Awards / Memberships

  • 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