Awards Earned
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2019 NOAA Bronze Medal Award: Recognition for “leading a multi-year, multi-institutional effort to ensure the continued production and availability of a premier source of cloud information”
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2014 Department of Commerce Gold Medal: Honored for “creation and operational implementation of a new, extensible community standard for the production and preservation of climate data records”
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2010 Department of Commerce Silver Medal: Recognized for “major innovations in climate stewardship, providing the authoritative source of historical hurricane track data”
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2007 NOAA Bronze Medal Award: Acknowledged for “analyzing terabytes of data from 18 different satellites from more than 20 years of observations in order to create climate data records”
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2007 Outstanding Professional Employee - Greater Asheville Public Service Council
Scientific Communication and Public Engagement
More than 50 conference presentations. Other experience include:
- Co-chaired major international scientific forums and organized workshops on global climate datasets
- Received “Best Poster” recognition at two national conferences
- Guest lectured at a local university, connecting research with academic curricula
- Developed STEM education presentations on weather and scholarship merit badges for scouts
- Taught Honors and College Prep Environmental Science at the secondary level
- Presented weather and climate topics to elementary school audiences
Training
- Project Management (Management Concepts)
- Strategic Thinking (Brookings Institute)
- Supervisory Development & Leadership (NOAA/Eastern Management Development Center)
- Wood Badge Leadership Training (Scouting America)