Fall 2007
Heather Reeves comes to NSSL from North Carolina State University as an NRC post-doc and will be studying mountain valley cold pools and examining how well they are reproduced in numerical models. These cold pools have a huge influence on air quality in the winter.
Edward R. “Ted” Mansell was appointed to a federal position at NSSL. Ted has been working as a post-doc and OU/NOAA CIMMS Research Scientist. His specialty is storm electrification and lightning physics and cloud scale modeling of electrification and microphysics processes. He is also developing radar data assimilation techniques with applications towards “warn-on-forecast” strategies.
NSSL welcomes Montra Lockwood as the new NOAA Sea Grant Climate Extension Agent, sponsored by OU/NOAA CIMMS. Montra will work to find ways to use NSSL research in NOAA Sea Grant outreach and education programs.
A NOAA Research 2007 Outstanding Scientific Paper Award was given to Alexander Ryzhkov, Terry Schuur, Don Burgess, Pam Heinselman, Scott Giangrande (OU/NOAA CIMMS) and Dusan Zrnic (NSSL) for their paper on the "Joint Polarization Experiment: Polarimetric Rainfall Measurements and Hydrometeor Classification."
NSSL's John Lewis along with S. Lakshmivarahan (OU/NOAA CIMMS) and Sudarshan Dhall of OU were given Special Recognition by OAR for their book "Dynamic Data Assimilation: A Least Squares Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2006. See research.noaa.gov/research/papers07/ for more information.
NWA Research Achievement Award
Rodger
Brown received the “T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award” from
the National Weather Association (NWA) in recognition of 30+ years of applied
research and development activities that have led to improved WSR-88D detection
of tornadoes and other hazardous weather events, resulting in forecasters issuing
warnings with increased lead times.
Rodger received his M.S. degree from the University of Chicago under Dr. Fujita, and was the first of Fujita's graduate students to receive a degree.