The 2024 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Resources, Energy, the Environment, and Social Infrastructure
• Achievement:
  Establishment of a scientific foundation for understanding and predicting extreme weather events
• Lecture：
  Encounters with atmospheric gravity waves and teleconnection patterns

Education

1962	Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Webb Institute of Naval Architecture
1966	Ph.D. in Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professional Experience

1966	Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
1970	Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
1975-2012	Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
1982-1997	Director, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, NOAA-University of Washington
1983-1988	Chair, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
1997-2000	Co-director, Program on the Environment, Univ. of Washington
2003-2006	Director, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, NOAA-University of Washington

Academic Journals

• Mantua, N.J., S.R. Hare, Y. Zhang, J.M. Wallace, and R.C. Francis: A Pacific interdecadal climate oscillation with impacts on salmon production. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 78, 1069–1079, 1997
• Wallace, J.M., and D.S. Gutzler: Teleconnections in the geopotential height field during the Northern Hemisphere winter. Mon. Wea. Rev., 109, 784–812, 1981
• Thompson, D.W.J., and J.M. Wallace: The Arctic Oscillation signature in the wintertime geopotential height and temperature fields. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1297–1300, 1997
• Horel, J.D., and J.M. Wallace: Planetary-scale atmospheric phenomena associated with the Southern Oscillation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 109, 813–829, 1981

Awards

1972	James B. Macelwane Award, American Geophysical Union
1972	Fellow, American Geophysical Union
1975	Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society
1975	Fellow, American Meteorological Society
1981	Editor's Award, American Meteorological Society
1987	Creativity Award, National Science Foundation
1989	Haurwitz Memorial Lecture, American Meteorological Society
1993	Carl-Gustav Rossby Research Medal, American Meteorological Society
1997	Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1998	Member, National Academy of Sciences
1999	Symons Memorial Lecture, Royal Meteorological Society
1999	Roger Revelle Medal, American Geophysical Union
1999	Charney Lecture, American Geophysical Union
2000	Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences
2012	Honorary Member, American Meteorological Society