2002 Awards of the Environmental Sciences Dept, UVA

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FACULTY AWARDS & HONORS for 2003

Robert E. Davis
Chair, UVA Faculty Senate.
Editor, Climate Research: Interactions of Climate with Organisms, Ecosystems, and Human Societies.
Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Meteorology.

Robert Dolan
Editorial Board, Journal of Coastal Research.

Howard Epstein
Howie received an award from the College of Arts & Sciences. He was selected as one of 10 Mead Endowment Honored Faculty (with the College of Arts & Sciences) for outstanding teaching and involvement with students. The award is for the 2004-2005 academic year.

Jose D. Fuentes
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.
Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award, granted by the World Meteorological Organization, for the manuscript titled "Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation" by B.E. Law, E. Falge, L. Gu, D.D. Baldocchi, P. Bakwin, P. Berbigier, K. Davis, A.J. Dolman, M. Falk, J.D. Fuentes et al. (2002).

James N. Galloway
Associate Editor, Environmental Chemistry, The Scientific World.
International Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Sciences, Academia Sinica, Beijing.
Named as a "highly cited researcher" by the Institute of Scientific Information in three separate categories: Ecology/Environmental Science, Geosciences, and Engineering. According to ISI, in each area this represents the top 250 individuals who are the most highly cited for the period 1981 to 1999 and comprise less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers.
Appointed to the executive committee of the EPA Science Advisory Board for a three year period, December 2003 to September 2006.

Michael Garstang
Ex Officio, Chief Editor, Journal of Applied Meteorology.

Janet S. Herman
Associate Editor, Applied Geochemistry, International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry. January 1992-February 2003.
Deputy Editor, Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, December 2000-present.

George M. Hornberger
Associate Dean for the Sciences.
Interim Chair of the Statistics Department.
Chair, Publications Committee, American Geophysical Union.
Member, National Research Council Committee on Hydrologic Sciences.
Chair, National Research Council, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources.

Alan D. Howard
Member of the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Stephen A. Macko
Associate Editor, Amino Acids, 1996-present.
Associate Editor, The Scientific World: Isotopes in the Environment, 2001-present.
Associate Editor, Science of the Total Environment, 2000-present.
Elected a Fellow of the Joint European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society.

Michael E. Mann
Advisory board member for Scientific American 'Scientific American 50', 2003.
Editor, Journal of Climate (emeritus), 2003.

Karen J. McGlathery
Associate Editor, Journal of Phycology.

Aaron L. Mills
Editorial Board, Microbial Ecology .
Editorial Board, Geobiology.

G. Carleton Ray and Jerry McCormick-Ray
Published textbook entitled Coastal-Marine Conservation: Science and Policy .
Member, Editorial Board, Aquatic Conservation (Wiley), 1993-present.

Herman H. Shugart
Associate Editor, Global Change Biology.
Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Botany.

Thomas M. Smith
1993 manuscript published in the journal Nature (see below) was recognized by ISI Web of Science (Science Citations) as a citation classic and featured as one of the 25 most-cited scientific articles in the field of global change research. Smith, T.M. and Shugart, H.H. 1993. The transient response of terrestrial carbon storage to a perturbed climate. Nature 361:523-526.

Robert J. Swap
Represented UVA in discussions with the Regional Center for Southern Africa mission of the USAID in Gaborone Botswana, Apr-May 2003.
Represented UVA - Environmental Sciences efforts in southern Africa at a number of meetings with Department of State, USAID, World Bank Meetings, World Wildlife Fund, National Academy of Sciences and Conservation International during 2003.

Joseph C. Zieman
Recipient of major external donation to Everglades Research and for other departmental needs.
Director, Barley Scholars Program for South Florida studies.
Major contributor to effort to successfully raise $10M for Clark Hall addition.

GRADUATE AWARDS

Ryan Emanuel

In 2003, Ryan received an honorable mention for the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for minorities.

Nicole Kordziel

Nicole Kordziel won a travel grant to attend the Quadrennial Ozone Symposium in Kos, Greece in June where she presented a poster. Here is the citation, Kordziel, N.M., Davis, R.E. and J.D. Fuentes, 2004, High ozone days in two eastern North American Corridors, 1980-2000. Poster, 20th Quadrennial Ozone Symposium, Kos, Greece, June 4, 2004.

Lyndon D. Estes

Lyndon won a Washington DC Explorer's Club Award for $1,500.

Jordan G. Barr

Jordan won a Faculty Senate Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2004-2005.

Tana Wood

Tana won a Graduate School Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2004-2005.

Court Strong

Court was selected as a fully sponsored participant in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Summer Colloquium on Data Assimilation in Boulder, CO (July 7-18, 2003).

Ross Irwin

Ross received a Virginia Space Grant Fellowship ($5K) for 2003-2004.

UNDERGRADUATE & AWARDS

Addison Sears-Collins a rising 4th year major, won an Industry Scholarship from the AMS and also started a new section in the AMS Bulletin for the publication of research papers by undergraduates.

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