Jeffrey D. Hawkins, meteorologist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, Calif., has won a special award from the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the nation's leading professional society for those in the atmospheric and related sciences.

Hawkins was recognized for his "major efforts in promoting and developing the near-real time distribution of tropical satellite meteorological data and scientific products." He received the award at the AMS 85th Annual Meeting in San Diego January 12th, 2005.

Hawkins, a native of Miami, joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1992 after 12 years at the Naval Oceanographic and Atmospheric Research Lab at the Stennis Space Center, Miss. His research is dedicated to finding new and innovative uses of satellite remote sensing data for marine weather applications. His work with colleagues has encompassed a wide spectrum from monitoring tropical storms location and structure and develop a to mapping sea ice via multiple satellite sensors. A fellow of the AMS, Hawkins has earned numerous awards for his work including a NASA Group Achievement Award and a Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award. Hawkins earned his bachelor's (1976) and master's degree (1979) in meteorology from Florida State University. (More)

NRL has named the recipients of the 2004 Alan Berman Research Publication Award. The outstanding publications recognized from the Marine Meteorology Division are "Recent Modifications of the Emanuel
Convective Scheme in the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System", authored by Drs. Melinda Peng, James Ridout, and Timothy Hogan; and "Estimation of Observation Impact using the NRL Atmospheric Variational Data Assimilation Adjoint System", authored by Drs. Rolf Langland and Nancy Baker. A banquet will be held in Washington, D.C. in March 2005 to recognize these scientists and other recipients of the Berman Award. (More)

The first two SEDRIS ISO/IEC standards have been approved for publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The Naval Research Laboratory played a key role in the development of the Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS), ISO/IEC 18025. The EDCS and its associated C language binding are the first of eight SEDRIS related standards to be approved. SEDRIS originally stood for Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification. However, because SEDRIS addresses both real and imagined natural environments, "SEDRIS" is no longer viewed as an acronym. (More)

BACIMO 2005 Conference Announcement
October 12-14, 2005

The next Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations (BACIMO) conference will be held at Hyatt Regency Hotel, Monterey, CA. (More)

WMO International Precipitation Working Group Workshop

In October, 2004, NRL Monterey hosted the 2nd WMO International Precipitation Working Group Workshop, which was organized by Dr. Joe Turk in NRL's Satellite Meteorological Applications Section and Dr. Peter Bauer from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. Two days of formal presentations were followed by several intensive working group sessions. Over 50 participants from 19 countries took part in the workshop, which focused heavily on the derivation, application, and validation of precipitation products from satellite data, an active area of research for NRL Monterey. (More)

The EVIS (Environmental Visualization) capability is one of 16 initiatives recently selected by the DoD Horizontal Fusion project for transition. (More)

The Unified Aerosol Experiment in the United Arab Emirates (UAE2) mission began on August 5th 2004, with Naval Research Laboratory as one of the lead institutions. (More)

Typhoons have long-distance contact

Research published by Drs. Melinda Peng and Carolyn Reynolds on the predictability of tropical cyclones was recently highlighted by News@Nature.com article, (link is reprinted and retained on-site, by permission).
These NRL scientists used NRL's NOGAPS/NAVDAS global numerical weather prediction system and unique tools derived from this system to study the influence one tropical cyclone might have on another tropical cyclone occurring at the same time, even some relatively large distance away from one another.

On January 21,2005 a MOA between Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Postgraduate School, Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Defense Language Institute, and
Defense Manpower Data Center Monterey Bay was signed to inaugurate the Monterey Peninsula DoD-Net. (More)