He is a recent recipient of the Presidential Medal of Science and is one of my mentors. I have been reading the autobiography of Dr. ^ "Focus on Faculty: Marshall Shepherd".^ "Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2021 | National Center for Science Education".American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science from AAAS". ^ a b c "Rob Kitchin, Marshall Shepherd to Receive AAG Media Achievement Award".^ "President Bush Names 20 Promising, Young Scientists and Engineers to Receive Awards".In 2021, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 2020 he was awarded the AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science. In 2019, Shepherd won the American Geophysical Union's Climate Communication Prize. In 2014, he received a Media Achievement Award from the Association of American Geographers. In 2004, Shepherd received a NASA Presidential Early Career Award. He also appeared on Face the Nation in 2014. Shepherd has appeared on the Today Show and Larry King Live, and, since July 2014, has hosted "Weather Geeks", a talk show airing on the Weather Channel. He has also spoken out about the United States federal government shutdown of 2013, and has argued that it significantly delayed research into the use of global climate models in the United States, and that it also prevented members of the National Weather Service (NWS) from attending the National Weather Association (NWA)'s annual conference. Shepherd has written that African Americans may be more vulnerable to the effects of global warming, such as heat-related deaths. Shepherd is a contributor to both Forbes and Weather Underground. In recognition of his work in climate science and global climate awareness, he was the 2014 recipient of the Captain Planet award by Ted Turner's Captain Planet Foundation. He served on the NOAA Science Advisory Board. He then joined the University of Georgia's department of geography in 2006. Shepherd initially worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) as a research meteorologist for twelve years. He became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Iota Delta chapter at Florida State in 1988. (in 1999) degrees in physical meteorology from Florida State University (FSU), and was the first African-American person to receive a Ph.D. He received his bachelor's (in 1991), master's (in 1993), and Ph.D. He had planned to do a science project about bees, but decided to do it about the weather instead after he discovered he was allergic to bees. Shepherd grew up in Canton, Georgia, where he first became interested in meteorology in the sixth grade. James Marshall Shepherd is an American meteorologist, professor at the University of Georgia's Department of Geography, director of the university's atmospheric sciences program, and 2013 president of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
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