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Welcome to the AGU Atmospheric Sciences (AS) Section’s home page.

Atmospheric Sciences section members are concerned with climate change, atmospheric chemistry, dynamics, radiative transfer and other processes that affect the atmosphere.  More than 13,000 of the AGU's 55,000 members are affiliated with Atmospheric Sciences and more than 7,200 identify Atmospheric Sciences as their primary section.

Click here for latest Atmospheric Sciences Section Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 4

 

James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award

We are pleased to announce that NCAR postdoc Simona Bordoni has been named the winner of the James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award for 2009.  Her award citation will read, “At this early stage in her career, Dr. Bordoni has become an excellent specialist in monsoon meteorology, advancing our understanding of the mesoscale dynamics of the North American monsoon and identifying fundamentals of the dynamics of large-scale monsoon circulations worldwide.  Her work on monsoon dynamics published in Nature Geoscience and elsewhere describes truly exciting research.  These form a set of very innovative papers, ranging from careful observational studies to highly theoretical general circulation model studies.  As a student, she was considered one of the ‘most talented and mature’ not only in her class, but ‘in a decade of students at UCLA.’  Her seminars have been described as ‘exceptionally clear,’ a skill she is no doubt using regularly now since beginning as an Assistant Professor at the California Institute of Technology this fall.”  Please join us for the award presentation at the Atmospheric Sciences Chinese Banquet, Tuesday, December 15, 2009, during the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting.

Yoram J. Kaufman Unselfish Cooperation in Research Award

We are very happy to announce that Ralph Kahn (left; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland) and Ross Salawitch (right; University of Maryland, College Park) have each been selected to receive the first Yoram J. Kaufman Unselfish Cooperation in Research Awards. We had two equally strong candidates and have decided to make awards to both deserving scientists. This award is named in honor of Yoram J. Kaufman, an outstanding atmospheric scientist, mentor, and creator of international collaborations who worked on atmospheric aerosols and their influence on the Earth's climate for his entire 30-year career. The citation will read: "The Yoram J. Kaufman Award for broad influence in atmospheric science through exceptional creativity, inspiration of younger scientists, mentoring, international collaborations, and unselfish cooperation in research." The awards will be presented at the Atmospheric Sciences banquet during the AGU Fall Meeting in December in San Francisco on December 15, 2009. Please join us at that banquet.

 

Please consider making a tax-deductible charitable donation to the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the AGU.  We have three funds that honor past members:

  Holton-Kaufman Fund.  The James Holton-Yoram Kaufman Fund was just established to honor James Holton and Yoram Kaufman.  The primary purpose is to fund the awards given in their names to winners of the two AS Section Awards, the James R. Holton Award and the Yoram J. Kaufman Award.  The secondary purposes of the Fund are to support the Outstanding AS Student Paper awards for AGU meeting presentations and travel awards for young scientists from developing countries.  Seeded with existing AS section resources, your contribution will grow the Fund and allow its income to be used for the above purposes.  Click here to donate.  
 

 

David J. Hofmann Student Travel Fund.  David Hofmann, AGU Fellow and 47-year member, died recently.  Dave was a great guy, a pioneer in scientific ballooning and lidar, a leader of in ozone and stratospheric aerosol research, and most recently, Director of the Global Monitoring Division of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory.  He traveled to Antarctica 19 times to conduct his studies.  To honor his memory, NOAA has endowed a fund in his name to support travel of students to AGU meetings.  Your contribution will allow the income to grow and allow the fund to support more students.   Click here to donate.   Once on the site, click on Atmospheric Sciences and select the donation “in memory of” and follow instructions from there.  The donations will be included in AGU’s annual report.
 

 

Namias Fund.  Jerome Namias, AGU Fellow and 50-year member, was an inspiration to several generations of meteorologists and climatologists. He was instrumental in developing the scientific basis for experimental forecasts as far as five days into the future, and became known as “the extreme forecaster.” Dr. Namias first became enthusiastic about the weather from a high school physics teacher. He helped establish the long-range forecasting branch of the US Weather Service and the Climate Research Division, and the Experimental Climate Prediction Center at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Named in his honor, this fund is used to encourage student participation in Atmospheric Sciences research, by giving travel grants to students to attend AGU meetings.  This fund has already been established by a generous contribution from Jerry's widow, Edith Namias.  Your contribution will allow the income to grow and allow the fund to support more students.   Click here to donate.

Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) - Last updated on October 22, 2009