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16 STAR Grantees Receive AAAS Honors
02/21/2008
Sixteen STAR grantees were elected as AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Fellows in 2007. These honors are awarded to AAAS members who have made significant efforts to advance science or its applications.
Election as a Fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. In October 2007, the AAAS Council elected 471 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals were recognized for their contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum held on 16 February 2008 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston. The new Fellows received a certificate and a blue and gold rosette as a symbol of their distinguished accomplishments.
The sixteen NCER grantees were honored by AAAS for their accomplishments in an array of environmental fields that span air quality, remote sensing, risk assessment, ozone depletion, hydrology, landscape ecology, marine ecology and biogeochemistry, computational toxicology, biostatistics, and the fate and transport of nanoparticles.
The 16 STAR grantees (and links to their past STAR grants) awarded this honor include:
Braun, Werner - University of Texas Medical Branch:
For distinguished contributions to the field of computational biology, particularly for the development of computational methods to identify structural and functional motifs of proteins.Capone, Douglas G. - University of Southern California:
For distinguished contributions to the field of marine biogeochemistry, particularly nitrogen fixation and other aspects of the nitrogen cycle.Colvin, Vicki L. - Rice University:
For distinguished contributions to the exploration of fundamental chemical questions that emerge when inorganic nanoparticles interact with aqueous biological and environmental systems.Crowder, Larry B. - Duke University Marine Laboratory:
For distinguished contributions as a marine ecologist, as a leader in the field of marine conservation science, and as an outstanding mentor of young scientists.Dickerson, Russell R. - University of Maryland:
A pioneer in the measurement of tropospheric trace constituents, making fundamental contributions to our understanding of boundary layer chemistry, air quality, lightning, and the transport of pollution.Dobson, Jerome E. - University of Kansas:
For his diverse work on geographic information systems, advanced remote sensing and large-area change analysis, as well as exemplary editorial and administrative work in geography.Griffin, Robert J. - Marquette University:
For distinguished contributions to the public understanding of science through research on public use of information to make risk judgments.Hopke, Philip K. - Clarkson University:
For leadership in fundamental research and education related to the sources and fate of atmospheric pollutants and their integration in federal air quality policies.Lettenmaier, Dennis P. - University of Washington:
For distinguished contributions to the field of surface hydrology, particularly for development of land surface-atmosphere schemes used in climate modeling.Melack, John M. - University of California - Santa Barbara:
For internationally recognized research on the inherently interdisciplinary topics of limnology and watershed-level biogeochemical cycles, in high mountains, saline lakes, and Amazon wetlands.Moeschberger, Melvin L. - Ohio State University:
For distinguished contributions to biostatistics and applied statistics, including co-authorship of textbooks on statistical concepts and survival analysis that have become classics for applied researchers.Polasky, Stephen - University of Minnesota:
For distinguished contributions to the field of environmental economics, particularly for work in biodiversity conservation and endangered species policy.Richerson, Peter J. - University of California * Davis:
For distinguished contributions to the newly emerging field of evolutionary social science, particularly for the development and application of cultural evolutionary theory.Rocke, David M. - University of California * Davis:
For service on committees and as officers of professional societies (ISCB and FASEB), and for contributions of applying statistics and computational methods in the biological sciences.Wu, Jianguo - Arizona State University:
For outstanding research, for leadership in the U.S. and international communities in landscape ecology, and for brilliant efforts to build links to Chinese landscape ecology.Wuebbles, Donald J. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
For distinguished contributions in understanding of the role of halocarbons in ozone depletion and for placing model results in a policy context for decision-makers.
For more information on these elections and the AAAS Fellows Program see:
http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/
and
http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2007/1109fellows.shtml