News From the Department
AOS to welcome two new faculty
The Department is proud to announce the imminent arrival of two new
Assistant Professor colleagues; Dr. Larissa Back and Dr. David Turner,
both of whom will join our faculty in August 2009. Dr, Back will be
coming from a post-doctoral appointment with Prof. Kerry Emanuel at MIT
where she has continued her studies of the life cycle, morphology, and
climate system impact of tropical deep convection. Dr. Turner is
currently a research scientist at CIMSS/SSEC with expertise in
ground-based remote sensing of the atmosphere in the far IR. He is a
group leader in the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation
Measurement (ARM) Experiment. Both Dr. Back's and Dr. Turner's
observational expertise will complement and extend the Department's
inquiry into the climate system on a number of levels. We are thrilled
to be welcoming two such outstanding scientists to our already strong
faculty.
Galen McKinley recognized for her work on hurricanes
and carbon balance
For more information about her research please read the news release
Hurricanes not likely to disrupt ocean carbon balance
AMS Teaching Excellence Award
Congradulations to Steve Ackerman as he is the recipient of this year's AMS
Teaching Excellence Award
2008 Student Awards
Congratulations to the following outstanding AOS students (view pictures):
- Sarah Monette and Neil Berg – Horn Award for excellence in overall performance as an undergraduate
- Andrew Field and Rebecca Westby – Lettau-Wahl Award for excellence in overall performance as an undergraduate
- Benjamin Sulman – Schwerdtfeger Award for excellent performance in first year graduate studies
- Mark S. Kulie – Wahl Award for outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant
- David Ullman – Lettau Award for outstanding MS Thesis
- Mark S. Kulie and Gijs de Boer – Colloquium Student Service Award for creative dedication to the department's intellectual life
AOS Graduate students receive campus-wide awards
AOS graduate student Mark Kulie received the UW Madison Exceptional Service Teaching Award and AOS graduate student Chian-Yi Liu received a Graduate Student Peer Mentor award. Congratulations Mark anc Chian-Yi!
Reid Bryson honored with SAA symposium
The Society for American Archeology hosted a symposium in honor of Reid Bryson. The "Climate People and Behavior" symposium held on March 29 at the SAA annual meeting in Vancouver, BC concentrated on the development and use of Bryson's Macrophysical climate model. Congratulations Reid!
Prof. Pao K. Wang elected as a Fellow of Taiwan's Meteorological Society
Prof. Pao K. Wang was recently elected as a Fellow of Taiwan's Meteorological Society, the highest honor the society bestows upon its members. Pao is the only fellow elected this year. The citation states that the honor is to recognize Pao's outstanding contributions to the fields of cloud dynamics, physics, chemistry and model simulations, and the influence of aerosol on clouds.
Mr. Chiang-Lin Hsin, Director-General of the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan, also the President of the Meteorological Society, presents the certificate of Fellow to Prof. Pao Wang on March 28, 2008.
John Norman Selected as AAAS Fellow
John Norman, a professor in Soil Sciences who is also affiliated with the AOS department, is among the 471 scientists, engineers, educators and communicators who
have been selected as fellows by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS). The awards are announced in the Oct. 26 issue of Science.
Fellows are elected annually from within AAAS membership ranks in recognition of significant contributions to advancing scientific research, teaching and communicating science to the public. The new fellows will be honored at a special forum during the 2008 AAAS annual meeting in Boston on Feb. 16.
Norman was selcted "for advancing the interdisciplinary understanding of interactions among plants, animals,
soil and atmosphere through mathematical modeling and cooperative collaborations with colleagues and students.
The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
Congratulations John!
TIP/FEDS ANNOUNCE DECISION TO LIST POLAR BEAR AS THREATENED SPECIES
After a series of delays, the U.S. Department of the Interior today (May 14) announced that, on the recommendation of the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the polar bear
will be listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The announcement marks the first major listing decision based largely on the effects of climate
change. A previous University of Wisconsin-Madison story on the topic can be found at http://www.news.wisc.edu/14878 The federal announcement
is available at http://www.doi.gov An International Polar Bear Science Team was charged with providing the FWS with scientific guidance on
future climate change in the Arctic and its likely impacts on polar bear habitat and populations. UW-Madison climatologist Eric DeWeaver used climate models to predict how
global changes in coming decades will likely affect the Arctic, particularly with regard to summertime sea ice, a critical component of polar bear habitat. DeWeaver, an assistant professor of
atmospheric and oceanic studies, specializes in Arctic climate variability, modeling and predicting future changes due to global warming. He is available to answer questions from media about this
decision and the use of climate models; contact him at deweaver@aos.wisc.edu or (608) 265-5438.
On November 29, 2007, an article featuring Jim Kossen and Dan Vimont was the top news story at UW-Madison News.
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