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Honoring RAL's Outstanding Achievements

External Awards  UCAR Awards  Patents

External Awards

Recipient(s) Award Publication Yearsort descending
Cornman, Larry and Wes Wilson Aviation Week Laurels Award 1990
Cornman, Larry et al. Aviation Week Laurels Award 1998
Weather Support to Deicing Decision Making (WSDDM) U.S. Government Technology Leadership Award 1999
In-situ Turbulence Detection System Aviation Week Laurels Award 2000
Turbulence and windshear warning system, Hong Kong Airport Air Traffic Management Magazine award 2000
Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) U.S. Government Technology Leadership Award Finalist 2000
Lindholm, Tenny A. Best Paper of Session Award, Digital Avionic Systems Conference 2001
In-Flight Icing Research Team NASA Turning Goals into Reality 2001
In-Flight Icing Research Team NASA Turning Goals into Reality 2002
Aviation Weather Research Program Team NWA Aviation Weather Award 2002
Aviation Weather Research Program FAA Excellence in Aviation Research Award 2002
Sharman, Robert and Cornman, Larry Top 50 Research Leaders of the Year, Scientific American 2003
Turbulence Research Team, Cornman, Larry et al. NASA Turning Goals into Reality 2003
Politovich, Marcia AMS Fellow 2003
Wilson, James AMS Remote Sensing Lecture Award 2003
Williams, John NASA Langley Certificate of Appreciation 2004
Breed, Daniel Distinguished Alumni Award, Sterling Illinois, Schools Foundation 2004
Rasmussen, Roy AMS Fellow 2004
Cornman, Larry NASA Certificate of Appreciation, Aviation Safety and Security Program 2005
Wolff, Cory et al. NASA Earth Science Applications Award 2005
Haggerty, Julie NASA Paul F. Holloway Technology Transfer Award 2007
Brown, Barbara AMS Fellow 2007
Thompson, Greg and Lindholm, Tenny A. ATCA Technical Writing Award 2007
Miller, Kathleen Nobel Peace Prize - IPCC, Nobel Foundation 2008
Romero-Lankao Paty Nobel Peace Prize - IPCC, Nobel Foundation 2008
Roberts, Rita AMS Fellow 2008
Johnson, David Paul F. Holloway Non-Aerospace Technology Transfer Award, NASA Langley 2008
Williams, John First place (tie), Artificial Intelligence Contest 2008
Politovich, Marcia Paul F. Holloway Non-Aerospace Technology Transfer Award, NASA Langley 2008
Romero-Lankao Paty Latina Leader Award in the Category of Science, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute 2008
Romero-Lankao Paty Leopold Leadership Fellowship 2008
Megenhardt, Daniel U.S. Department of Commerce, NWS, Certificate of Recognition 2009
Bruintjes, Roelof WMA International Award 2009
Steiner, Matthias Best Paper of Session Award, Digital Avionic Systems Conference 2010
Foote, Brant AMS Cleveland Abbe Award 2010
Axisa, Duncan WMA Distinguished Service Award 2010
Mahoney, William AMS Kenneth C. Spengler Award 2010
Yates, David Quentin Martin Best Practices Paper, American Society of Civil Engineers 2010
Theriault, Julie Tertia M.C. Hughes Memorial Prize, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanic Society 2010
Mahoney, William AMS Fellow 2011
Bieringer, Paul Outstanding Platform Presentation, National Chem/Bio Defense Science and Technology Conference 2011
Brown, Barbara Special Recognition Award, WMO WWRP 2011
Chen, Fei AMS Fellow 2012
Bruintjes, Roelof WMA Thunderbird Award 2012
Bruintjes, Roelof WMA Schaefer Award 2013
Cervone, Guido ISSNAF Young Investigator Award 2013
Yates, David Quentin Martin Best Practices Paper, American Society of Civil Engineers 2013
Matthias Steiner AMS Fellow 2014
Mahoney, Haupt, Kosovic, Wiener, Myers, Y. Liu, Johnson, Sun, Delle Monache, Politovich, Williams, Linden, Cheng, Pearson, Y. Liu, Wu,... Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Research in the Sustainability category 2014
Micah Hahn Exceptional Early-Career Contribution to the Field of EcoHealth 2014
Daniel Breed Thunderbird Award 2014
Sharman, Robert AMS Fellow 2016
Amman, Buja, Griggs, O'Neill & Tebaldi (CGD) USDA Abraham Lincoln Honor Award 2016
Andrew Newman and Larry Cornman American Geophysical Union (AGU): Outstanding Reviewers 2017
Sue Ellen Haupt, BrankoKosovic, Tara Jensen, Jim Cowie, Jeff Lazo, Bill Mahoney, Gary Cunning, Pedro Jimenez, Jared Lee, Tyler McCandless,... Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) 2017
David Johnson European Patent: Optical Device for Correcting Geostationary Satellite Imagery for Earth Curvature Effects 2017
Robert Sharman and Bruce Carmichael Aviation Industry Award 2017
Robert Sharman Aviation & Space Operations Weather Prize 2018
Greg Meymaris Significant Contributor 2018
Rita Roberts and Jim Wilson Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) Choice Award

Meteorology of Tropical West Africa

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2018
Amanda Siems-Anderson, Gerry Wiener, Thomas Brummet, Seth Linden, William Petzke, Padhrig McCarthy, Vince Garcia and Ali Ragan (WYDOT),... Best Paper Award by World Road Association (PIARC)

Use of the Pikalert® System in the Wyoming Department of Transportation Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment.

 2018
Cenlin He Outstanding Reviewer Award 2018
Fei Chen American Meteorological Society Helmut E. Landsberg Award 2018
David Gochis AMS Fellow 2018
Sue Ellen Haupt AMS Fellow 2018
Julie Vano AGU President-Elect Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences 2018
Bruce Carmichael National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Silk Scarf Award 2018
Bruce Carmichael, Matthias Steiner, Robert Sharman, Ken Stone, James Pinto, Wiebke Deierling, Gary Cunning, Cathy Kessinger, and David... NWA Aviation Meteorology Award 2018

UCAR Awards

Recipient(s) Award Yearsort descending
Kim Elmore, Cathy Kessinger, Cynthia Mueller, Phyllis O'Rourke, and Rita Roberts NCAR Outstanding Performance awards: Nominee 1983
Bob Barron, Cleon Biter, Dave Albo, Gerry Wiener, Jon Lutz, Kristi Brislawn Scientific and Technical Advancement: Winner 1988
James Wilson (ATD) and Roger Wakimoto (University of California, Los Angeles) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 1989
Andrew Crook (MMM/RAL). Co-authors, Mitchell Moncrieff (MMM), Richard Carbone ( ATD), and John Conway (University of Oklahoma) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 1990
Andrew Crook (MMM/RAL); cowriters, Terry Clark and Mitchell Moncrieff Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 1991
Bob Barron, Bill Myers, John Caron, and Frank Hage, all of RAP Scientific and Technical Advancement Award: Nominee 1992
Deborah Henson, Patty Hill, Cheryl Jones, Carol Makowski, and Carol Park-Hill Administrative Achievement Award: Nominee 1992
Richard Katz and Barbara Brown Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 1992
Jothiram Vivekanandan (Research Applications Program), Joseph Turk (Colorado State University), and V. N. Bringi (CSU) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 1994
James Wilson, Brant Foote, Andrew Crooke, James Fankhauser, Charles Wade, John Tuttle, Cynthia Mueller, and Steven Krueger (RAP) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 1995
Jeff Cole (RAP) Technical Support Award: Nominee 1996
Rachel Ames, Jeff Cole, Frank Hage, Tres Hofmeister, Nancy Rehak, and Ren Tescher (RAL) Scientific and Technical Advancement Award: Nominee 1997
Roy Rasmussen, Ben Bernstein, and Greg Stossmeister. Co-nominees and co-authors included Masataka Murakami (Meteorological Research... Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 1997
Larry Cornman, Gary Cunning, and Corinne Morse (RAL) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 1997
Kevin Petty (ASP and RAL). Co-winners included Charlie Knight (ESSL/MMM) and Raj Pandya (ASP and ESSL/MMM). Education and Outreach Award: Winner 1998
James Wilson and Daniel Megenhardt Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 1999
Greg Thompson, Paddy McCarthy, Frank Hage, and Shelly Knight Scientific and Technical Advancement: Winner 1999
Roy Rasmussen, Jothiram Vivekanandan, and Jeff Cole. Co-authors included: M. Kuperman (United Airlines, San Francisco, CA), Barry Myers (... Outstanding Publication Award: Winner 2000
Peter Neilley, Bill Myers, Missy Petty, Gerry Wiener, Greg Thompson, Shel Dalton, and Greg Young Scientific and Technical Advancement: Nominee 2000
Juanzhen Jenny Sun (RAL/MMM) and N. Andrew Crook (RAL/MMM) Outstanding Publication Award: Winner 2001
Scott Swerdlin, Tom Warner, Cindy Mueller, Laurie Carson, Yubao Liu, Doug Lindholm, Rebecca Ruttenberg, Tom Saxen, Hank Fisher, Daran Rife... Scientific and Technical Advancement: Winner 2001
Marcia Politovich and Ben Bernstein Education and Outreach Award: Nominee 2001
Larry Cornman, Corinne Morse, and Kent Goodrich (RAP). Co-nominee included Stephen Cohn (ATD now EOL). Co-authors included Warner Ecklund (... Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2002
William Mahoney, Mike Dixon, Deirdre Garvey, Frank Hage, Celia Chen, David Johnson, Niles Oien, Susan Dettling, and Carol Park (all with... Scientific and Technical Advancement: Winner 2002
Guifu Zhang, Ed Brandes, and J. Vivekanandan (RAP) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2003
James Wilson (RAL/EOL) Mentoring Award: Winner 2004
Bob Sharman (AAP/RAL). Co-nominees and co-authors included Todd Lane (ASP/CMS), Terry Clark (MMM/CSM), and Hsiao-Ming Hsu (MMM) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2004
Bill Mahoney, Bill Myers, Ben Bernstein, Jim Cowie, Jamie Wolff, Jaimi Yee, Seth Linden, Arnaud Dumont, and Paddy McCarthy Scientific and Technical Advancement: Nominee 2004
Janice Coen (RAL and MMM). Co-nominees and co-authors included Shankar Mahalingam (University of California, Riverside) and John Daily (... Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2005
Thomas T. Warner (NSAP) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2006
Dave Albo (WSAP), Ben Balsley, Kirk Clawson, Jeff Copeland (NSAP), Larry Cornman (AAP), Rod Frehlich (AAP), David Hahn (NSAP), Yubao Liu (... Scientific and Technical Advancement: Nominee 2006
Eve Gruntfest, Julie Demuth, Sheldon Drobot, Mary Hayden, Olga Wilhelmi (all ISSE), and Jeff Lazo (WSAP). Co-nominees included Rebecca... Education and Outreach Award: Nominee 2006
Thomas Hopson (RAL and SERE*/ASP). Co-nominees include Hai-Ru Chang, Carlos Hoyos, Jun Jian, and Peter Webster (Georgia Institute of... Scientific and Technical Advancement: Nominee 2007
Julie Demuth, Jeff Lazo and Olga Wilhelmi. Co-nominees included Eve Gruntfest (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Rebecca Morss (... Education and Outreach Award: Nominee 2007
Rita Roberts. Co-nominee and co-author included Steven Rutledge (Colorado State University) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2007
David Yates, Jack Sieber and Annette Huber-Lee (Stockholm Environment Institute), David Purkey (National Heritage Institute), and Hector... Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2008
John Hubbert (EOL), Mike Dixon (RAL), Scott Ellis (EOL), and Greg Meymaris (RAL) Scientific and Technical Advancement: Winner 2009
Chris Davis (MMM/RAL), Barb Brown (RAL), and Randy Bullock (RAL) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2009
David Ahijevych (NESL/MMM), Barbara Brown (RAL/JNT), Randy Bullock (RAL/JNT), Chris Davis (NCAR/ASP), Tressa Fowler (RAL/JNT), Eric... Scientific and Technical Advancement: Winner 2010
Michael Dixon Education and Outreach Award: Nominee 2010
Romero-Lankao Paty (RAL), Doug Nychka (CISL/IMAGe) and John Tribbia (formerly at ISSE) Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2010
William Mahoney, Gerry Wiener, Bill Myers, Yubao Liu, David Johnson, Seth Linden, Will Cheng, Brice Lambi, Arnaud Dumont, Julia Pearson,... Scientific and Technical Advancement: Winner 2011
John Mickey (RAL/AAP). Co-nominees Qian Wu (HAO), Cyndi Bradley (EOL/DFS), Greg Card (HAO), Vince Grow (EOL/DFS), Alice Lecinski (HAO),... Scientific and Technical Advancement: Nominee 2011
Rita Roberts and James Wilson Education and Outreach Award: Winner 2011
Thomas T. Warner (RAL, posthumous) Outstanding Publication Award: Winner 2011
Andrew J. Heymsfield (NESL/MMM), Gregory Thompson (RAL/HAP), Hugh Morrison (NESL/MMM), Aaron Bansemer (NESL/MMM), Roy M. Rasmussen (RAL/HAP... Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2011
Bob Barron (RAL/AAP), Al Yates (RAL/AAP), Cory Morse (RAL/AAP), Deirdre Garvey (RAL/AO), Larry Cornman (RAL/AAP), Kent Goodrich (RAL/AAP),... Scientific and Technical Advancement: Nominee 2012
Jason Knievel and Francois Vandenberghe Administrative Achievement Award: Nominee 2012
Matthias Steiner (RAL/HAP), Richard Bateman (CU), Daniel Megenhardt (RAL/WSAP), Yubao Liu (RAL/NSAP), Matthew Pocernich (Neptune and... Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2012
Laurie Carson (RAL), Ming Hu (NOAA/ESRL), Xiang-Yu Huang (MMM), Louisa Nance (RAL), Kathryn Newman (RAL), Hui Shao (RAL), Don Stark (RAL),... Scientific and Technical Advancement: Nominee 2013
Julie Demuth (NCAR/RAL), Rebecca Morss (NCAR/MMM), Betty Hearn Morrow (SocResearch, Miami, FL), and Jeff Lazo (NCAR/RAL). Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2013
Scott Landolt Diversity Award: Nominee 2014
Rife, D.L., J.O. Pinto, A.J. Monaghan, C.A. Davis and J.R. Hannan Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2014
Olga Wilhelmi, Jennifer Boehnert, and Kevin Sampson Education and Outreach Award: Nominee 2014
Roy Rasmussen, Changhai Liu, Kyoko Ikeda, David Gochis, David Yates, Fei Chen, Michael Barlage, Jimy Dudhia, Wei Yu, Kathleen Miller, Vanda... Outstanding Publication Award: Winner 2015
Ranquist, Emily Halaby Fellowship: Winner 2016
Martyn Clark, D. Kavetski, and F. Fenicia Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2016
Bruce Carmichael (RAL), Cindy Halley Gotway (RAL), and Lara Ziady (RAL): co-nominees Tim Barnes (SciEd), Carolyn Brinkworth (NCAR... Education and Outreach Award: Nominee 2016
Haupt, Kosovic, Jensen, Cowie, Lazo, Wiener, Drobot, Yates, Cunning, Jimenez, Lee, McCandles, Alessandrini, Gagne, Fowler, Anderson, Aulign... Scientific and Technical Advancement Award: Winner 2016
Branko Kosovic Mentoring Award: Nominee 2017
Elena Tomasi, U. of Trento, Italy, Dimitris Herrera Hernandez, Cornell, Laura Clemente-Harding, Penn State Warner Internship for Scientific Enrichment (WISE): Winner 2017
Michael Dixon Distinguished Achievement Award: Winner 2017
Olga Wilhelmi and Jenn Boehnert Diversity Award: Winner 2017
Monaghan, Hayden, Wilhelmi, and Steinhoff Outstanding Publication Award: Winner 2017
Bruce Carmichael Education and Outreach Award: Winner 2017
Gochis, Rasmussen, Yu, Dugger, McCreight, Karsten, Rafieeinasab, Yates, Read, Barlage, Sampson, Pan, Zhang, Gaydos, McAllister, Mills,... Scientific and Technical Advancement Award: Winner 2017
Eulalia Hernandez Romero Halaby Fellowship: Winner 2017
Branko Kosovic Mentoring Award: Winner 2018
Trude Eidhammer and Gregory Thompson Outstanding Publication Award: Nominee 2018
Katherine Glasheen 2018 Halaby Fellowship 2018
Arianna Valmassoi Warner Internship for Scientific Enrichment (WISE) 2018

Patents

Recipient(s) Patent No. + Details Patent Issue Date
Wayne R. Sand US5028929 Icing Hazard Detection for Aircraft 1991-07-02
Lawrence B. Cornman US5208587 Low-level Wind Shear Alerty System (Gust Front Detection) 1993-05-04
F. Wesley Wilson, Jr. US5221924 Wind Shear Alert System (LLWAS) 1993-06-22
Lawrence B. Cornman US5257021 Improved Low-Level Wind-Shear Alert System (LLWAS & TDWR Integration 1993-10-26
Lawrence B. Cornman US5315297 Low-Level Wind-Shear Alert System (Microburst Shape Generation) 1994-05-24
Lawrence B. Cornman US5351045 Low-Level Wind-Shear Alert System (Improved Shape Generation) 1994-09-27
William L. Myers US5490239 Virtual Reality Imaging System 1996-02-06
Eugene David Albo, Robert Kent Goodrich US5648782 Microburst Detection System - Formerly Known as Fuzzy Logic 1997-07-15
Roy M. Rasmussen US5744711 Winter Precipitation Measuring System 1998-04-28
William L. Myers US5751289 Virtual Reality Imaging System with Image Replay 1998-05-12
Jothiram Vivekananadan US5777481 Ice Detection Radiometers 1998-07-07
Roy Martin Rasmussen, Wayne Michael Adams, Jeff Alan Cole, Frank William Hage, Charles Geoffery Wade US5850619 Frozen Precipitation Accumulation Alert System 1998-12-15
Lawrence B. Cornman, Corinne Sue Morse, Robert Kent Goodrich US5940523 Method Of Moment Estimation and Feature For Devices Which Measure Spectra As a Function of Range or Time (NIMA) 1999-08-14
Eugene David Albo US5973635 Enhanced Microburst Detection System 1999-10-26
William L. Myers US6085147 System For Determination of Optimal Travel Path in a Multidimensional Space 2000-07-04
Bob Barron, Wayne Moor US6298307 Best in Time Forecasting System 2001-10-02
Lawrence B. Cornman, Corinne Sue Morse, Robert Kent Goodrich US6307500B1 Method of Moment Estimation and Feature For Devices Which Measure Spectra As a Function of Range or Time (NIMA) 2001-10-23
Jim Wilson US6340946 Method for Determining Storm Predictability 2002-01-22
Eleanor A. Praskovskaya, Alexander A. Praskovsky US6512996 System for Measuring Characteristic of Scatterers Using Spaced Receiver Remote Sensors (STARS) 2003-01-28
Jothiram Vivekananadan, Guifu Zhang US6536948 Determining Temperature of a Physical Medium Using Remote Measurement 2003-03-25
Roy M. Rasmussen US6546353B1 Hotplate Precipitation Measuring System 2003-04-08
Shelly D. Dalton, Lawrence B. Cornman, Robert K. Goodrich, Nathaniel Beagley US6577265 Multi-stage processing for efficient and accurate spectral moment estimation 2003-06-10
Roy M. Rasmussen US6675100B1 Hotplate Measuring System 2004-01-06
Roy M. Rasmussen US6708133B1 Hotplate Measuring System 2004-03-16
Roy M. Rasmussen US6711521B1 Hotplate Measuring System 2004-03-23
Roy M. Rasmussen US6714869B1 Hotplate Measuring System 2004-03-30
Jothiram Vivekananadan, Guifu Zhang US6721678B1 Determining 3-Dimensional Velocity of an Object 2004-04-13
Richard A. Weekley, Robert K. Goodrich, Lawrence B. Cornman US6735550 Feature Classification for Time Series Data 2004-05-11
Roy M. Rasmussen US6751571 Hotplate Precipitation Measuring System 2004-06-15
Roy M. Rasmussen US7129846B2 De-icing information system 2006-10-31
Roy M. Rasmussen US7191643B2 Sensor system to distinguish frozen and non-frozen liquid particulates 2007-03-20
Frank W. Hage US7340949B1 Precipitation measurement device 2008-03-11
Roy M. Rasmussen, Frank W. Hage US7369053B2 De-icing information system 2008-05-06
Paul E. Bieringer US7391358 Weather Radar Echo Tops Forecast Generation 2008-06-24
Paul E. Bieringer US7472021 Atmospheric Feature Detection Using Lagrangian Scalar Integration 2008-12-30
David Johnson US7676112 Optical device for correcting geostationary satellite imagery for earth curvature effects 2010-03-09
Gregory Meymaris US7728765B1 Method and apparatus for clutter filtering staggered pulse repetition time signals 2010-06-01