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As of: 20 September 2013
Curriculum Vitae -- Charles A. Doswell III
PERSONAL
- Born: November 5, 1945, Elmhurst, Illinois (York Township,
Dupage Co.)
EDUCATION:
- Willowbrook Community High School, Villa Park, Illinois: 9/59
to 6/63; graduated, 2.94 GPA
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (122 sem.hrs.):
9/63 to 6/67, Bachelor of Science degree conferred 5 June 1967.
Major - Meteorology. 3.09 overall GPA; in Major: 3.62 GPA
- University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (3l sem. hrs): 9/67
to 1/69, Master of Science degree conferred January l969.
Major - Meteorology; Minor - Mathematics. 3.89 overall GPA;
in Major: 4.00 GPA
- University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (94 sem. hrs.): 1/69
to 6/69 and 6/72 to 7/76, Doctor of Philosophy degree conferred 30
July 1976. Major - Meteorology. 3.92 overall GPA; in major: 4.00
GPA. Dissertation title: The Use of Filtered Surface
Observations to Reveal Subsynoptic Scale Dynamics.
HONORS, AWARDS, CERTIFICATIONS
- National Merit Letter of Commendation - June 1963
- Invitation to Univ. of Wisconsin Honors Convocation - June
1967
- Dean's List, Univ. of Oklahoma - Dec 1967, May 1968
- Silver Medal Award, U.S. Dept. of Commerce - Oct 1989,
for "meritorious authorship and editing associated with A Guide
for Operational Meteorological Research"
- NOAA Sustained superior performance award - 1987, 1988,
1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997
- Editor's Award - Amer. Meteor. Soc. - Jan 1994, for
"providing penetrating and thought-provoking reviews on numerous
manuscripts submitted to Weather and Forecasting"
- Gold Medal Award (Unit Citation), U.S. Dept. of
Commerce - Oct 1995, to NSSL "for achieving scientific and
technological breakthroughs leading to continuous improvements in
the national network of Doppler radars"
- Research Achievement in Support of Operational Forecasting
Award (now the T.T. Fujita Award), Nat. Wea. Assoc. -
Dec 1995, for "outstanding contributions to operational research"
- ERL Outstanding Scientific Paper Award - Sep 1996, for
the paper: Brooks, H.E., Charles A. Doswell III, and R.B.
Wilhelmson (1994): On the role of the mid-tropospheric winds in
the evolution and maintenance of low-level mesocyclones. Mon
Wea. Rev., 122, 126-136.
- NSSL Outstanding Scientific Paper Award - Jan 1999, for
the paper: C.A. Doswell III, H.E. Brooks and R.A. Maddox (1996):
Flash flood forecasting: An ingredients-based methodology. Wea.
Forecasting, 11, 560-581.
- Certified Consulting Meteorologist - Amer. Meteor.
Soc., February 2002
- Anton’n Strnad Gold Medal - Czech
Hydrometeorological Inst., August 2002, for "many years of
collaboration and an active participation in the development of
meteorology of convective storms in the Czech Republic"
- Sergey Soloviev Medal - European Geosciences Union,
2004, "in recognition of his world leadership in predicting the
consequences of severe storms and floods, and in the avoidance and
mitigation of these severe natural hazards"
- Nikolai Dotzek Award - European Severe Storms Lab., June 2013, for "lifetime achievement in severe convective storms research"
- NWA Special Lifetime Achievement Award
- Nat. Wea. Assoc., October 2013, for "his exceptional service and
contributions to the operational forecasting and research communities
through highÐquality scientific research, educational workshops, and
mentorship of colleagues and students"
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- American Meteorological Society
- Chi Epsilon Pi Meteorology Honorary Society
- Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
- National Weather Association
- U.K. Royal Meteorological Society (Fellow)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Session Chair, 9th AMS Conf. Wea.Forecasting and Analysis
(Seattle, WA) - 1982
- Session Chair, 10th AMS Conf. Wea. Forecasting and Analysis
(Clearwater, FL) - 1984
- Session Chair, 14th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms
(Indianapolis, IN) - 1985
- Session Chair, 15th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Baltimore,
MD) - 1988
- Session Chair, 12th AMS Conf. Wea. Forecasting and Analysis
(Monterey, CA) - 1989
- Session Chair, Tornado Symp. III (Norman, OK), 1991.
- Session Chair, 17th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (St. Louis,
MO), - 1993
- Session Chair, 18th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (San
Francisco, CA) - 1996
- Session Chair, 10th Cyclone Workshop (Val Morin, Quebec) -
1997
- Session Chair, 19th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms
(Minneapolis, MN) - 1998
- Session Chair, 20th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Orlando,
FL) - 2000
- Member, Program Committee, 15th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms
(Baltimore, MD), 1986-1988
- Member, Program Committee, 12th AMS Conf. Weather Forecasting
and Analysis (Monterey, CA), 1987 - 1989
- Co-Chair, Program Committee, 16th AMS Conf. Severe Local
Storms (Kananaskis Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada), 1988 - 1990
- Co-Chair, Program Committee, Tornado Symposium. III (Norman,
OK), 1989 - 1991.
- Member, Organizing Committee, 2nd European Conf. on Severe
Storms (Pruhonice, Czech Republic), 2000 - 2002
- Session Chair, 4th International Conf. Mesoscale Convective
Systems and Heavy Rainfall in East Asia (Beijing, People's
Republic of China) - 2004.
- Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review, 1 January
1984 - 1 January 1986
- Associate Editor, Weather and Forecasting, 1 January
1988 - 1 January 1998
- Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review, 1 January
1998 - 1 January 2000
- Associate Editor, The Tornado: Its Structure, Dynamics,
Prediction, and Hazards (Proceedings, Tornado Symp. III),
Geophysical Monogr. 79, Amer. Geophys. Union, 1989 - 1993.
[Winner Best New Book in Geography and Earth
Sciences, Amer. Publishers, Inc. (1994)]
- Editor, Severe Convective Storms (AMS Monograph), Amer.
Meteor. Soc., December 1993 - December 2001
- Advisory Board Member and Chief Scientist, Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology, November 2005 - present
- Guest Editor, Atmospheric Research, 7 June 2013 - present
- Visiting Professor, State Univ. of New York at Albany, June
1994 - May 1995
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Univ. of Oklahoma,
January 1989 - August 1996
- Adjunct Professor, Univ. of Oklahoma, September 1996 -
present
- Member, AMS Advisory Committee on Severe Local Storms, 1986 -
1989
- Member, AMS Advisory Committee on Severe Local Storms, 1992 -
1995
- Member, AMS Executive Council, January 1997-2000
- Facilitator, AMS statement on tornado safety and preparedness,
1998-2000
- Member, AMS Ad Hoc Committee on Meetings, 1998-2000
- Co-Facilitator, AMS statement on probability forecasting,
1999-2000
- Member, AMS Advisory Committee on Weather Analysis and
Forecasting, 2002 - present
- Member, Council of Fellows, Cooperative Institute for
Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), January 1991 - January
2001
- Member, Steering Committee, Oklahoma Mesonetwork, Oklahoma
Climate Survey, January 1991 - May 1992.
- Member, Steering Committee, Cooperative Regional Assimilation
and Forecast Test (CRAFT) for Center for Analysis and Prediction
of Storms (CAPS), University of Oklahoma, August 1991 - December
2001
- Chair, Data Processing and Management Advisory Committee,
NSSL, December 1986 - April 1990
- Member, Personnel Management Advisory Committee, National
Severe Storms Laboratory, 1995 - 1996
- Member, WMO Steering Group on Very Short-Range Forecasting,
January 1989 - January 1992
- Member, International Programme Committee for the INM-WMO
International Symposium on Mediterranean Cyclones and Hazardous
Weather Phenomena [INM - Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia],
January 1996 - April 1997
- Member, U.S. Weather Research Program Prospectus Development
Team #9 (Hydrological Aspects of Weather Prediction and Flood
Warnings), December 1997
- Member, FEMA Building Performance Assessment Team for the 3
May 1999 outbreak of tornadoes in OK and KS, May 1999.
- Member, Interim Science Committee, MEDEX (Mediterranean
Experiment), INM-WMO, February 1999-December 2001
- Member, Scientific Program Committee, European Conf. on Severe
Storms, July 2000 - September 2002
- Member, NWS Quick Response Team, 2003 - present