Dr. Alan Gertler   Dr. Arlen Huggins   Danyal Petersen   Dr. Judith Chow   Rajan Chakrabarty   Dr. John Watson   Dr. John Hallett - Honorary ICCP Member   Dr. Darko Koracin

2009

Dr. Alan Gertler

• Recipient of the annual Regents’ Researcher Award from the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education

Dr. Kelly Redmond

• Named as a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society

Subhashree Mishra, Graduate Student

• Recipient of the "Outstanding International Graduate Student Award" from the University of Nevada, Reno, Graduate Student Association

2008

Arlen Huggins

• Recipient of the Thunderbird Award from the Weather Modification Association

Dr. Kelly Redmond

• Recipient of the AMS Applied Climatology Award

Harold Peterson, Graduate Student

• Recipient of the American Geological Institute Minority Participation Program Scholarship

Danyal Petersen, Graduate Student

• Recipient of the Colin Warden Award

Jo Gerrard

• Recipient of the 2008 Technical Employee of the Year award

2007

Dr. Judy Chow

• Recipient of the Nazir and Mary Ansari Chair in Entrepreneurialism and Science award, a $75,000 DRI professorship funded by the Nazir and Mary Ansari Foundation

Dr. Alan Gertler

• Elected President of the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA)

Dr. German Vidaurre, Post-Doctoral Fellow

• Recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the UNR Graduate Student Association

2006

Dr. Steven Chai

• Recipient of the Thunderbird Award from the Weather Modification Association

Dr. Alan Gertler

• Elected Vice-President of the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA)

Dr. John Lewis, Adjunct Professor

• Elected by the American Meteorological Association to the position of Fellow

Dr. Christopher Davey, Post-Doctoral Fellow

• Awarded the Ph.D. Dissertation Medal in Applied Climatology from the American Association of State Climatologists

Rajan Chakrabarty, M.S. Student

• Recipient of the 2006 Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award

2005

Dr. John Watson

• Received the 2005 Regents' Researcher Award. This is the highest honor awarded annually to a single researcher within the Nevada System of Higher Education.

Dr. John Hallett

Elected honorary member of the International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP).

Dr. Jack Gillies

• Was recognized by the DoD Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) by receiving an award for best compliance project of the year. This project involved characterizing and quantifying fugitive dust emissions from DoD sources. Other DAS faculty involved in this project includes Pat Arnott, Vic Etyemezian, Hampden Kuhns, and Hans Moosmüller.

Dr. Darko Koracin

• Received his third Fulbright Fellowship Award as Senior Scientist Specialist in Environmental Modeling. Darko used this award to teach a graduate class in atmospheric dispersion and air quality modeling at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

2004

Dr. Darko Koracin

• Recipient of Fulbright Fellowship Award as Senior Scientist Specialist in Environmental Modeling

Dr. Dorothea Ivanova

• Her paper "The North American (Mexican) Monsoon: MM5 Modeling Study Implications" was chosen as "Best Papers Award" at the 14th Conference on Applied Climatology, American Meteorological Society, held 11-15 January 2004 in Seattle, WA.

Anna Cunningham, Lab Tech/Coordinator

• Recipient of the 2004 Technical Employee of the Year award

2003

Dr. Judith Chow

• Appointed to the National Academies' Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (BEST)

Dr. Vanda Grubisic

• Recipient of 2003 Peter B. Wagner Medal of Excellence for DRI Scholars in the Early Stages of Career Development

Dr. Darko Koracin

• Recipient of Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant in Environmental Sciences to study and lecture at the University of Zagreb

Dr. William Stockwell

• Chosen as lead speaker at a Gordon Research Conference on Biogenic Hydrocarbons in the Atmosphere, held at Queens College in Oxford, U.K.

Dr. Barbara Zielinska

• Recipient of DRI's 2003 Dandini Medal of Science

Guadalupe Paredes-Miranda, Ph.D. Student

• Recipient of DRI's 2003 Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award

Serena Chew, M.S. Student

• Recipient of 2003 Sierra Pacific Fellowship Program Award

Brenda Cristani, Lab Coord. Data Analyst

• Recipient of the 2003 Technical Employee of the Year award

2002

Dr. Judith Chow

• Frank A. Chambers Award (presented by the Air and Waste Management Association

Dorothea Ivanova, Ph.D. Student

• Recipient of DRI's 2002 Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award

2001

Dr. Judith Chow

UCCSN Regents "Researcher of the Year" award

Dr. Alan Gertler

• 2001 "Hope for the Future for a Sustainable World" award

Dr. Leland Tarnay

• Recipient of DRI's 2001 Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award