M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1967 AMS' Jule G. Charney Award (January, 1987) AGU's Atmospheric Sciences Section Bjerknes Lecture (1994) 1966-1968 NSF Fellow, University of Wisconsin 1968-1971 Research Meteorologist, NOAA, National Hurricane Research Laboratory 1971-1977 Assistant and associate professor, The Pennsylvania State University 1977-1978 Research Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 1978-1981 Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 1981-1986 Director, Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 1986-1988 Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado Richard A. Anthes (born March 9, 1944) was a long time president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (from 1988 to 2012).
The Anthes Building in Boulder, Colorado, is the first UCAR-owned building to be named for an eminent scientist – and a living one at that.”[2] His area of study at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, focused on hurricanes and tropical cyclones.
Dr. Anthes taught as a professor for ten years at Pennsylvania State University before accepting a position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research as director of the Atmospheric and Prediction Division in 1981, a position he kept until 1986 when he became director of NCAR.
[3] During his presidency at UCAR, he participated or chaired over forty different national committees for agencies such as NASA, NSF, and NOAA.
Anthes, R. A., 1981: Current Mesoscale Meteorological Research in the United States.
Anthes, R. A., 2007: Earth Science and Applications From Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond.