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SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE

 

JAMES W. HURRELL

Address

1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305

 

Employment History

National Center for Atmospheric Research:

            Senior Scientist (7/03-present)

Director: Climate and Global Dynamics Division (11/04-11/07)

            Deputy and Interim Director: Climate and Global Dynamics Division (12/03-11/04)

            Deputy Section Head: Climate Analysis Section (1/02-11/04)

            Scientist I-III (5/91-7/03)

            Visiting Scientist (9/90-5/91)

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research:

            Visiting Scientist (1/99-12/99)

Purdue University: 

Teaching Assistant (1986-1990)

Research Assistant (1984-1990)

Educational Information

B.S.                  Mathematics and Earth/Space Science, University of Indianapolis, May 1984

M.S./Ph. D.      Atmospheric Science, Purdue University, August 1986/1990

             

Research Experience

James (Jim) Hurrell joined the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) immediately following his graduate studies, where he is now a Senior Scientist. Jim is the former Director of CGD, the largest science division within the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory at NCAR, and remains very active in upper NCAR management. Jim has convened 16 national and international workshops. He has held leadership roles in national and international science-planning and assessment efforts, and he has served on several National Research Council (NRC) panels (see Community Service). Jim’s research has centered on empirical and modeling studies and diagnostic analyses to better understand many aspects of climate, climate variability and climate change. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications, including: 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and reports, 4 editorials in professional journals, 4 NCAR technical notes, 23 white papers and other planning documents, and 40 conference proceedings. Jim has been acknowledged as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson-ISI. His citation count exceeds 7,000 and his h-index is 32. He has given more than 100 professional invited and keynote talks and many contributed presentations at national and international conferences.

 

Honors, Awards, Scholarships, Fellowships (Excluding Student Awards)

1.      Fellow, American Meteorological Society (2006)

2.      Purdue University, College of Science Distinguished Alumnus Award (2006)

3.      Who’sWho in America (2005)

4.      Highly Cited Researchers, Thomson-ISI (2004)

5.      Purdue University, Outstanding Alumnus Award, Dept. Earth and Atmospheric Science (2004)

6.      Greenwood Community High School, Distinguished Alumni Award (2002)

7.      American Meteorological Society, Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award (2001)

8.      University of Indianapolis, Distinguished Alumnus Award, School of Science (2001)

9.      NCAR, Outstanding Publication Award (1997)

 

Professional Memberships

1.      American Meteorological Society (1985-present) 

2.      American Geophysical Union (1996-present) 

3.      Royal Meteorological Society (2000-present)

 

Community Service

Editorships

1.      Volume editor: The North Atlantic Oscillation: Climatic Significance and Environmental Impact.  American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph, 2003, 134, 279 pp.

2.      Co-editor: Marine Ecosystems and Climate Variation. Oxford Univ. Press, 2004, 227 pp.

3.      Associate Editor-in-Chief, 2005-2008: Climate Research: Interactions of Climate with Organisms, Ecosystems and Human Societies. Inter-Research, Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany.

4.      Volume Editor, 2009: The Nested Regional Climate Model. Climate Dynamics, special issue in prep.

Committees (External to NCAR)

1.      Member of GPRC-NIGEC Proposal Review Board (1994-2004).

2.      Member of NCEP/NCAR CDAS Reanalysis Advisory Panel (1994-1998).

3.      Member of the AMS Committee on Met./ Oceanography of the Southern Hemisphere (1995-1998).

4.      Member of the NOAA Atlantic Climate Change Scientific Advisory Committee (1997-1998).

5.      Member of National Research Council (NRC) Panel on GEWEX (1997-2000).

6.      Member of the Atlantic Climate Variability Experiment Scientific Steering Committee (1998-1999).

7.      Co-chair of the U.S. CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee (2003-2005; member 1998-2005).

8.      Co-chair of the U.S. CLIVAR Atlantic Implementation Panel (1999-2003).

9.      Member of the International CLIVAR Atlantic Implementation Panel (1999-2006).

10.  Member of the NRC Committee on Climate Data Records from Operational Satellites:  Development of a NOAA Satellite Data Utilization Plan (2003-2005).

11.  Member of the International CLIVAR/PAGES Intersection Working Group (2004-2008).

12.  Lead Author of the US CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Team: Product 1.1. Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences (2004-2006).

13.  Member of the International GLOBEC Scientific Steering Committee (2005-present).

14.  Member of the NRC Committee on US Climate Change Science Program (2006-present).

15.  Co-chair of the International CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (2007-present).

16.  Councilor, American Meteorological Society (2008-2010).

17.  Member, NOAA GFDL Review Board (2009).

Organizer/Convener Professional Meeting

1.      Ocean and Climate Signatures of the North Atlantic Oscillation, AGU Fall Meeting, S.F. CA, 1997.

2.      Annual CCSM Climate Variability Working Group Meetings, Breckenridge, CO, 1997-2004.

3.      Atlantic Climate Variability Experiment Planning Workshop, Dallas, TX, 1998.

4.      CLIVAR workshop: The role of the Atlantic Ocean  in Climate Variability, Florence, Italy, 1998.

5.      The Next U.S. Global Reanalysis, College Park, MD, 2000.

6.      The North Atlantic Oscillation, AGU Chapman Conference, Ourense, Spain, 2000.

7.      U. S. CLIVAR Atlantic P.I. Meeting, Boulder, CO, June 2001.

8.      CLIVAR Workshop on Tropical Atlantic Variability, Paris, France, 2001.  

9.      Decadal Variability and Predictability, 2001: An Ocean Odyssey, IAMAS/IAPSO Joint Assembly, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2001.

10.  Decadal climate variability and predictability: EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, 2003.

11.  1st International CLIVAR Science Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2004.

12.  CLIVAR/CMEP IPCC AR4 Climate Model Simulations Analysis Workshop, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2005.

13.  Building Links Between Climate and Ecosystem Impact Research Communities, Boulder, CO, 2005.

14.  Interannual and Interdecadal Climate Variability: IUGG XXIV General Assembly: Earth, Our Changing Planet, Perugia, Italy, 2007.

15.  Symposium on Climate Modeling, Prediction, and Science Policy, Boulder, CO, 2007.

16.  Marine Ecoystems and Climate, ASP Summer Colloquium, Boulder, CO, 2009.