2012, 2020, 2021 CIRA Exceptional Service Award
Recipients by year
2023
Grant Firl
Category/Organization
Please join me in congratulating Grant Firl as the most recent recipient of CIRA’s Exceptional Service Award in recognition of his instrumental planning and execution of the recent three-day Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) Visioning Workshop. Grant will receive a certificate in addition to a cash award.
2023
2021
Amanda Back
Category/Organization
Amanda Back for outstanding leadership within the Assimilation and Verification Innovation Division at GSL
2020
Jeff Beck
Category/Organization
Jeff Beck for leadership in the development, testing, and support of regional capabilities of NOAA's Numerical Weather Prediction models.
2012
Chris Macdermaid
Category/Organization
Chris MacDermaid for his efforts as GSD's representative on a number of NOAA and OAR working groups and committees.