Curriculum Vitae
Updated July 2005
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William J. Randel
Education:
PhD in Physics from Iowa State University in 1984
BS in Physics from the University of Cincinnati in 1978
Professional
Experience:
Colorado State University: Research Associate 1984 -
1985
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Atmospheric Chemistry Division
- Postdoctoral Fellow 1985 - 1987
- Visiting Scientist/Scientist I 1987 - 1992
- Scientist II 1992 - 1995
- Head, Satellite Data Analysis Group 1994 - present
- Scientist III 1995 - 2000
- Senior Scientist 2000 - present
Cooperative Research Center for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology,
Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia: Visiting Scientist (on sabbatical
leave) 9/1995 - 7/1996
Professional Activities:
- Author for 2006 UNEP/WMO Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion
- Chair, National Research Council review committee for the US
Science Change Program Synthesis and Assessment Report on Temperature
Trends in the Lower Atmosphere. 2005
- Lead author, IPCC Special Report on Safeguarding the Ozone Layer
and the Global Climate System, 2003-2005
- Co-chair, SPARC theme project on Detection, Attribution and
Prediction of Stratospheric Change, 2004-present.
- Member, Scientific Steering Group for the Network for the
Detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC) 2005-2007
- Member, National Research Council Board on Atmospheric Science
and Climate (BASC) 2001-2005
- Associate Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
1999-present
- Co-lead author, UNEP/WMO Scientific Assessment of Ozone
Depletion, 2002 (Chapter 4: Global Ozone: Past and Future)
- Chair, SPARC Stratospheric Reference Climatology Group. World
Climate Research Program (WCRP), 1994 - 2003.
- Chair, SPARC-IOC Committee on Ozone Trends, 1996-1998; lead
author for 'Assessment of Trends in the Vertical Profile of Ozone',
SPARC Report No. 1, 1998.
- NASA Science Teams for the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
(UARS), Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE II), Atmospheric
Infrared Sounder (AIRS), and High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder
(HIRDLS)
- Scientific Steering Group for SPARC Assessment of Stratospheric
Temperature Trends, 1994 - 2002.
- Chair, Committee on Atmospheric Dynamics, American Geophysical
Union (AGU) Atmospheric Sciences Section, 1996 - present.
- Co-principal Organizer of US-Japanese Workshop on Coupling of
the Troposphere and Stratosphere, Kyoto, March 2001.
- Chair, American Meteorological Society Committee on the Middle
Atmosphere, 1995-1997.
- American Meteorological Society Committee on Southern Hemisphere
Meteorology and Oceanography, 1990-1993.
- Member and contributing author for WMO Ozone Trends Panel:
1993-1994.
- Contributing author and Scientific Review Panel for UNEP/WMO
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1994-1998.
- Editorial Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences,
Published by Academic Press, 1999-present
Fellowships, Awards:
- NASA Group Achievement Award, for contribution to Aura Project,
2005
- WMO Norbert Gerbier Outstanding Publication Award 2002
(co-author
of Rev. Geophysics paper in 2001)
- Editor's Award for Excellence in Reviewing, Geophysical Research
Letters, 1999
- Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, NCAR (1985-1987)
- Outstanding Teaching Award from Department of Physics, Iowa
State University, 1980
- Sigma Pi Sigma, Physics National Honor Society
NCAR Activities:
- Postdoctoral advisor for Mijeong Park, 2004-present
- PhD advisor for Beth Stone at NCAR (PhD 1997)
- SOARS Scientific Mentor 1993-2003
- ACD Director Search Committee 2000
- ACD Strategic Planning Core Group 2002-2003
- Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) Initiative
Scientific Steering Group 2002-present
- NCAR Appointments Review Group (ARG) 2001-2003 (Chair, 2003)
Research Grants
Refereed Publications
Other Publications