Schmit Receives T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award from the NWA
Tim Schmit received the T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award at the 2011 National Weather Association (NWA) annual meeting on 19 October 2011 in Birmingham, Alabama. The citation read “for excellence in promoting and extending the use of satellite data within the operational community currently and in the future.”
This award is the association's highest honor for a member whose research has significantly contributed to the field of operational meteorology.
Tim Schmit with the T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award from the NWA.
In addition, on 12 October 2011, Schmit participated via a telecom in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-15 Operational Readiness Review (ORR) held at NOAA Satellite Operations Facility.
This review demonstrated readiness to transition GOES-15 spacecraft and instruments into GOES-West Operations and readiness of GOES-15 products and users. Several quantitative products need GOES-15 specific coefficient files to be supplied by STAR.
