Amanda Mims (AOSS undergrad) was recently awarded the annual National Weather Association Meteorological Applications Award for 2008 for the paper "WindSat Ocean Surface Emissivity Dependence on Wind Speed in Tropical Cyclones".  She has been invited to present the paper at  their annual meeting October 12-16 in Louisville, KY, and to be presented with a certificate and monetary award at their Awards Luncheon that week.

The paper reports results from a project she and Prof. Chris Ruf are working on together.