Colorado State Affiliate Faculty Member Elected To National Academy Of Engineering
Thursday, March 20, 1997
FORT COLLINS--Margaret LeMone, affiliate faculty member in Colorado
State University's
department of atmospheric science, recently was elected a member of the
National Academy of
Engineering. Election to the academy is one of the highest professional
honors given to engineers and
other specialists, recognizing those who demonstrate "unusual accomplishment
in the pioneering of
new and developing fields of technology."
She will be inducted during a ceremony at an annual NAE meeting Oct. 7
in Washington,
D.C.
LeMone, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder, Colo.,
is an observational meteorologist who studies the behavior of large,
organized storm systems and
aspects of the lowest kilometer of the atmosphere, known as the planetary
boundary layer.
She is one of 46 women inducted into the 1,893-member academy since its
creation in 1964.
Her election recognizes her for "advances in understanding the dynamics of
the planetary boundary
layer and its role in the predictability of atmospheric processes."
The academy's letter arrived deep inside a large box with several
books. Once she realized it was
the election announcement, LeMone was "completely surprised. It's quite an
honor."
LeMone earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of
Missouri and a
doctorate in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington. She came
to NCAR in 1972 as
a postdoctoral Fellow.
She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and the
American Meteorological Society. She has served on research committees and
advisory boards for
those organizations as well as the National Research Council. She also has
served as editor of the
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences and received its editor's award in 1989.
LeMone was the
founding chairwoman (1975-78) of the AMS Board on Women and Minorities.
LeMone has contributed her expertise to three textbooks and an
elementary-school science
series. Three of her articles appear in the World Book Encyclopedia (1989-
present). She has made
numerous presentations to students, mentored teachers in Project LEARN
(Laboratory Experience in
Atmospheric Research at NCAR) and served as a coach for Odyssey of the Mind.
She is co-principal
investigator for the second phase of Project LEARN.
NCAR is managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
under sponsorship
by the National Science Foundation.
For more information, contact Anatta at UCAR Communications, (303) 497-
8604, or by e-mail
at anatta@ucar.edu.
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