Professor Emeritus Wayne Schubert receives the Carl-Gustav Rossby Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society

Professor Emeritus Wayne Schubert received the Carl-Gustav Rossby Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society. It represents the highest award the Society can bestow upon an atmospheric scientist. According to AMS, the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal is presented to individuals on the basis of outstanding contributions to the understanding of the structure or behavior of the atmosphere. Schubert received this award for “fundamental and sustained research on the theoretical understanding of moist atmospheric processes, hurricanes, and geophysical fluid dynamics and their representation in numerical models.” This is an incredible and well-deserved honor to Schubert, and our department also feels extremely honored and looks forwarding to celebrating in January. 

 

There are other strong CSU connections in the AMS awards list. Professor V. Chandrasekar of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering — a close friend of the ATS department — received the David and Lucille Atlas Remote Sensing Prize for advancing remote-sensing measurements of precipitation and applications of weather radar. Former Prof. Elizabeth Barnes was named Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, as was alum Dr. Gerald Mulvey. Alum Dr. Gus Alaka is part of a group awarded the Banner I. Miller award for developing a high-wind boundary-layer parameterization scheme that advances the intensity, including rapid intensification, and forecast skill of NOAA’s operational hurricane forecast model. Finally, alum Timothy Hall received the Henry T. Harrison Award for outstanding contributions by a consulting meteorologist. 

 

Please join us in congratulating Schubert and all the other awardees on receiving these well-deserved recognitions. We look forward to celebrating with them at the AMS Annual Meeting in Houston in January 2026. 

 

The full list of honorees is available on the AMS website.