new officers and councilors

The incoming president of the American Meteorological Society for 1988 is Roscoe R. Braham, Jr., professor of at the . He succeeds Albert J. Kaehn, retired brigadier general of the U.S. Air Force and current director President of Eastern Region II of the Harris Corporation in Washington, D.C. The results of the 1988 election for the president-elect and councilors were announced on 31 January 1988 at the 68th Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Cal- ifornia. The president-elect, who will assume office as president in January 1989, is Joanne Simpson, head of the Severe Storms Branch of the Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres in Greenbelt, Maryland. Each year, four councilors are elected to three-year terms of office by the Society's membership, and one councilor is appointed by the Council. This year, the Council appointed Robert A. Duce, dean of the Graduate School of Ocean- ography and vice provost for Marine Programs at the University of Rhode Island. Elected to the Council by the Society's membership are: Russel L. Elsberry, Naval Post-graduate School professor, Monterey, California; Thomas B. McKee, profes- sor and head of the atmospheric sciences department at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado; Pamela L. Stephens, program director at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.; and Paul D. Try, U.S. Air Force colonel and chief of staff at the Air Weather Service headquarters at Scott Air Force Base Roscoe R. Braham, Jr. in Illinois.

President-Elect Councilors

Joanne Simpson Robert A. Duce Russel L. Elsberry

Thomas B. McKee Pamela L. Stephens Paul D. Try

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Officers

President Roscoe R. Braham, Jr., is a professor of meteorology at Achievement Award (1975); the Weather Modification Association's the University of Chicago. He graduated from Ohio University in 1942 Vincent J. Schaefer Award (1979); and the NASA Exceptional with a B.S. in geology. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps Achievement Medal (1982). and was sent to the University of Chicago for meteorology training, Simpson has been a member of numerous committees and advisory and then to California for pilot training. Professor Braham served as panels, and has done much consulting. She has been an associate pilot-weather and command weather officer (Air Force West Coast editor of Monthly Weather Review (1983-1986) and has co-authored Training Command) until he was discharged in November 1946. He three books. She has published many articles on tropical meteorology, received the M.S. (1948) and Ph.D. (1951) in meteorology from the cumulus convection, sea-air interaction, hurricanes, and severe local University of Chicago. storms in AMS and other journals. He was employed by the U.S. Weather Bureau from December 1946 to May 1949 as the senior analyst, and later as acting official- in-charge, for the Thunderstorm Project, with operations in Florida and Ohio. In 1950-1951, he joined two professors at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology for a study of thunderstorm charge generation. Since receiving his Ph.D., he has served the University of Chicago as a research meteorologist (1952-1954), associate pro- fessor (1954-1965), and professor of meteorology (1965-present). From 1954 through 1956, Professor Braham also served as the first director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Councilors Arizona, under a joint appointment between the two universities. Throughout this period the modus operandi of Professor Braham's graduate-level teaching and research has been to use instrumented airplanes for making scientific measurements in various weather phe- Councilor Robert A. Duce received the B.A. in chemistry from nomena, including thunderstorms, hurricanes, snowstorms, and clouds Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in 1957. He spent the next several of various types. Many of today's leaders in physical meteorology and years furthering his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- cloud physics took their graduate training under Professor Braham at nology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Between 1957 and 1958 Chicago. he was a special graduate student in the department of meteorology. For his work on the Thunderstorm Project, Professor Braham re- From 1961 to 1964 he was a regular graduate student in MIT's ceived the Losey Award of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences and department of chemistry. During this time he served as both teaching the U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal. He has been active assistant (1961-1962) and research assistant (1962-1963). In in the affairs of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 1963-1964 he was a PHS predoctoral fellow in air pollution. He (UCAR) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) received the Ph.D. in inorganic and nuclear chemistry from MIT in since their founding days. During the summer and fall of 1958, he 1964. He served as a post-doctoral fellow in the department of geology served in formulating the preliminary plans for NCAR. He served on and geophysics from 1964-1965. the UCAR Board of Trustees, 1965-1967, 1973-1977, 1980-1986; Duce was a meteorologist and aerial weather reconnaissance of- Executive Committee, 1973-1977, 1980-1986; and Institutional Rep- ficer in the United States Air Force from 1957 to 1961. He served in resentative, 1967-1986. several positions at MIT, including teaching assistant in the chemis- try department (1961-1962), research assistant in geochemistry (1962-1963), and research associate in the department of geology and geophysics (1964-1965). He spent the next three years at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu as an associate professor of chemistry. From 1970 to 1973 he was associate professor of oceanography at the Uni- President-Elect Joanne Simpson, is head of the Severe Storms versity of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island. In the summer of Branch of the Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres at NASA's God- 1975 he was a visiting professor at the Institute of Marine Sciences of dard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. She will become the University of Texas at Port Arkansas, Texas. He has spent some President in 1989 succeeding President Roscoe R. Braham, Jr. Simp- time on sabbatical at several institutions, including the University of son received the B.S. (1943), the M.S. (1945), and the Ph.D. (1949) Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand (1983); CFR/CNRS, Gif-sur Yvette, from the University of Chicago. She served as an assistant professor France (1976-1977); and the Aeronomy Laboratory of NOAA in Boul- of physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1950. der, Colorado (1977). He has also served as visiting professor of applied From 1950 to 1960 she was a marine meteorologist at Woods Hole chemistry at Keio University in Yokohama, Japan. At present Duce is Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She spent dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography and vice provost for the next five years as professor of meteorology at the University of Marine Programs at the University of Rhode Island (URI). He is also California at Los Angeles, after which she became the director of the director of URI's Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies and pro- Experimental Meteorology Laboratory at NOAA's Environmental Re- fessor of oceanography at URI. search Laboratories (1965-1974). Simpson's next position was chief Duce has been the recipient of many academic honors. These in- scientist at Simpson Weather Associates, while serving as Corcoran clude: Visiting Lecture Series, National Bureau of Oceanography and Professor of Environmental Sciences at the Institute of Environmental Chemistry of the People's Republic of China (1974-1979). She has held her present position since 1979. (1984); senior visiting fellow, National Environmental Research Coun- Simpson was elected AMS Fellow in 1968 and has received the cil of Great Britain (1984); Fellow of the American Meteorological Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal (1983) and the Meisinger Award Society (1983); participant in Distinguished Lecture Series in the (1962) from the AMS. She has been the recipient of the Guggenheim USSR, US-USSR Joint Working Group on the Effects of Marine Pol- Fellowship (1954); the Department of Commerce Silver Medal (1967) lution (1974); Visiting Scholar Program, Trinity University, San An- and Gold Medal (1972); the ESSA Distinguished Authorship Award tonio, Texas (1972); Sigma Xi, MIT (1964); and several academic (1969); the University of Chicago Alumni Association's Professional honors at Baylor University.