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FSU Professor James O'Brien, state climatologist, wins 2006 Medalist Award from Florida Academy of Sciences
BY LIBBY FAIRHURST
State of Florida climatologist and Florida State University Professor James J. O'Brien has won the 2006 Medalist Award from the Florida Academy of Sciences. Each year, the award is presented to a Florida resident who has contributed in an outstanding manner to the promotion of scientific research, to the stimulation of interest in the sciences, or to the diffusion of scientific knowledge.
The award will be formally presented at a banquet in Melbourne on March 10 during the Florida Academy of Sciences' 70th annual meeting and will include an invitation to speak at the 71st annual meeting in 2007.
Perhaps best known for his early, basic research into El Niño, O'Brien is FSU's Distinguished Robert O. Lawton Professor of Meteorology and Oceanography and the director of its Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS).
A member of the FSU faculty for more than 35 years, he has earned myriad accolades at home and abroad, including a citation as one of the "2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century." Among his numerous scientific and professional affiliations, O'Brien is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Geophysical Union; a Foreign Fellow in the Russian Academy of Science; and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Recently, the Japanese Oceanographic Society (JOS) selected him as a recipient of its 2006 "Uda Prize" in recognition of his education and support of young people from Japan. O'Brien is the first non-Japanese scientist to receive the prize, which he'll claim in person March 28 during the JOS spring meeting in Yokohama.
For more information about the FSU Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies and O'Brien's role there, visit the COAPS Web site at http://www.coaps.fsu.edu
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