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ENSCO's Winnie Lambert Receives Woman Engineers Technical Achievement Award

In Florida, the Space Coast Section of the Society of Woman Engineers awarded Winnie Lambert the 2006 Space Coast Section Society of Woman Engineers Technical Achievement Award during a banquet held for the nominees, Feb. 27, 2007, at the Rockledge Country Club.

The competition was extremely strong. Other nominees in this category included nine top engineers and scientists from Boeing, Northrop Grumman, United Space Alliance, NASA, InDyne Inc., and others.

Cited in the presentation were many of Winnie’s technical achievements during her 16 years of experience in the science of meteorology, and more than 12 years of support to NASA and the National Space Program including her strong experience in statistical analysis of large data sets using multiple programming languages supporting projects involving weather forecast improvement. She also works closely with operational meteorologists to ensure the products that she developed met their needs for transitioning into operations. Winnie has demonstrated expertise in analyzing radar and Doppler wind profiler data, in developing and modifying code in support of numerical weather prediction modeling, and in modifying graphical data displays. The algorithms that Winnie developed to check the quality of the 915-MHz profiler data worked so well that she co-authored a peer-reviewed journal article leading to a NASA Space Act Award.

Winnie’s recent accomplishments involve using statistical methods to develop forecast techniques for weather operations. Using launch-critical wind tower data, she created charts of peak wind speeds to help meteorologists determine the probability of meeting or exceeding specific peak winds and conducted a similar analysis of data for space shuttle landings. The tools that she developed for these applications are currently used in space launch and landing operations.

Forecasting the probability of lightning is another area of expertise for Winnie. She created forecast equations that output the probability of lightning for the day at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Her equations outperformed the lightning probability tool used for many years to such a degree that they were transitioned to operations immediately upon delivery.

Membership in the American Meteorological Society and National Weather Association (NWA) also contributed to Winnie’s selection for this award. She holds a position on the Publications Committee of the NWA and was recently nominated for the position of Counselor of the NWA. She has authored or co-authored 24 technical papers for presentations at national meetings of these professional meteorological organizations.