The AMS Fellows Committee elected Professor and Head Steve Nesbitt as Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.  Nesbitt joins other CliMAS active faculty members Prof. Jeff Trapp and Prof. Sonia Lasher-Trapp as Fellows.  The criteria for election as Fellow "shall have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years." New Fellows are elected annually by the AMS Council from a slate submitted by the Fellows Committee of not more than two-tenths of 1 percent of all AMS Members. Prof. Nesbitt joined CliMAS in 2006 following three years as a research scientist at Colorado State University. Nesbitt earned his BS at State University of New York at Oswego in 1997, his MS at Texas A&M University in 1999, and his PhD at the University of Utah in 2003, all in meteorology.

Assistant Professor Gan Zhang has been awarded the 2025 Editor's Award for the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate.  Prof. Zhang's was cited for "For a large number of rapid and thoughtful reviews."  Prof. Zhang joined the CliMAS faculty in 2023 following a post doc at Princeton/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and as a researcher at the Citadel private hedge fund. Zhang obtained his BS at Ocean University of China in 2011, and his MS and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences CliMAS in in 2012 and 2018, respectively.