Manvendra Dubey recently received the Los Alamos National Laboratory 2015 Fellows Prize for Outstanding Research for his achievements in the fields of leadership and science in the global climate community. Dubey’s research has created a confluence of field observations, laboratory measurements, and climate-biogeochemistry-carbon models to improve predictions of climate change impacts and air quality.
Supported by the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program and an Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility user for over a decade, Dubey combines significant scientific achievements with technical leadership in the international, global climate community to advance the understanding of global climate dynamics. He has made field observations to improve climate models, particularly in the area of absorbing aerosols. He has regularly participated in numerous ARM campaigns and led two field research campaigns collecting optical property measurements. His state-of-the-art optical measurements showed absorbing aerosols from wildfires and fossil combustion play a key role in climate and he derived new formulations to treat them in models.
This award is meant to commend individuals for outstanding research performed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory that was published within the last ten years and that has had a significant impact on its discipline or program. It is also meant to recognize and stimulate high-quality investigations in science or engineering by laboratory staff members and to encourage publication in appropriate journals, books, or reports.
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The ARM Climate Research Facility is a national scientific user facility funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The ARM Facility is operated by nine Department of Energy national laboratories, including Los Alamos National Laboratory.