Professional Affiliations, Achievements, & Awards

Officer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Commissioned Corps,. 1970 - 1973.

Appointed "Visiting Professor" of the China Meteorological Agency teaching their Advanced Doppler Radar Applications and Interpretation seminar biannually or annually at their request since 2001.

National Weather Association President Elect for 2000, the NWA President for 2001, and NWA Past President for 2002.

Vice-President of the National Weather Association, 1999.

Chosen as a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), 1999. Received The Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advance of Applied Meteorology "for pioneering work including design and development of the WSR-88D Doppler weather radar system" from the AMS, 1997.

Councilor, National Weather Association, 1997.

1992 Unisys Corporation Group Level Achievement Award for professional excellence and the Technical Paper Award.

Served as a reviewer, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council report concerning "Weather Radar Technology Beyond NEXRAD," 2002.

NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories' Outstanding Authorship Award for the paper titled "Tornado Detection by Pulsed Doppler Radar," 1978.

Received Department of Commerce/NOAA Special Achievement Award for the co-discovery of the Doppler weather radar Tornadic Vortex Signature (TVS), 1976.

Fellow, The Cooperate Insitute of Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) Assembly, 2002-2004.