We are proud of the accomplishments of our current students and alumni. Many of our students are the recipients of prestigious fellowships & many of our alumni have gone on to have remarkable success in their careers.
Annually, we recognize a graduate with a Distinguished Alumni Award. We also have a Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series, allowing these scientists to come back and talk to the department about their lives and research.
Distinguished Alumni Award
- 2015 Dr. David Dewitt, 1994 Ph.D.
- 2014 Dr. Rachel Pinker, 1976 Ph.D
- 2012 Dr. Kurt Mobley, 1977 Ph.D.
- 2011 Dr. Oreste Reale, 1996 Ph.D.
- 2010 Dr. Jae Schemm, 1981 Ph.D.
- 2009 Dr. Paul Dirmeyer, 1992 Ph.D.
- 2008 Dr. Benjamin Kirtman, 1993 Ph.D.
- 2007 Dr. Ming Ji, 1989 Ph.D.
- 2006 Dr. Diane Seidel, 1992 Ph.D.
- 2005 Dr. Muthuvel Chelliah, 1985 Ph.D.
- 2004 Dr. Mitch Goldberg, 2009 Ph.D.
- 2003 Dr. Ken Pickering, 1987 Ph.D.
- 2002 Dr. Phil Arkin, 1984 Ph.D.
Fellowship Recipients
Student | Year | Fellowship | Advisor |
Joseph Knisely | 2021 | Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award | Jonathan Poterjoy |
Ellen Buckley | 2021 | Eugene Rasmusson Fellowship | Sinead Farrell |
Steven Fons | 2021 | Eugene Rasmusson Fellowship | Nathan Kurtz/James Carton |
Eli Dennis | 2021 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Hugo Berbery |
Emmanuel Dibia | 2021 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Xin-Zhong Liang |
Samuel Varga | 2021 | Outstanding Service to the Undergraduate Program | |
Akanksha Singh | 2021 | Outstanding Service to the Graduate Program | Timothy Canty |
Dolly Hall | 2021 | Outstanding Student Seminar | Russell Dickerson |
Tianning Su | 2021 | Dissertation Excellence Award | Zhanqing Li |
Vitaly Kholodovsky | 2021 | Publication Excellence Award | Xin-Zhong Liang |
Tianning Su | 2021 | Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship | Zhanqing Li |
Justin Hicks | 2020 | Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award | Jonathan Poterjoy |
Henry Hausmann | 2020 | Leah Thornton Lozano Graduate Fellowship | Ning Zeng |
Lindsey Rodio | 2020 | Leah Thornton Lozano Graduate Fellowship | Timothy Canty |
Jack Cahill | 2020 | Helmut Landsberg Award for Outstanding Service to the Undergraduate Program | Ralph Kahn |
Hannah Daley | 2020 | Helmut Landsberg Award for Outstanding Service to the Graduate Program | Russell Dickerson |
Rebecca Eager | 2020 | Helmut Landsberg Award for Outstanding Student Seminar | Sumant Nigam |
Tianning Su | 2020 | Helmut Landsberg Award for Outstanding Peer-Reviewed Publication | Zhanqing Li |
Austin Hope | 2020 | Helmut Landsberg Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement | Ross Salawitch |
Agniv Sengupta | 2020 | Helmut Landsberg Award for Outstanding Dissertation | Sumant Nigam |
Eviatar Bach | 2020 | Eugene Rasmusson Fellowship | Eugenia Kalnay, Safa Mote |
Seth Thompson | 2020 | Henry Fleming Scholarship | Roya Bahreini , Andreas Beyersdorf |
Emily Blumenauer | 2020 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Michael Erickson, James Nelson |
Samuel Varga | 2020 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | |
Ellen Buckley | 2020 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Sinead Farrell |
Niko Fedkin | 2020 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Dickerson, Krotkov, C. Li |
Katherine Junghenn | 2020 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Kahn, Z. Li |
Deirdre Dolan | 2020 | Ferd Baer Graduate Mentorship Award | Michael Folmer, Joseph Phillips, Joseph Sienkiewicz |
Justin Hicks | 2020 | Ferd Baer Graduate Mentorship Award | Nigam, Ruiz-Barradas |
Lindsey Rodeo | 2020 | Ferd Baer Graduate Mentorship Award | Canty |
Savannah Shaul | 2020 | Berince and Susan Tennenbaum Prize in Climate Science | Santiago Gasso |
Jill Freedman | 2020 | Berince and Susan Tennenbaum Prize in Climate Science | Timothy Canty |
Nicole Oehlmann | 2020 | Louis Allen Undergraduate Scholarship | Timothy Canty |
Emmanuel Dibia | 2019 | NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship | Xin-Zhong Liang, Daryl Kleist |
Agniv Sengupta | 2019 | Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship | Sumant Nigam |
William Miller | 2019 | Eugene Rasmusson Fellowship | Da-Lin Zhang |
Deirdre Dolan | 2019 | Henry Fleming Scholarship | Michael Folmer, Joseph Phillips, Joseph Sienkiewicz |
Greta Easthom | 2019 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Safa Motesharrei, Jeffry Henrikson |
Tyler Richman | 2019 | Berince and Susan Tennenbaum Prize in Climate Science | Rudiosky, Peterson |
Matthew Nicholson | 2019 | Bernice and Susan Tannenbaum Prize in Climate Science | Meyers |
Shaun Howe | 2019 | Ferd Baer Graduate Mentorship Award | Zeng |
Kriti Bhargava | 2019 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Kalnay, Carton |
Steven Fons | 2019 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Carton |
Takuma Yoshida | 2019 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Kalnay, Penny |
Tianning Su | 2019 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Tianning Su |
Ryan Bolt | 2019 | GS Summer Research Fellowship | Liang |
Agniv Sengupta | 2019 | Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship | Nigam |
Clairisse Reiher | 2019 | Hollings Scholarship | Canty, Kahn |
Jack Cayhill | 2019 | Hollings Scholarship | Canty |
Maya Fields | 2019 | Hollings Scholarship | Canty |
Austin Hope | 2019 | Leah Thornton Lozano Graduate Fellowship | Salawitch/Canty |
Neal Graham | 2019 | Lozano Endowment | Miralles-Wilhelm |
Adria Schwarber | 2018 | Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship | S. Smith, Salawitch |
Keenan Eure | 2018 | Henry Fleming Scholarship | Kalnay |
Deirdre Dolan | 2018 | Louis Allen Undergraduate Scholarship | LT Phillips |
Cody Snell | 2018 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Manikin, Kleist |
Monique Robinson | 2018 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Yaros |
Kevin Dougherty | 2018 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Abarca, Kleist |
Cheng Da | 2018 | NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program | Kalnay |
Tyler Boyle | 2018 | Bernice and Susan Tannenbaum Prize in Climate Science | Debra E. Kollonige, Ryan M. Stauffer, Anne M. Thompson |
Grant Tipton | 2018 | Bernice and Susan Tannenbaum Prize in Climate Science | Ralph Kahn, Tim Canty |
Cheng Da | 2019 | Green Fund Scholarship Award | Kalnay |
Cory Martin | 2018 | Eugene Rasmusson Fellowship | Zeng |
Agniv Sengupta | 2019 | Eugene Rasmusson Fellowship | Nigam |
Natalie Thomas | 2018 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Nigam |
Cory Martin | 2018 | Green Fund Scholarship Award | Zeng |
Natalie Thomas | 2018 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Nigam |
Adria Schwarber | 2018 | Green Fund Scholarship Award | Smith, Salawitch |
Casey Joseph | 2018 | Ferd Baer Graduate Mentorship Award | Lampkin |
Joshua McCurry | 2018 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Poterjoy |
Justin Hicks | 2018 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Nigam |
Hannah Daley | 2018 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Dickerson |
Siyu Shan | 2018 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Z. Li |
Hannay Daley | 2018 | Lozano Endowment | Dickerson |
Youtong Zheng | 2017 | Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship | Z. Li |
Travis Sluka | 2017 | Eugene Rasmusson Fellowship | Kalnay |
Yunyao Li | 2017 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Pickering |
Austin Hope | 2017 | Green Fund Scholarship Award | Salawitch |
Casey Cavanagh | 2017 | Green Fund Scholarship Award | Lampkin |
Tse-Chun Chen | 2017 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship Award | Kalnay |
Keenan Eure | 2017 | Louis Allen Undergraduate Scholarship | Kalnay |
Kelsey Malloy | 2017 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Berndt, Folmer, Phillips, Sienkiewicz |
Ryan Bolt | 2017 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Canty, Kahn |
Jonathan Seibert | 2017 | Henry Fleming Scholarship | Knapp |
Charles CJ Vernon | 2017 | Bernice and Susan Tannenbaum Prize in Climate Science | Canty, Kahn |
Stephanie Pennington | 2017 | Bernice and Susan Tannenbaum Prize in Climate Science | Hartin |
Agniv Sengupta | 2017 | Leah Thornton Lozano Graduate Fellowship | Nigam |
Liam Leslie | 2017 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Dickerson |
Ryan Bolt | 2017 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Liang |
Tyler Wawrzyniak | 2017 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Zhang, Zou |
Emmanuel Dibia | 2017 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Kleist, Liang |
Ellen Buckley | 2017 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Farrel |
Eviatar Bach | 2017 | University of Maryland, Flagship Fellowship | Kalnay |
Emmanuel Dibia | 2017 | NCAS Fellowship | Liang, Kleist |
Stehpanie Bennington | 2017 | Bernice and Susan Tannenbaum Prize in Climate Science | Corrine Hartin |
David New | 2017 | NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship | Liang |
Emmanuel Dibia | 2017 | NCAS Fellowship | Liang |
Marissa Dattler | 2016 | Henry E. Fleming Undergraduate Scholarship Award | Farrell, Newman |
Daniel Anderson | 2016 | Eugene Rasmusson Fellowship | Dickerson, Salawitch |
Daniel Anderson | 2016 | CMNS Board of Visitors Outstanding Graduate Student Award | Dickerson, Salawitch |
Youtong Zheng | 2016 | Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award | Z. Li |
Sarah Bensish | 2016 | Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award | Dickerson |
William Miller | 2016 | Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award | Zhang |
Travis Sluka | 2016 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Fellowship | Kalnay |
Gina Mazzuca | 2016 | Green Fund Fellowship | Dickerson, Pickering |
Youtong Zheng | 2016 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Fellowship | Z. Li |
Travis Sluka | 2016 | Brin Professorship Award | Kalnay |
Lynn Montgomery | 2016 | Louis Allen Undergraduate Scholarship | N. Schmerr |
Casey Joseph | 2016 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Lampkin |
Lynn Montgomery | 2016 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | N. Schmerr |
David New | 2016 | Leah Thornton Lozano Graduate Fellowship | Liang |
Youtong Zheng | 2016 | Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad | Z. Li |
Dylan Jeffrey | 2016 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Kleist |
Steven Fons | 2016 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Carton, Kurtz |
Shaun Howe | 2016 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Zeng |
Kanishk Gohil | 2016 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Kleist |
Casey Joseph | 2016 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Lampkin |
Steven Fons | 2016 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Lampkin |
Steven Fons | 2016 | CMNS Deans Merit Award | Carton, Kurtz |
Sijal Dangol | 2016 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Liang |
Adam Greeley | 2015 | Achievement Rewards for College Scientists | Carton, Kurtz |
Fang Zhao | 2015 | Eugene Rasmusson Fellowship | N. Zeng |
Grace Duke | 2015 | Henry E. Fleming Undergraduate Scholarship | Mike Evans |
Abagail Alhert | 2015 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Michael Winton |
Colleen Wilson | 2015 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Michael Folmer |
Allison Ring | 2015 | Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award | Lampkin |
Travis Sluka | 2015 | Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award | Kalnay |
Dan Goldberg | 2015 | Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award | Dickerson, Salawitch, Canty |
William Miller | 2015 | Ann Wylie Green Fund Scholarship | Zhang |
Michael Natoli | 2015 | Louis Allen Undergraduate Scholarship | Berbery |
Abigail Ahlert | 2015 | Louis Allen Undergraduate Scholarship | Winton |
Katherine Junghenn | 2015 | Deans Fellowship | Z. Li |
Ambrish Sharma | 2015 | Deans Fellowship | Salawitch |
Ambrish Sharma | 2015 | Merit Award | Salawitch |
Lei Zhang | 2015 | Deans Fellowship | Z. Li |
Sarah Benish | 2015 | Deans Fellowship | Salawitch |
Casey Cavanagh | 2015 | CMNS Deans Fellowship |
Zeng |
Antonio Larios Huerta | 2015 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Ide |
Natalie Thomas |
2015 | National Defense and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) | Nigam |
David New | 2015 | Green Fund Scholarship Award | Liang |
Katherine O'Brien | 2014 | Henry E. Fleming Undergraduate Scholarship | Berbery |
Michael Natoli | 2014 | Rick Jordan Undergraduate Scholarship | Berbery |
Kristy Weber | 2014 | Louis Allen Undergraduate Scholarship | Zeng |
Adam Greeley | 2014 | Green Fund Fellowship | Carton, Markus |
Katherine Lukens | 2014 | Green Fund Fellowship | Berbery |
Travis Sluka | 2014 | Brin Professorship Award | Kalnay |
Warren Porter | 2014 | Deans Fellowship | Jin |
Agniv Sengupta | 2014 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | Nigam |
Matthew Wespetal | 2014 | Deans Fellowship | Kalnay |
Jeremy Kedziora | 2014 | Deans Fellowship | Kleist |
Jeremy Kedziora | 2014 | Merit Award | Kleist |
Jeremy Kedziora | 2014 | Merit Award | Kleist |
Natalie Thomas | 2014 | Deans Fellowship | Nigam |
Daniel Nielsen | 2014 | Deans Fellowship | Zhang |
Daniel Anderson | 2014 | AGU Outstanding Super Paper | Dickerson |
Agyro Kavvada | 2014 | Eugene Rasmusson Fellowship | Nigam |
Stephen Baxter | 2013 | Eugene Rasmusson Award | Nigam |
Fang Zhao | 2013 | Green Fund Fellowship | Zeng |
Cory MArtin | 2013 | Deans Fellowship | Zeng |
Tse-Chun Chen | 2013 | Deans Fellowship | Kalnay |
Kriti Bhargava | 2013 | Deans Fellowship | Carton, Kalnay |
Cory Martin | 2013 | Merit Award | Zeng |
Adria Schwarber | 2013 | Deans Fellowship | Salawitch, Smith |
Walter Tribett | 2013 | Henry E. Fleming Undergraduate Scholarship | Zeng |
Neal Graham | 2013 | Deans Fellowship | Moralles Wilhelm |
Amy Solomon | 2013 | Deans Fellowship | Lampkin |
Stefan Cecelski | 2012 | Eugene Rasmusson Award | Zhang |
Stephen Baxter | 2012 | Summer Research Scholarship | Nigam |
Austin Hope | 2012 | Merit Award | Salawitch |
Austin Hope | 2012 | Deans Fellowship | Salawitch |
Katherine Lukens | 2012 | Deans Fellowship | Berbery |
Travis Sluka | 2012 | Deans Fellowship | Kalnay |
David New | 2012 | Deans Fellowship | Lian |
William Miller | 2012 | Deans Fellowship | Zhang |
Stephen Baxter | 2012 | CMNS Deans Fellowship | NIGAM |
Cecelski, Stefan | 2011 | NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship | Zhang |
Anderson, Daniel | 2011 | Flagship Fellowship | Dickerson |
Greeley, Adam | 2011 | University Fellowship | Nigam |
Zhao, Fang | 2011 | Deans Fellowship | Pickering |
Johnson, Benjamin | 2011 | Green Fund Scholarship Award | Carton |
Shea, Dustin | 2011 | Deans Fellowship | Zhang |
Deng, Yanting | 2011 | Deans Fellowship | Li |
Rebekah Esmaili | 2011 | Deans Fellowship | Tian/Zeng |
Anderson, Danie | 2011 | Flagship Fellowship | Dickerson |
Xiaolei Niu | 2010 | Anne Wylie Dissertation Fellowship | Pinker |
Matus Martini | 2010 | Green Fellowship | Allen/Pickering |
Baxter, Sephen | 2010 | AMS Graduate Fellowship | Nigam |
Zhang, Ying | 2010 | Deans Fellowship | Ide |
Flynn, Clare | 2010 | Deans Fellowship | Pickering |
Benjamin Johnson | 2010 | Deans Fellowship | Zeng |
Foley, Jordan | 2010 | Deans Fellowship | Zhang |
Martini, Matus | 2010 | Global Climate Change Award | Allen/Pickering |
Ganehshan, Manisha | 2009 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Fellowship | Murtugudde |
Sawyer, Virginia | 2009 | UMCP Block Grant Fellowship | Li, Z. |
Johnson, Benjamin | 2009 | UMCP Block Grant Fellowship | Carton/Salawitch |
Bollasina, Massimo | 2009 | Anne Wylie Dissertation Fellowship | Nigam |
Cummings, Kristin | 2009 | AMS Graduate Fellowship | Pickering |
Bollasina, Massimo | 2009 | CMPS Green Fund Award | Nigam |
James Cipriani | 2008 | UMPC Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Pickering |
Nussbaumer, Eric | 2008 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Scholarship | Pinker |
James Reagen | 2008 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Nigam/Carton |
Edward Nowottnick | 2007 | NASA Earth System Science Fellowship | Colarco/Li |
Lei Zhou | 2007 | NASA Earth System Science Fellowship | Murtugudde |
Christopher Loughner | 2007 | NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship | Allen/Dickerson |
David Kuhl | 2007 | NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program Fellowship | Szunyogh |
Bin Guan | 2007 | Anne Wylie Dissertation Fellowship | Nigam |
Steven Ggeybush | 2007 | AMS Graduate Fellowship | Kalnay |
Brian Cook | 2007 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Zeng |
Elena Yegorova | 2006 | EPA Star Fellowship | Dickerson |
Alan Kohn | 2006 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Carton |
Ji-Sun Kang | 2006 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Kalnay |
Lei Zhou | 2006 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Murtugudde |
Debra Baker | 2005 | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Kalnay |
Hezekiah Carty | 2005 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Fellowship | Nigam/Smith |
Schott Rabenhorst | 2005 | NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program Fellowship | Whiteman/Zhang |
Steven Chan | 2004 | NASA Earth System Science Fellowship | Nigam |
Brian Vant-Hull | 2004 | NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program Fellowship | Li |
David Kuhl | 2004 | NIA Fellowship | Szunyogh |
Faculty Awards
Russ Dickerson
- AGU Fellow
- AAAS Fellow
Eugenia Kalnay
- WMO/IMO Prize for 2009, see talk Population and Climate Change: A Proposal (also in Spanish)
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1996)
- Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea (2000)
- Distinguished University Professor, UMD (2001)
- Eugenia Brin Professor in Data Assimilation (2008)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires (2008)
- Corresponding member of the Argentine National Academy of Physical Sciences (2003)
- Fellow of AGU (2005), AAAS (2006), AMS (1983)
- UMD-wide Kirwan Award (2006)
- Robert E. Lowry Chair, School of Meteorology, U. of Oklahoma (1998)
- NASA medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (1981)
- Two Department of Commerce Gold and one Silver Medal
- Discovery Magazine selected her Nature paper as a top 100 science news of 2003 (see feature in International Association for Urban Climate newsletter)
- The Reanalysis paper of 1996 is the most cited paper in all geosciences (more that 10 thousand citations)
- Lorenz AGU 2012 Lecture
- 2015 AMS Joanne Simpson Mentorship Award for For effectively mentoring many early career scientists, with her unstinting generosity of time and attention in providing advice, encouragement, leadership, and inspiration
- 2015 AMS Honorary Member Award
- 2015: AMS Eugenia Kalnay Symposium
Zhanqing Li
- Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2017
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2014
- Honorary Fellow, Chinese-American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, 2013
- Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2015
- Yoram J. Kaufman Research Award, American Geophysical Union, 2014
- Alouette Award, The Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, 2000
- Overseas-Chinese Outstanding Young Scientist Award, National Science Foundation of China, 2000
- Technology in Government Medal, Treasury Board of Canada, 1999
- Agatha Bystram Information Award, Council of Federal Libraries of Canada, 1999
- Head of Public Service Award, Government of Canada, 1998
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
- Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE),
- Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers.
Da-Lin Zhang
- 2006, 2015: NASA's Group Achievement Award.
- 2006: Fellow, American Meteological Society.
- 1997: Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society.
- 1991: Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society
AAAS Fellow
- Dickerson
- Kalnay
- Baer
- Li
- Salawitch
AGU Fellow
- Kalnay
- Busalacchi
- Dickerson
- Li
AMS Fellow
- Arkin
- Baer
- Busalacchi
- Carton
- Kalnay
- Nigam
- Rasmussen
- Vernekar
- Zhang
- Pinker
- Li
Yoram J. Kaufman Award, AGU
- Salawitch
- Zhanqing Li
Humboldt Research Award, Germany
- Li
Alexander Von Humboldt fellow, Germany
- Zeng
Distinguished Research Scientist Prize
- Arkin
- Pickering
- Vinnikov
UMD Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award
- Salawitch