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Science and Engineering Awards
 Christopher Williams, NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division
Over many years, Christopher Williams has made outstanding contributions to scientific research on precipitating cloud systems using radar profilers and his work has been widely recognized nationally and internationally. In particular, he has shown great initiative and creativity in developing methodologies to retrieve cloud microphysical information from profiler spectra. He is also always looking for ways to expand the scope of his work. A case in point is a research project he headed on the innovative use of hydrophones for measuring drop size distributions. Christopher has repeatedly demonstrated that he is an asset to CIRES and NOAA, not only because of the quality of his scientific research, but also through the outreach and educational activities he engages in outside of his regular work duties. He has shared his expertise by teaching part of a radar course at CU and by advising graduate students on their Ph.D. dissertations. And he has used his artistic talent to create vivid interactive computer posters that stand out on K-12 science days.
 Bill Dubé and Craig Simons, NOAA/ESRL/
Chemical Sciences Division
Bill Dubé and Craig Simons have done the seemingly impossible: Through their careful and collaborative engineering efforts over the last year, they have substantially increased the science payload on the NOAA P-3 research aircraft. This additional capacity would not have been realized without Bill and Craig’s innovative contributions, impressive engineering talent, and sustained hard work, and will permit new climate-relevant measurements of aerosol optical properties to be added to an already completely full aircraft without compromising the existing P-3 aircraft instrumentation suite. Bill and Craig suggested the existing electronics racks be replaced with a new light-weight design that would free sufficient payload weight to easily accommodate the new aerosol instruments. CIRES researchers will now be able to address new and pressing issues related to aerosol chemical processing, radiative forcing, and cloud-aerosol interactions.
Service Awards
 Bobbie Klein, Ami Nacu-Schmidt, and Linda Pendergrass,
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
Bobbie Klein, Ami Nacu-Schmidt, and Linda Pendergrass performed an outstanding service to CIRES, the broader University community, and the general public by conceiving of and successfully implementing the heralded public lecture series "Policy, Politics, and Science in the White House: Conversations with Presidential Science Advisors." This public lecture series consisted of visits from the current and former White House Science Advisors and one former House Science Committee Chief of Staff. The lectures provided a venue for frank exchanges on the role of science advice and science policy in the United States, and a myriad of topics close to the Boulder scientific community. Together, they put together and oversee a highly successful, well-recognized effort of CIRES that showcases the commitment of CIRES and the University of Colorado to dialogue and research on the science policy questions of our time.
 Michael Hartman, NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center
Michael Hartman created the International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD), one of the stellar contributions to the NOAA and CIRES climate objectives, and one of the most unique and highly-visible societal applications of the NOAA-CIRES partnership in 2005. The IMPD is a database of fire history data from tree rings and lake sediments documenting fire dating back thousands of years. The information contained in this database is key for understanding the long-term relationships between fire and climate. Michael successfully took on the challenge of structuring the database, designing a web page, and developing online data submission pages and search engines, tasks made more difficult by the fact that two unrelated types of data had to be combined into one web-based resource. He worked with the scientific community to locate and obtain high quality data. Michael has played a critical part in providing the broader scientific community with an extremely valuable resource.
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