Honors, Awards and Fellowships
1979 Flora Roberts Award to the Outstanding Senior Woman, Purdue University
1986 National Center for Atmospheric Research Summer Fellowship
1989 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship
1996 National Science Foundation Early Career Award
2000 Truman and Nellie Semans Chair in Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University
2007 Duke University, University-wide Award for Excellence in Mentoring
2008 H. Burr Steinbach Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2009 Fellow, American Meteorological Society
2010 Association of Women Geoscientists Outstanding Educator Award
2012 Ronie-Richele Garcia Johnson Distinguished Professorship, Duke University
2014 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
2015 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2016 Professorship of Excellence, Dr. Werner Petersen Foundation, Germany
2016 Ambassador Award, American Geophysical Union
2017 Joanne Simpson Mentoring Award, American Meteorological Society
2019 Honoree, Old Masters Program, Purdue University
2020 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2022 Henry Stommel Research Medal, American Meteorological Society
Named Lectures
2001 American Geophysical Union Rachel Carson Lecturer
2011 Osgood Memorial Lecturer, Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio
2013 Sears Lecturer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2014 Sarah and James Bowdoin Day Speaker, Bowdoin College
2015 Roger Revelle Lecturer, Ocean Studies Board, Smithsonian Institute
2016 J. Tuzo Wilson Distinguished Lecturer, University of Toronto
2017 Marie Tharp Lecturer, GEOMAR Institute, Kiel, Germany
2017 Scott W. Nixon Lecturer, University of Rhode Island Coastal Institute
2017 Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Distinguished Lecturer, University of Colorado