D. Molenar and M. DeMaria participated in the annual reviews of the CIRA RAMM Team Staff. As usual, CIRA management was impressed with the volume of accomplishments from the group. 

M. DeMaria received the Banner I. Miller Award with John Kaplan of the Hurricane Research Division at the AMS 25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. The award was presented for the first ever model-based skillful operational intensity forecasts of tropical cyclones documented in their two papers published during the years 1998-2001.

M. DeMaria was appointed as an Associate Editor for the American Meteorological Society Monthly Weather Review Journal. He will be working with Drs. David Jorgensen and Bill Kuo of NCAR to assist with papers regarding tropical cyclones and tropical meteorology.

M. DeMaria received a certificate of appreciation from Dr. Kristina Katsaros, the director of AOML for continued research interaction with scientists from HRD, and for receiving the AMS Banner Miller Award with John Kaplan from HRD.

The RAMM Team completed its SFA (Survey Feedback Action) meeting, which was facilitated by Gary Magnusson of NOS. Four issues were raised during the three-hour meeting. These issues and proposed actions have been entered into the "action tracker" software. K. Fryer assisted with the logistics of the meeting and took meeting notes.