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Committee Member Biographies
Dr. Michael Garstar~g (Chair) is Distingu
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Shed Emeritus Research Professor in the
Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. He received his
Ph.D. in meteorology from Florida State University. His research interests include
convective storms, tropical marine and continental meteorology, trace gas and aerosol
transports and experimental meteorology. Dr. Garstang is a follow of the American
Meteorological Society (AMS). Lle has served on numerous committees, including the
AMS Committee on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology and the AMS Committee on
Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification. He served as chief editor of Journal of
Applied lLleteorology from 1998 to 2003.
Dr. Roscoe R. graham, Jr., is a professor and scholar-in-residence in the Department of
Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University. He received
his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and served on its meteorology faculty for 37
years His research interests include cloud physics, thunderstorms' lake-effect
snowstorms, and weather modification. He served as president of the American
Meteorological Society (AMS) in 1988, and has received the Losey Award of the
Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, the AMS's Rossby and C. F. Brooks Awards else
Department of Commerce Silver Medal, and the Weather Modification Association's
Schaefer Award for scientific and technological discoveries that have constituted a major
contribution to the advancement of weather modifications. Dr. Braham is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science' the AMS, and the Royal
Meteorological Society.
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Dr. Roelof T. Bruintjes is a scientist in the Research Applications Program at the
National Center for Atmospheric Research. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the
University of South Africa. His research interests include precipitation enhancement and
cloud processes. Dr. Bruintjes is a member of the American Meteorological Society
(AMS) and is chairman of the AMS Committee on Planned and Inadvertent Weather
Modification. He has served on the AMS Committee on Cloud Physics as well as flee
Executive Committee of the International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation
(ICCP) of IAMAP in the IUGG from September 1992-2000. He is also an executive
member and past president of the Weather Modification Association.
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Dr. Steven F. Clifford is a research associate at the Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was formerly the
director of NOAA's Environmental Technology Laboratory. lUe received his Ph.D. in
engineering science from Dart~outl~ College. One of his research goals is to develop a
global observing system using ground-based, airborne, and satellite-remote-sensing
systems to letter observe and monitor the global environment and rise these observations
as input to global air-sea circulation models for improving forecasts of weather and
climate change. He was the recipient of the 1998 Meritorious Presidential Rank Award.
He is a fellow of the Optica] and Acoustical Societies of America, a senior member of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a remember of the American Physical
Society the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Societal.
lde is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of flee
NRC's Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate.
Dr. Ross N. Hoffinan is the vice president for Reseal ch and Development at
Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. Dr. Hoffman?s principle areas of interest
are objective analysis and assimilation methods, atmospheric dynamics, climate theory,
and atmospheric radiation. He has made significant contributions in the field of data
assimilation, including the development of some variational techniques. He is a member
of the NASA Ocean Vector Wind Science Team and the Global Tropospheric Wired
Sounder Science Definition Team. Dr. Hoffman received his Ph.D. in meteorology from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Douglas K. Lilly is a professor emeritus in the Department of Meteorology at the
University of Oklahoma. life has recently been a Distinguished Senior Scientist at the
National Severe Storms Laboratory conducting research related to tornadoes and other
strong low-level vortices. His principal research interests have included the dynamics of
convective clouds and storms, mountain waves and down-slope windstorms, two-
di~nensional and boundary-layer turbulence, cloud-topped mixed layers, and numerical
simulation techniques. He has served as a senior scientist at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research; director of the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale
Meteorological Studies, a NOAA-Oklahorma University joint institute; and director of the
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms. He received the Rossby Medal from the
American Meteorological Society and the Symons Memorial Medal from the Royal
Meteorologica] Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Robert J. Serafin is Director Emeritus of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from flee Illinois Institute of Technology.
His technical interests are related to radar, remote sensing, and in situ sensing of the
atmosphere. He has expertise in the areas of signal processing theory, Doppler radar,
lidar, and passive remote sensing techniques, and in the use of such systems for
applications including severe weather detection, weather forecasting, precipitation
estimation, and hydrological studies Dr. Serafin is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and has served on many NRC committees, including the Space Studies
Board' and as chair for both the Committee on Tools for Tracking CBN Releases in the
Atmosphere and the Committee on National Weather Service Moderllizatton. He is also
a past president of the Americans Meteorological Society and current fellow. and a fellow
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Dr. Paul D. Try is the senior vice president and program manager at Science and
Technology Corporation (STC) and director of the International Global Energy and
Water Cycle Experiment Project Office. He received his P1~.D. in atmospheric sciences
-from the University of Washington. Dr. Try has expertise ill meteorological in situ and
remote sensors (satellite arid radar), as well as data collection, processing, exchange and
archival activities. Before joining STC he served in the U.S. Air Force where he provided
oversight management of all DOD research arid development in environmental sciences.
Dr. Try is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and was its president in 1996-
97.
Dr. Johannes Verlinde is an associate professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State
University. He received his Ph.D. in atmospheric science from Colorado State University
His research interests include the dynamical and m~crophysica1 processes in cloud, radar
signal processing, and microphysics retrieval flom remotely sensed measurements. Dr.
Verlinde is a n~ember of the American Meteorological Society (AMS' and flee American
Geophysical Union. He is currently serving on the AMS committee for cloud physics.
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