Dr. Warren M. Washington, Chair

Warren Washington is a Senior Scientist and head of the Climate Change Research Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. His expertise is in atmospheric and climate research. His involvement in research for more than forty years has made him a much sought after individual for advice, testimony, and lecturing on global climate change. He has served on numerous committees and panels, among them the U.S. President's National Advisory Committeeon Oceans and Atmosphere from 1978-1984. He has had Presidential Appointments under Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush, Jr. Administrations. More recently, he served on the National Science Board from 1994 to 2006 and he was Chair from 2002 to 2006. He has over 120 publications and co-authored with Claire Parkinson a book considered a standard reference on climate modeling -- An Introduction to Three-Dimensional Climate Modeling"(2005) and autobiography—Odyssey in Climate Modeling, Global Warming, and Advising Five Presidents.  Dr. Washington has many awards including being a member of the National Academy of Engineering, President of the American Meteorological Society (1994), and a member of American Philosophical Society. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Pennsylvania State University and Oregon State University (OSU).

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/warren/

Kelvin Droegemeier

Kelvin K. Droegemeier earned a B.S. with Special Distinction in Meteorology in 1980 from the University of Oklahoma, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric science in 1982 and 1985, respectively, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He joined the University of Oklahoma in, 1985 as an Assistant Professor of Meteorology, and became full Professor in 1998.  Dr. Droegemeier was co-founder in 1989 of the NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS).  In 1998, Dr. Droegemeier was named a President’s Associates Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma, and was awarded a Regents’ Professorship at OU in 2001.  In 2003, Dr. Droegemeier co-founded the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA).   In 2004, he was awarded the Roger and Sherry Teigen Presidential Professorship.  In 2005 he was named the Weathernews Chair in Applied Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and also the Director of the Sasaki Institute.  In 2004, Dr. Droegemeier was appointed by President George W. Bush to a 6-year term on the National Science Board. In 2005, he was appointed Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Oklahoma.  Dr. Droegemeier has been a major force behind the development and application of high performance computing systems both at OU and across the US and is a national leader in the creation of partnerships among academia, government and industry.  Dr. Droegemeier's research interests lie in thunderstorm dynamics and predictability, variational data assimilation, mesoscale dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, massively parallel computing, and aviation weather.  He has authored and co-authored more than 60 refereed journal articles and over 200 conference publications, he is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and served as a Councilor from 2005-2008.  Elected to the UCAR Board of Trustees in 2002, he became Chairman of the Board in 2004.     

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Maura Hagan

Maura Hagan was awarded a B.A. in physics from Emmanuel College in 1975, and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Boston College in 1980 and 1986, respectively. Between 1986 and 1992, she was a staff member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory. Dr. Hagan joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) staff as a scientist in the High Altitude Observatory in 1992 and was promoted to Senior Scientist in 2003. She is also currently serving as the Director of the NCAR Advanced Study Program. Her research interests are centered on investigations of the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere with emphases on the coupling between these atmospheric regions, including the upward propagating effects of tides and planetary waves and the downward penetration of space weather effects. She has authored or co-authored more than 85 refereed publications.

http://www.hao.ucar.edu/people/photo_dir/hagan.php

Neal Lane

Neal Lane is the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University. He also holds appointments as a Senior Fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, where he is engaged in matters of science and technology policy, and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.  Dr. Lane earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Oklahoma.  Dr. Lane joined the Department of Physics at Rice in 1966 as an assistant professor. In 1972, he became Professor of Physics and Space Physics and Astronomy.  From 1979 to 1980, while on leave from Rice, he worked at the NSF as Director of the Division of Physics.  From mid-1984 to 1986 he served as Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.  In 1986, Dr. Lane became Provost and Professor of Physics at Rice.  Dr. Lane served in the Federal government as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, from 1998 to 2001, and as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and member (ex officio) of the National Science Board, from 1993 to 1998.  Widely regarded as a distinguished scientist and educator, Dr. Lane’s many writings and presentations include topics in theoretical atomic and molecular physics and science and technology policy. Dr. Lane has received numerous prizes, awards, including the AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Award, the AAAS William D. Carey Award, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers President’s Award, the American Chemical Society Public Service Award, the American Astronomical Society /American Mathematical Society/American Physical Society Public Service Award, and many honorary degrees.  He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the Association for Women in Science and a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He serves on several boards and advisory committees.

Katy Schmoll

Kathryn (Katy) Schmoll is the Vice President for Finance and Administration at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.  She is responsible for all financial, contractual, human resources and administrative functions of the corporation and is the Chief Financial Officer.  From 1993 to 1997, Ms. Schmoll was the Comptroller for the Environmental Protection Agency, responsible for agency budget formulation and execution and all financial policies and services.  She also served as liaison to the Congressional Appropriations Committees, the Office of Management and Budget and the General Accounting Office.  From 1987 to 1993, Ms. Schmoll was the Assistant Associate Administrator in the NASA Headquarters Office of Space Science and Applications.  Her responsibilities there included budget management, program management for facilities construction, institutional oversight of the Goddard Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and resource analysis.  Prior to that, she was the Acting Director of the Microgravity Science and Applications Division.  She also held a number of other positions in NASA.  Ms. Schmoll has a B.S. in Public Administration from Indiana University and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.  Awards include: the William Jump award for outstanding public service; the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal; the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive; the Outstanding Achievement Award from Women in Aerospace and the Boulder “Spirit of the Community” award.  She is a member of the NSF Business and Operations Advisory Committee and the National Earthquake Engineering Simulator Board of Trustees Audit and Finance Committee and served as a member of the University of Colorado-Boulder Strategic Planning Steering Committee.

Keith Seitter

Keith L. Seitter was named Executive Director of the American Meteorological Society in September 2004. Dr. Seitter joined the AMS in the early 1990s as Assistant to the Executive Director in the role of leading the Society’s publications department. He served as Deputy Executive Director of the Society beginning in 1999. As Deputy Director, Seitter was involved in all aspects of the Society’s programs, including moving the many AMS Specialty and Annual Meeting toward electronic submission and dissemination of author’s materials, implementing the recommendations from the 10-Year Vision Study, and continuing working with the publications department.  Before joining the AMS, Seitter was on the faculty at the University of Lowell, now University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He earned his undergraduate degree in meteorology at the Pennsylvania State University and a doctorate in geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. A native of Marion, Ohio, Dr. Seitter had a postdoctoral appointment at the Air Force Geophysical Laboratory at Hanscom Air Force Base before moving to the University of Lowell.  Dr. Seitter is a Fellow of the AMS and Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. He is also a member of many other societies and organizations in the sciences and scholarly publishing and serves on a number of advisory boards. He has given numerous invited lectures and published a number of papers in AMS and other scientific and publishing journals.

http://www.ametsoc.org/amsnews/bios/seitter.html

Lisa White

Lisa D. White is Associate Dean of the College of Science and Engineering and Professor of Geosciences at San Francisco State University.  Dr. White received her B.A. in Geology from San Francisco State University in 1984, and her Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1989.  Dr. White has extensive experience managing science programs for urban students, and for more than 20 years she has been active in efforts to increase diversity in the geosciences. She is the director of the SF-ROCKS (Reaching Out to Communities and Kids with Science in San Francisco) program at SF State, a National Science Foundation-funded project that engages SF Unified School District high school students in geoscience research projects and training.  In 2005 she was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of New Orleans and helped to promote opportunities for underrepresented students to enter college as geoscience majors. A micropaleontologist and paleoceanographer by training, she is a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and Chair of the UCAR President's Advisory Committee on University Relations.  Dr. White has distinguished herself equally as a teacher, administrator, and researcher, and continues to investigate the age distribution of siliceous and organic-rich sediments around the Pacific Rim.