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• Applicant: CWCB
• Sponsor Name: USBR
• Project Name: Response to RFP
• Title: Numerical Simulations of Snowpack Augmentation for Drought Mitigation Studies in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
• Prepared For: USBR
• Prepared By: Joe Busto, CWCB
• Date: 8/20/2003
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Application

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COTTON, WILLIAM R
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
Colorado. U.S. citizen.

Dr. Cotton's educational qualifications include a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Atmospheric
Science, both from the State University of New York, Albany, in 1964 and 1966 respectively; and
a Ph.D. in Meteorology from Pennsylvania State University in 1970.

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Professional research experience includes work as a Graduate Research Assistant working on
research in cloud physics, design and operation of a vertical wind tunnel at the State University of
New York at Albany from 1964 to 1966. He has also worked as a summer Research Assistant
working on preliminary numerical model design at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado during summer months of 1966 and 1968. He worked as a Research
Assistant at Pennsylvania State University doing field research in cloud physics (flight observer,
experiment design and instrument design), and numerical experiments in cloud physics from
1966-1970. From August 1970 to December 1974 he served as a Meteorologist in the
Experimental Meteorology Laboratory, ERL, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Department of Commerce, and has also served as head of the Numerical Simulation Group.

In December 1974, he assumed the position of an Assistant Professor at Colorado State
University in the Department of Atmospheric Science. In June 1976, he was promoted to the
position of Associate Professor. He was given tenure in July 1980, and promoted to Professor in
June, 1981. In 1986 Dr. Cotton received the Engineering Dean's Council award for excellence in
atmospheric research. In 1991 Dr. Cotton received the College of Engineering Abell Faculty
Research Graduate Program support Award. In 1993 he received the CSU Research
Foundation Researcher of the Year Award. He also served on the National Research Council
Panel which prepared the report Rethinking the Ozone Program in Urban and Regional Air
Pollution. In 1999 Dr. Cotton was the recipient of the Penn State University College of Earth and
Mineral Sciences Charles L. Hosler Alurrmi Scholar Award. In 2003 Dr. Cotton received the
Colorado State University Jack Cermak Distinguished Advisor Award. Dr. Cotton served as
an editor for the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences from 1993-1995, and served as a co-chief
editor from 1996-2000. He is currently working on cloud and mesoscale modeling and
observation.

Dr. Cotton is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the Cooperative Institute for
Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University. He is a member of: Kappa Phi
Kappa (Education), Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics), Chi Epsilon Pi (Meteorology) and Sigma Xi
(Research).

He has published over 154 papers in peer-reviewed journals, eight chapters in books, authored
one book, and co-authored two books. He has supervised 36 Ph D. and 36 M.S. students.

SELECTED PUBLICA nONS - WILLIAM R. COTTON

Cotton, W.R., and R.A. Pielke, 1995: Human Impacts on Weather and Climate. Cambridge
Univ. Press, 288 pp.

Cotton, W.R., 1998: Weather Modification by Cloud Seeding--A Status Report. In
Anthropogenic Climate Change, H. von Storch, E. Raschke, and G. Floser, Ed., Proceedings of
The First GKSS School on Environmental Research, Lauenburg, Germany, 20-27 April, 1997,
Springer-Verlag, 145-166.

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