UW Atmospheric and Climate Sciences professor Qiang Fu has been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He is one of fifteen University of Washington faculty members announced as new members Aug. 1, along with 36 scientists and educators from across the state. Selection recognizes the new members’ “outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement, and their willingness to work on behalf of the academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.”

Fu was selected by virtue of his previous election to the National Academy of Sciences “for contributions to research and expertise in atmospheric radiation and cloud processes, remote sensing, cloud/aerosol/radiation/climate interactions, stratospheric circulation and stratosphere-troposphere exchanges and coupling, and climate change.”

Fu holds the Calvin endowed professorship in atmospheric sciences at the UW and uses satellite observations, ground-based instruments, computer models and theory to explore how clouds affect the climate system, and how changes in different layers of the atmosphere are related to climate change.

The new members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences will be formally inducted in September.