*1991-1994 - NASA Graduate Student Fellowship in Global Change Research
*1993 - American Geophysical Union Atmospheric Sciences Section Outstanding Student Paper Award
*1994-1996 - National Research Council Research Associateship
*1999 - NASA New Investigator Award
*1999 - NASA Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres Best Senior Author Publication Award
*2006 - Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Fellowship, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
*2011 - Google Science Communication Fellow
*2011 - Texas A&M University Sigma Xi Outstanding Science Communicator Award
*2012 - Atmospheric Sciences Section Ascent Award, American Geophysical Union
*2012 - H. Burr Steinbach Visiting Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
*2012 - Thompson Lecturer, National Center for Atmospheric Research
*2013 - Visiting Fellow Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
*2014 - Louis J. Battan Author's Award, American Meteorological Society
*2019 - Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
*2022 - "Friend of the Planet" award from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE)