Roy Rasmussen's Retirement Celebration

We invite you to attend a retirement celebration to honor Roy Rasmussen on November 4, 2024 from 1:00pm-5:00pm MT at the FL2 building of the NSF NCAR Foothills Campus and online for hybrid participation.  

Aloha Friday attire is welcome (and encouraged) for the event.
 

1:00pm-3:00pm: Presentations in the FL2-1022 Seminar Room 
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Presentations will include remarks by: Bill Mahoney, Piotr Smolarkiewicz, Stan Benjamin, Andreas Prien, Julie Theriault, Francina Dominguez, Sarah Tessendorf, Fei Chen, and Andy Heymsfield.

3:15pm-5:00pm: Reception with informal remarks in the FL2 Cafeteria Atrium
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Roy officially retired on September 6, 2024 after 36 years of service to UCAR/NCAR. Roy joined UCAR/NCAR initially in October 1983 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Advanced Study Program and, after a few years with the Bureau of Reclamation, was hired in October 1988 as a scientist.. He progressed through the ladder track and in 2001 became a Senior Scientist. From 2004 through November 2023, Roy served as the Director of the Hydrometeorological Applications Program in RAL.

Roy’s scientific accomplishments span observational and modeling advances, synthesizing both to gain insights from cloud and precipitation formation to Earth System climate perspectives. His most significant contributions as a scientist and leader include his seminal work on winter weather observation and prediction, and its beneficial application to the aviation industry (e.g., deicing guidance). His leadership of the NCAR water systems program since its inception in 2001, and the pioneering development of innovative regional to continental scale convection-permitting past/future climate datasets, have demonstrated a remarkable agreement with the observed phase, frequency, and intensity of precipitation. This has enabled addressing a wide range of societally relevant research questions.

Roy has received many accolades for his work. He won the prestigious UCAR Outstanding Publication Award a record four times and received a UCAR Scientific and/or Technical Advancement Award as well. In 2020, Roy was honored with the Aviation Industry Weather Prize, and in 1999, he received the Government Technology Leadership Award. In 2004 he became a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Roy also holds around a dozen patents and has written about 200 peer-reviewed papers that have garnered roughly 20,000 citations to date.

We look forward to seeing you at the event.