annual awards'

The Carl-Gustaf Rossby Reserch Medal The highest honor of the Society, the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, was conferred this year on Joseph Smagorinsky, director of the Geophysical Fluid Dy- namics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "for his creative leadership in numerical modeling of the general circulation of the atmosphere." Dr. Smagorinsky received his early meteorological training at and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while serving in the U.S. Air Force (1943-46). After leaving military service he be- came a research and teaching assistant at , where he received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in . In 1948 he joined the U.S. Weather Bureau, and in 1950-53 he was an active mem- President Alfred K. Blackadar, Dr. George S. Benton, Chair- ber of the group then working at Princeton, in the man of the Awards Committee, and Dr. Joseph Smagorinsky Institute for Advanced Study, on development of the first successful numerical weather prediction model. Dr. served on numerous national and international com- Smagorinsky returned to Washington in 1953 to head mittees, among them the Committee on Atmospheric the Weather Bureau's Numerical Weather Prediction Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences and the Unit. When the Joint Air Force-Navy-Weather Bureau Commission on Aerology of the World Meteorological Numerical Weather Prediction Unit was established in Organization. He delivered the 1963 Symons Memorial 1954 to put numerical forecasting on an operational Lecture to the Royal Meteorological Society and the footing, he became chief of that group's Computation Wexler Memorial Lecture to the American Meteoro- Section. In 1956 he was selected to head the Weather logical Society in 1969. He was a co-recipient of the Bureau's new General Circulation Research Laboratory, Meisinger Award of the AMS in 1967. He is a Fellow precursor of the present Geophysical Fluid Dynamics of the Society, and has served since 1965 as an Asso- Laboratory at Princeton. ciate Editor of the JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC In addition to publishing widely, Dr. Smagorinsky has SCIENCES.

The Second Half Century Award Richard J. Reed, "under whose leadership significant advances have been made in the understanding of the circulation and structure of mid-latitude and tropical atmospheres," received the Second Half Century Award, given to members of the Society for the excellence of their contributions to the geofluid sciences. Dr. Reed, who is Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, and Presi- i Presented at the Honors Banquet of the AMS 52nd An- nual Meeting, held at the Fairmont Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, La., 12 January 1972. (The Award for Applied Meteorology to Mr. Howard B. Raster will be presented at the AMS 4th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecast- ing in Portland, Oreg., May 2-4, 1972.) President Blackadar, Dr. Benton, and Prof. Richard J. Reed

Bulletin American Meteorological Society 441 Vol. 53, No. 5, May 1972 dent of the AMS, was cited also "for his contributions to National Meteorological Center in 1961-62, Dr. Reed dynamical and synoptic meteorology and for his research helped develop techniques for the numerical prediction on global dynamics." of surface weather maps. In 1964 he received the AMS Professor Reed received a B.S. degree in meteorology Meisinger Award, and in 1968-69 he was Executive Scien- from the California Institute of Technology in 1945 tist, U.S. Committee for the Global Atmospheric Re- while serving as a forecaster in the U.S. Navy. In 1949 search Program, National Academy of Sciences. In addi- he was awarded the Sc.D. degree in meteorology by the tion to publishing widely on atmospheric oscillations Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1950 to and other topics, Dr. Reed has been active in the AMS, 1954 he was Staff Member, Meteorological Research, at and has served as Editor of the JOURNAL OF APPLIED MIT. He joined the Department of Meteorology at the METEOROLOGY (1966-68). Councilor, Chairman of the University of Washington as Assistant Professor in 1954. Publications Commission, and in 1971 President-Elect of On the Development Board of the Weather Bureau's the Society. He was elected Fellow of the AMS in 1967.

The Charles Franklin Brooks Award Helmut E. Landsberg, Research Professor at the Insti- tute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland, was presented the Charles Frank- lin Brooks Award "for his many contributions as Councilor, Fellow, and Vice-President of the American Meteorological Society and for his zeal and dedication in fostering cooperation between the Society and the national scientific community." Professor Landsberg received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, in 1930. After serving as Supervisor of the Taunus Observatory, at Oberreifenberg, from 1931 to 1934, he came to the United States and joined the faculty of Pennsylvania State University. He was Associate Professor of Meteorol- ogy at the from 1941 to 1945. President Blackadar, Dr. Benton, and Dr. Helmut H. Landsberg After six years with the Joint Research and Develop- ment Board, in 1951 he was appointed Director of the the Department of Commerce; in 1964 he was presented Geophysics Research Directorate, Air Force Cambridge the AMS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Bio- Research Laboratories. In 1954 he became Director of climatology; and in 1966 he was elected to the National the Weather Bureau's Office of Climatology (later the Academy of Engineering. He is the Editor of the series Environmental Data Service, NOAA), and in 1967 re- on Advances in Geophysics, and has authored several turned to academic life at the University of Maryland. books ranging from texts to popular monographs. Dr. Dr. Landsberg has been widely recognized for his stim- Landsberg has served in numerous capacities in the ulation of research, and for his leadership in meteorology, AMS since 1944. He is a Fellow of the Society, and in climatology, and other areas of the geophysical sciences. 1968-69 served as President of the American Geophysical In 1960 he received the Exceptional Service Award of Union.

The Cleveland Abbe Award for Distinguished Service to Atmospheric Sciences by an Individual The Cleveland Abbe Award for Distinguished Service to Atmospheric Sciences by an Individual was presented to Homer E. Newell, Associate Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "for his many services to meteorology exemplified by his perception of problems and promising solutions in making key de- cisions regarding the meteorological satellite program, and by his skillful application of the review process dur- ing the formulation of national plans for weather modification research and the Global Atmospheric Re- search Program." President Blackadar, Dr. Benton, and Dr. Homer B. Newell

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