It's been quite some time since our last MD Gator Team post. Starting with this post, we hope to improve upon that in the coming months with team member announcements, new results from recent journal publications and meeting presentations, and updates from upcoming field campaigns.
In December at the 2015 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, our fearless leader, Dr. Anne Thompson, was honored with The Roger Revelle Medal. Given annually to one honoree in recognition for “outstanding contributions in atmospheric sciences, atmosphere-ocean coupling, atmosphere-land coupling, biogeochemical cycles, climate or related aspects of the Earth system", the Revelle Medal is named in honor of Roger Revelle, who made substantial contributions to the awareness of global change. Edward N. Lorenz was the first recipient of the Revelle Medal in 1992 with other notable recipients including: James R. Holton and James Hansen.
Anne's work in the late 1980s and early 1990s was among the first to link chemical changes, climate forcings and the earth’s oxidizing capacity. Carrying along this research theme of studying natural and anthropogenic influences on atmospheric trace gases, she is best known for establishing Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ) in 1998 (a partnership with tropical nations that has provided the scientific community with thousands of ozone profiles.) Researchers all over the world use SHADOZ data to validate satellites.
We are happy to congratulate her on all of her honors including: most recently, a corresponding member in science of the Academy of Athens in November 2015. With all of her hard work, it's well deserved!
