Awards

Five postdoctoral fellows received special honors and awards during FY-03. Caspar Ammann received funding on three proposals: Climate variability of past centuries-regional and climate mode response (NSF Strategic Initiative with Linda Mearns of ESIG and Warren Washington of CGD); Development of spatio-temporal and multi-resolution methods for detecting the impact of volcanic and solar forcings in climate (NSF Collaborations in Mathematical Geosciences with Philippe Naveau of the University of Colorado); and Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 2000 years: an improved ice-core-based index for climate models (NSF-ESH/NOAA-OGP with Alan Robock of Rutgers University).

Shui Bin was the recipient of SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START) research seed grant funds.

Emma Kavanaugh was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in the United Kingdom (UK), member of the Institute of Physics of the UK, and a member of the European Geosciences Union.

Matthias Rempel received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck Gesellschaft Award for his Ph.D. work.