Curriculum Vitae -- Charles A. Doswell III
As of: 01 November 2004

PERSONAL

Born: November 5, 1945, Elmhurst, Illinois (York Township, Dupage Co.)

EDUCATION

Willowbrook Community High School, Villa Park, Illinois: 9/59 to 6/63; graduated, 2.94 GPA

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (122 sem.hrs.): 9/63 to 6/67, Bachelor of Science degree conferred 5 June 1967. Major - Meteorology. 3.09 GPA; in Major: 3.62 GPA

University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (3l sem. hrs): 9/67 to 1/69, Master of Science degree conferred January l969. Major - Meteorology; Minor - Mathematics 3.89 GPA; in Major: 4.00 GPA

University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (94 sem. hrs.): 1/69 to 6/69 and 6/72 to 7/76, Doctor of Philosophy degree conferred 30 July 1976. Major - Meteorology. 3.92 GPA; in major: 4.00 GPA. Dissertation title: The Use of Filtered Surface Observations to Reveal Subsynoptic Scale Dynamics.

HONORS, AWARDS, CERTIFICATIONS

National Merit Letter of Commendation - June 1963
Invitation to Univ. of Wisconsin Honors Convocation - June 1967
Dean's List, Univ. of Oklahoma - Dec 1967, May 1968

Silver Medal Award, U.S. Dept. of Commerce - Oct 1989, for "meritorious authorship and editing associated with A Guide for Operational Meteorological Research"

NOAA Sustained superior performance award 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997

Editor's Award, Amer. Meteor. Soc. - Jan 1994, for "providing penetrating and thought-provoking reviews on numerous manuscripts submitted to Weather and Forecasting"

Gold Medal Award (Unit Citation), U.S. Dept. of Commerce - Oct 1995, to NSSL "for achieving scientific and technological breakthroughs leading to continuous improvements in the national network of Doppler radars"
Research Achievement in Support of Operational Forecasting Award (now the T.T. Fujita Award), Nat. Wea. Assoc. - Dec 1995, for "outstanding contributions to operational research"

ERL Outstanding Scientific Paper Award - Sep 1996, for the paper: Brooks, H.E., Charles A. Doswell III, and R.B. Wilhelmson (1994): On the role of the mid-tropospheric winds in the evolution and maintenance of low-level mesocyclones. Mon Wea. Rev., 122, 126-136.

NSSL Outstanding Scientific Paper Award - Jan 1999, for the paper: C.A. Doswell III, H.E. Brooks and R.A. Maddox (1996): Flash flood forecasting: An ingredients-based methodology. Wea. Forecasting, 11, 560-581.
Certified Consulting Meteorologist - Amer. Meteor. Soc., February 2002

Antonín Strnad Gold Medal - Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, August 2002, for "many years of collaboration and an active participation in the development of meteorology of convective storms in the Czech Republic"

Sergey Soloviev Medal - European Geosciences Union, 2004, for "distinguished work in the understanding, prediction and mitigation of meteorological hazards"

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Meteorological Society
Chi Epsilon Pi Meteorology Honorary Society
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
National Weather Association
U.K. Royal Meteorological Society (Fellow)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Session Chair, 9th AMS Conf. Wea.Forecasting and Analysis (Seattle, WA) - 1982
Session Chair, 10th AMS Conf. Wea. Forecasting and Analysis (Clearwater, FL) - 1984
Session Chair, 14th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Indianapolis, IN) - 1985
Session Chair, 15th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Baltimore, MD) - 1988
Session Chair, 12th AMS Conf. Wea. Forecasting and Analysis (Monterey, CA) - 1989
Session Chair, Tornado Symp. III (Norman, OK), 1991.
Session Chair, 17th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (St. Louis, MO), - 1993
Session Chair, 18th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (San Francisco, CA) - 1996
Session Chair, 10th Cyclone Workshop (Val Morin, Quebec) - 1997
Session Chair, 19th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Minneapolis, MN) - 1998
Session Chair, 20th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Orlando, FL) - 2000
Member, Program Committee, 15th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Baltimore, MD), 1986-1988
Member, Program Committee, 12th AMS Conf. Weather Forecasting and Analysis (Monterey, CA),
1987 - 1989
Co-Chair, Program Committee, 16th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (Kananaskis Provincial Park,
Alberta, Canada), 1988 - 1990
Co-Chair, Program Committee, Tornado Symposium. III (Norman, OK), 1989 - 1991.
Member, Organizing Committee, 2nd European Conf. on Severe Storms (Prague, Czech Republic),
2000 - 2002
Session Chair, 4th International Conf. Mesoscale Convective Systems and Heavy Rainfall in East Asia (Beijing, People's Republic of China) - 2004.

Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review, 1 January 1984 - 1 January 1986
Associate Editor, Weather and Forecasting, 1 January 1988 - 1 January 1998
Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review, 1 January 1998 - 1 January 2000
Associate Editor, The Tornado: Its Structure, Dynamics, Prediction, and Hazards (Proceedings, Tornado Symp. III), Geophysical Monogr. 79, Amer. Geophys. Union, 1989 - 1993. [Winner Best New Book in Geography and Earth Sciences, Amer. Publishers, Inc. (1994)]
Editor, Severe Convective Storms (AMS Monograph), Amer. Meteor. Soc., December 1993 - December 2001

Visiting Professor, State Univ. of New York at Albany, June 1994 - May 1995 Adjunct Associate Professor, Univ. of Oklahoma, January 1989 - August 1996
Adjunct Professor, Univ. of Oklahoma, September 1996 - present

Member, AMS Advisory Committee on Severe Local Storms, 1986 - 1989
Member, AMS Advisory Committee on Severe Local Storms, 1992 - 1995
Member, AMS Executive Council, January 1997-2000
Facilitator, AMS statement on tornado safety and preparedness, 1998-2000
Member, AMS Ad Hoc Committee on Meetings, 1998-2000
Co-Facilitator, AMS statement on probability forecasting, 1999-2000
Member, AMS Advisory Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, 2002 - present
Member, Council of Fellows, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), January 1991 - January 2001
Member, Steering Committee, Oklahoma Mesonetwork, Oklahoma Climate Survey, January 1991 - May 1992.
Member, Steering Committee, Cooperative Regional Assimilation and Forecast Test (CRAFT) for Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS), University of Oklahoma, August 1991 - December 2001
Chair, Data Processing and Management Advisory Committee, NSSL, December 1986 - April 1990
Member, Personnel Management Advisory Committee, National Severe Storms Laboratory, 1995 - 1996
Member, WMO Steering Group on Very Short-Range Forecasting, January 1989 - January, 1992
Member, International Programme Committee for the INM-WMO International Symposium on Mediterranean Cyclones and Hazardous Weather Phenomena [INM - Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia], January 1996 - April 1997
Member, U.S. Weather Research Program Prospectus Development Team #9 (Hydrological Aspects of Weather Prediction and Flood Warnings), December 1997
Member, FEMA Building Performance Assessment Team for the 3 May 1999 outbreak of tornadoes in OK and KS, May 1999.
Member, Interim Science Committee, MEDEX (Mediterranean Experiment), INM-WMO, February 1999-December 2001
Member, Scientific Program Committee, European Conf. on Severe Storms, July 2000 - September 2002

Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 1998-2000
Chair, Sigma Xi 1998 Forum Panel Discussion on "Severe Weather:Hazards and Impacts"

Member, NWS Quick Response Team, 2003 - present

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