Thomas R. Karl
2009 President
American Meteorological Society

Thomas R. Karl received his B.S. from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and his M.S. from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and was awarded a doctorate of humane letters from North Carolina State University. After a brief TV/radio weather forecasting position at the beginning of his career, Tom joined NOAA in 1975. He has had a variety of assignments at NOAA, and since 1998 has served as the director of the National Climatic Data Center. Tom has been fortunate to receive many awards, including the AMS Suomi Award, a Presidential Rank Award, three Department of Commerce Gold Medals and two Bronze Medals. Tom has also received the NOAA Administrator’s Award, the Helmut Landsberg Award from the American Association of State Climatologists, and the Climate Institute’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award. He has served as associate editor (1989–95) and editor (1998–2000) of the Journal of Climate, and received an AMS Editors Award in 1988. He was chairman of both the AMS Applied Climatology Committee (1989–91) and the AMS Global Change Symposia (1997–2000). Tom served as AMS Councilor from 2003 to 2006, and he currently serves as a member of the AMS Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise. Tom is a national associate of the National Research Council (NRC) and has served on numerous NRC Committees. He is a Fellow of both the AMS and the American Geophysical Union. He has authored or coauthored over 150 scientific articles, edited or coauthored several books, and led several national and international assessments related to climate change.

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