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CIRRICULUM VITAE
V. RAMANATHAN
EDUCATION:
B.E., 1965 Annamalai University, India (Engg.)
M.Sc., 1970 Indian Institute of Science, India (Engg.)
Ph.D., 1974 State University of New York at Stony Brook (Planetary Atmospheres)
RESEARCH POSITIONS:
1979-date: Principal Investigator, NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
1982-1986: Senior Scientist, NCAR, Boulder, CO
1985-1988: Affiliate Professor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Visiting Professor, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
1986-1990: Professor, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1990-date: Victor C. Alderson Professor of Applied Ocean Sciences, and Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA
1991-date: Director, Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA
1996-date: Director, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA
1998: First K.R. Ramanathan Visiting Professor, Physical Research Laboratory, India
2004-date: Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA
OTHER POSITIONS:
1992-date: Board of Directors, Tata Energy Research Institute, Arlington, VA
1993: Chief Scientist, Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment (CEPEX)
1996-2002: Co-Chief Scientist, Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX)
1996-2002: Chair, International Steering Committee, INDOEX
1999-date: Science Editorial Board, NASA Earth Observatory
2002-date: Atmospheric Brown Cloud Project (ABC)
2002-date: Member, Geophysical Institute Review Panel for Atmospheric Sciences
2005-date: Member, Advisory Board, World Clean Air Congress
2005-date: Member, NCAR, Earth Observing Laboratory External Advisory Committee
2005-date: Chairman, ABC project
2006-date: Chair, United States Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Mitigation of Climate Change, Climate Dynamics, the Greenhouse Effect, Air Pollution, Clouds, Aerosols, Satellite Radiation Measurements and Global Climate Models
LIST OF HONORS:
List of Honors
Selected Graduate Students (GS) and Post Docs (PD) who started their careers with me: J.T. Kiehl (NCAR; PD), V. Ramaswamy (Senior Scientist, GFDL; PD), T.P. Charlock (NASA; PD), W.D. Collins (NCAR; PD), J.P. Chen (Assoc. Prof. Natl. Taiwan Uni; PD), S. Sherwood (Asst. Prof., Yale; GS), C. Weaver (Res. Asst. Prof., Rutgers; GS), S. Satheesh (Asst. Prof., IISc; PD); W.D. Conant (Post Doc Caltech; GS), E. Wilcox (Post Doc, GFSL, Princeton Uni.; GS)
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS:
Member, Committee for the 2008 Trieste Science Prize, 2008-date
Chair, Committee on Strategic Advice on the US Climate Change Science Program, National Academy of Sciences, 2006-date
Member, Environment and Sustainability Steering Committee, University of California, San Diego, 2006-date
International Advisory Board, International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA), 2005-date
Member, Ocean Research Awards Committee, American Meteorological Society, 2005-date
Member, Awards Oversight Committee, American Meteorological Society, 2005-date
Member, Advisory Board, World Clean Air Congress, 2005-date
Chair, Atmospheric Research Awards Committee, American Meteorological Society, 2005-2007
Member, Atmospheric Research Awards Committee, American Meteorological Society, 2004-date
Member, National Research Council Committee on Radiative Forcing, 2003-2005
Steering Committee Chair, National Aerosol-Climate Interactions Program, 2002-date
Advisory Board Member, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2002-date
Los Alamos National Laboratory Committee, 2001-2004
Editorial Board, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2000-date
Member, Science Editorial Board, NASA Earth Observatory Committee, 1998-date
Member, Social Behavioral and Economics Directorate Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation, 1997-2000
Chair, Executive Committee for Science Outreach, EOS-AM1, 1997-2000
Member, Scientific Steering Group, Rapid non-linear Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change, 1997-1999
Associate Editor, Tellus A, 1995-date
Member, International Council of Scientific Unions, Advisory Committee on the Environment Review Team, 1994-1999
Member, National Research Council, Board on Sustainable Development, Councils Policy Division, 1993-1997
Member, Board of Directors, Tata Energy and Research Institute, 1992-date
Member, Board of Reviewing Editors, Science, 1992-1997
Member, University of Alaska Advisory Panel, 1991-1994
Member, NAS Board on Global Climate Change, 1991-1994
CURRENT GRANTS:
NSF: Principal Investigator,
NASA: Principal Investigator, CERES Experiment on EOS platforms, 1989-date
NOAA: Atmospheric Brown Cloud Project
COURSES TAUGHT:
Radiative Transfer, Climate Dynamics, Global Warming-Scientific Basis, Introduction to Climate, Climate Change, Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS:
For details, please visit V. Ramanathan's Publication's.
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