Awards and Patents

Award Type
Award Type Title Recipient(s) Year
external AMS Fellow Roberts, Rita 2009
external Latina Leader Award in the Category of Science, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Romero-Lankao Paty 2008
external Leopold Leadership Fellowship Romero-Lankao Paty 2008
internal Outstanding Publication Award (Nominee) Romero-Lankao Paty (RAL), Doug Nychka (CISL/IMAGe) and John Tribbia (formerly at ISSE) 2010
patent Hotplate Precipitation Measuring System Roy M. Rasmussen 2004
patent De-icing information system Roy M. Rasmussen 2006
patent Sensor system to distinguish frozen and non-frozen liquid particulates Roy M. Rasmussen 2007
patent Winter Precipitation Measuring System Roy M. Rasmussen 1998
patent Hotplate Precipitation Measuring System Roy M. Rasmussen 2003
patent Hotplate Measuring System Roy M. Rasmussen 2004
patent Hotplate Measuring System Roy M. Rasmussen 2004
patent Hotplate Measuring System Roy M. Rasmussen 2004
patent Hotplate Measuring System Roy M. Rasmussen 2004
patent De-icing information system Roy M. Rasmussen, Frank W. Hage 2008
patent Frozen Precipitation Accumulation Alert System Roy Martin Rasmussen, Wayne Michael Adams, Jeff Alan Cole, Frank William Hage, Charles Geoffery Wade 1998
internal Distinguished Achievement Award (Nominee) Roy Rasmussen 2019
external 2020 Aviation Industry Weather Prize Roy Rasmussen 2020
internal UCAR Distinguished Achievement RAL Awardee (Nominee) Roy Rasmussen 2020
patent Thermal Plate Precipitation Measurement System Roy Rasmussen 2013
internal Outstanding Publication Award (Nominee) Roy Rasmussen, Ben Bernstein, and Greg Stossmeister. Co-nominees and co-authors included Masataka Murakami (Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan), Jon Reisner (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and Boba Stankov (NOAA).
1997
internal Outstanding Publication Award (Winner) Roy Rasmussen, Changhai Liu, Kyoko Ikeda, David Gochis, David Yates, Fei Chen, Michael Barlage, Jimy Dudhia, Wei Yu, Kathleen Miller, Vanda Grubisic, Gregory Thompson, and Ethan Gutmann 2015
internal Outstanding Publication Award (Winner) Roy Rasmussen, Jothiram Vivekanandan, and Jeff Cole. Co-authors included: M. Kuperman (United Airlines, San Francisco, CA), Barry Myers (Transport Canada, Montreal, Quebec), and Charles Masters (FAA, Atlantic City, NJ).
2000
internal UCAR Mentoring Award: RAL Awardee (Winner) Sarah Tessendorf 2020
external 2021 Thunderbird Award Sarah Tessendorf 2021
internal UCAR Excellence in Mentoring Award (Winner) Scott Landolt 2023