Curriculum Vitae -- Charles A. Doswell III
As of: 23 August 2008

PERSONAL

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

• 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 overall 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 overall 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 overall GPA; in major: 4.00 GPA. Dissertation title: The Use of Filtered Surface Observations to Reveal Subsynoptic Scale Dynamics.

• 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, "in recognition of his world leadership in predicting the consequences of severe storms and floods, and in the avoidance and mitigation of these severe natural hazards"

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

• 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 (Pruhonice, 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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