Curriculum Vitae
Updated October 2015
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William J. Randel
Education:
PhD in Physics from Iowa State University in 1984
BS in Physics from the University of Cincinnati in 1978
Professional
Experience:
Colorado State University: Research Associate 1984 -
1985
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations
and Modeling (ACOM) Laboratory
- Postdoctoral Fellow 1985 - 1987
- Visiting Scientist/Scientist I 1987 - 1992
- Scientist II 1992 - 1995
- Head, Satellite Data Analysis Group 1994 - 2010
- Scientist III 1995 - 2000
- Senior Scientist 2000 - present
- Director, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, 2007- 2015
- Section Head for Remote Sensing, ACOM, 2015 - present
Cooperative Research Center for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology,
Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia: Visiting Scientist (on sabbatical
leave) 9/1995 - 7/1996
Professional Activities:
- Houghton Lecturer,
Earth,
Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
May-June 2015
- Principal Lecturer,
Workshop on Fluid Dynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyoto,
Japan.
December 2014.
- Contributing
author for Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2013
- Principal
Investigator, International Space
Station Atmospheric Trace Molecule Occultation Spectrometer (iATMOS). Proposal to the NASA Earth Venture 2 (EV2)
Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) program. Submitted
September 2011 (declined).
- Lead Author for 2002, 2006 and 2010 UNEP/WMO Scientific
Assessments of Ozone Depletion
- Scientific Steering Group, Network for the Detection of
Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC), 2004-2014
- Scientific
Steering
Group for Stratospheric Temperature Trends activity,
Stratosphere-troposphere
Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC), World Climate Research
Program
(WCRP), 1996-present. Co-chair 2005-2015.
- International Ozone Commission, 2009-present
- Chair, National Research Council review committee for the US
Science Change Program Synthesis and Assessment Report on Temperature
Trends in the Lower Atmosphere. 2005
- Lead author, IPCC Special Report on Safeguarding the Ozone Layer
and the Global Climate System, 2003-2005
- Member, National Research Council Board on Atmospheric Science
and Climate (BASC) 2001-2005
- Associate Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
1999-present
- Chair, SPARC Stratospheric Reference Climatology Group. World
Climate Research Program (WCRP), 1994 - 2003.
- Chair, SPARC-IOC Committee on Ozone Trends, 1996-1998; lead
author for 'Assessment of Trends in the Vertical Profile of Ozone',
SPARC Report No. 1, 1998.
- NASA Science Teams for the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
(UARS), Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE II), Atmospheric
Infrared Sounder (AIRS), High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder
(HIRDLS), GPS radio occultation and Aura Science Team.
- Chair, Committee on Atmospheric Dynamics, American Geophysical
Union (AGU) Atmospheric Sciences Section, 1996 - 2002.
- Co-principal Organizer of US-Japanese Workshop on Coupling of
the Troposphere and Stratosphere, Kyoto, March 2001.
- Chair, American Meteorological Society Committee on the Middle
Atmosphere, 1995-1997.
- American Meteorological Society Committee on Southern Hemisphere
Meteorology and Oceanography, 1990-1993.
- Member and contributing author for WMO Ozone Trends Panel:
1993-1994.
- Contributing author and Scientific Review Panel for UNEP/WMO
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1994-1998.
- Editorial Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences,
Published by Academic Press, 1999-2004.
Fellowships, Awards:
NCAR Activities:
- Postdoctoral advisor for Mijeong Park, 2004-2005, Jeff Taylor
2010-2011 and Joowan Kim, 2013-2014
- PhD advisor for Beth Stone at NCAR (PhD 1997), Marta Abalos (PhD
2013)
- SOARS Scientific Mentor 1993-2003
- Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) Initiative
Scientific Steering Group 2002-2010
- NCAR Appointments Review Group (ARG) 2001-2003, 2014-2016
(Chair, 2003, 2014)
Refereed Publications