1. Eugenia Enriqueta Kalnay was an Argentine meteorologist and a Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States.
In 1996, Kalnay was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for advances in understanding atmospheric dynamics, numerical modeling, atmospheric predictability, and the quality of US operational weather forecasts.
Eugenia Kalnay was the recipient of the 54th International Meteorological Organization Prize in 2009 from the World Meteorological Organization for her work on numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and ensemble forecasting.
Eugenia Kalnay is listed as the author or co-author on over 120 scientific papers and wrote the book Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003.
Eugenia Kalnay was born in Argentina and received her undergraduate degree in meteorology from the University of Buenos Aires in 1965.
In 1971, Eugenia Kalnay became the first woman to receive a PhD in meteorology from MIT, where she was advised by Jule Charney.
Eugenia Kalnay then became the first female professor in the MIT Department of Meteorology.
In 1999, Eugenia Kalnay joined the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland, College Park and served as department chair.
In 2008, she was selected as the first Eugenia Kalnay Brin Endowed Professorship in Data Assimilation.
Eugenia Kalnay was a co-author on papers introducing the ensemble methods of Lag Averaged Forecasting and Scaled LAF.
In 2017, Eugenia Kalnay was part of an international team of distinguished scientists who published a study on climate change models in the National Science Review journal.
Eugenia Kalnay observed that without including real feedback, predictions for coupled systems could not work, and the model can get away from reality very quickly.
Eugenia Kalnay was a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Eugenia Kalnay was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a foreign member of the Academia Europaea, and a member of the Argentine National Academy of Physical Sciences.