Bulletin American Meteorological Society pictures will be required to extract the wealth of data and tracked. The cloud systems comprising the Inter- on cloud developments, movements and dissipation. tropical Convergence Zone can be observed and studied. A preliminary analysis of the cloud observations from Tropical storms such as hurricanes and typhoons can ATS-I indicates that detailed viewing of short-lived be monitored continuously. The rapid changes associated weather systems and phenomena from synchronous alti- with storms and frontal systems can be readily observed tude is feasible. The observation of cloud systems over and assessed. The continuous monitoring of weather the tropical ocean will assist in the study of the heat systems from synchronous satellites will be an important budget of the atmosphere. Mesoscale phenomena such as adjunct to the ESS A and Nimbus satellites for observing thunderstorms, possibly even tornadoes, can be identified and studying the Earth's weather.

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New institute director, University of Miami of Marine Science is planned with several joint appointments, common graduate courses in fluid dynamics, statistics, and Dr. Eric B. Kraus, formerly similar basic subjects, as well as access to research vessels and of Woods Hole Oceano- an instrumented field site for wave and air-sea interaction graphic Institution, has be- studies near Abaco Island in the Bahamas. come director of the Institute of , Uni- versity of Miami. He has also National Academy of Sciences building named been appointed professor of at the Univer- The new building being constructed for the National Acad- sity's Institute of Marine emy of Sciences on property of George Washington University Science. at 2100 Pennsylvania Avenue has been named in honor of A native of Czechoslovakia Joseph Henry, distinguished 19 th century physicist and and citizen of Australia, Dr. second president of the Academy. A report in the NAS-NRC- Kraus studied meteorology NAE News Report says that the eight-story, 253,000-sq-ft under Hanzlik, Pollak, and Sekera in Prague, and under structure will house offices of the NAS and the National Bjerknes and Petterssen in Bergen. He served in the RAF Research Council not now quartered in the main building during the war, was later associated with Dr. Patrick Squires at 2101 Constitution Avenue, six blocks south. Under the in the first Australian rainmaking experiment, and subse- terms of the contract signed last June with the university, quently joined the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority the Academy will lease the entire building for a 20-year in the first Australian rainmaking experiment, and subse- period with options that could extend a lease for an addi- a fellow and then as senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceano- tional ten years. The building was designed to meet the graphic Institution. He was also a visiting professor at Yale desires and needs of both the Academy and the university. for two years and head of a UN Technical Assistance mission The name "Joseph Henry Building" was proposed by the in East Africa for one year. Academy because of Henry's eminence in American science The Institute of Atmospheric Science in Miami was and his close ties with the Academy in its early years. It was established by Dr. S. Fred Singer, who continues to serve as Henry, president from 1868 to 1878, who established and professor of aeronomy. Other senior faculty members are Dr. defended the principle that the Academy "should be exclu- Mariano Estoque (tropical meteorology), Dr. Douglas Duke sively composed of men distinguished for original research." (atmospheric optics), and Dr. Gote Ostlund (atmospheric During their consideration of the proposed name, officials chemistry). Dr. Joanne Simpson and Dr. Stanley Rosenthal, of George Washington University discovered an early associa- both with ESSA in Miami^ have agreed to join the staff as tion of Henry with the university that made naming the adjunct professors. Some additional appointments remain to building in his honor all the more appropriate. He had be filled. served as a Trustee of Columbian College, the predecessor The Institute shares a building on the university campus of GWU, from 1862 to 1871. with the Tropical Analysis Center, Laboratory for Hurricane The building is scheduled for completion in July 1967. Research, and the Experimental Meteorology Branch of The name will be placed on the 21st Street face, near the ESSA. Qualified students will have access to satellite read-off and radar facilities as well as to aircraft of the Hurricane main entrance. Research Flight Center. Close cooperation with the Institute (More news and notes on page 123)

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(Continued from news and notes, page 79) Honors for retiring ESSA official

Director of Environmental Data Service named Lloyd E. Brotzman, deputy director of the Weather Bu- Dr. Woodrow C. Jacobs, in- reau's Eastern Region and ternationally known climatol- chief of the Eastern Region ogist, author, and lecturer, Administrative and Technical has been named director of Services (AdTec), retired on the Environmental Science 30 December 1966 after 46 Services Administration's En- years of service with the Bu- vironmental Data Service, ac- reau. Mr. Brotzman was born cording to an announcement in Easton, Pa., and joined by Dr. Robert M. White, the Weather Bureau at Pitts- ESSA administrator. He suc- burgh in 1920 as a "printer's ceeds Dr. Helmut Landsberg, helper." He later saw service as an observer in New York who retired on 30 December. City and New Orleans with Dr. Jacobs, who has been the Bureau's marine pro- director of the U. S. Navy's gram, and in 1934 became head of the enlarged marine National Oceanographic Data ESSA p^oto program in New York City. During the early 1940's, he Center since 1961, was born was assigned to the Station Operations Division at the in Pasadena, Calif., in 1908. He graduated from the Univer- Central Office, Washington, D. C., and in 1948 became chief sity of California at Los Angeles in 1930, received his master's of the newly established Office of Plans and Program man- degree at the University of Southern California at Los An- agement there. Mr. Brotzman came to the Eastern Region geles in 1935, and his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1959 and in 1965 was designated at chief of AdTec and (Scripps Institute) in 1941. After graduation from UCLA, deputy director. Dr. Jacobs began his career in meteorology doing research "Brotz" was honored at a retirement dinner on Long for the Weather Bureau. During World War II he served Island on 7 January, when he also received a Department as chief civilian meteorologist of the Army Air Force Weather of Commerce Silver Medal and a citation for valuable ad- Division, and immediately after the war was director of all ministrative contributions with particular reference to a climatological work of the Weather Bureau. From 1948 to major reorganization within the Bureau's structure. Dr. 1960 he was director of for Air Weather Service, Werner A. Baum, ESSA deputy administrator, presented leaving in 1960 to accept a post as physical scientist in the the award. Science and Technology Division, Library of Congress. From 1947 to 1951, Dr. Jacobs was the United States member of the International Meteorological Organization's Federal focus on subsynoptic scale Commission on Agricultural Meteorology and president of meteorological problems the IMO Sub-Commission on Agricultural Forecasts. When The Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and the WMO was formed in 1951, he became the United States Supporting Research has endorsed the recent recommenda- delegate and was also president of the International Com- tions of the Interdepartmental Committee for Applied mittee on Historical Weather Data until 1960. Since 1965 Meteorological Research (ICAMR) regarding the next steps he has been chairman of the WMO Commission for Mari- to be taken toward solving the many problems of sub- time Meteorology's working group on ocean-atmosphere inter- synoptic scale meteorology. action and is also a member of the Intergovernmental The Federal Committee for Meteorological Services and Oceanographic Committee's (UNESCO) working group on Supporting Research, chaired by Dr. J. Herbert Hollomon, air-sea interactions, a field in which he is an eminent initiated action on 12 November 1965 by recommending to authority. the Federal Coordinator "that a coordinated Federal Plan for Nationally, Dr. Jacobs is a member of three panels of the attacking the subsynoptic scale forecasting problem be pre- Interagency Committee on Oceanography and was chairman pared and have as its objective a research and development of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography-Interagency program leading toward better weather services." Committee for Atmospheric Sciences working group on air- ICAMR, with the advice of a panel of non-governmental sea research in 1963 and 1964. experts chaired by J. J. George, formed an ad hoc group Dr. Jacobs is a member of several honorary and profes- and finally a full-time interagency task team to draft a sional societies in this country and abroad and has been Federal Plan. The Task Team, chaired by Dr. M. Alaka of active in work of the American Geophysical Union and Commerce (ESSA) and composed of representatives from the American Meteorological Society. He served as associate Defense, HEW, AEC, and FAA, was established on 13 June editor of the AMS BULLETIN from 1948 to 1954, of the AMS 1966 and submitted its report to the ICAMR on 30 November JOURNAL from 1956 to 1961, and has been associate editor of 1966. the JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY since 1961. He was In reviewing this report on 15 December 1966, the ICAMR a councilor in 1961-1964. agreed that an integrated interagency program of research In his new post Dr. Jacobs supervises the collection, and development in this area is desirable. Further, the processing, and scientific analysis of ESSA's geophysical and ICAMR agreed that the Department of Commerce should climatological records. act as the executive agent for such a program and should 123

Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/30/21 06:25 AM UTC Vol. 48, No. 2, February 1967 prepare a Federal implementation plan, using the Task on epitaxial growth and crystallization of glassy ice. This is Team report as the basis of departure. a specialty in which he has established himself as a world These agreements have been referred to the Federal Coor- expert. His studies at DRI are being conducted in the field dinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research experiment area around Reno and Lake Tahoe as well as with the recommendation that he request the Department in the laboratories of the Institute. of Commerce to accept these responsibilities and to prepare the Federal Plan of action by 30 June 1967. Student forecasting contest results A team of students from St. Louis University topped stu- Desert Research Institute appointments dents from seven other universities in the recent weather forecasting contest originated by the Florida State University Wendell A. Mordy, director of the University of Nevada's Student Chapter of the AMS. The competition called for Desert Research Institute announced two new appointments participants to make 24-hour forecasts of the maximum in December. temperature and rainfall in Oklahoma City, Okla., for a two-month period beginning on 10 October 1966. The St. Louis University team will receive a trophy for making the most accurate weather forecasts. Students from the University of Utah placed second in the competition, and a team from Florida State University placed third. Other schools competing were New York University, Penn- sylvania State University, Texas A&M University, University of Washington, and University of Wisconsin. Students on the SLU winning team were: Roderick Sco- field, St. Louis; Gregory Hunolt, Decatur, 111.; John Kocak, Stamford, Conn.; Thomas Schlatter, St. Louis; Robert Nickels, River Forest, 111.; John Vogel, St. Louis; and Douglas Downen, Evansville, Ind.

NAS-NAE advisory committee Dr. Patrick Squires, left, and Dr. John Hallett Dr. Verner E. Suomi, professor of meteorology and director of the Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Dr. Patrick Squires, formerly a program scientist at the Wisconsin, and AMS president-elect, is also chairman of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo., recently established NAS-NAE Committee Advisory to the has been appointed research professor of atmospheric physics Environmental Science Services Administration. The National and head of DRI's Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Reno. Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engi- Dr. Squires and E. B. Kraus performed the first cloud seeding neering formed the new committee in response to one of experiment which produced rain on the ground in Australia the first requests made jointly to the two academies by a in February 1947. Dr. Squires earned his degrees at the governmental group. Continuing advisory services in science University of Melbourne, Australia, the D.Sc. in 1959. He and engineering were deemed advisable because ESSA's pro- joined NCAR in 1962 and started the dropsonde program for grams embrace both disciplines. The committee operates the study of thunderstorms and hailstorms. Continuing in- within the National Research Council's Division of Earth vestigations of aerosols both natural and artificial, he has Sciences. been able to show that the effect of artificially produced The range of ESSA activities, such as geodesy, hydrology, particles on cloud formation is relatively small on a world meteorology, oceanography, and seismology, governed the scale but may be significant in large industrialized areas. selection of committee members. The central committee di- From 1946 to 1962 he was with the Radiophysics Laboratory, rects its attention to broad aspects such as consideration of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organi- what environmental services are needed, how ESSA can pro- zation, Melbourne. His early successful rain-making experi- vide these services effectively, and what areas of research ment also marked the first time that convection had been would help ESSA provide better services. More detailed and stimulated to build a quiescent cumulus cloud into a tower- specialized problems are delegated to panels set up under ing storm cloud. Dr. Squires demonstrated the difference in the committee. micro-structure between maritime and continental clouds in Members of the committee, in addition to Dr. Suomi, are: 1956, and with S. Twomey in 1959 showed that much of this William C. Ackermann, Illinois State Water Survey; Louis difference was due to the difference between maritime and J. Battan, University of Arizona; Bruce A. Bolt, University continental aerosols. of California (Berkeley); Francis H. Clauser, University of Dr. John Hallett, cloud physics lecturer, Imperial College, California (Santa Cruz); Charles S. Draper, Massachusetts London, England, also joined the staff of the Laboratory of Institute of Technology; Michael Ference, Jr., Ford Motor Atmospheric Physics in December. Dr. Hallett received his Co.; J. Eugene Haas, Ohio State University; Sigmund I. B.Sc. in 1953 from the University of Bristol, his D.I.C. in Hammer, retired from Gulf Research and Development Co.; 1954 and Ph.D. in 1958 from Imperial College, London. At John D. Isaacs, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Francis DRI, Dr. Hallett is performing work in accretion and freeing S. Johnson, Graduate Research Center of the Southwest; of individual water drops in a wind tunnel, ice crystal growth William M. Kaula, University of California (Los Angeles); from the vapor phase, and mechanics and electrification of Allen V. Kneese, Resources for the Future; and Cecil E. water drop splashing. He will also be doing further work Leith, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

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Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/30/21 06:25 AM UTC Bulletin American Meteorological Society Before the establishment of ESSA in 1965, the NAS-NRC provided advisory services to the separate agencies now in- corporated in ESSA through three groups: Committee Ad- AIR CONSERVATION visory to the Coast and Geodetic Survey; Committee on Climatology, Advisory to the Weather Bureau; and the Ad- The Report of the visory Panel to the National Bureau of Standards' Central Air Conservation Commission of the AAAS Radio Propagation Laboratory. These committees were rela- JAMES P. DIXON, M.D., Chairman tively inactive during ESSA's organizational period and have 348 pages. 1965 $8.00. now been discharged. Cash orders by AAAS Members: $7.00. "The twelve member Commission provided an International weather link opened outstanding representation of the many physical, chemical and social disciplines involved in the Dr. Robert M. White, ESSA administrator, and Dr. Erich definition and dissection of the problems of air Sussenberger, director of the of the pollution. . . . This book probably represents the Federal Republic of Germany, opened a new, high-speed most thoughtful, realistic, and penetrating analysis of as a factor in the societies of today weather communications circuit linking North America and and tomorrow now available. It is a "must" for the Europe in a ceremony held on 17 January at the National serious student and professional, and can be highly Meteorological Center (NMC) in Suitland, Md. Also taking recommended to the interested citizen." part in the ceremony were Dr. Ernst Lingelbach, chief of (Bulletin, Amer. Meteorolog. Soc., Nov. 1966.) meteorology for the Federal Ministry of Transport, and Dr. Julius Brinkmann, head of the West German weather serv- ice forecast division. ESSA representatives in addition to Dr. OCEANOGRAPHY White were Dr. George P. Cressman, Weather Bureau di- MARY SEARS, Editor rector; Dr. Frederick G. Shulman, NMC director; Harold 665 pp., 146 illus., 1961, 4th prtg. 1966. $14.75. A. Bedient, chief of NMC's Data Automation Division; and Cash orders by AAAS Members: $12.50. John C. Straiton, chief of the Weather Bureau's Communi- "A milestone in oceanographic advance." cations Division. (Geographical Review, Vol. 52, No. 3.) The new circuit between Washington and Offenbach (), Germany, is expected to revolutionize the ex- Amer. Assoc. Advancement of Science change of weather data between the two continents. Capable 1515 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20005 of voice, teletypewriter, or pictorial transmission, it replaces an older line that carried only teletypewriter messages at a relatively low speed of 100 words a minute. The new circuit Educational program in oceanography is ten times faster and the line facility carrying pictorial The Department of Meteorology of the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology is offering a special summer course on the weather data provides better reception than the previously dynamics of small-scale processes at the ocean-atmosphere used radio broadcast method. Initially the circuit permits interface. It will be given at the Earth Science Center in swifter and more reliable interchange of weather informa- Cambridge during the last week in June. tion within the Northern Hemisphere. Later it is expected The course is intended for teachers, scientists, engineers, that this circuit will play an important role in the World and administrators who have an active interest in air-sea Weather Watch global telecommunications system. interface studies. The theory, observations, and experimental Drs. Sussenberger, Lingelbach, and Brinkmann spent the methods relevant to surface waves, heat and moisture fluxes, week in Washington attending briefings and visiting ESSA and turbulence will be discussed. facilities. Interested persons should apply to: Director of the Summer Session, Room E19-356, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139 for a brochure.

(Continued from announcements, page 114) Graduate opportunities at Utah State Utah State University offers course and research towards M.S. The ocean from space and Ph.D. degrees in soil science and meteorology. Research The American Society for Oceanography is conducting a areas available for thesis work include: soil physics, soil chem- three-day symposium, 5-7 April 1967, on the theme "The istry, soil fertility, plant nutrition, soil genesis, soils and irri- Ocean from Space." The meetings will be held at the Rice gation, biometeorology, and climatology. Courses in the areas Hotel, Houston, Texas. Topics under discussion will range of soils and the environmental sciences are supplemented by from "Surveillance of the World Ocean," subject of the strong offerings in engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, luncheon address by Rear Admiral O. D. Waters, Jr., USN, and ecology. Applications are welcome from students with on 5 April, through many aspects of remote sensing from undergraduate training in any of the following or similar space, the ocean surface and air-sea interface, and the deep fields: biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, meteorology, under side of the interface. A conducted tour of the NASA forestry, and agriculture. A number of NSF traineeships, Manned Spacecraft Center is scheduled for the afternoon of NDEA fellowships, and research or teaching assistantships 6 April. Registration fees are $15 regular, $10 faculty, and are available with stipends from $2200 to $3800 annually. $5 student. For further details address: The Ocean from For further information write to: Dr. Sterling Taylor, Head, Space, American Society for Oceanography, P. O. Box 53600, Department of Soils and Meteorology, Utah State University, Houston, Tex. 77052. Logan, Utah 84321.

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