AMS Awards and Nomination Information
The Council of the American Meteorological Society invites members and friends of the AMS to submit nominations for consideration for the Society Awards, Lecturers, Named Symposia, Fellows, Honorary members, and nominees for elective Officers and Councilors of the Society.
New Award at AMS
 The Henry T. Harrison Award for Outstanding Contributions by a Consulting Meteorologist
The Henry T. Harrison Award for Outstanding Contributions by a Consulting Meteorologist was established in 2011 to recognize a consulting meteorologist for outstanding contributions to the profession, clients, and society. Nominees should demonstrate expertise in weather or climate and their applications, adherence to ethical behavior, and a high level of service to clients and/or the weather and climate enterprise. Nominations are considered by the Board of Certified Consulting Meteorologists which makes recommendations for final approval by the AMS Council.
2012 AWARDS
Award Descriptions | Past Award Winners, Lecturers, Fellows, and Honorary Members
The procedure for Awards nominations is restricted to electronic submissions, unless stated otherwise. The nominator is responsible for uploading the entire nomination package. Each committee or commission listed below has the responsibility to select and submit to the Council the names of individuals nominated for the Society's awards listed. All nominations should be submitted by the time has passed (1 May 2012). The nominees for awards remain on the committee's active list for three years.
ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AWARDS COMMITTEE
The Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal
The Jule G. Charney
The Verner E. Suomi*
The Remote Sensing Prize (biennial)
The Clarence Leroy Meisinger
The Henry G. Houghton
OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AWARDS COMMITTEE
The Sverdrup Gold Medal
The Henry Stommel Research Medal
The Verner E. Suomi*
The Nicholas P. Fofonoff
*Recommended by the Atmospheric Research Awards Committee in even-numbered years and by the Oceanographic Research Awards Committee in odd-numbered years.
AWARDS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
The Charles Franklin Brooks
The Cleveland Abbe
The Outstanding Services to Meteorology by a Corporation
Special Awards
The Joanne Simpson Mentorship Award
EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMISSION
The Louis J. Battan Author’s Award—Adult
The Louis J. Battan Author’s Award—K–12
The Charles E. Anderson
The Teaching Excellence
Distinguished Science Journalism in the Atmospheric & Related Sciences
PROFESSIONAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION
Outstanding Contribution to the Advance of Applied Meteorology
Award for Broadcast Meteorology
Award for Excellence in Science Reporting by a Broadcast Meteorologist
The Henry T. Harrison Award for Outstanding Contributions by a Consulting Meteorologist
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES COMMISSION
Charles L. Mitchell
Exceptional Specific Prediction
Francis W. Reichelderfer
Helmut E. Landsberg
Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology
WEATHER AND CLIMATE ENTERPRISE COMMISSION
The Kenneth C. Spengler
FELLOWS
Fellows Criteria | Fellows Nomination Procedure | Fellows Nomination | Fellows List
LECTURERS
Robert E. Horton Lecturer in Hydrology
Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer
Walter Orr Roberts Lecturer
PAPERS (awarded directly)
Banner I. Miller
STUDENT PAPERS (awarded directly)
Robert Leviton
Max A. Eaton Prize
Spiros G. Geotis Prize
Peter V. Hobbs Student Prize
LOCAL CHAPTER AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Application for the Local Chapter of the Year Award (pdf)
-Past Winners
HONORARY MEMBER
Nominations for Honorary Member (pdf)
Article III, Section 5, of the AMS Constitution provides that Honorary Members shall be persons of acknowledged preeminence in the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences, either through their own contributions to the sciences or their application or through furtherance of the advance of those sciences in some other way. They shall be exempt from all dues and assessments. The nominees for Honorary member remain on an active list for three years.
NAMED SYMPOSIA
Named Symposia Description and Application (pdf)
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