Lourdes Avilés: Fellow, American Meteorological Society

Lourdes Avilés is the vice chair of the UCAR Board of Trustees and associate provost at Plymouth State University. She has done research in tropical meteorology, air quality, and historical meteorology, and is currently focused in the interdisciplinary science, history, and social connections of atmospheric phenomena. She published an award-winning AMS book on the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 and is currently working on an introductory interdisciplinary textbook about atmospheric optics. Avilés has been elected an AMS fellow, a distinction recognizing scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years. 

Cindy Bruyère: Fellow, American Meteorological Society

Cindy Bruyère is the deputy director of Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth Science (CPAESS) in UCAR Community Programs. Prior to joining CPAESS, she was section head of a group in Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) focusing on the impact of climate change on extreme weather. Her research spans fundamental and user-inspired research to advance our understanding of Earth systems processes and predictability of weather and climate extremes across time scales. Bruyère has been elected an AMS fellow, a distinction recognizing scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years.

Branko Kosović: Fellow, American Meteorological Society

Branko Kosović is the director of the Weather Systems and Assessment Program and the program manager for renewable energy for the Research Applications Laboratory at NCAR. Kosović’s expertise is in boundary layer meteorology with a focus on high-resolution simulations of boundary layer flows. Kosović is currently working on extending multiscale modeling capabilities in numerical weather prediction models for wind and solar energy and wildland fire prediction applications. Kosović has been elected an AMS fellow, a distinction recognizing scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years. 

William Mahoney: Charles Franklin Brooks Award for Outstanding Service to the Society, American Meteorological Society

William Mahoney retired this year as the director of NCAR's Research Applications Laboratory. During his 37-year career at NCAR, he successfully initiated or guided a broad range of applied research and development programs as well as distinguishing himself as a leader for the entire meteorological community. Mahoney is being honored with the Charles Franklin Brooks Award for Outstanding Service to the Society, which recognizes a career of sustained and exemplary leadership in the Society and beyond, leading to the advancement of the weather, water, and climate enterprise

Gretchen Mullendore: Fellow, American Meteorological Society

Gretchen Mullendore is the director of MMM Laboratory at NCAR. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing MMM's mission to advance the understanding of the mesoscale and microscale aspects of weather and climate and to apply this knowledge to benefit society. Her research interests include convective mass transport, gravity waves, and numerical modeling. Mullendore has been elected an AMS fellow, a distinction recognizing scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years. 

Annick Pouquet: Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Annick Pouquet is a scientist emeritus at NCAR. Pouquet obtained her Ph.D. in 1976 at the Observatoire de Nice, France, working on turbulence in the presence of a magnetic field, using models and direct numerical simulations. She also investigated the origin of magnetic fields and supersonic turbulence as it is observed in the interstellar medium. Her current research focuses on turbulence and waves, particularly in systems where both rotation and stratification are present. Pouquet has been elected an AGU Union Fellow, a distinction recognizing AGU members who have made exceptional contributions to Earth and space science through a breakthrough, discovery, or innovation in their field. 

David Randall: Warren Washington Research and Leadership Medal, American Meteorological Society 

David Randall is on the UCAR Board of Trustees and a distinguished professor at Colorado State University. Randall’s research focuses on modeling studies of clouds and their role in the global climate system using numerical simulation. Randall is being honored with this year’s AMS Warren Washington Research and Leadership Medal for exceptional research and leadership in the science of modeling weather and climate, with special emphasis on the crucial role of clouds. 

Jiang Zhu: Nanne Weber Early Career Award, American Geophysical Union

Jiang Zhu is a project scientist at NCAR. Zhu's research focuses on understanding how the climate system responds to a range of external forcings in Earth’s past and future. Zhu is interested in the physical processes that govern climate sensitivity, large-scale ocean circulation, and ocean-atmosphere coupled variability through a combination of numerical modeling and paleoclimate data. Zhu is being honored with AGU’s annual Nanne Weber Early Career Award which recognizes significant contributions to paleoceanography and paleoclimatology research from honorees within 10 years of receiving their Ph.D.