Curriculum Vitae of Professor K. N. Liou

APPOINTMENTS

• Director, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, 2006-, UCLA
• Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, 2004-, UCLA
• Chair, 2000-2004, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA
• Director, 1997-, Institute of Radiation and Remote Sensing (IRRS), UCLA
• Professor, 1997-, Atmospheric Sciences, 2003-, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA
• Chairman, 1996-1997, Department of Meteorology, U. of Utah
• Visiting Professor/Scientist, Caltech/JPL (2004), U. of Arizona (1995), Taiwan U. (1995), Peking U. (1991),
  Harvard U. (1985), UCLA (1981), NASA/AMES (1980/81), NCAR (1975/76)
• Adjunct Professor, 1992-1997, Department of Geology and Geophysics, U. of Utah
• Adjunct Professor, 1992-2006, Department of Physics, U. of Utah
• Director, 1987-1997, Center for Atmospheric and Remote Sounding Studies (CARSS), U. of Utah
• Professor, 1980-1997; Adjunct Professor, 1997-, Department of Meteorology, U. of Utah
• Associate Professor, 1975-80, Department of Meteorology, U. of Utah
• Assistant Professor (Res.), 1972-74, U. of Washington

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
       Undergraduate Institution: Taiwan University, B.S., with honors, 1965
       Graduate Institution: New York University, M.S., 1968; Ph.D., 1970
       Postdoctoral Institution: Goddard Institute for Space Studies/Columbia University, 1970-1972

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
   Member: American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, Optical Society of America,
                      American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Engineering,
                      Academia Sinica

  Recognitions
• Elected an Honorary Member of the Meteorological Society of the Republic of China in Taiwan, 2006
• Elected a member of the Academia Sinica (Chinese Academy of Sciences, ROC), 2004
• Received a Distinguished Achievement Award, Chinese Engineers and Scientists Society of S. California, 2004
• Received a Distinguished Visiting Scientist appointment from JPL/Caltech, 2003-
• Received an Honorary Professorship, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2002
• Elected a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, 2000
• Elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1999
• Received the Jule G. Charney Award, American Meteorological Society, 1998
• Elected an Honorary Member, Chinese American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, 1998
• Received a Creativity Award, Atmospheric Sciences Division, National Science Foundation, 1996
• Elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1996
• Elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, 1987
• Elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 1983
• Received David P. Gardner Fellow Award from the University of Utah, 1978
• Received Founder's Day Award from New York University, 1971

 Committee and Conference Affiliations:
• Vice Chair, Section 12, National Academy of Engineering, 2006-2008 (Chair, 2008)
• Chair, Advisory Committee, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2004-
• Chair, Visiting Review Committee, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, 3/2004 and 3/1999
• Chair, Visiting Review Committee, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institude of Technology, 10/2003
• Member, Advisory Panel, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, 2005-
• External Reviewer, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2004
• Member, Atmospheric Sciences Program Recogfiguration Panel, Department of Energy, 11/2003
• Member, Peer Committee, Section 12, National Academy of Enginneering, 2003-2006
• Member, Union Fellows Committee, American Geophygical Union, 2002-2006
• Report Review Monitor and Coordinator, Divison of Earth and Life Studies, NRC/NAS,2002-2006
• Member, Scientific Committee, Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Absorption of Solar Radiation, AGU, 1-8/2001.
• Chair, Advisory Panel, Environmental Change Research, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2000-2004
• Convener, Section for Radiative Transfer Theory, International Radiation Symposium, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 7/2000
• Member, Review Committee, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, 10/1999
• Chair, First International Asia-Pacific Symposium on Remote Sensing: Atmosphere, Environment, and Space, Beijing, China, 9/1998
• Member, Atmospheric Sciences Section Executive Committee, American Geophysical Union, 1996-2005
• Convener, Radiative Properties of Clouds, International Radiation Symposium, Fairbanks, Alaska, 8/1996
• Member, International Radiation Commission/IAMAS, 1992-2000
• Chair, Scientific Committee, the Inner Mongolia Grassland Surface-Atmosphere Experiment (IMGRASS), 1992-1997
• Chair, U.S. Steering Committee, the Heihe Basin Field Experiment (HEIFE) in western China, 1986-1989
• Chair, Beijing International Radiation Symposium, Beijing, China, 8/1986
• Member, Panel for International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program, Climate Research Committee, NRC/NAS, 1984-1987
• Member, Committee on Clouds and Radiation, IAMAP/IAPSO Joint Assembly, 1985
• Chair, AMS Fifth Conf. on Atmospheric Radiation, Baltimore, directed a special Symp. on Cluods, Radiation and Climate, 11/1983
• Chair, Committee on Atmospheric Radiation, American Meteorological Society, 1982-1984; Member, 1977-1984; 1992-1995

 Editorial Affiliations:
• Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, American Meteorological Society, 1999-2005
• Review Editor, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, 1998-1999
• Advisory Editors, Journal of Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 1998-
• Associate Editor, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 1997-2008
• Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, 1997-2001
• One of the Editors, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, and Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 1985-
• Member, Editorial Board, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (China), Acta Meteorological Sinica, 2004-
• Guest Editor, special volume on Clouds and Radiation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1987
• Editor, Atmospheric Radiation Progress and Prospects, Science Press, Beijing and American Meteorological Soceity, 1987

  Graduate Students Supervised:         
       24 Ph.D.s in atmospheric sciences and meteorology pdf

  Authorial Activities:
• Authored and co-authored more than 180 scientific papers in various refereed journals.
• Author of a text and reference book entitled, An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation, Academic Press, New York, (International Geophysics Series 26), 1980 (293 pp); translated into Russian, Chinese, and Arabic. second edition, 2002 (583 pp), translated into Chinese, 2005 (614 pp); second printing 2006.
• Author of a monograph entitled, Radiation and Cloud Processes in the Atmosphere: Theory, Observation, and Modeling, Oxford University Press., New York, 1992 (487pp).
• Presented more than 160 invited and contributed papers at national and international conferences and symposiums and various academic and research institutions.