CURRICULUM VITA
Dr. John Robert LanzanteMay, 2006
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born: October 31, 1956 in Jersey City, New Jersey
EDUCATION
1978 - B.S. (Meteorology) -- Cook, College, Rutgers University
Honors Project:
"An Investigative Study of the January Thaw Phenomenon"
GPA: 3.97 [132 credits: 47-meteorology / 3-statistics / 6-research]
1981 - M.S. (Meteorology) -- The Graduate School, New Brunswick,
Rutgers University
Thesis:
"Prediction of Summer Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies in the Eastern North
Pacific Ocean"
GPA: 4.00 [62 credits: 27-meteorology / 3-statistics / 29-research]
1988 - Ph.D. (Meteorology) -- University of Maryland
Dissertation:
"An Observational Study of Intramonthly Quasi-Periodicities in the Northern
Hemisphere, Extratropical Geopotential Height Field"
GPA: 3.55 [62 credits: 15-meteorology / 18-statistics / 29-research]
EMPLOYMENT
9/78-1/81 -- Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, Cook College,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2/81-8/84 -- Research Assistant (full time)
Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, Cook College,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
9/84-9/88 -- Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
10/88-12/89 -- UCAR Postdoctoral Scientist
Climate Analysis Center, National Meteorological Center, Camp Springs,
MD
1/90-1/92 -- Program Scientist
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ
1/92-present -- Research Meteorologist
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
HONORS/AWARDS
1974 -- Alfred J. Corneth Scholarship
1974-78 -- Dean's list
1977-78 -- Chi Epsilon Pi Meteorology Honor Society
1978 -- Graduated with highest honors
1978 -- George H. Cook Scholar
1978 -- Honorable Mention for NSF Graduate Fellowship
1979 -- Father James B. Macelwane Award, American Meteorological
Society
"For Best Student Paper in Meteorology: An Investigative
Study of the January Thaw Phenomenon"
1992 -- Listed in Who's Who in New Jersey
1994 -- Editor's Award, Journal of Climate
"For punctual, thorough, and constructive reviews for the
Journal of Climate"
2006 -- NOAA Bronze Medal Award
[Awarded to: M. Free, D. Seidel, J. Lanzante, I. Durre, J. Lawrimore & T. Peterson]
"For developing research-quality radiosonde atmospheric
temperature datasets for reliably monitoring climate variations
and change"
2007 -- Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award
[Awarded to: T. Karl, C. Miller, V. Ramaswamy, J. Lanzante, D. Seidel, T. Peterson, R. Vose & R. Reynolds]
"For improving the understanding of observed climate change
and causes by showing that global average atmospheric warming
is similar to surface warming"
GRANTS
1987-89 -- Grant, National Science Foundation
PI: Anandu Vernekar and Co-PI: John Lanzante (University of Maryland)
Title: "An Observational Study of Intramonthly Quasi-Periodicities in
the Northern Hemisphere, Extratropical Geopotential Height Field"
1996-98 -- Grant, NOAA Office of Global Programs
PI: Dian Gaffen (ARL), Co-PI: Ted Habermann (NGDC) and Co-PI: John Lanzante
(GFDL)
Title: "Enhancing the Information Content of Historical Upper-Air Data
for Climate Studies"
2001-2003 -- Grant, NOAA Office of Global Programs
PI: Dian Seidel, Melissa Free, and James Angell (ARL),
John Lanzante and Stephen Klein (GFDL),
Tom Peterson, Imke Durre and Jay Lawrimore (NCDC)
Title: "NOAA Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing
Climate (RATPAC)"
2003-2006 -- Grant, NOAA Office of Global Programs
PI: Steve Sherwood (Yale)
Co-PIs: John Lanzante (GFDL) and Jeffrey Park (Yale)
Title: "Distinction Between Genuine and Instrument-Related Climate
Signals in the
Upper-Air Data Record"
2003-2006 -- Grant, NOAA Office of Global Programs
PI: Brian Soden (GFDL)
Co-PIs: John Bates (ETL), Imke Durre (NCDC) and John Lanzante (GFDL)
Title: "A Radiance-Based Analysis of Satelitte and Radiosonde Climate
Records to
Document Long-Term Water Vapor Changes"
2004-2007 -- Grant, NOAA Office of Global Programs
PIs: Dian Seidel (ARL) and John Lanzante (GFDL)
Participants: Melissa Free (ARL) and Ronald Stouffer (GFDL)
Title: "Improving Detection of Past and Future Climate Change as
Manifested in
Upper-Air Temperature Patterns"
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Societies
1978-present -- American Meteorological Society
1979-84, 1990-94 -- New Jersey Chapter of the American Meteorological
Society
1991-present -- American Statistical Association
Committees and Panels
1991 -- Ad-Hoc Review Panel for NOAA Climate and Global Change Program
1994-1997 -- CDAS/Reanalysis Advisory Committee
2000-2002 -- GFDL's OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Nominations
Committee [chair 2001]
2004 -- CCSP Committee to Define Science Requirements for Next US
Reanalysis
2004-2006 -- Convening Lead Author of Chapter 3 of the
CCSP Synthesis & Assessment Report 1.1
on Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere
2007 -- Review Panel for NOAA Climate Program Office
Other
1993-94 -- Scientific Editor GFDL Annual Report
2002 -- Contributing Author to White Paper "Understanding Recent
Atmospheric Temperature Trends and Reducing Future Uncertainties" in
support of the Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program
2004 -- Contributing Author to Chapters 3 & 8 of IPCC Fourth Assessment
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