about our members

John J. Cahir, associate He served as a council member of the AMS from dean for resident instruction 1987 to 1989 and chaired the Ad Hoc Committee on in the College of and the Use of Investment Income/Scholarships. He is a Mineral Sciences and pro- member of the World Meteorological Organization's fessor of at The Commission for Atmospheric Sciences and the Uni- Pennsylvania State Univer- versities Space Research Association's Earth Advi- sity (Penn State), University sory Council. Park, Pennsylvania, has ac- Cahir, an advocate of increasing the participation of cepted the position of vice underrepresented groups in the atmospheric and earth- provost and dean for under- related sciences, serves as an executive board mem- graduate education. As vice ber of the Science Institute of the Pittsburgh Public provost, Cahir will be respon- Schools, which prepares students in high schools with sible for the quality and effectiveness of undergradu- a high population of minority students for college ate academic programs and teaching and advising all science and engineering programs. Penn State campuses. Cahir received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in me- WSI Corporation, Billerica, Massachusetts, has teorology from Penn State. He joined the Penn State announced that it will expand the capacity of its current meteorology staff as an instructor in 1965 and was network from 56 000 bits of data per second named associate dean responsible for the College of to 1 000 000 bits per second (one megabit) this fall. Earth and Mineral Science's programs at the Com- WSI expanded its satellite network to effectively monwealth Campuses in 1980. provide its customers with the latest weather data Cahir has served as an elected faculty senator, available from the National Weather Service. Data will senate councilor, elected advisor to the president, be available from 137 next generation weather radar budget committee member, and chair of many diverse sites (NEXRAD), a nationwide network of Automated committees and commissions throughout his career Surface Observing Systems (ASOS), a new genera- at Penn State. tion of Geostationary Operational Environmental Sat-

NASA's 10th Anniversary The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on 1 October marked the tenth anniversary since it first came alive with a nucleus of personnel from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, its facilities, and personnel and space projects inherited from the Army and Navy. Among the continuing goals established for NASA by the Space Act of 1958 were "development and application of communications and weather " and "international cooperation in space research." The first meteorological satellite, TIROS I, launched on 1 April 1960, led off a series of 10 consecutive successful R&D missions and provided a total of 22,952 cloud cover photographs. This series and the Nimbus I meteorological satellite, launched on 28 August 1964, paved the way for the Weather Bureau's operational system, which was inaugurated by the 305-lb ESSA 1 on 3 February 1966. NASA's Nimbus 2, theEarth-oriented weather satellite orbited on 15 May 1966 with three AVCS cameras, an APT 25 years ago camera, and radiometers, continues to return cloud cover pictures. In addition to the strictly weather satellites, many of NASA's other space craft such as the Explorer satellites, the Orbiting Geophysical Observatories, and even the manned space vehicles have carried meteorological research experiments. The major portion of the international cooperation in space has been forthe purpose of atmospheric research carried out by means of both sounding rockets and satellites.

Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 49, 1045.

1944 Vol. 74, No. 10, October 1993

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