UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection
Interviewee Sort ascending | Collection | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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Roscoe Braham | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Topics covered include Braham's early life and education; the war years when he was a meteorologist and pilot doing weather reconnaissance; his interest in weather modification; the Thunderstorm Project; the Lewis Douglas Joint Institute with the University of Arizona; Project White Top under the University of Chicago; work on the "Blue Book" with Tom Malone and Bill Von Arx; and the early ideas about NCAR. |
William Kellogg | Unknown | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
Roland Madden | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Roland (Rol) Madden, an American meteorologist who was a staff scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from 1967 to 2002. His research centers on diagnostic studies of the atmosphere. Scope and Content Note |
Gerald Meehl, Laura Hoff | Boulder, CO | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
Robert Fleagle | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Oral history interview with Robert Fleagle, 1990. Copyright Information: Copyright University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |
Earl Droessler | Seattle, WA | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
Richard Reed | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Topics include: how he came to be involved in meteorology; education; time in the Navy; work at MIT; American Meteorological Society; radio casting; industrial meteorology; terms as president-elect, president and past president of AMS; changes technology made to meteorology; forecasting; Center for Operational Meteorological Education and Training (COMET); UCAR; Jim Mahoney; blending meteorology with other sciences; China; Harry Geise; weather modification; Ken Spengler; NCAR. |
Earl Droessler | Seattle, WA | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
Rene Munoz | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Oral history interview with Rene Munoz, 2004. Interviewed by Stuart Leslie. Topics include: Tour of the Mesa Lab and Mesa Labâs construction; experiments done at NCAR; bush hammering; Damon room; Margaret Thatcher visit; supercomputing. |
Stuart Leslie | Unknown | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
Peggy LeMone | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Oral history interview with Peggy LeMone, 2001. Interviewed by Diane Rabson and Nicolle Alida. Interview is about the Electra aircraft. Copyright Information: Copyright University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |
Diane Rabson, Nicolle Alida | Unknown | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
Nelder Medrud | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Nelder Medrud begins the interview with a discussion of his life history, education and research prior to arriving at NCAR. Medrud became acquainted with NCAR through Phil Thompson and Henry van de Boogaard while at the University of Stockholm, Sweden in the early 1960s. In the Air Force, Medrud’s specialty was applied climatology and a position opened up at NCAR focusing on applications to societal problems. The immediate focus of Medrud’s work at NCAR was on the matter of the consequences of hail to society. |
Kristen Rasmussen | Boulder, CO | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
Mary Haley, David (Dave) Brown, and Dennis Shea | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Discussion with Mary Haley, David (Dave) Brown, and Dennis Shea about the development and use of NCAR Command Language (NCL). NCL, produced by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) and is a free interpreted language designed specifically for scientific data processing and visualization. Topics included in this discussion also include: NCAR Graphics, netCDF, GRIB, Fortran, C, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Community Climate Model, NCL workshops, PyNIO, PyNGL, MATLAB, NumPy, xarray, R, and Python. |
Laura Hoff | Boulder, CO | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
Karyn Sawyer | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Oral history interview with Karyn Sawyer, 2015. Interviewed by Richard Anthes. Forms part of the UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection. Long-time UCAR/NCAR staff member Karyn Sawyer reflects on her decades-long career at the organization, including how she came to work for NCAR, field projects, international scientific cooperation, UCAR/NCAR administration, and her management style. |
Richard Anthes | Boulder, CO | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
Judy Green | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Oral history interview with Judy Green, 2015. Interviewed by Kathleen Legg. Forms part of the UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection. Judy Green, long time telecommunications assistant at NCAR, shares her unique perspective of NCAR, its people and culture. Green discusses her early career as a telephone operator at Mountain Bell in Cheyenne, Wyoming and how her and her family came to NCAR. Green talks about her experience with the various telephone systems at NCAR over the years, including the old “cord board”, the short lived Harris system, the Rolm system and Voice Over IP (VoIP). |
Kathleen Legg | Unknown | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |