S. McKenzie Skiles portrait
  • Associate Professor, Sch Of Environ,Society&Sustain
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Professional Service

  • Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH). Council Of Fellow. 03/01/2023 - present
  • NASA Snow International Working Group (SINTER) . Role: President. Executive Committee. 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
  • Remote Sensing of Environment. Associate Editor. 05/01/2020 - present
  • Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (DOE SAIL) . Role: Aerosol Team. Team Member. 03/15/2020 - present
  • International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology . Role: Vice President. Elected Leadership. 07/2019 - present
  • NASA/CUAHSI . Role: Lead Instructor. Annual Snow School Planning and Instruction. 01/2019 - present
  • Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI). University Representative. 10/2018 - present
  • NASA Snow International Working Group (SINTER). Role: Elected Leadership. President. 08/2018 - present
  • Western Snow Conference. Role: Chair. South Continental Committee. 04/2018 - present
  • American Geophysical Union. Role: Cryosphere Focus Group Representative. Fall Meeting Program Committee. 12/18/2017 - present
  • International Network for Alpine Research and Catchment Hydrology (INARCH). Scientific Steering Committee. 12/01/2017 - present
  • Western Snow Conference. Role: Secretary. South Continental Area Committee. 08/15/2017 - 04/2018
  • American Geophysical Union. Sharing Science Champion. 01/15/2016 - 01/15/2018
  • American Geophysical Union. Role: Early Career Representative. Cryosphere Focus Group Executive Committee. 03/01/2015 - 12/2017

Internal Service

  • College Council. Department Representative, 08/2019 - present. College service.
  • Undergraduate Committee. 08/2019 - 05/2020. Department service.
  • GIS Committee. 08/2019 - 05/2020. Department service.
  • Remote Sensing curriculum planning. 07/01/2017 - 07/2018. Department service.

Community Partnership

  • Protect Our Winters (Climate Advocacy) Role: Science Alliance, guest speaker, panelist. 05/2019 - present

Outreach

  • Ambassador, Community Snow Observations. 02/01/2019 - present

Honors & Awards

  • Cryosphere Section Early Career Award. American Geophysical Union, 12/12/2023
  • Kavli Fellow. National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science, 10/19/2022
  • Superior Research Award (Tenure Line Junior Category). College of Social and Behavioral Science, 03/21/2022
  • Superior Research Award Finalist (Tenure Line Junior Category). College of Social and Behavioral Science, 03/29/2021
  • Junior Faculty Research Leave Award (Spring 2021). College of Social and Behavioral Science, 01/08/2020

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