Student Recognition

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National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Awards

• 2010: Jesse Nusbaumer
• 2009: Adrianna Raudzens Bailey
• 2008: Samuel Dorsi
• 2007: Christa Hasenkopf
• 2002: John Ortega
• 2000: Kari Klein
• 1999: David McCabe
• 1999: Erin Whitney
• 1997: Sally McFarlane
• 1992: Scott Stewart

 

NASA Earth System Science Fellowship

• 2010: Eric Wolf
• 2009: Samantha Stevenson
• 2009: Lin Su
• 2008: Kelly Baustian
• 2006: Sean Davis
• 2005: Charles Bardeen
• 2005: Rebecca Matichuk
• 2004: Cynthia Shaw Singleton
• 2000: Kari Klein
• 2000: Matt Wise
• 1999: Amelia Gates
• 1998: Peter Colarco
• 1998: Richard Cullather
• 1998: Tara Fortin
• 1997: Tim Benner
• 1997: David Glandorf
• 1997: Julie Haggerty
• 1995: Mark Zondlo
• 1994: John Fasullo
• 1994: Jeff Hicke
• 1994: James Pinto
• 1994: Kamran Sahami
• 1992: Afshan Alam
• 1992: Ann Middlebrook

 

DOE Global Change Fellowship

• 2006: Derek Brown
• 1998: Tara Fortin
• 1997: David Glandorf
• 1995: Mark Zondlo
• 1992: Ann Middlebrook
• 1992: Jeffrey Privett

 

DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship

•  2010: Amber Ortega

 

EPA Graduate Fellowship Award

• 2005: Peter DeCarlo
• 1998: Anthony Prenni
• 1996: Jeff Hicke

 

AAAS Congressional Fellow

•  2000: Timothy Benner

 

CIRES Graduate Research Fellowship

 

• 2011-2012: Scott Bachman
• 2008-2009: Kelly Baustian
• 2008-2009: Samantha Stevenson
• 2007-2008: Nikolaus Buenning
• 2007-2008: Christa Hasenkopf
• 2007-2008: Keah Schuenemann
• 2006-2007: Scott Gregory
• 2006-2007: Mark Seefeldt

 

ESRL/CIRES Science Fellowship

• 2009: Alice DuVivier
• 2009: Katherine McCaffrey
• 2008: Ryan Neely

 

Best Student Paper/Poster at Conference

• 2012: Matthew Aitken (PHYS student working in ATOC) - Commendable Oral Presentation, AMS Meeting, 3rd Conference on Weather, Climate and New Energy Economy
• 2012: Daniel Pollak (SOARS student working in ATOC summer 2011) - Commendable Poster
• 2012: Adriana Raudzens Bailey - Best poster award for early career scientists, International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation
• 2012: Michael Rhodes (ASEN student working in ATOC) - Best Poster, AMS Meeting, 3rd Conference on Weather, Climate and New Energy Economy
• 2012: Brian Vanderwende - Best Oral Presentation, AMS Meeting, 3rd Conference on Weather, Climate and New Energy Economy
  
• 2012: Brian Vanderwende - First Place in the student poster competition, AMS Boundary Layers and Turbulence meeting
• 2011: Adriana Raudzens Bailey - Outstanding student paper award, Fall AGU meeting
  
• 2011: Yolanda Roberts - Outstanding student paper award, Fall AGU meeting
  
• 2011: Samantha Stevenson - Outstanding student presentation, WCRP Open Science Meeting
• 2011: Ryan Neely III - Outstanding student presentation, WCRP Open Science Meeting
• 2010: Eric Wolf - Outstanding student paper award in Planetary Sciences, Fall AGU meeting
• 2010: Matthias Brakebsuch - Outstanding student paper award, Fall AGU meeting
• 2010: Benet Duncan - Outstanding student paper award, Fall AGU meeting
• 2010: Ryan Neely III - Outstanding student paper award, Fall AGU meeting
• 2010: Adriana Raudzens Bailey - Best student paper award, American Meteorological Society
• 2009: Kelly Baustian - Outstanding student paper award, Fall AGU meeting
• 2009: Samuel Dorsi - Best student poster presentation, CU-Boulder Hydrologic Sciences Student Symposium
• 2009: Matthew Higgins - Best student oral presentation, Polar AMS Conference
• 2009: Adrianna Raudzens Bailey - Best poster, 64th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Hydrologic Research Center
• 2008: Susanne Benze - Outstanding student paper award, 2008 Joint Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• 2000: T.J. Fortin - Outstanding student paper award, Spring AGU meeting
• 2000: D.L. Glandorf - Outstanding student paper award, Spring AGU meeting
• 2000: Julie Lundquist - Best student poster presentation, AMS 14th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence
• 2000: Stacey Macilwane - Best student paper, American Meteorological Society Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
• 1999: Paula Hudson - Outstanding student paper award, Spring AGU meeting
• 1999: Olga Kalashnikova - Best student paper-CEDAR_99 (Coupling Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) Fourteenth Summer NSF Workshop, June 13-18, Boulder, CO
• 1998: Peter Colarco - Outstanding Student Paper in Atmospheric Science-Fall 1998 AGU meeting-Modeling dust emission and transport from the Western Sahara"
• 1998: Cristine Perez - Outstanding Student Paper in Ocean Sciences-Fall 1998 AGU meeting-Ensemble Averaging of Gulf Stream Forecasts Using Contour Analysis
• 1997: Lori DelNegro - Outstanding student paper award, Fall AGU meeting
• 1997: Laura Iraci - Outstanding student paper award, Fall AGU meeting
• 1997: Mark Piper - Second best student oral presentation award, 12th AMS Boundary Layers and Turbulence meeting in Vancouver
• 1997: Matthew Wheeler - Best Student Paper, AMS 11th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics in Tacoma
• 1996: Brian Berland - Outstanding student paper award - Fall AGU meeting
• 1995: Geoffrey Considine - Best student oral presentation, AMS 11th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence
• 1995: Branko Kosovic - Best student poster presentation, AMS 11th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence
• 1994: Laura Iraci - Outstanding student paper award, Fall AGU meeting
• 1993: Ann Middlebrook - Outstanding student paper award, Fall AGU Meeting

 

NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowships

• 2009: Jason English
• 2004: Attila Elteto - Mars Dust Storms
• 2004: Kaj Williams - Mars Polar Caps
• 2003: Ursula Rick
• 2002: Teresa Segura - Mars Climate
• 2001: Jan Heldman
• 2001: Brandy Gamblin
• 2000: Dan Curtis - Clouds on Titan
• 2000: Kari Klein - New Particle Formation
• 1999: Nadir Khatib
• 1999: Kim Cierpik - Tides and Zonal Mean Flow From Satellite-Based Measurements: Analysis Techniques with Application to Understanding Tide/Mean-Flow Interactions
• 1996: Kenneth Crumpton - Characterizing and Avoiding Interference from GPS Multipath Signals Off the Ocean
• 1995: David Chart - Detection of Poleward Propagating ENSO Signals Using Satellite Altimetry
• 1995: Mark Coffey - Wavelet Analysis of Satellite Remote Sensing Data
• 1995: Laura T Iraci - Infrared Studies of Sulfuric Acid and Its Impact on Polar and Global Ozone
• 1995: Tim Onasch - Mechanism of heterogeneous atmospheric reactions on model polar stratospheric clouds
• 1995: Timothy Onasch - Proposal to Study the Mechanism of Heterogeneous Atmospheric Reactions on Model Polar Stratospheric Clouds
• 1995: Craig Tierney - Tidal Wavelengths from Along Track Altimetry and Implications for Gridding Tidal Solutions
• 1994: Laura Iraci - Infrared studies of sulfuric acid and its impact on polar and global ozone
• 1993: Brian Berland - Surface kinetics of ClONO2 on model polar stratospheric clouds
• 1992: Sharon Anthony - Experimental studies of model PSC particles in a laminar flow system

 

National Center for Atmospheric Research Advanced Study  Program Postdoctoral Fellows (since 1994)

• 1999: Marika Holland - The role of sea ice in climate, high latitude climate variability, and sea ice modeling
• 1999: Mark Zondlo - Field measurements of trace gas species
• 1998: Gregory Duane - Synchronized chaos in the large-scale atmospheric circulation and other extended dynamical systems
• 1998: Chris Meyers - Modeling the middle and upper troposphere
• 1998: Christopher Torrence - Climate variability and predictability, time-series and wavelet analysis
• 1998: Matt Wheeler - Equatorial waves and organized tropical convection
• 1997: Eileen Saiki - Large- eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer turbulence
• 1996: Regina Figge-Cannon - Earth's carbon cycle
• 1996: Rong Shyang Sheu - Satellite retrievals and mesoscale meling
• 1996: David Yates - Linkage of hydrologic processes in mesoscale climate models
• 1996: Charles Zender - Diagnosing the hydrologic cycle in the CCM2 using geophysical tracers
• 1995: Anne Jefferson - Tropospheric sulfur balance and aerosol production
• 1994: Kenneth Davis - Trace gas fluxes and transport
• 1994: Christopher Holloway - wave propagation, scattering from rough surfaces, and antenna analysis and design
• 1994: Kathleen Lantz - Development of a trajectory-chemistry model
• 1994: Melanie Mason - Study of aluminum industry contributions to greenhouse gases and global climate change
• 1994: Robert Tomas - Large-scale atmospheric disturbances with time scales from a week to a month

 

Other awards, fellowships, and recognition

• 2013: Laura Holt - IAGA Young Scientist Award for her presentation "Descent in the Polar Mesosphere and Stratoshpere using WACCM" at the third annual international High Energy Particle Participation in the Atmosphere (HEPPA) meeting.
• 2012: Tanya (Phillips) Peevey - NSF IRFP (International Research Fellowship Program) for her proposal to work on air exchange in the UTLS at a research center in Juelich, Germany for 2 years. 
• 2010: Christa Hasenkopf - Fulbright Grant
• 2010: Samantha Stevenson - CIRES Innovative Research Grant
• 2010: Mariah Walton - Hoenich Award (Bev Sears Named Graduate Student Grant Award)
• 2009: Thien-Kim Trenbath - Chancellor's Award for Excellence in STEM Education
• 2008: Peter DeCarlo - NSF International Research Fellowship
• 2008: Amber Ortega - Chancellor's Fellowship
• 2007: Rachel Humphrey - University of Colorado at Boulder, United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS) TA Effectiveness/Teaching Excellence Award
• 2001: Ana Lia Quijano - American Meteorological Society, Peter B. Wagner Memorial Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences
• 1999: Alison W. Grimsdell - Robert Leviton Award of the American Meteorological Society, "for her paper demonstrating the value of radar wind profilers for studying the evolution of the convective boundary layer"
• 1999: Paquita Zuidema - American Meteorological Society, Peter B. Wagner Memorial Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences
• 1998: James Boulter - Achievement Rewards for College Scientists