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Editorships

Gordon Bonan, Editor, Journal of Climate, 1998; Editorial Advisory Board, Global Change Biology, 1994

Clara Deser, Associate Editor, Journal of Climate, 1996

Scott C. Doney, Associate Editor, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2002

James C. McWilliams, Editorial board of the Journal of Turbulence; Associate Editor of Physics of Fluids, 2001

Peter R. Gent, Associate Editor, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1992

William G. Large, Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2000

Doug Nychka, Editor, Statistical Science, 1999

Bette Otto-Bliesner, Associate Editor, Paleoclimates, 1992

Philip Rasch, Editorial Panel Member, Tellus, 1992

David Schimel, Consulting Editor, Biogeochemistry, Global Change Biology, Editor-in-Chief, Ecological Applications, Associate Editor, Annual Reviews of Environment & Resources

Joseph Tribbia, Editorial Board, Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water


Scientific, Policy, or Education Committees and Advisory/Panels/Boards


Maurice L. Blackmon
, Member, Climate Research Committee, National Research Council, 1997; Chair, NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Scientific Steering Committee, 1996; Science Team Member, NASA's Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES); Co-Chair, Scientific Working Group, Atlantic Climate Change Project, 1993; Member, American Meteorology Society Committee on Climate Variations, 1991; Member, UCAR Human Resources Advisory Committee (HRAC).

Gordon Bonan
, Co-Chair, Land Model Working Group for the NCAR Climate System Model, 1996; Member, NASA Land Cover Land Use Change science team, 2000; Member, Climate Research Committee, National Research Council, 2001; Member, Panel on Climate Change Feedbacks, National Research Council, 2001; Member, NASA Global Precipitation Mission, land surface hydrology and hydrometeorological modeling working group, 2001; Member, Community Arctic Modeling Project Advisory Panel, International Arctic Research Center, 2002.

Byron Boville
, Member, IAMAS Commission on the Meteorology of the Upper Atmosphere, 1991; Member, IAMAS Commission on the Meteorology of the Upper Atmosphere (ICMUA) Working Group on Modeling of the Middle Atmosphere, 1988

Grant Branstator, Member, Scientific Advisory Committee for the Center for Atmosphere-Land-Ocean Studies, 1999

 

Frank Bryan, Member, World Climate Research Program Working Group on Ocean Model Development; Coordinator, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Pilot Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (POMIP)

 

William Collins, Chair, AMS Committee on Radiation, 1999; United Nations panel on the Asian Brown Cloud, 2001; Co-chair, CCSM Atmospheric Model Working Group, 2002; Panelist, NASA Lidar Algorithms peer review, 2001; NASA Triana satellite science team, 2000; NSF ACE-Asia science team, 2001; NASA FIRST science team, 2001; Chair, NASA Radiation & Climate Peer Review, 2002; Organizer, Advanced Study Program (ASP) Colloquium, 2002; Instructor, “Intro to Atmospheric Physics” University of Colorado, Boulder, 2002

 

Clara Deser, Program Committee Member, American Geophysical Union, Chapman Conference on the North Atlantic Oscillation, 2000; Member, Climate Observing System Council, 2000-2001, NOAA-OAR; Member, UCAR Steering Committee of the NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change, 2001-2003.

Scott C. Doney, Member, U.S. JGOFS Steering Committee, 1993; Member, U.S. WOCE Steering Committee, 1997; Coordinator, U.S. JGOFS Synthesis and Modeling Project, 1997; Co-chair, CCSM Biogeochemistry Working Group, 1998; Member, CCSM Scientific Steering Committee, 2002; Member, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, Scientific Steering Group, 2002; Chair, U. S. CCSP Ocean Interim Implementation Group, 2002; Member, Ocean Carbon Cycle Research Working Group, 2002

Peter R. Gent, Member, Scientific Steering Committee for the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Project; Co-Chair, CCSM Ocean Model Working Group; Member, Working Group on Modeling and Prediction for the International Research Institute; Member, U.S. CLIVAR Ocean Panel

 

James Hack, Member, DOE Climate Change Prediction Program (CCPP) Science Team, 1991; Member, DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurements (ARM) Science Team, 1991; Co-Chair, Atmosphere Model Working Group for the Climate Model System Project, 1997; Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Computer Science and Mathematics Division Advisory Committee, 1998; Co-Chair Clouds and Climate Program, 1998; Member, CSM Scientific Sterring Committee, 2002

Marika Holland, Member, NCAR/UCAR Early Career Scientist Assembly Steering Committee; Member, AMS Committee on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography

James Hurrell, Member, Great Plains Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change, 1994; Co-chair, CCSM Climate Variability Working Group, 1997Member, U.S. CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee, 1998; Co-chair, U.S. CLIVAR Atlantic Implementation Panel, 1999; Member, International CLIVAR Atlantic Implementation Panel, 1999; Contributing Author Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scientific Assessment of Climate Change,  WMO/UNEP, Chapters 2 and 7, 2001

 

Akira Kasahara, Member, Advisory Committee for Next-generation Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), 1997

 

Jeffrey Kiehl, Member, DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurements (ARM) Science Team, 1991; Co-Director, NSF Science and Technology Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4), 1997; Chairman, General Circulation Model (GCM) Validation Work Group at the Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4), 1994; Member, Scientific Steering Committee, NSF Climate System Model Project, 1996

 

Tim Kittel, Member, National Science Foundation Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program Climate Committee, 1990; Science Team Member, Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling Analysis Project (VEMAP; an IGBP/GAIM core project). Co-Leader, VEMAP Data and Validation Group and Member, VEMAP Steering Committee, Phase 2: 1996; Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center User Working Group, 1997; Member, Central Great Plains Assessment Steering Committee. U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, 1998; National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Climate System Model (CSM) Biogeochemistry Working Group, 1998; Co-Leader, Ecosystem Scenario Development Team, U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, 1998

William G. Large, Member, CCSM Principal Investigator Group, 1995; Co-Chairman, International Science Steering Group of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), 1997; Member, Ph.D. Thesis Committee, J. Chanut, Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels, Grenoble, 2000

James C. McWilliams, Member, World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), 1994; U.S. Steering Committee; Member, San Diego Supercomputer Center User Advisory Council, 1998; Member, Visiting Committee for the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1999; Member, Climate Change Science, National Research Council, 2001

Gerald Meehl, Member, Climate System Model Investigators Group, 1994; Member, Climate Simulation Laboratory (CSL) Allocation Panel, 1995; Visiting Senior Fellow, University of Hawaii Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, 1995; Member, Climate Variability and Predictability Working Group on Coupled Models (CLIVAR WGCM), World Climate Research Programme, 1997; Member, Japan/U.S. Scientific Advisory Committee for the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, 1997; Chairman, Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), 1996; Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Chapter 9, Projections of Climate Change, 1998; Member, Steering Committee for Initial Assessment of the Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the Pacific Islands, 1999; Co-Chair, Community Climate System Modeling Climate Change and Assessment Working Group, 2000; Program Committee, Department of Energy Workshop on Downscaling, 2000; Program Committee for NASA Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability, 2000; Organizing Committee, the International Workshop on the Implementation of CLIVAR Programmes in the Pacific, 2000

Phil Merilees, Member, Ocean Research Advisory Panel, Office of Naval Research 2002; Member Scientific Committee, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 2002

Doug Nychka, Trustee, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 2000

 

Bette Otto-Bliesner, Member, Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP), U.S. Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) Committee, Coupled Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Subproject (PCMIP), 1995; Co-chair, Paleoclimate Working Group, NCAR Climate System Model, 1997; Chair, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group, American Geophysical Union, 2002; Member, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Committee, American Geophysical Union, 1998; Steering Committee Member, PARCS (Paleoenvironmental Arctic Sciences), National Science Foundation, 1999; Member, SCD Advisory Panel, 2000;  Program Committee, 2002 Fall AGU Meeting, 2002.

Philip Rasch, Member, NSF Science and Technology Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4), 1990; Co-Chair, Chemistry Modeling Group at the NSF Science and Technology Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4), 1994; Member NCAR Aerosol Panel, 1997; Member Coordinating Committee of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project on Stratospheric and Upper Tropospheric Aerosols (SUTA), 1998; Member, Scientific Steering Committee for IGAC, 2002

R. Saravanan, Co-chair, Program Committee, American Meteorological Society Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Conference Committee, 2002:  member American Meteorological Society Committee on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, 2002

 

David Schimel, International Geosphere-Biosphere Program: Task Force on Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modeling; NASA Earth Observing System Project, Biogeochemistry Panel, chairman; NASA Topographic Science Working Group SCOPE Working Group on Biogenic Trace Gases; U.S. National Academy Committee on Global Change Working groups on Biological Systems and Dynamics, Earth System Models, Nutrient Fluxes, and Dynamics; Member, U.S. National Academy Committee on Global Change Research, Carbon Science Working Group (USGCRP); National Research Council Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry; National Research Council Committee on Global Change Research; Member, Steering Committee Carbon Europe Program; Member, Komission (Search Committee) to replace Lennart Benngston; Member, technical Advisory Committee, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry; Co-organizer, NCAR-CSU Advanced Study Institute on Carbon Data Assimilation.

 

Peter Thornton, Invited Member of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Data Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) User Working Group.

 

Kevin Trenberth, Member “NOAA Panel on Climate and Global Change”, 1987–;Member Executive Council 1991–;Member, ECMWF Reanalysis (ERA) Project Advisory Group, 1993; Member, International CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group, 1995; Member, NOAA Council on Long-term Monitoring, 1998; Member, Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme, 1999; Member National Research Council’s Committee on  Global Change Research, 1999; Member, NOAA OAR Climate Observing System Council, 1999; Member NOAA Panel for the Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) program. 2001; Member Research Advisory Executive Committee for The Climate Report. Maryam Golnaraghi Editor, 2001; Member AMS Committee on Atmospheric Research Awards Committee. 2001; Member of team of experts to write Second Report on Adequacy of Global Climate Observing System. 2002; Member CLIVAR 2004 Scientific Conference committee, 2002-2004.

Joseph Tribbia, Member, CLIVAR Pacific Proposal Review Panel, 2002; member CLIVAR/SIMAP steering committee, 2001

Warren Washington, Member, National Science Board, 1995; Member, Secretary of Energy's Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee, 1990; Chair, Secretary of Energy's Health and Environmental Research Subcommittee on Biological and Environment Research Program in the U.S. Global Change Research Program, 1995; Member, Modernization Transition Committee of the National Weather Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1993; Past President, American Meteorological Society, 1994; Member, Executive Committee, American Meteorological Society Council, 1995; Chair, Fellows Committee, American Meteorological Society, 1995; Member, Board on Sustainable Development, National Research Council, 1995; Member, Advisory Panel, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, 1995; Member, The National Committee, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Center for Science and Engineering, 1994; Member, National Science Board Programs and Plans Committees: CPP Task Force on the Environment; CPP Task Force on Polar Issues; and Chair, Merit Review Criteria Task Force, 1996; Member, NASA Earth Systems Science and Applications Advisory Committee (ESSAAC), 1998; Member, Board of Trustees of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, 1998; Member, Executive Committee, National Science Board, 1998; Member, NOAA Science Advisory Board, 1998; Member, American Meteorological Society, History of the Atmospheric Sciences Committee, 1999; Member, Corporation for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1999; Member, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Policy Board of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1999; American Meteorological Society Award Committee, 2000; U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee, 2000; Member of Los Alamos National Laboratory Computer & Computational Sciences Division Review Committee, (2001); Member of U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy Science Advisory Panel, (2002); Elected Chair of National Science Board, (2002)

David Williamson, Member of CAS/JSC Working Group for Numerical Experimentation (WGNE), 1991; Member, U.S. Department of Energy Climate Change Prediction Program (CCPP) Science Team, 1991; Member, Atmospheric Modeling Inter-comparison Project Panel, 1996; Member, Program Committee for the 2001 Workshop on Numerical Solutions of Fluid Flow in Spherical Geometry, 1999

 Professional Society Memberships

 

Julie Arblaster, American Geophysical Union

Thomas Bengtsson, American Statistical Society, Svenska Statiskerfurbundet

Maurice L. Blackmon, American Meteorological Society

Gordon Bonan, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; Ecological Society of America

Byron Boville, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

Esther Brady, American Geophysical Union; The Oceanography Society

Grant Branstator, American Meteorological Society

Frank Bryan, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union; The Oceanography Society

Julie Caron, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union

William Collins, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; American Physical Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science

Aiguo Dai, American Geophysical Union

Clara Deser, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union

Scott C. Doney, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union; The Oceanography Society

Reinhard Furrer, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Association of Mathematical Geology, Swiss Statistical Society

Peter R. Gent, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

Tim Hoar, American Statistical Association; American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union

Marika Holland, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

Arlie Huffman, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

James Hurrell, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union; Royal Meteorological Society

Akira Kasahara, American Meteorological Society (Fellow); American Geophysical Union; American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow); Sigma Xi Scientific Society; Meteorological Society of Japan (Honorary Member)

Jeffrey Kiehl, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

Timothy Kittel, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Ecological Society of America, International Association for Vegetation Science, California Botanical Society
Joan A. Kleypas, American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, International Society for Reef Studies

Samuel Levis, American Geophysical Union

Roland Madden, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union

James C. McWilliams, American Geophysical Union

Gerald Meehl, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union; Pacific Science Association

Phil Merilees, American Meteorological Society; Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

Chester Newton, American Meteorological Society; American Geophysical Union; American Association for the Advancement of Science

Douglas Nychka, American Statistical Association; Institute for Mathematical Statistics; Royal Statistical Society

Keith Oleson, American Geophysical Union; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; American Association for the Advancement of Science

Bette Otto-Bliesner, American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; Geology Society of America; New York Academy of Sciences

Adam Phillips, American Meteorological Society

Philip Rasch, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science

R. Saravanan, American Meteorological Society

Fabrizio Sassi, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

Christine Shields, American Meteorological Society

David Schimel, American Geophysical Union, Ecological Society of America

Dennis Shea, American Meteorological Society

Lesley Smith, American Physical Society; American Geophysical Union

Sarah Streett, American Statistical Association

Mark Stevens, American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society

Kevin Trenberth, American Meteorological Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Royal Meteorological Society of New Zealand; American Geophysical Union
Warren Washington, American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society, National Academy of Engineering
David Williamson
, American Meteorological Society



 Honors and Awards

Christophe Cassou, Award for best Ph.D. in geophysics, National French Committee of Geodesy and Geophysics, Academy of Sciences (Paris), 2001; Prudhomme Award from the French Meteorological Society, for best Ph.D in Atmospheric Sciences, 2002

James C. McWilliams, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2001; Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002

David Schimel, External Member, Max-Planck Society

Joe Tribbia, University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences (AOSS) Alumni Society Merit Award University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences (AOSS) Alumni Society Merit Award

Warren Washington, Franklin Institute Black History Month Exhibit on African Americans in Science (2002); Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (2002); Elected Chair of the National Science Board (2002) 

Fellowships

Akira Kasahara, David Williamson, AMS

Akira Kasahara, AGU

Phil Merilees, AMS, CMOS and Life Member of the CMOS

Doug Nychka, American Statistical Association

Other Activities K-12

Lesley Smith, "Latinas Building Bridges in Education,” April 2002.  Sponsored by Boulder County Latina Women’s League.