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ATSC Program Honors and Awards

Our students and faculty are extremely successful at whatever they do.  Here are some measures of that success:

ATSC Students:

  • 11 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Undergraduate Scholarship recipients
    • At least one winner each year from 2018 through 2023 (only UGA and the University of Oklahoma can claim this)
  • 8 NOAA Hollings Scholarship winners, including 6 in just three years (2021-23)
  • 3 AMS Graduate Fellowship winners
  • 3 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship winners
  • 2 First Honor (perfect 4.00 GPA) Graduates
  • 2 Regional Emmy Award winners (4 Emmys in all)
  • 1 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Scholarship winner
  • 1 NOAA Lapenta Internship winner
  • 1 UGA Alumni Association 40 Under 40 Award winner

 

ATSC Faculty:

  • We have 15 faculty, including 8 faculty in the Department of Geography who form the core of the teaching faculty
  • Our faculty's publications have international impact and have been cited nearly 40,000 times (Google Scholar)
  • Our faculty are recipients of the highest professional honor of Fellow from the following societies and academies: AMS (3), American Association of Geographers (AAG), National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  • Our faculty have won lifetime national research, teaching, mentoring, promotion of diversity, service, and/or communications awards from the AMS (3), AGU, American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAG, SouthEastern Division of the AAG, National Weather Association, the Korey Stringer Institute, and the Captain Planet Foundation, and the Southeastern Conference
  • Our faculty have received numerous teaching awards from UGA, including the First Year Odyssey Teaching Award, Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award (5), Sandy Beaver Teaching Professorship, Richard B. Russell Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship
  • We excel at service, with two recipients of the faculty advising award from UGA's Franklin College and two public service/outreach awards from UGA's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Public Service and Outreach

 


 

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