Award Recipients

Addison Sears-Collins Book Supplement Award

• 2007-2008     Sean McFadden
• 2008-2009     Sean McFadden
• 2009-2010     Zena Marchant
• 2010-2011     Robert Harriston
• 2011-2012     Robert Harriston

John A. Dutton Award

• 1986     Mark S. Antolik
• 1987     George A. Gayno
• 1988     Lisa M. D'Amico
• 1989     William J. Steenburgh
• 1990     David J. Nicosia
• 1991     Samuel M. Perugini
• 1992     Todd J. Miner
• 1993     Steven G. Hoffert
• 1994     Joseph W. Rohrbach
• 1995     Robert E. Hart
• 1996     Joby A. Hilliker, Paul M. Markowski
• 1997     Michael A. Kistler, Robert J. Much
• 1998     Christopher J. Liller
• 1999     Curtis R. Alexander, Cameron C. Brown, John M. Haynes
• 2000     John J. Celenza, Scott E. Giangrande, Jonathan L. Vigh
• 2001     Brian P. Lowry, Dana L. Semeraro
• 2002     Adam Lopes, Christopher Hartman, and James Benedict
• 2003     Matthew Greenstein, Paul Quelet, and Steven Seman
• 2004     Joseph A. Hoch and Brian P. Monahan
• 2005     Yumin Moon and Thomas P. Harrington
• 2006     Ryan Sobash and John Ten Hoeve
• 2007     Elizabeth Russel and Craig Schwartz
• 2008     Greg Seroka, Eric Geiser, Carly Phelps
• 2009     Marc Chenard
• 2010     Robert Setzenfand
• 2011     Bianca Baier
• 2012     Michelle Kanipe and Alicia Klees

Hans Neuberger Award (Outstanding Teaching)

• 1975     Visco E. Baer
• 1990     Andrew A. Bailey
• 1991     Mark A. Wool, Winifred C. Lambert, Michael A. Haddad
• 1992     Joseph C. Venuti
• 1993     Mark Piper
• 1994     Timothy Owen
• 1995     Dan Guertin
• 1998     Christopher Juckins, Jennifer Carfagno
• 1999     Curtis R. Alexander, Lisa M. Briegel, David W. Mazeroski
• 2000     Jeanne M. Jagodzinski, Nathan B. Magee, Sarah M. Thomas
• 2001     Anneliese C. Sherer, Sandra Arthur
• 2002     Terry Shirley and Emily Kowalski
• 2003     Joel Gratz and Emily Kowalski
• 2004     Michael A. Schreiber and Christopher J. Shabbott
• 2005     Zachary M. Byko, Ryan A. Sobash, and Jessica L. Higgs
• 2006     Corey Britsch and Amy Huff
• 2007     Levenia Adom and Elizabeth Russell
• 2008     Jeffrey Frame
• 2009     Brandon Katz, Kevin Bowley, and Kyle Dodd
• 2010     Gregory Ferro, Maria Herrmann
• 2011      Michelle Ricciardi (Graduate) and Daniel Tomaso (Undergraduate)
• 2012      Cory Baggett

Jerome N. Behrmann Award

• 1987      William A. Gallus
• 1988      Mark Klein
• 1989      G. David Alexander
• 1990      Christian J. Fosmire
• 1991      Lyle Wilson
• 1992      (none)
• 1993      Douglas Spangenberg
• 1994      Terry Faber
• 1995      Stephen Gaddy
• 1996      Jeffrey M. Warner
• 1997      Christopher L. Castro
• 1998      David W. Mazeroski
• 1999      Bradley L. Tyson
• 2000      Todd Johnston
• 2001      Anneliese C. Sherer
• 2002      Jonathan Moskaitis
• 2003      Joel Gratz
• 2004      Mark D. Zelinka
• 2005      Kevin M. Grise
• 2006      Zachary Byko
• 2007      Steven J. Greybush
• 2008      Richard C. Lam
• 2009      Sean McFadden
• 2010      Kenneth Pratt
• 2011      Casey Webster
• 2012     William Lamberson and Daniel Tomaso

Robert O. Cole Award

• 1995     Renee M. Snyder, Paul M. Markowski, Matthew Pearce
• 1996     Steven G. Hoffert, Curtis R. Alexander, George H. Bryan
• 1997     Jennifer Carfagno, Christoper Liller, Jeremy Rishel (awarded Jan. 1998)
• 1998     Robert Hart
• 1999     Brian J. Etherton, Thomas J. Owens, Steven R. Smith
• 2000     none
• 2001     Steven A. Maciejewski, William R. Ryerson, Jana M. Seilhamer, Dana L. Semeraro, David G. Skutnik
• 2002     Megan Woodhead, John Stonitsch, David J. Setree, Heather Archambault, and Kristin Kline.
• 2003     Ryan Kuhn, Jeffrey Porter, and Katharine Virtue
• 2004     Kevin M. Grise, Patrick H. Wilson, Rachel Storer, Cho Hin (Richard) Lam
• 2005     Avraham Boruchowitz and Cho Hin (Richard) Lam
• 2006     Cho Hin (Richard) Lam and Avraham L. Boruchowitz
• 2007     Gena Renninger and Sean McFadden
• 2008     Andrew T. Lesage, Stephan D. Gallagher, Nichole M. Kinney, Jason B. Stefik

• 2009     Kevin Sanchez
• 2010     Bianca Baier, William Lamberson, Andrew Ross, Nicholas Krause, Kelly Neely, Kevin Sanchez
• 2011     Bianca Baier, Nicholas Krause, William Lamberson, Kelly Neely, Andrew Ross, Kevin Sanchez 
• 2012      Elizabeth Cosgrove,Brian Clavier, Tracey Dorian, Nicholas Marguccio, Hailey Mitchell, Carl Motts, Courtney Spamer, Ashley Szatkowski, Sean Wolinski, John Zenker

Special Award for Teaching Support

(This is not an ongoing award; may be presented from time to time to recognize outstanding efforts.)

• 1992      Thomas Salem, Charles Pavloski, Brian Lubbert: These students assisted in setting up the computer teaching lab and the instructors felt they should be recognized.
• 1999      George H. Bryan: George was recognized for work on the National Forecasting Contest, in particular, for setting up the Web site for it; help in installing MM5 in the State College office of the NWS; and for appreciation for his ready willingness to help students and faculty who need his assistance.)
• 2001      Robert E. Hart
• 2002      Robert E. Hart: Bob was recognized for playing a prominent role in facilitating general science education of Penn State students through his tireless and high-quality support of the department's new e-education course, Meteo 101, "Understanding Weather Forecasting."  He provided quality weather maps for invaluable case studies that have used throughout the course.  He has provided excellent additions to his eyewall web pages that have been used as resources for the course, in particular the European maps of station models that have helped students forecast in Europe. 
• 2003     Brian Carcione and Steven Seman: These students were recognized for playing a prominent role in facilitating the general-science education of Penn State students through their tireless and high-quality support of the dpeartment's new e-education course, Meteo 101: Understanding Weather Forecasting.

• 2004      Samuel M. Perugini: Sam was recognized for his passion for meteorology and his enthusiasm. His students are drawn to his personal approach to meteorology and his belief in the integrity of the science. He possesses a thorough understanding of the subject and instills a love of learning in those he teaches.
• 2005      Amy Huff: Amy was recognized for her tireless contributions to the physical meteorology lab courses, Meteo 445 and Meteo 446. Her efforts to improve the laboratory exercises, the student preparation of the laboratory reports, and the room in which the courses are taught are greatly appreciated by Meteorology faculty, staff, and students alike. All of these endeavors required her to invest considerable time and effort, but result in a greater understanding of atmospheric measurements by our students.
• 2007      Ben Root: Ben was recognized for his tireless efforts in providing computer advising help to the studetns who took Meteo 473, Application of Computers to Meteorology, in Fall 2006, as well as his efforts in providing exceptional help to the department's studetns through the sixth-floor Computer Help Desk. All of these endeavors required Ben to invest considerable time and effort, but they resulted in the students obtaining a better understanding of how to use comptuers to help them solve meteorological problems.

• 2008      Aaron Bilby: Aaron was recognized for his efforts in helping students who took Meteo 003 in the fall semester. Recognition was for the enthusiastic teaching methods he employed, together with the extra labs that he devised that helped the students to better understand some of the difficult subject matter. He always went beyond what was asked to help the students and in doing so, fostered an excellent learning environment for them. The students appreciated his efforts so much that on their own initiative, they relayed to a faculty member how pleased they were to be taught by him.
• 2009      none
• 2010      Jonathan Petters:

Physical Meteorology Award (New in 2003)

• 2003     James Marquis
• 2004      Andrea Rich and Jason J. Niemiec
• 2005      Patrick H. Wilson
• 2006      Jeff Jumper and Jeff Timmerman
• 2007      Zachary Lebo
• 2008      Gena Renninger, Tyler Thorsen, Thomas Sabbatelli
• 2009      Stephan Gallagher and Brian Vanderwende
• 2010      Benjamin Castellani, Matthew Rydzik
• 2011      Kyle Imhoff
• 2012      Chun-Chi Wang

The ZedX Weather Information Technology Award

• 2000      Kristie J. Kubovic, Joby L. Hilliker, Jonathan D. Pelton
• 2001      Brian B. Ayers, Charles A. Braxmeier, Jonathan C. Porter
• 2002      Erin Roberts, Matthew Greenstein, and Keith Thomas
• 2003      Jeremy Ross, John Stonitsch, and Daniel Swank
• 2004      Jonathan C. Porter, Matthew D. Greenstein, and Matthew R. Steinbugl
• 2005      Michael A. Schreiber, Steven J. Greybush, and Benjamin V. Root
• 2006      Alexis Phillips, Julie Malingowski, and Steve Silver
• 2007      Scott Dimmich, Joseph Mays, Nicholas Sette
• 2008      David Henderson, Eric Wertz, Tyler McCandless
• 2009      Joshua Boden, Marc Chenard, Matthew Rydzik
• 2010      Daniel DePowdin, Katelyn Johnson, Christopher Slocum
• 2011      Adam DelRosso, Andrew Fink, and Rob Lydick
• 2012      Brian Bastian, Andrew Ross and Tyler Roys