CEDAR Prize Lecturers
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The CEDAR Prize lecture was instituted in 1989 and
honors an outstanding science contribution to CEDAR.
The recipient of the award presents
an invited 40 minute talk at the annual CEDAR meeting in June.
The nomination is based on a research paper reported in a peer-reviewed
publication within the previous four years. The CEDAR phase III document
(.pdf) describes the priorities of our community, and preference should
be given to colleagues moving in those directions. The Prize Lecture is
open to non-U.S. citizens as well as U.S. citizens, provided a strong
connection to CEDAR can be demonstrated.
A nomination consists of three items:
- Name
- Paper Citation(s)
- A brief statement of why the research is important.
Nominations are usually solicited early each year.
The following is a list of the CEDAR Prize Lecturers and titles of
their talks. The annual CEDAR video tapes started to include
the CEDAR Prize Lecture beginning in 1991, and hard copies of
the Prize Lecture are available beginning in 1992.
- 1989, Arthur Richmond (HAO/NCAR) - Assimilative Mapping of
Ionospheric Electrodynamics
- 1990, Michael Mendillo (Boston U) - The Discovery of a Sodium
Magneto-Nebula Around Jupiter
- 1991, Craig Heinselmann (SRI International) - Sondrestrom MUSCOX
- 1992, Colin Hines (Arecibo Obs) - The Doppler Spreading Theory
of Gravity Wave Spectra
- 1993, John Cho (Arecibo Obs), Radar Scattering from the Coldest Place in our
Atmosphere: Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes
- 1994, Raymond Roble (HAO/NCAR), Modelling the Circulation, Temperature and
Compositional Structure of the Upper Atmosphere (30-500km)
- 1995, David Fritts (U of Colorado) - Modeling of Gravity Wave and Instability
Processes in the Middle Atmosphere
- 1996, Chester Gardner (U of Illinois) - The ALOHA/ANLC-93 Campaigns
- 1997, Bela Fejer (Utah State U) - Multi-Instrument Studies of Ionospheric
Electrodynamics
- 1998, Gary Swenson (U of Illinois) - A Model for Calculating
Acoustic Gravity Wave Energy
and Momentum Flux in the Mesosphere from OH Airglow
- 1999, David Hysell (Clemson University) - A New Look at
Low- and Mid-Latitude Ionospheric Irregularities.
Also in the August 2000 JASTP journal (Vol 62, No. 12) with other
1999 CEDAR tutorials as:
D. L. Hysell, An overview and synthesis of plasma irregularities in
equatorial spread F, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., 62, 1037-1056, 2000.
- 2000, Joshua Semeter (SRI International) - The Information
Content of the Aurora
- 2001, Hans Mayr (Goddard Space Flight Center) - Modelling wave
driven non-linear flow oscillations: The terrestrial QBO, and
a solar analog
- 2002, no CEDAR prize winner selected, but had two science talks by:
- Nestor Aponte (Arecibo Observatory) -
(N. Aponte, M. P. Sulzer and S. A. Gonzalez),
"Correction of the Jicamarca Te/Ti ratio problem: Verifying the
effect of electron Coulomb collisions on the incoherent scatter
spectrum"
(not on video)
- Victor Pasko (CSSL Laboratory, Penn Sate University) -
(V. Pasko, M. Stanley, J. Mathews, U. Inan and T. Wood),
"
Electrical Discharge from a Thundercloud Top to the Lower Ionosphere"
- 2003, Chiao-Yao (Joe) She, (Colorado State University) -
"
Climatology and variability in the mesopause region over Colorado:
Sodium lidar observation of temperature and winds"
- 2004, Maura Hagan, (High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research) -
"
Tidal Coupling in the Earth's Atmosphere"
- 2005, James Hecht (Aerospace Corporation) -
"
TOMEX (Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment): A Rocket/Ground-Based Experiment to Study
Instabilities over the MALT (Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere)"
by J. Hecht,
R. Walterscheid, J. Clemmons, C. Gardner, A. Liu, G. Papen, G. Swenson, M. Larsen, R. Bishop
and R. Roble
- 2006, Erhan Kudeki (University of Illinois) -
"
Incoherent Scatter Radar Perpendicular to B"
- 2007, John Plane (University of Leeds, UK) -
"
Meteoric Smoke - Where on Earth is it?"
- 2008, Sharon Vadas (Colorado Research Association) - TBD
-- Revised 27 Mar 2008 by emery@ucar.edu