Alum receives the David Johnson award from NOAA, NESDIS

Congratulations to CSU atmospheric science alum Chris Slocum for receiving the David Johnson award from NOAA, NESDIS for your research as a young scientist having very significant importance on the understanding and use of satellite data by forecasters. Slocum’s graduate adviser was Emeritus Professor Wayne Schubert.

“I see the award as a testament to the foundation that the ATS and Wayne provided, the hill’s culture of excellence, and the support and opportunities it offered to me as a student, which includes the ability to interact with the scientists at CIRA,” said Slocum.

Slocum is being recognized for developing new operational applications for Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) observations from NOAA’s GOES-R Series satellites that provide better guidance for tropical cyclone forecasting. David Johnson was the initial leader of the Meteorological Satellite Laboratory in the US Weather Bureau in the 1960’s.

Learn more with the NESDIS story.