Aviation Meteorology

Our Mission

The Aviation Meteorology Committee of the National Weather Association strives to address current issues of importance to the aviation weather community. A primary goal of this committee is to improve weather education for pilots and other operational personnel who have a strong need for weather information. Emphasis is placed on serving the community through project leadership roles, advising the general NWA membership and leadership on applicable issues, and serving as a catalyst supporting efforts to improve/advance all aspects of aviation weather research and education. The committee continuously seeks support from the entire aviation weather community to include interested personnel (forecasters, observers, pilots, briefers, researchers, etc.) from the NWS, FAA, AOPA, DoD, private airlines, private aviation weather related companies, and researchers.

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Committee Members

Committee Chair: David Dillahunt  (Southwest Airlines Meteorology) – Email david.dillahunt@wnco.com

Sarah Rogowski, NWS Salt Lake City, UT CWSU
Terry T. Lankford,  FAA FSS Retired; Pilot, CFII
Ajay Raghavendra, SUNY; Pilot, CFI Albany, NY
Gene Wall, Adjunct Instructor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ. & Charleston Southern Univ.
Erik Proseus, Senior Meteorologist FedEx
J.P. Kalb, Weather Observer, San Jose, CA
Allan Diegan, NWS Meteorologist, Morristown, TN
Paul Suffern, NTSB Accident Investigator Washington, DC
Sean Campbell,  Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO
Walt Rogers, NWS CWSU Retired; Glider Pilot Palmdale, CA
Randy Bass, FAA Manassas, VA
Kari Bowen, NWS Boulder, CO WFO
Kaitlyn Jesmonth, Student:  State University of New York/Oswego
Matt Johnson, SW Ohio, FAA helicopter CFII/DPE
Mike Splitt, Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Florida Institute of Technology
Scott Minnick, Aviation Weather Center
Kyle Struckmann, National Aviation Meteorologist, AWC – FAA Command Center
Joshua Maloy, NWS WCM, Alaska Aviation Weather Unit/Anchorage Volcanic Ash Advisory Center
Jack Lind, CIRA researcher associate at the Aviation Weather Center.


NWA Aviation Meteorology Award Winners

2023 — Aviation Weather Center and Kansas City Central Weather Services Unit
2021
 — NOAA Global Systems Laboratory Assimilation and Verification Innovation Division
2019 — Fed Ex Weather Services
2018 — NCAR Research Applications Laboratory - Bruce Carmichael
2017 — Judy E. Ghirardelli
2016 — NWS Center Weather Service Unit New York
2015 — NWS Center Weather Service Unit and NWS Weather Forecast Office Memphis
2014 — Mike Eckert and Brandon Smith, National Weather Service Aviation Weather Center/FAA Command Center
2013 — National Weather Service WFO/CWSU Albuquerque, NM
2012 — Brian Schoettmer
2011 — NOAA/NWS Center Weather Service Unit Atlanta, Georgia NOAA/National Weather Service Forecast Office Peachtree City, Georgia
2010 — National Weather Service New York City Forecast Office, NWS Eastern Region Headquarters, Bohemia, New York, and NWS Center Weather Service Unit, Ronkonkoma, New York
2009 — Sally Pavlow Johnson
2008 — Brian Pettegrew and the University of Missouri-Columbia Forecast Team
2007 — Robert O. Baron — President and Founder of Baron Services, Inc.
2006 — Newton Skiles, Christopher Buonanno, and Paul Iñiguez
2005 — Members of the Technology Exploitation Branch, Headquarters U.S. Air Force Weather Agency (R. Bruce Telfeyan, Daniel M. Rozema, Jennifer C. Roman, Lee A. Byerle, James E. McMullen, Stephen M. Riehart, Gordon R. Brooks, David L. Keller, Jeramie Lippman, Angela D. Oder, Jeremy J. Wesley, Evan L. Kuchera, Ingrid A. Gotchel, Scott A. Rentschler, Steven E. Harris, David J. Hladky, Patrick A. Therien, Jason A. Smith, and Jonathan M. Garner)
2004 — Combined Team of NOAA/NWS Center Weather Service Unit, Fort Worth, Texas (Tom Amis, James Ott, Charles Hays and Doug Reno) and the NOAA/Forecast Systems Laboratory, Aviation Division, Boulder, Colorado (Lynn Sherretz, Greg Pratt, Dennis Rodgers, Jim Frimel, Young Chun, Lisa Gifford, Chris Masters and Doug Ohlhorst)
2003 — The NOAA/National Weather Service staff of the FAA Training Academy
2002 — The Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Weather Research Program (AWRP)
2001 — Timothy H. Miner and Timothy Oram
2000 — Carolyn M. Kloth
1998 — Christine L. Alex, Howard J. Diamond and Raymond M. Downs, NOAA/NWS Headquarters, Silver Spring, MD
1997 — Aviation Operations Branch and Aviation Support Branch, Aviation Weather Center, NWS, Kansas City, MO
1996 — Thomas M. Hicks, Meteorologist in Charge, Center Weather Service Unit, Fort Worth, Texas

Last Updated:  October 25, 2023