Faculty Recognition

National Awards

• Avallone, Linnea: 2003, NASA Group Achievement Award "for the Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers - Florida Area Cirrus Experiment (CRYSTAL-FACE)"
• Hart, John: 2003, First Place Award: Weatherwise Magazine photography contest for best image of an atmospheric phenomenon.
• Toon, O. Brian: 2003, NASA Group Achievement Award, for “outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the extremely successful Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers-Florida Area Cirrus Experiment”
• Toon, O. Brian: 2002, Highly Cited Researchers Award, ISI Thomson Scientific for being “one of the most highly cited, influential researchers in Geosciences”
• Avallone, Linnea: 2001, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Group Achievement Award (SOLVE)
• Evans, Frank: 2001, Henry G. Houghton Award, the American Meteorological Society, "for perceptive conceptual advances in theory, measurement, and three-dimensional modeling of radiative transfer in cloudy skies"
• Avallone, Linnea: 2000, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
• Avallone, Linnea: 1999, National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• Hart, John: 1997, Verner E. Suomi Award, the American Meteorological Society, "for fundamental contributions to meteorology and oceanography through innovative laboratory studies of geophysical fluids."
• Avallone, Linnea: 1996, Environmental Protection Agency Early Career Award
• Evans, Frank: 1996, NASA New Investigator Award
• Hart, John: 1995, N.S.F. Special Creativity Award for laboratory studies of rotating stratified fluids
• Toohey, Darin: 1993, NASA Group Achievement Award, SPADE Campaign
• Toohey, Darin: 1992, National Science Foundation, Young Investigator Award
• Toohey, Darin: 1989, NASA Group Achievement Award, AASE Campaign
• Toon, O. Brian: 1989, NASA medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement for research on the ozone hole
• Toohey, Darin: 1987, Procter and Gamble Award, American Chemical Society, Division of Physical Chemistry
• Hart, John: 1986, N.A.S.A. Special Acheivement Award for successfull flight of the Geosphyical Fluid Flow Cell experiment on the space shuttle Challenger
• Toon, O. Brian: 1985, Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest, the American Physical Society, for research on nuclear winter
• Toon, O. Brian: 1983, NASA medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement for studies of the climates of Earth and the planets

Fellowships in Professional Societies

American Meteorological Society

• John Hart
• Brian Toon

American Geophysical Union

• Linnea Avallone (finalist 2003)
• Brian Toon