application to ocean heat content, and for service to the community
THE HENRY G. HOUGHTON AWARD
Jing Li
For innovative technical advances in data assessment techniques, educational mentoring, and for promoting climate science at the international level
THE CHARLES L. MITCHELL AWARD
Todd Lindley
For seminal fire weather forecasting science and innovative applications used in operational settings enhancing fire preparedness, safety, and awareness in Oklahoma and Texas since 2006
THE AWARD FOR AN EXCEPTIONAL SPECIFIC PREDICTION
Andrew Orrison and the Weather Prediction Center Team
For exceptional, timely predictions and communication of impacts of the devastating flash flooding from Hurricane Ida in the Northeast United States in September 2021
LOCAL CHAPTER OF THE YEAR AWARD
North Florida Chapter
For exemplary dedication to community service, outreach, and professional development by providing members various local and national opportunities
LOCAL STUDENT CHAPTER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Northern Vermont University--Lyndon Student Chapter
For outstanding commitment to its members, the community, and the Society through innovative activities along with various community service, outreach, and professional development opportunities
THE WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURER
Julie DeMuth
For groundbreaking interdisciplinary research to improve hazardous weather risk communication and dedicated work promoting the exchange of knowledge across the meteorology and social sciences communities
THE BERNHARD HAURWITZ MEMORIAL LECTURER
Paul O'Gorman
For fundamental advances in understanding the atmospheric general circulation and the hydrological cycle in different climate states
THE ROBERT E. HORTON LECTURER IN HYDROLOGY
Hamid Moradkhani
For groundbreaking research on ensemble data assimilation and advancing the understanding of hydroclimate extremes
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
I-I Lin
For insightful and detailed comments that have been instrumental in reaching publication decisions on challenging manuscripts
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Caren Marzban
For providing insightful expertise and outstanding guidance on a difficult manuscript with other conflicting reviews
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Craig Ramseyer
For providing extremely high-quality reviews in difficult topical areas
Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
Allison A. Wing
For insightful and balanced reviews that led to major improvements during a challenging review process
Journal of Climate
Chaim Garfinkel
For reviews that are consistently of high quality
Journal of Climate
Haiyan Teng
For thoughtful and constructive reviews
Journal of Climate
Sang-Wook Yeh
For providing a very large number of reviews
Journal of Hydrometeorology
Zhao Yang
For providing high-quality and constructive manuscript reviews
Journal of Physical Oceanography
Jim M. Thomson
For generously and reliably reviewing many papers related to his work
Journal of Physical Oceanography
Beatriz Pena-Molino
For providing thoughtful and comprehensive reviews that led to noticeable improvements in the manuscripts
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Falk Huettmann
For providing fast and insightful reviews, especially in the area of machine learning applications to ocean research
Monthly Weather Review
Rebecca Adams-Selin
For thorough, thoughtful, and constructive reviews of numerous manuscripts on convective storms
Monthly Weather Review
Justin McLay
For contributing constructive, insightful, and timely reviews for a large number of manuscripts on a diverse range of topics
Weather and Forecasting/Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Maria Molina
For multiple high-quality, thorough, and rapid reviews
Weather and Forecasting
Alexandra Anderson-Frey
For contributing numerous constructive and rigorous reviews that exhibited versatility across a broad range of subject areas
Weather, Climate, and Society
Adrienne Wootten
For insightful, thoughtful, and professional critiques on numerous manuscripts and their revisions
Cross-Journal
Ryan Sobash
For meritorious service as a reviewer for five AMS journals, providing numerous high-quality reviews over the past several years
Glossary of Meteorology
Jennifer Tate
For leadership and initiative in leading reviews of both new and existing Glossary terms in a timely, thorough manner with attention to details
Bryan Busby
Wenju Cai
Gregory Carmichael
David Changnon
Meghan Cronin
Paolo D'Odorico
Arthur DeGaetano
Mark DeMaria
Julie Demuth
Jiwen Fan
Yu Gu
Weiqing Han
Yongyun Hu
Anthony "Andy" Johnson
John Kain
Sonia Lasher-Trapp
Jennifer Mahoney
Eric Maloney
Shaima Nasiri
Ali Omar
Perry Samson
Vijay Tallapragada
Jean-Noël Thépaut
Susan Wijffels