Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, elected Dec 2023
NASA Group Achievement Award, ACCLIP Science Team, 202
Department of Commerce Silver Medal 'for successfully executing a rapid response campaign to study the atmospheric impact of the unprecedented Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano eruption' awarded to Karen Rosenlof, Troy Thornberry, Steve Ciciora, Ru-Shan Gao, Bryan Johnson, Gary Morris, and Alice Crawford, 2023
NASA Group Achievement Award, ATom Science Team, 2019
NASA Group Achievement Award, POSIDON Science Team, 2017
Yoram J. Kaufman Unselfish Cooperation in Research Award (AGU), 2016
Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, 2014
NOAA Bronze Award, 'for the successful demonstration of the Global Unmanned Aircraft System for NOAA's Climate Goal' awarded to David Fahey, Steve Ciciora, Richard McLaughlin, Ru-Shan Gao, Karen Rosenlof, Brad Hall and James Elkins, 2013
NASA Group Achievement Award, MACPEX Science Team, 2012
NASA Group Achievement Award, GloPac Science Team, 2011
NASA Group Achievement Award, ARCTAS Science Team, 2009
NASA Group Achievement Award, TC-4 Science Team, 2008
NOAA Bronze Award, 'for demonstrating the usefulness of unmanned aircraft systems in accomplishing NOAA's mission, including operation and research goals' awarded to James Churnside, James Elkins, David Fahey, Albin Gasiewski, Samuel Oltmans, Karen Rosenlof, and Sara Summers, 2007
NASA Group Achievement Award, UARS Team, 2006
NASA Group Achievement Award, CRYSTAL-FACE Science Team, 2003
NASA Group Achievement Award, CAMEX 4 Science Team, 2002
Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society 'for outstanding observational and theoretical analysis of the stratospheric circulation and trace constituent transport', 2000
NOAA/ERL Outstanding Paper Award, 1998 and 2001 2001: Oltmans, S. J., H. Vömel, D. J. Hofmann, K. H. Rosenlof, D. Kley (2000) The increase in stratospheric water vapor from balloonborne, frostpoint hygrometer measurements at Washington, D.C., and Boulder, Colorado, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2, 3453-3457. 1998: Rosenlof, K. H., A. F. Tuck, K. K. Kelly, J. M. Russell III, M. P, McCormick (1997) Hemispheric asymmetries in water vapor and inferences about transport in the lower stratosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 13213-13234. (ASHOE/MAESA special section)
NASA Group Achievement Award, POLARIS Project Team, 1997