2004 NWA Meteorological Satellite Applications Award

 

Kristopher B. Karnauskas

 

Kristopher B. Karnauskas, a former student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was slected as the winner of the NWA Meteorological Satellite Applications Award for 2004.  His superb work was well described in an excellent undergraduate paper, “Interannual Variability of Surface Longwave Radiation over the African Continent as Derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.”  Kris presented his paper in a poster session at the Annual Meeting and received a plaque and a check for $500 from President Paul Croft.  Kris is now a graduate student at the University of Maryland at College Park.