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Awards for CISESS Scientists
NCEI Certificate of Appreciation for the scientific and logistical effort to assemble and release the World Ocean Atlas 2023.
Liqing Jiang
Research Scientist
5 August 2024
NCEI Certificate of Appreciation for the scientific and logistical effort to assemble and release the World Ocean Atlas 2023.
Hyelim Yoo
Assistant Research Scientist
5 August 2024
NCEI Certificate of Appreciation for the scientific and logistical effort to assemble and release the World Ocean Atlas 2023.
James Beauchamp
Faculty Specialist
5 August 2024
NCEI Certificate of Appreciation for the scientific and logistical effort to assemble and release the World Ocean Atlas 2023.
Alexandra Grodsky
Faculty Specialist
5 August 2024
NCEI Certificate of Appreciation for the scientific and logistical effort to assemble and release the World Ocean Atlas 2023.
Alexey Mishonov
Associate Research Scientist
5 August 2024
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program Letter of Recognition for her excellent work updating the NRCMP Visualization Tool.
Rebecca Wenker
Faculty Specialist
14 June 2024
LEO Unseen Hero Award for developing the software needed to add VIIRS Cluster Radiances to CrIS files for NESDIS.
Likun Wang
Associate Research Scientist
13 June 2024
UMD CMNS Distinguished Research Scientist Award
Isaac Moradi
Research Scientist
19 April 2024
Letter of Recognition for her leadership and service in the NOAA delegation to the Lunar Calibration Workshop.
Fangfang Yu
Associate Research Scientist
21 December 2023
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for the new National Coral Reef Monitoring Program data visualization tool.
Zachary Mason
Faculty Specialist
6 December 2023
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for the new National Coral Reef Monitoring Program data visualization tool.
Rebecca Wenker
Faculty Specialist
6 December 2023
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for his key role in the completion of the World Ocean Atlas 2023.
Alexey Mishonov
Associate Research Scientist
6 December 2023
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for innovation in updating NOAA Blended Seawinds to version 2.
Korak Saha
Assistant Research Scientist
6 December 2023
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for his leadership of Ocean Acidification Program data management.
Liqing Jiang
Associate Research Scientist
6 December 2023
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for 30 years of excellence in ocean carbon data management.
Alex Kozyr
Senior Faculty Specialist
6 December 2023
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for her support of the State Department's Marine Science Research data
Alexandra Grodsky
Faculty Specialist
6 December 2023
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for his careful incorporation of the flow of Conductivity-Temperature-Depth data.
Jim Beauchamp
Faculty Specialist
6 December 2023
NCEI Certificate of Recognition for efforts above and beyond to complete the Ocean Heat Content monthly climatologies.
Alexey Mishonov
Associate Research Scientist
6 December 2023
GEO Team Impact Award for her leadership of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Blue Planet Team.
Emily Smail
Senior Faculty Assistant
8 November 2023
GEO Team Impact Award for her work with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Blue Planet Team.
Nikelene McLean
Faculty Assistant
8 November 2023
2nd Place Award for Undergraduate Student Presentations at NWA Conference for "Expanding Aviation Applications for GLM"
Larissa Sperk
Undergraduate Research Assistant
9 - 13 September 2023
NASA Exceptional Achievement for Science Award for outstanding mission-critical calibration/validation of JPSS-2
Hu Yang
Research Scientist
29 August 2023
NASA Exceptional Achievement for Science Award for outstanding mission-critical calibration/validation of JPSS-2
Xi Shao
Research Scientist
29 August 2023
NASA Exceptional Achievement for Science Award for outstanding mission-critical calibration/validation of JPSS-2
Wenhui Wang
Associate Research Scientist
29 August 2023
NASA Exceptional Achievement for Science Award for outstanding mission-critical calibration/validation of JPSS-2
Peter Beierle
Assistant Research Scientist
29 August 2023
NASA Exceptional Achievement for Science Award for outstanding mission-critical calibration/validation of JPSS-2
Tung-Chang Liu
Assistant Research Scientist
29 August 2023
NASA Exceptional Achievement for Science Award for outstanding mission-critical calibration/validation of JPSS-2
Sirish Uprety
Senior Faculty Specialist
29 August 2023
NASA Exceptional Achievement for Science Award for outstanding mission-critical calibration/validation of JPSS-2
Yan Bai
Senior Faculty Specialist
29 August 2023
CoRP Symposium Student Award for Best Presentation - Honorable Mention
Ashmita Pyne
Undergraduate Research Assistant
27 July 2023
Henry F. Fleming Scholarship Award for outstanding undergraduate to pursue a remote sensing graduate degree
Alex Friedman
Undergraduate Research Assistant
4 May 2023
Landsberg Outstanding Service Award for outstanding service to the UMD AOSC Undergraduate Program
Domenic Brooks
Undergraduate Research Assistant
4 May 2023
NCEI Certificate of Appreciation for above & beyond effort to complete Ocean Heat Content monthly climatology by deadline.
Alexey Mishonov
Assocaite Research Scientist
17 April 2023
Google Cloud Research Innovators: selected for the 2023 cohort to have extra access to technical resources and experts.
Guangming Zheng
Associate Research Scientist
1 March 2023
AGU Voices for Science: selected for the Science Policy cohort 2023-24 of the AGU’s Voices for Science program.
Davyal Aziz
CISESS Consortium Graduate Student (UA-T)
1 March 2023
Letter of Recognition from the Deputy Director of CISESS for his presentation and work at the CISESS Mid-Term Review Panel
Javier Villegas Bravo
Faculty Assistant
22 February 2023
AMS Student Speaker Honorable Mention for "Developing a Blended Lightning Dataset and its Application" (as a freshman!)
Terrence Pierce
Undergraduate Research Assistant
12 January 2023
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for her work on U. S. State Department’s Marine Scientific Research datasets.
Alexandra Grodsky
Faculty Specialist
6 December 2022
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for leading the CISESS World Ocean Database (WOD) project.
Alexey Mishonov
Associate Research Scientist
6 December 2022
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for leading several international data management activities at NCEI.
Alex Koxyr
Senior Faculty Specialist
6 December 2022
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for leading global and regional ocean acidification data management at NCEI.
Liqing Jiang
Associate Research Scientist
6 December 2022
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for her years of excellence in leading the coral data management project.
Sarah O'Connor
Faculty Specialist
6 December 2022
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for his excellent support of NOAA's stewardship for satellite oceanographic data.
Yongsheng Zhang
Assistant Research Engineer
6 December 2022
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists for his excellent innovation on the NOAA/NCEI Blended Seawinds (NBS) product.
Korak Saha
Assistant Research Scientist
6 December 2022
JPSS Unseen Heroes Award for work on the S-NPP central data processor reset fix as part of the ATMS SDR Team
Hu "Tiger" Yang
Research Scientist
6 December 2022
JPSS Unseen Heroes Award for work on the S-NPP central data processor reset fix as part of the CrIS SDR Team
Lin Lin
Associate Research Scientist
6 December 2022
JPSS Unseen Heroes Award for work on the S-NPP central data processor reset fix as part of the CrIS SDR Team
Peter Beierle
Assistant Research Scientist
6 December 2022
JPSS Unseen Heroes Award for work on the S-NPP central data processor reset fix as part of the OMPS SDR Team
Chunhui Pan
Senior Faculty Specialist
6 December 2022
JPSS Unseen Heroes Award for work on the S-NPP central data processor reset fix as part of the VIIRS SDR Team
Xi Shao
Associate Research Scientist
6 December 2022
JPSS Unseen Heroes Award for work on the S-NPP central data processor reset fix as part of the VIIRS SDR Team
Wenhui Wang
Associate Research Scientist
6 December 2022
JPSS Unseen Heroes Award for work on the S-NPP central data processor reset fix as part of the VIIRS SDR Team
Bin Zhang
Assistant Research Scientist
6 December 2022
JPSS Unseen Heroes Award for work on the S-NPP central data processor reset fix as part of the VIIRS SDR Team
Yan Bai
Senior Faculty Specialist
6 December 2022
JPSS Unseen Heroes Award for work on the S-NPP central data processor reset fix as part of the VIIRS SDR Team
Sirish Uprety
Senior Faculty Specialist
6 December 2022
CISESS Outstanding Student Intern of 2022 for his simple yet elegant graphical interface for Ocean Acidification Indicators.
Liem Nguyen
Undergraduate Research Assistant
2 December 2022
Department of Commerce Bronze Medal to NOAA's Ecosystem Indicators Working Group (EIWG), for which Abecassis was noted as a non-federal contributor.
Melanie Abecassis
Assistant Research Scientist
30 November 2022
Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for innovation on a blended satellite-in situ sea surface temperature product.
Thomas Smith
Visiting Research Scientist
30 November 2022
Outstanding Operations Team Member Award for contributions leading to great achievements.
Peng Yu
Assistant Research Scientist
17 November 2022
NESDIS Collaboration Award for the advances made to the CoastWatch Satellite Data Training Courses
Melanie Abecassis
Assistant Research Scientist
15 November 2022
NESDIS Collaboration Award for the advances made to the CoastWatch Satellite Data Training Courses
Ron Vogel
Senior Faculty Specialist
15 November 2022
Best Poster Award on a study of multi-year streamflow deficits at the Alabama Water Resources Conference.
Davyal Aziz
CISESS Consortium Graduate Student (UA-T)
22 September 2022
Letter of Recognition for leading the GOES-18 Post-Launch Product Test for the GOES-R Calibration Working Group.
Fangfang Yu
Associate Research Scientist
15 September 2022
Letter of Recognition for innovative research to improve the Advanced Baseline Imager Navigation and Registration
Vladimir Kondratovich
Senior Faculty Specialist
15 September 2022
Letter of Recognition for leading the implementation of a centralized operation for GOES-R Calibration Working Group.
Song Guo
Senior Faculty Specialist
15 September 2022
Fulbright Specialist Program award for his collaborative work with scientists in Argentina.
E. Hugo Berbery
AOSC Research Professor and CISESS Deputy Director
6 August 2022
3rd Prize for Oral Presentation at the 2022 NOAA Cooperative Research Programs (CoRP) Science Symposium
Malarvizhi Arulraj
Post-Doctoral Associate
27 July 2022
NOAA/NESDIS “You Got Caught” Award recognizes a scientist who demonstrated NOAA/NESDIS operating principles in their work.
Peng Yu
Assistant Research Scientist
17 July 2022
Certificate of Recognition for developing effective solutions for the expeditious mitigation of NOAA-20 and SNPP CrIS anomalies.
Peter Beierle
Assistant Research Scientist
11 July 2022
NOAA/NESDIS “You Got Caught” Award for rapid prototyping and demonstration for a Global-Regional Validation System (GREVS).
Wenhui Wang
Associate Research Scientist
29 June 2022
Dean's Outstanding Employee Award for her work overseeing the preparation and filing of CISESS task proposals and the administration of CISESS grant accounts.
Heather Mattern
CISESS Financial Director
4 May 2022
CISESS Outstanding Student Intern of 2021 for her excellent in compiling a Coral Reef Monitoring Program literature review.
Madelyn Walstrum
Undergraduate Research Assistant
18 November 2021
Letter of Recognition from the NCEI Director for her work on the new standardized Data Content training module
Sarah O’Connor,
Faculty Specialist
17 June 2021
Letter of Recognition from the NCEI Director for his work on the Mission Science Network (MSN) project to migrate systems and ensure their stability
Zachary Mason
Faculty Specialist
17 June 2021
Letter of Recognition from the NCEI Director for her work on the Mission Science Network (MSN) project to migrate systems and ensure their stability
Sarah O’Connor,
Faculty Specialist
17 June 2021
SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 2020 Best Papers Award for Photo-Optical Instrumentation and Design (News)
Zhipeng Wang (Lead Author)
Associate Research Scientist
17 May 2021
SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 2020 Best Papers Award for Photo-Optical Instrumentation and Design (News)
Fangfang Yu (Coauthor)
Associate Research Scientist
17 May 2021
SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 2020 Best Papers Award for Photo-Optical Instrumentation and Design (News)
Hyelim Yoo (Coauthor)
Faculty Specialist
17 May 2021
SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 2020 Best Papers Award for Photo-Optical Instrumentation and Design (News)
Haifeng Qian (Coauthor)
Associate Research Scientist
17 May 2021
SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 2020 Best Papers Award for Photo-Optical Instrumentation and Design (News)
Xi Shao (Coauthor)
Associate Research Scientist
17 May 2021
Dean's Outstanding Employee Award for her work (including her preparation of CISESS task proposals!)
Siyu “Nicole” Shan
AOSC Assistant Financial Director
4 May 2021
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office Letter of Commendation for using satellite products to analyze Bay water temperature anomalies and evaluate the effects of large, tributary scale oyster restoration (News)
Ron Vogel
Senior Faculty Specialist
23 April 2021
GOES-R Data Operational Manager Letter of Commendation for Satellite Book Club Seminar on Using GLM for Forecasting (News)
Joseph Patton
Faculty Assistant
20 April 2021
Letter of Recognition from the STAR/OSPO/Satellite Analysis Branch Chief for her leadership on an initiative with Caribbean nations to develop oil spill monitoring
Emily Smail
Senior Faculty Specialist
22 March 2021
UMD Letter of Recognition for excellent work on the National Weather Service’s National Air Quality Forecasting Capability (News)
Fantine (Fong) Ngan
Assistant Research Engineer
7 December 2020
UMD Letter of Recognition for excellent work on the National Weather Service’s National Air Quality Forecasting Capability (News)
Hyun Cheol Kim
Faculty Specialist
7 December 2020
UMD Letter of Recognition for excellent work on the National Weather Service’s National Air Quality Forecasting Capability (News)
Tianfeng Chai
Associate Research Scientist
7 December 2020
UMD Provost's Excellence Award For Professional Track Faculty Research
Chengquan Huang
Research Professor
19 October 2020
Letter of Recognition from the Executive Officer for STAR/SOCD for her detailed work on proposals to secure three more years of funding for NOAA Coral Reef Watch
Jacqueline De La Cour
Senior Faculty Specialist
10 September 2020
Best Student Speaker for the 24th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) (News)
Tianning Su
Graduate Assistant II
4 February 2020
Letter of Recognition from NOAA Headquarters for his close work with the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office on satellite applications
Ronald Vogel
Senior Faculty Specialist
17 December 2019
NOAA National Ocean Service Rafting Award for the Coral Reef Information System (CORiS) team support to NOS and NOAA.
Sarah O'Connor
Faculty Specialist
October 2019
NOAA National Ocean Service Rafting Award for the Coral Reef Information System (CORiS) team support to NOS and NOAA.
Zachary Mason
Faculty Specialist
October 2019
NASA Group Achievement Award for the scientific investigation of ozone pollution at the land-water interface of the Chesapeake Bay
Xinrong Ren
Research Scientist
October 2019
NASA Group Achievement Award for the scientific investigation of ozone pollution at the land-water interface of the Chesapeake Bay
Christopher Loughner
Assistant Research Scientist
October 2019
NASA Group Achievement Award for the scientific investigation of ozone pollution at the land-water interface of the Chesapeake Bay
Paul Kelley
Faculty Specialist
October 2019
NASA Group Achievement Award for the scientific investigation of ozone pollution at the land-water interface of the Chesapeake Bay
Barry Baker,
CISESS Consortium Scientist, UMBC
October 2019
American Geophysical Union Roger Revelle Medal in recognition for outstanding contributions in atmospheric sciences.
Eugenia Kalnay
Distinguished University Professor
22 August 2019
2019 Women of Color Outstanding "Technology Rising Star" Achievement Award (News)
Sheekela Baker-Yeboah
Assistant Research Scientist
22 July 2019
UMD AOSC Tannebaum Prize for Undergraduate Climate Science
Tyler Richman
Undergraduate Research Assistant
1 May 2019
UMD AOSC Tannebaum Prize for Undergraduate Climate Science
Matthew Nicholson
Undergraduate Research Assistant
1 May 2019
U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for developing the operational GCOM-W1 AMSR2 product system
Ralph Ferraro
Visiting Research Scientist
14 May 2019
U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for innovation in SST construction methods that enable improved El Niño structures and long-term record consistency
Thomas Smith
Visiting Research Scientist
14 May 2019
NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) Data Manager's Letter of Appreciation
Fred Katz
Faculty Specialist
21 February 2019
2018 NESDIS Outstanding Science and Research Employee for Capturing Key JPSS Images for Major Storms with the Snowfall Rate Product
Huan Meng
Visiting Research Scientist
18 December 2018
OAR’s 2018 Outstanding Scientific Paper Award (Weather) (NOAA News)
Fong (Fantine) Ngan
Assistant Research Engineer
December 2018
NOAA Associate Team Member of the Month for his Work on Coral Reef Watch Satellite Products and the Coral Bleaching Outlook System Model
Gang Liu
Research Scientist
December 2018
2018 NESDIS Outstanding Science and Research Employee for Innovation in Combining Satellite and Model Data to Create an Ocean Rain Gauge
James Reagan
Senior Faculty Specialist
27 November 2018
Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Supporting the NOAA-20 CrIS SDR to Validated Maturity
Yong Chen
Associate Research Scientist
15 November 2018
University of Maryland Burgers Symposium for Fluid Dynamics - Best CMNS Poster
Katherine Lukens
Graduate Research Assistant III
15 November 2018
GOES-R Series Program Outstanding Communications Award (News)
Patrick Meyers
Senior Faculty Specialist
1 November 2018
NOAA Educational Partnership Program Mentorship Award
Ralph Ferraro
Visiting Research Scientist
24 October 2018
Edgar J. Saltzman Endowed Scholarship
Julian Arnheim
High School Research Assistant
September 2018
STAR JPSS Annual Science Meeting: Best Student Poster
Yuhan Rao
Graduate Research Assistant III
29 August 2018
NOAA Dave Johnson Award (News)
Scott Rudlosky
Visiting Assistant Research Scientist
16 March 2018
Larry R. John Memorial Scholarship
Keenan Eure
Former CICS-MD Undergraduate Research Assistant
September 2017
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
Youtong Zheng
Graduate Research Assistant III
September 2017
JPSS STAR Program Award: ATMS Calibration and Validation
Hu Yang
Associate Research Scientist
18 August 2017
JPSS STAR Program Award: CrIS Calibration, Validation & Reprocessing and Improvement of CrIS SDR Data Quality
Yong Chen
Associate Research Scientist
18 August 2017
JPSS STAR Program Award: Sustained Outreach to MiRS Users and Seamless Transition of MiRS ATMS Operational System
Christopher Grassotti
Senior Faculty Specialist
18 August 2017
JPSS STAR Program Award: OMPS Calibration and Validation
Chunhui Pan
Senior Faculty Specialist
18 August 2017
JPSS STAR Program Award: Development of VIIRS L3U SST Product
Irina Gladkova
CICS Consortium Scientist (CREST / CUNY Associate Professor)
18 August 2017
GOES-R Series Program Outstanding Communications Award (News)
Michael Folmer
Faculty Specialist
29 June 2017
University of Maryland Undergraduate Researcher of the Year
Kelsey Malloy
Undergraduate Research Assistant for Michael Folmer
May 2017
University of Maryland 3-Minute Thesis Competition Finalist
Katherine Lukens
Graduate Research Assistant III
April 2017
Best Student Speaker for the 21st AMS Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (News)
Tse-Chun Chen
Graduate Assistant III
21 February 2017
AMS Journal of Climate Top Ten Most Cited Articles over the Past Three Years (#2, #5 & #6) (News)
Thomas Smith
NOAA Physical Scientist and CICS Visiting Research Scientist
23 January 2017
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad
Youtong Zheng
Graduate Research Assistant III
January 2017
AGU International Data Rescue in the Geosciences: Honorable Mention
Alexey Mishonov
Assistant Research Scientist
23 December 2016
UMD Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center Best Paper of 2016
Jingfeng Huang
Assistant Research Scientist
8 December 2016
NOAA NCEP Climate Prediction Center Certificate of Recognition for Development and Issuance of Week 3-4 Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks (News)
Augustin Vintzileos
Assistant Research Scientist
22 November 2016
Argentine Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation RAICES Award for International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation (News)
E. Hugo Berbery
Research Professor and CICS Deputy Director
25 October 2016
University of Maryland Division of Research's Research Leaders Award
Xiaolei Zou
Research Professor
19 October 2016
University of Maryland Division of Research's Research Leader Award
Christopher Hain
Associate Research Scientist
19 October 2016
University of Maryland Division of Research's Research Leaders Award
Zhanqing Li
Professor
19 October 2016
2017 Class of Fellows of the American Meteorological Society
Zhanqing Li
Professor
4 October 2016
U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal (News)
Thomas Smith
NOAA Physical Scientist and CICS Visiting Research Scientist
30 September 2016
National Weather Association Annual Meeting Third Place Winner for Undergraduate Student Posters
Douglas Kahn
Undergraduate Research Assistant
15 September 2016
NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research Individual Award
Xi Shao
Assistant Research Professor
23 June 2016
NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research Individual Award
Yong Chen
Assistant Research Scientist
23 June 2016
NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and ResearchTeam Award
Alejandro Egido
Assistant Research Scientist
23 June 2016
NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and ResearchTeam Award
Manik Bali
Faculty Specialist
23 June 2016
National Atmospheric Deposition Program Letter of Commendation
Paul Kelly
Faculty Specialist
2 June 2016
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Bronze Medal (for providing the authorative source of sea surface temperatures for climate research)
Thomas Smith
NOAA Physical Scientist and CICS Visiting Research Scientist
24 May 2016
Ecological Society of America Innovations in Sustainability Science Award
Ariana Sutton-Grier
Assistant Research Scientist
23 March 2016
AMS Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Ability and Creativity in an Atmospheric Science Exhibit at the Eleanor Roosevelt High School Science and Engineering Fair
Kayla Brown
High School Intern
February 2016
Third Place for Student Oral Presentation at the AMS 6th Annual Conference on Research to Operations
Michael Natoli
Undergraduate Student Intern
January 2016
AMS Journal of Hydrometeorology Editor's Award
Viviana Maggioni
Research Scientist
January 2016
Third Place Winner for Poster Presentation in the 6th Annual AMS R2O Conference Student Competition
Doug Kahn
Undergraduate Research Assistant
January 2016
UMD Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center Best Paper of 2015
Tom Newman
Assistant Research Scientist
11 December 2015
NESDIS Outstanding Science and Research Employees of the Year for STAR’s Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division (News)
Xi Shao, Bin Zhang & Yan Bai
Assistant Research Professor, Post-Doctoral Associate, Senior Faculty Specialist
10 December 2015
Best Paper for the International TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Study Conference (News)
Yong Chen
Assistant Research Scientist
3 November 2015
NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research Team Award for Innovation (Real-Time Aerosol Products Algorithmn)
Jingfeng Huang
Assistant Research Scientist
3 September 2015
Water Resources Research Journal's Editor's Choice Award for 2014
Robert Adler & Huan Wu,
Research Scientist & Associate Research Scientist
15 July 2015
American Meteorological Society Joanne Simpson Mentorship Award
Eugenia Kalnay
Distinguished Professor
15 June 2015
Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
Ariana Sutton-Grier
Assistant Research Scientist
18 May 2015
Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany
Zhanqing Li
Professor
20 May 2015
Best Paper Award for the 6th Annual NOAA Testbeds and Proving Grounds Workshop
Michael Folmer
Faculty Assistant
16 May 2015
University of Maryland Division of Research's Research Leaders Award
Melissa Kenney
Assistant Research Professor
10 May 2015
Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research: New Generation Polar Research Leader
Alek Petty
Post-Doctoral Associate
9 May 2015
Second Place in the Category of Earth and Planetary Science at the 67th Annual Prince George's Area Science Fair
Matthew Bielec
High School Intern
21 March 2015
Robert Goddard NASA Group Achievement Award for Outstanding GPM Precipitation Retrieval Algorithm
Ralph Ferraro & Nai-Yu Wang
NOAA Physical Scientist/CICS Visiting Research Scientist and Assistant Research Scientist
2015
American Geophysical Union Yoram J. Kaufman Unselfish Cooperation in Research Award
Zhanqing Li
Professor
15 December 2014
NOAA National Ocean Service Assistant Administrator Special Recognition Group Award for Hurricane Sandy Recovery Efforts
Arianna Sutton-Grier
Assistant Research Scientist
December 2014
Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award
Melissa Kenney
Assistant Research Professor
December 2014
NOAA National Ocean Service Letter of Commendation for work on the Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecast System
Bin Zhang
Post-Doctoral Associate
December 2014
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Technology Transfer Award
Ralph Ferraro
NOAA Physical Scientist and CICS Visiting Research Scientist
4 November 2014
NOAA National Ocean Service Group Peer Recognition "Rafting" Award
Christopher Brown
NOAA Physical Scientist and CICS Visiting Research Scientist
October 2014
Water Resources Research Journal's Editor's Choice Award for 2015 (News)
Melissa Kenney,
Assistant Research Professor
21 July 2014
NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center Certification of Appreciation the first automated archive process with an Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
Mathew Biddle
Faculty Assistant
16 June 2014
NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research Leadership Award (News)
Ralph Ferraro
NOAA Physical Scientist and CICS Visiting Research Scientist
30 May 2014
NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research Team Award for CrIS SDR (News)
Yong Chen & Likun Wang
Assistant Research Scientist & Associate Research Scientist
30 May 2014
NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research Publication Award (News)
Likun Wang
Associate Research Scientist
30 May 2014
Robert Goddard NASA Group Achievement Award for efforts to deploy a Lightning Mapping Array in Sao Paulo, Brazil as part of the CHUVA field campaign
Scott Rudlosky
NOAA Physical Scientist and CICS Visiting Research Scientist
2014
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Bronze Medal for the first satellite-based operational snowfall rate product
Huan Meng
NOAA Physical Scientist and CICS Visiting Research Scientist
20 May 2014
University of Maryland Graduate School Ann Wylie Green Fund Fellowship (News)
Katherine Lukens
Graduate Research Assistant III
20 April 2014
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship (News)
Michael Natoli
Undergraduate Research Assistant
14 April 2014
UMD Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center Employee of the Year
Debra Baker
CICS-MD Coordinator
15 December 2013
University of Maryland Henry E. Fleming Undergraduate Scholarship (News)
Katherine O'Brien
Undergraduate Research Assistant
2013-2014
University of Maryland Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship Award (News)
Michael Natoli
Undergraduate Research Assistant
2013-2014