Timeline Exploration -- 2000 - Present

Timeline Exploration -- 2000 - Present

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Biographical Highlights

• 2000 Research involves use of the Parallel Climate Model (PCM) and the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) to study the impacts of climate change in the 21st century.
• 2002 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
• 2002 Appointed to the Science Advisory Panel of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and the National Academies of Science Coordinating Committee on Global Change.
• 2003 Elected to the American Philosophical Society.
• 2004 Received Reed College's prestigious Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology.
• 2005 [On the future of climate models] From Warren's book, Odyssey in Climate Modeling, Global Warming, and Advising Five Presidents.
  

  "Over time, climate models will become Earth System Models as they bring in biological cycle processes such as the carbon and nitrogen cycles."

• 2006 Charles Franklin Brooks Award for decades of service to the AMS and as a representative of the atmospheric sciences community at the highest level of policymakers.
• 2010 Receives the National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor bestowed by the U.S. President, for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of Earth's coupled climate system through numerical simulation, leadership in U.S. science policy, and inspiring mentorship of young people of all backgrounds and origins.
• 2012 Appears on a PBS special, "A Night with Warren Washington, an event organized by the ScienceMakers.
• 2013 Receives an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Massachusetts.
• 2013 Delivers the Bert Bolin lecture in Stockholm.
• 2013 Named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• 2014 Association of American Geographers’ Honorary Geographer Award
• 2014 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Oregon State University
• 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award, NCAR
• 2018 Warren Washington Legacy Symposium, Penn State University
• 2019 Awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

Documents

• 2000 Letter of congratulations from Representative Mark Udall. (read)
• 2000 Appointment Affidavit and article regarding Warren's second term of service under U.S. President Bill Clinton on the National Science Board. (read)
• 2002 Remarks by Warren, NSB (National Science Board) Chair, to the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. (read)
• 2007 Article in UCAR's StaffNotes about the Warren Washington Symposium on Climate Modeling, Prediction, and Science Policy. (read)
• 2007 Letter thanking Warren for his expertise, sent by then Senator Barack Obama for Warren's participation on the Climate Change Panel during the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference (September 26 - 29, 2007). (read)

Photographs, Figures, Posters

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	2001	Warren chairing an NSB meeting.
	2002	Photo taken upon Warren's election to the National Academy of Engineering.
	2003	The John Vincent Atanasoff Computer 100th Birthday celebration at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa on October 31, 2003. With Warren in photo is founder of the Gordon Bell Prize, Gordon Bell, senior researcher at Microsoft Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco, CA.
	2003	Mary Washington, Warren, and Bert Semtner, professor in the Department of Oceanography at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, recall some of their many interactions with Bernie O'Lear during his retirement party.
	2003	National Science Board Awards Dinner, May 21, 2003, at the U.S. Department of State. From left - Jack Colwell, Rita Colwell, Neal Lane, Joni Lane, Mary Washington, and Warren.
	2005	Warren signing his autobiography.
	2005	Warren with Harry van Loon.
	2006	Warren with his Honorary Doctorate Medal from Oregon State University.
	2006	Warren with a Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) student, Kimberly Trent.
	2006	Warren receiving an Honorary Doctorate Medal from Oregon State University.
	2006	Warren Washington visited Oregon State University special collections library and while there had an opportunity to hold Linus Pauling's two Nobel prizes. Pauling is the only individual to have been awarded two Noble prizes.
	2007	Warren (foreground) and his wife, Mary, take in one of the symposium talks during his 2007 symposium, Warren Washington Symposium on Climate Modeling, Prediction, and Science Policy.
	2007	Warren is invited by then Senator Obama to attend the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Conference in Washington, DC in the summer of 2007. The Panel that Senator Obama and his staff organized was on the subject of climate change.
	2007	Warren gifting his papers to NCAR. Pictured l-r: Diane Rabson (archivist), Larry Winter (NCAR Deputy Director), Rick Anthes (UCAR President), and Warren, seated.
	2007	When Warren was unable to present at the the 2007 American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference session entitled, Navigating a Career in the Geosciences: Strategies for Success, this poster honoring his efforts was presented. Rachel Young and colleagues (The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) prepared the poster.
	2008	Warren giving a Martin Luther King celebration lecture at the University of Michigan, Spring 2008.
	2008	Warren giving a Martin Luther King celebration lecture at the University of Michigan, Spring 2008.
	2009	Jerry Meehl (NCAR) and Warren at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society where they jointly received one its highest awards, the Jule Charney award.
	2009	Warren's American Academy of Arts and Sciences certificate that was designed by President John Adams. It is the same as given to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
	2009	Warren signing the book making him a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; this is the same book that was signed by the founders of the United States.
	2009	Martin Luther King's letter of acceptance to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
	2009	Warren in front of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences wall of acceptance letters.
	2010	Warren receives the National Medal of Science
	2012	"A Night with Warren Washington." Warren is interviewed by Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone for the ScienceMakers project, to be broadcast on PBS in Fall 2012.
	2016	Warren Washington is named an NCAR Distinguished Scholar.
	2018	Penn State University, where Warren Washington earned a PhD in meteorology, named a new research building in his honor.

Websites/Web Media

Web Info			Screenshot	Web URL
	2007	Warren M. Washington Symposium: Symposium on Climate Modeling, Prediction, and Scientific Policy, 2007.		Original URL
	2008	Warren receives the Bates College Honorary Degree and gives a commencement address.	Download	Original URL
	2010	Warren M. Washington Symposium at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2010.		Original URL
	2010	Warren receives the National Medal of Science.	Download	Original URL

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