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Summary: Dr. Thomas Ackerman is Director of the Joint
Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and
Ocean (JISAO) and Professor of Atmospheric
Sciences at the University of Washington. From
1999 through 2005, he served as the Chief
Scientist of DOE's Atmospheric Radiation
Measurement (ARM) Program and was a Battelle
Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in
Richland, WA. The ARM Program is the largest
ground-based atmospheric observing program in
the world. He was Professor of Meteorology at the
Pennsylvania State University from 1988 to 1999,
as well as Associate Director of the Earth System
Science Center. Earlier, he was a staff research
scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in
Mountain View, CA.
Dr. Ackerman is the recipient of the NASA
Distinguished Public Service Medal and the Leo
Szilard Award for Science in the Public Interest, awarded by the American Physical
Society. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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