{"id":488,"date":"2026-04-03T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/staff\/?page_id=488"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:51:21","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/staff\/tim-schmit\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Select Recent Awards and Citations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2024: The GOES-R program special science award &#8220;for his tireless enthusiasm, dedication, and commitment to geostationary imagery, science, and applications&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023: Part of a NASA Goddard Group award: GeoXO Program Science Working Groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Bronze Medal, for Strategic Planning efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2020: NOAA Administrator&#8217;s award (with many others) for GOES-16\/17 support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019: Elected to be an American Meteorological Society (AMS) Fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2018: Finalist for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017: NOAA Administrator&#8217;s award for ABI GOES-16 beta stage completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017: NASA GOES-R Group Achievement Award for &#8220;world&#8217;s highest quality weather monitoring&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017: AMS for &#8220;Outstanding Severice as Member: Annual Meeting Oversight Committee&#8221; (2011-2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2016: CIMSS animation contest: One of top three for best GOES animation, part of the 40th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015: Certificate of Appreciation for &#8220;Exceptional Planning and Execution of the 2015 NOAA Satellite Conference&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014: U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Scientific and Engineering Achievement, for &#8220;outstanding critical support extending the useful life of aging geostationary weather satellites, thereby greatly improving coverage over South America&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013: U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal for Scientific and Engineering Achievement, for &#8220;their efforts in support of returning GOES-13 to operations after a major on-orbit anomaly that affected the spacecraft and the image and sounder instruments&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013: Certificate of Appreciation for &#8220;Exceptional Planning and Execution of the 2013 NOAA Satellite Conference&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2012: Part of 7th GOES Users&#8217; Conference Support Team that received the GOES-R Outstanding Team award for 1QFY12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2011: U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal for Scientific and Engineering Achievement, for &#8220;revolutionizing the GOES post-launch tests&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2011: Recognized by the Spaceflight Meteorology Group for support over the years to the Space Shuttle Program for expertise on both GOES and GOES-R. (This included receiving a patch that had flown in space.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2011: Received the T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award from the National Weather Association (NWA). The citation read &#8220;for excellence in promoting and extending the use of satellite data within the operational community currently and in the future&#8221;. 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