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B. W. Boville, long-time member and Fellow of the American ronmental Studies Board and chairman of the council's review Meteorological Society, is currently chairperson of the De- committee on the quality of the Tennessee Valley Authority's partment of Earth and Atmospheric Science (EATS) at York environmental research. University, Toronto, Canada. He has been a McGill professor, The Desert Research Institute is a division of the University director of the Canadian Climate Centre, and adviser to the of Nevada system involved in research for government and World Meteorological Organization on the World Climate Pro- industrial sponsors in atmospheric physics, weather modifi- gram. cation, air resources, water resources, desert plant physiology and arid lands anthropology.

Lawrence Coy joined the faculty of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Saint Louis University, in January Larry Peabody, forecaster-in-charge at 1987. He intends to continue his research in the area of gravity the National Weather Service Forecast waves in the middle atmosphere. He plans to teach graduate- Office in San Antonio, Texas, has been level courses about the upper atmosphere and satellite me- presented the 1986 National Weather teorology in the next academic year. Association's (NWA's) Award for "An Outstanding Achievement in Opera- tional Performance by an NWA Mem- Meteorologist David Grant has joined ber." WXFL-TV in Tampa, Florida, as weath- Peabody was recognized for his ac- ercaster for the 6:00 P.M. and 11:00 P.M. tions during the record-breaking flash- newscasts. Most recently with KHOU- flood event that occurred in San An- TV in Houston, Texas, Grant has 25 tonio and Bexar County the morning of 4 June 1986. As a result years of experience as a broadcast me- of the timely and strongly worded warnings and statements teorologist. He holds the American Me- issued well in advance of, and during, the life-threatening teorological Society (AMS) Seal of heavy rain and flooding, and because of the coordination be- Approval and is a past chairman of the tween the National Weather Service, city and county officials, AMS Board on Broadcast Meteorology. the various news media, and local businesses, no lives were An Oklahoma native, Grant is a grad- lost in the metropolitan area that contains more than one uate of the University of Oklahoma. He began his broadcast million people. career at KWTV in Oklahoma City. He later served as chief The award was presented at the National Weather Associ- meteorologist at WXIA-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, and KING-TV ation's national convention at Cocoa Beach, Florida, in Oc- in Seattle, Washington. Grant is also a retired U.S. Air Force tober 1986. major, having served as a weather officer.

John T. "Jack" Thorn berry has been elected the 1987 president George M. Hidy, president of the De- of the Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association (CAPCA). sert Research Institute, has been ap- CAPCA is a professional organization of approximately 350 pointed to the Executive Committee of members representing local, state, and national air pollution the U.S. Environmental Protection control agencies, regulated industries, environmental con- Agency's (EPA's) Science Advisory sulting and testing firms, equipment manufacturers, and re- Board (SAB). The board is an advisory lated special-interest groups doing business in North and body on the scientific policy to EPA South Carolina. Thornberry is head of the management section Administrator Lee Thomas. Hidy, an and staff meteorologist for the Bureau of Air Quality Control, internationally recognized environ- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental mental scientist, has served since 1981 Control, where he developed South Carolina's first air-quality on the board's Environmental Engi- implementation plan. Prior to entering the environmental neering Committee and recently chaired a subcommittee to field in 1971, Thornberry was an Air Weather Service mete- review guidelines for risk assessment of municipal-sewage- orologist for 20 years. He holds a B.A. and M.S. from George treatment sludge incinerators. Washington University. Hidy also chairs an SAB committee to review EPA's inte- grated airborne cancer-exposure studies, as well as the SAB committee recommending outstanding achievement awards Bill Winkler, of College Station, Texas, has been elected as to EPA scientists and engineers. the president of the Association of American Weather Ob- In addition to his EPA service, Hidy has participated on the servers (AAWO) for 1987. HaroldF. (Buddy) Potts, Jr., of Gran- National Research Council as a former member of the Envi- ville, Massachusetts, was elected secretary. The following AMS members are on the 1987 AAWO Board of Directors: Steven D. Steinke, of Belvidere, Illinois; Linda Wilson, of Ak- 1 Members are encouraged to submit news items about ron, Ohio; Eleanor Vallier of Rumford, Rhode Island; Bruce themselves or colleagues that will be of interest to fellow F. Watson, of Roseville, Minnesota; Robert Draper, of Allen- members. Copy should be typed double-spaced; photos accom- dale, New Jersey; Grant Goodge, of Asheville, North Carolina; panying news items should be black and white.—News Ed. and Stephen Ambrose, of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Bulletin American Meteorological Society 255

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