For their years of work with forecasters, pilots, and dispatchers in the area of inflight icing. Their work included listening to the needs of the user community, demonstrating new products and capabilities, and educating users about relevant meteorological principles.

For Weather and Society * Integrated Studies (WAS*IS). WAS*IS is an innovative series of workshops, education and outreach activities, and community building efforts aimed at improving the integration of weather and social science. Its goal is to empower practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders in all sectors of the weather enterprise to forge new relationships and to develop and use new tools for more effective socio-economic applications and evaluations of weather products.

For his outstanding work teaching students, scientists, and weather forecasters how to utilize software he developed to better forecast precipitation events - the Thunderstorm Identification, Tracking, Analysis and Nowcasting (TITAN) system. This system is used in both research and operational communities in the U.S. and 25 other countries. Michael has created and refined a website that allows users to download and implement TITAN; he provides hands-on support to guide them in their use of the system; and he conducts workshops tailored to their specific weather forecasting needs. He also created a simple, step-by-step manual for TITAN users. He has established an International TITAN Users' Group as well. He travels frequently to provide hands-on consulting, training, and technical support for users around the world and hosts foreign visitors here at NCAR. Mike works closely with users to help them overcome issues of reformatting their own data to be used in TITAN to address weather conditions in their area. In 2009 he also helped organize and lead a TITAN training workshop in Belem, Brazil, which was attended by 80 people from South America, the U.S., Australia, South Africa, China, and Senegal. Mike's efforts have clearly had a major impact internationally in transferring nowcasting capabilities into operations.

For training weather forecasters to make better forecasts of convective weather using Autonowcaster. Over the past five years, the nominees have taught students, scientists, and weather forecasters how to make better forecasts of convective weather. They do this with the Autonowcaster, a forecast decision system that incorporates much of their research and is now operational in selected U.S. National Weather Service, Army, and international forecast offices. They are nationally and internationally recognized for their expertise in short-term forecasting of thunderstorms and for their commitment to share their knowledge with others. They have taught at 15 international scientific workshops in partnership with the World Meteorological Organization and National Weather Service in the U.S. and abroad, conducted focused training programs, created interactive learning modules and other instructional materials, and hosted long-term visitors sent to NCAR for more intensive training. The impact of their work is profound. In giving the gift of information, knowledge, and skills, they have created new scientific capabilities for teachers and students, and for weather forecasters serving the general public.

For enabling students, researchers, practitioners, and public officials worldwide to more effectively use weather and climate research data and knowledge products for research, education, and decision-making with Geographic Information System (GIS) methods and tools.

For his sustained efforts to educate students, air traffic controllers, pilots, and the general public about aviation meteorology and the need for improved weather awareness.

Creation and implementation of significant educational opportunities for high school students

For their work in the creation and implementation of the workshop series, Broadening Participation in the Interdisciplinary Geosciences: Hands-on Training and Education (BRIGHTE), which over five years has involved over 200 participants at minority-serving and underrepresented higher education institutions in the integration of GIS, atmospheric, and interdisciplinary science into classrooms and research.

For his valiant efforts to improve community radar and lidar analysis software, envisioning a new software paradigm, and reinvigorating NCAR's role as a leader in radar software as co-principal investigator of the Lidar Radar Open Software Environment (LROSE) project