Selected Honors and Awards

2008: Chairman, International Advisory Panel for Weather and Climate, India

2008:   Commissioner, Virginia Governor's Commission on Climate Change

2008: Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

2007: Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

(IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Gore)

2007: International Meteorological Organization Prize of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

(Highest honor awarded by the WMO)

2005: Rossby Medal of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)

(Highest honor awarded by the AMS)

2004: Scientist of the year, Association of Indians in America (AIA)

2001: Walker Gold Medal of the Indian Meteorological Society (IMS)

(Highest medal of the IMS; first recipient of the medal)

2001: Joint Scientific Committee of WCRP

(Highest Committee of the World Climate Research Program)

1999: Founded Gandhi College for women in a village in India

(See the article in the New York Times, 17 August 2003)

1996: Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS, Associate Fellow)

1996: Fellow, Indian Meteorological Society

1993: Founded Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES)

(See www.iges.org)

1989: Helped establish super computer center for monsoon forecasting, New Delhi

(At the behest of the then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi)

1988: Started weather and climate program at ICTP, Trieste, Italy

(At the behest of Dr. Abdus Salam, founder of ICTP)

1986: Invited to lecture at the Pontifical Academy, Vatican, Italy

(Audience with Pope John Paul II)

1983: Founded, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere (COLA)

(COLA is considered one of the premiere centers in the world for climate research)

1982: Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal of NASA

(Highest medal given by NASA to a civilian)

1979: Chief Scientist, MONEX experiment in the Bay of Bengal

(Leader of an expedition of three aircrafts and 150 scientists to Calcutta)