Married April 18, 1974 to Joann Held, one child (Joshua)
Education:
1969 B.S. University of Minnesota
1971 M.A. State University of New York at Stony Brook (Physics)
1976 Ph.D. Princeton University (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
Employment:
1976-1978: Research Fellow in Climate, Harvard University
1978-present: Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, currently head of Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics Group, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Princeton, NJ
Additional current affiliations:
Princeton University, Lecturer in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, since 1979
Associate Faculty, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, since 1998.
Associate Faculty, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, since 1999.
Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society, 1987: “outstanding contributions to the study of climate dynamics through studies of energy balances and wave dynamics”
Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 1991
Rosenstiel Award, University of Miami, 1994: “for breadth and incisiveness in attacking fundamental problems of geophysical fluid dynamics, the general circulation of the atmosphere, and climate dynamics”
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1995
Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer, American Meteorological Society, 1999
Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 1999 “for world leadership in studies of climate dynamics”
National Academy of Sciences, elected 2003.
NOAA Presidential Rank Award, 2005 Rossby Medal, American Meteorological Society, 2008 for “fundamental insights into the dynamics of the Earth’s climate through studies of idealized models and comprehensive climate simulations”