GFDL Awards & Honors

GFDL Senior Research Scientist Isaac Held has been selected to receive the 2018 Roger Revelle Medal from AGU, “for pioneering advances in the fundamental understanding of the spatial structure of atmospheric circulation systems and water vapor in climate change.” Dr. Held has been making sustained, essential contributions to the advancement of our understanding of interactions […]

Thomas L. Delworth was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for 2018. A Senior Scientist at GFDL, Dr. Delworth’s research has advanced the scientific frontiers on the role of the ocean in our climate system, especially climate variability, change, and predictability on time scales from seasonal to centennial. He is also widely […]

Yi Ming, head of GFDL’s Atmospheric Physics and Climate Group, has been honored with AGU’s Ascent Award for Atmospheric Sciences this year. The Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award rewards exceptional mid-career scientists in the atmospheric and climate sciences. Honorees are recognized for demonstrating excellence in research and leadership in his or her field. Yi Ming is […]

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has announced that Leo Donner, a Physical Scientist in GFDL’s Atmospheric Physics division, was elected a Fellow for 2019. Dr. Donner is widely recognized for his novel work on cloud and convective processes in the atmospheric general circulation. His research has yielded important insights about interactions between processes on the […]

Rong Zhang, an Oceanographer and head of the Ocean and Cryosphere division, was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) for 2019. She is recognized for her work on the mechanisms of Atlantic multidecadal variability and associated decadal predictability, and the impact of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) on global and regional climate […]

Shian-Jiann (S.J.) Lin, head of GFDL’s Weather and Climate Dynamics Group, has been elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). AMS Fellows are chosen for having “made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years.” Examples of Dr. Lin’s significant contributions […]

Stephen M. Griffies was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for 2017 for “exceptional and sustained contributions to the understanding of large-scale ocean circulation and physics and seminal advances in ocean modeling.” His research has provided important insights about ocean fluid mechanics and the role that ocean circulation plays in the global […]

Larry Horowitz, Leader of GFDL’s Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Group, has been honored with AGU’s Ascent Award for Atmospheric Sciences this year. The Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award rewards exceptional mid-career scientists in the atmospheric and climate sciences. Honorees are recognized for demonstrating excellence in research and leadership in his or her field. AGU award recipients […]

GFDL senior scientist Isaac Held will present the 2016 Jacob Bjerknes Lecture on December 13th at the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) annual fall meeting in San Francisco. The Bjerknes Lecture, one of the two most distinguished named lectures of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of AGU, is awarded annually to a prominent scientist. The lecture is […]

The American Meteorological Society has announced its 2016 award recipients, and GFDL’s Director, V. “Ram” Ramaswamy has been named the Walter Orr Roberts Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Sciences. Ram is being recognized, “For pioneering scientific achievements that have synthesized atmospheric radiation, physics of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and state-of-the-art Earth system modeling.” The lectureship is presented […]