about our members Donald J. Wuebbles has been named head of the Mak and Yoshi Ogura. The department was founded Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the Univer- as a research unit of the university in 1969 and sity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He comes to became a full academic department in 1982. Illinois from the Lawrence Livermore National Labora- tory were he was the Mervyn Davies has been promoted to manager of leader of the Global Air Quality Assessment for BOVAR-CONCORD Radiation, Chemi- Environmental's Calgary office. BOVAR-CONCORD cal, and Dynamical is a product of a recent merger between BOVAR Interactions Group Environmental Services of Calgary, Alberta, and Con- within the Global Cli- cord Environmental Corporation of Toronto, Ontario. mate Change Re- Davies has been providing meteorology and air qual- search Division. ity consulting services to industry and government In assuming the clients in western Canada for 20 years. He will be headship, Wuebbles responsible for continuating to provide these services is returning to his to western Canadian and international clients. alma mater: he re- Davies received his B.S. in physics from the Univer- ceived a B.S. and sity of British Columbia and his M.S. in meteorology M.S. degrees in elec- from the University of Toronto. He has extensive trical engineering in experience in dispersion model development and 1970 and 1972, re- application in addition to experience in collecting, ana- spectively, from the lyzing, and interpreting on-site meteorological University of Illinois. data. His air quality involvements cover the following He received a Ph.D. Donald J. Wuebbles industry sectors: gas processing and distribution, syn- in atmospheric sci- thetic oil extraction and upgrading, oil refinery, petro- ences from the University of California at Davis in chemical, utility, and cogeneration. Davies was the 1983. principal investigator for a recent field measurement His research focuses on the development and program that collected turbulence and tracer concen- application of mathematical models of the structure tration data under low wind speed, stable atmospheric and chemical composition of the atmosphere. Results conditions. from these models have had a direct impact on He is a member of the AMS, the Canadian Meteo- international agreements to limit emissions of gases rological and Oceanographic Society, and the Air and that cause depletion of stratospheric ozone. His re- Waste Management Association. search also addresses the issues of tropospheric chem- istry and global climate change. Together with James Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. Edmonds in 1991 he published a book on the green- (AER), Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been se- house problem, A Primer on Greenhouse Gases. He lected by the government of Hong Kong through the is the author of several hundred scientific publications. Hong Kong Royal Observatory to develop and install Wuebbles is a member of numerous panels that an aviation Meteorological Data Processing System advise policymakers on issues relating to global atmo- (METPS) for the new airport at Chep Lap Kok (CLK). spheric change. These include the International Panel The METPS will provide real-time meteorological in- on Climate Change, the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Work- formation and warnings to various users of the new ing Group on Environmental Protection, and Vice airport for operations, weather briefings, and flight President Gore's Environmental Task Force. He has planning purposes. AER's partners for the project represented the United States at international meet- include GTE Government Systems of California, TWI, ings of the United Nations Environmental Program Inc. of Massachusetts, and City Polytechnic Hong and the Organization for Economic and Cooperative Kong. Development. Wuebbles is bringing several of his The METPS will support the operations of the CLK research staff with him to Illinois while maintaining Airport Meteorological Office located in the airport's research interaction with Lawrence Livermore. aerodrome control tower and will enable weather data Wuebbles is the third head of the Department of from numerous sources to be accessed readily by Atmospheric Sciences at Illinois, succeeding Mankin airline operators and air traffic controllers. The data 2086 Vol. 75, No. 11, November 1994 include those from such advanced systems as the NASA announced that Fred W. Leslie will fly terminal Doppler weather radar and the Operational aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia as payload spe- Wind Shear Warning System for low-level wind shear cialist for the second detection and warnings. Airport users will have imme- mission of the U.S. diate access to comprehensive weather information Microgravity Labora- needed to make critical decisions for flight operations. tory. The space shuttle The system includes advanced workstations for data is scheduled to be analysis and integration and includes local area net- launched 21 Septem- works for data distribution. It will be linked to the Hong ber 1995. Kong Royal Observatory. During the 16-day The METPS will be implemented over a three-year mission, Leslie will con- period. Upon its completion, it will provide critical duct a variety of experi- weather data for an international airport expected to ments inside the space- rank among the world's busiest. lab module, including AER was founded in 1977 to provide government the Geophysical Fluid and industry with research and consulting services in Flow Cell experiment of the global environmental sciences. AER is recognized which he is co-investi- for its contributions in areas of atmospheric chemistry, Fred W. Leslie gator. This experiment remote sensing, radiative transfer, climate change, examines the behavior numerical weather prediction, and diagnostic studies of a self-gravitating fluid on a rotating sphere with and modeling of the atmosphere and ocean. thermal gradients analogous to planetary atmospheres. Leslie will examine how the planetary waves transfer Gary England, the heat and momentum in this spherical configura- chief meteorologist tion. 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