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Thomas Vonder Haar Receives AOS Alumni Award

The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) is thrilled to announce Dr. Thomas Vonder Haar MS’64, PhD’68 was selected to receive the 2024 AOS Distinguished Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement. Vonder Haar has been instrumental in advancing the field of satellite meteorology. He has hundreds of publications, co-authored the first textbook in the field, and was a founding member and director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA). His accolades include an American Meteorological Society Honorary Member and Fellow, an American Geophysical Union Fellow, and an election to the National Academy of Engineering, among many others.

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