Annual Awards

annual awards

Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal versity of California, Los Angeles, Calif., "for his formu- T he Society's highest honor, the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Re- lation of physically realistic methods to incorporate search Medal, which comprises a gold medal and certifi- convective clouds and boundary layer processes into cate, is presented 011 the basis of outstanding contribu- large-scale prediction models of the atmosphere, and for tions to man's understanding of the structure or be- his contributions in numerical methods of weather pre- havior of the atmosphere. The 1977 Rossby Medal wras diction." awarded to Dr. Akio Arakawa, Professor of Atmospheric Born in Fukui, Japan, Dr. Arakawa attended Tokyo Dynamics, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Uni- University, which granted him the B.S. in Physics in 1950 and the D.S. in Meteorology in 1961. During that time he was also employed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). After receiving his doctorate, he accepted a position with the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was employed as an Assistant Research Mete- orologist from 1961 to 1963. Pie then returned to the JMA from 1963 to 1965, before accepting an appoint- ment as Assistant Professor at UCLA in 1965. He was subsequently appointed Associate Professor in 1967 and Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics in 1969. A member of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Dr. Arakawa received that society's annual award in 1963. A Fellow of the AMS, Dr. Arakawa was a joint recipient of the Society's Meisinger Award in 1967 for his efforts to numerically model the dynamic behavior of the atmosphere by directly utilizing the primitive equations of Akio Arakawa, Werner A. Bauin, and Richard J. Reed. motion.

Second Half Century Award on Effects of Air Pollution on the Dynamics of the At- The recipient of the Society's second highest honor, the mosphere; the International Union of Geodesy and Second Half Century Award, is Dr. Syukuro Manabe, Geophysics, Commission of Dynamic Meteorology; the Research Meteorologist, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics U.S. Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton, N.J., "for his outstanding Program (GARP); the National Academy of Sciences, contribution to the understanding of the influence of U.S. GARP Committee, Panel on Climatic Variation; radiative processes on the climate through numerical and the AMS Committee on Radiation Energy. A Fel- simulation of the dynamics and physics of the atmosphere." A graduate of Tokyo University, Dr. Manabe received the B.S. in 1953, the M.S. in 1955, and the D.S. in 1958. He has been employed by the Geophysical Fluid Dy- namics Laboratory (GFDL) since receiving the doctorate and made the transition with the laboratory from Washington, D.C., to Princeton in 1968. An active par- ticipant in several scientific societies, Dr. Manabe is a member of the World Meteorological Organization's Commission on Atmospheric Sciences, Working Group

1 Announced at the Awards Luncheon of the AMS 57th Annual Meeting held at the Tucson Marriott Hotel in Tuc- son, Ariz., 19 January 1977. The awards were presented by Werner A. Baum, President of the AMS, Richard J. Reed, Chairman of the Awards Committee, and Richard E. Orville, Chairman of the Education and Manpower Commission. (Photos by Henry Lansford, NCAR.) Syukuro Manabe, Werner A. Baum, and Richard J. Reed.

412 Vol. 58., No. 5, May 1977 Bulletin American Meteorological Society 413 low of the AMS and the American Geophysical Union, Laboratories Distinguished Authorship Award, 1974; the he is also a member of the Japan Meteorological So- NOAA Scientific Research and Achievement Award, ciety, from which he received the Fujiwara Award in 1976; and the AMS Meisinger Award presented in 1967. 1966, and the Royal Meteorological Society. Among his In addition to his duties at GFDL, Dr. Manabe is a other awards and honors have been the Department of Visiting Lecturer with the rank of Professor at the De- Commerce Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, partment of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, awarded in 1970; the NOAA Environmental Research Princeton University.

Charles Franklin Brooks Award The 1977 Charles Franklin Brooks Award for Outstand- ing Services to the Society was presented to Eugene Bollay, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Santa Bar- bara, Calif., "for his remarkable leadership in Society affairs as Councilor, Commissioner, and President; and for his exemplary efforts as a champion of the Society's efforts on behalf of private meteorology in the industrial sector" Mr. Bollay earned the B.S. from Northwestern Uni- versity in 1935 and the M.S. from the California Insti- tute of Technology in 1936. His early career work in- cluded service with the U.S. Weather Bureau (now Na- tional Weather Service), two years conducting a weather forecasting program for the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, and a three year term as Chief Scientist Eugene Bollay, Werner A. Baum, and Richard J. Reed. for the Office of Naval Research in the 11th Naval Dis- trict, Pasadena, Calif. In 1950 Mr. Bollay formed, and NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories and became the first president of, North American Weather NOAA's participation in weather modification research Consultants. In 1959 he became director of research for by universities and other government agencies. He is meteorological instrumentation at Borg-Warner. The currently serving as a consultant to the WMO. A Fellow division was renamed, E. Bollay Associates, Inc., in 1962 and Past President of the AMS, Mr. Bollay received the when Mr. Bollay purchased it from the parent company. Society's Applied Meteorology Award in 1966. In 1970 Five years later when the firm merged with EG8cG, Mr. he received an Air Weather Service Special Award. Mr. Bollay was named director of meteorological sciences at Bollay is also a Fellow of the American Geophysical EG&G. From 1971 until 1976, Mr. Bollay was Program Union and the American Association for the Advance- Director for Weather Modification for NOAA and di- ment of Science and is a member of the American So- rected all weather modification research efforts within ciety of Civil Engineers.

Cleveland Abbe Award done doctoral work on the water vapor in the strato- The 1977 recipient of the Cleveland Abbe Award for sphere and the nature of the tropopause. From 1950 to Distinguished Service to Atmospheric Sciences by an In- 1953 he was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and a Senior Scholar of the 1851 Exhibition. In 1953 he dividual is Dr. Richard M. Goody, Mallinckrodt Professor was appointed a Reader in Meteorology at Imperial of Planetary Physics, Center for Earth and Planetary College at which time he was also a member of the Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., "for his Council of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMS). In valuable contributions to the studies of atmospheric 1958 Dr. Goody assumed Directorship of the Blue Hill radiation and planetary atmospheres and for his leader- Observatory, which at that time was administered by ship and service in advancing the atmospheric sciences Harvard University. Concurrently, he taught in Har- as a whole, especially in relationship to space and plane- vard's Division of Engineering and Applied Physics as tary sciences and to polar meteorologyThe award will the Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor. When Harvard be presented at a later date. withdrew from management of the observatory in 1969, Born in Hertfordshire, England, Dr. Goody's B.S. and Dr. Goody was designated Director of the newly created Ph.D. were both granted from Cambridge University, Center for Earth and Planetary Physics. He has been England. After service in the Royal Air Force during active in the affairs of the National Science Foundation, World War II, he was granted a Ph.D. in 1949 having NASA, and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS); in