Montgomery Receives Meisinger Award
Colorado
State atmospheric science professor Michael Montgomery will be honored
with the American Meteorological Society's prestigious Meisinger Award
February 12, 2003, at the society's annual meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
The AMS will present Montgomery with the award to recognize his fundamental
contributions to asymmetric hurricane dynamics and vortex Rossby wave
research.
The Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award is awarded annually to scientists
to recognize a research achievement that is, at least in part, aerological
in character and concerns the observation, theory and modeling of atmospheric
motions. The award honors young, promising atmospheric scientists who
are 40 years old or younger when nominated.
Montgomery joined the faculty at Colorado State in 1992. Prior to joining
CSU, Montgomery served as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University
and studied polar lows and the formation of tropical storms at the Hurricane
Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA). His current research interests include atmospheric fronts, polar
lows, the circumpolar vortex, mesoscale convective vortices and tornadoes.
AMS
promotes the development and distribution of atmospheric information
and currently publishes nine scientific journals. From its beginning
in 1919, the AMS has grown to a membership of more than 11,000 professionals,
students and weather enthusiasts.