Boulder, Colorado - August 11-12, 2005

John J. Bates
John Bates is Supervisory Meteorologist and Chief of the Remote Sensing Applications Division of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NOAA/NESDIS) National Climatic Data Center. Dr. Bates research interests are in the areas of using operational and research satellite data to study the global water cycle and studying interactions of the ocean and atmosphere. Dr. Bates received a M.S. (1982) and Ph. D. (1986) in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. in Meteorology from Florida State University in 1976. Dr. Bates received a post-doctoral fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA (1986-1988) and then worked at the NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories in Boulder, CO (1988-2002). He is a member of the American Meteorological Society and American Geophysical Union. He is an author/coauthor of 32 refereed publications. He earned the NOAA Administrator’s award 2004 for outstanding administration and leadership in developing a new division to meet the challenges to NOAA in the area of climate applications related to remotely sensed data and, in 1998, an Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Geophysical Research Letters.