Congratulations to postdoc Kinya Toride for recently publishing papers that show improvements in weather forecasts by assimilating water vapor isotopes in collaboration with University of Tokyo researchers.
GRL paper: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091698
Scientific reports paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97476-0
Congratulations to professor and chair, Cecilia Bitz, and professor Shuyi Chen for being honored by the AMS! Chen received the Sverdrup Gold Medal and Bitz received the Syukuro Manabe Climate Research Award.
Read more at UW EnvironmentCongratulations to our undergraduates in the Atmospheric Sciences at UW for winning scholarships through the College of the Environment. We are proud of you!
Raphael Bakin and Ella Coleman won the Nancy Wilcox Endowed Scholarship
Melissa Mendoza won the Dani Elenga Environment Scholarship
Abigal King won the College of the Environment Scholarship
Associate Professor Kyle Armour in Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography at UW served as lead author of Chapter 7 on The Earth’s energy budget, climate feedbacks, and climate sensitivity, author of the Technical Summary, and contributing author of the Summary for Policy Makers.
Read moreCongratulations to graduate student Benjamin Barr for earning a first place award on his oral presentation at the AMS Air-Sea Interactions Conference student competition in January this year. His presentation title was Interactive Processes Among Sea Spray, Enthalpy Flux, and Surface Layer Temperature and Humidity in Hurricanes.
Read moreCongratulations to Atmospheric Sciences Professor David Battisti on his election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Read more about it in UW Today
We are proud of you David!
Dr. Clara Deser of NCAR, alumna of our graduate program, and student of Mike Wallace has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. We are so proud!
Based on the results we may admit that a good written 500 word essay is a key to the success in the university for that period of time.
Read moreProfessor Dale Durran for publishing an op-ed in the Washington Post today titled
Don’t ask officials what they think of global warming — ask if they want a warning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/04/23/global-warming-warning/
Congratulations Dale!
Associate Professor Abby Swann has a new paper in Global Biogeochemical Cycles about shifts in vegetation with climate change. Read about it in UW News
Callors said Friday that she will step down as executive director of the BLM foundation, denying that her decision to step down had anything to do with financial matters and insisting that she planned to leave her post a year ago.
Read moreCongratulations to two of our graduate students for winning Outstanding Student Presentation Awards at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall 2020 meeting
Vince Cooper – “Towards Validating Wave-Ice Interactions in Climate Models Using In Situ Observations”
Adam B.