Boulder, CO
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Dr. Russ Schnell |
Dr. Russell Schnell is a distinguished scientist with a remarkable career dedicated to environmental research and monitoring. His journey began as a teenager when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Cadet squadron. At the age of 18, he embarked on his first international trip as part of the inaugural Air Cadet exchange program with Israel. During his first year of graduate studies in 1968, Dr. Schnell made a groundbreaking discovery of biological ice nuclei, which has now become a distinct and actively researched field. |
Paul Daugherty, Sonja Wolter | Boulder, CO | Global Monitoring Laboratory | ||
Russell Schnell | NOAA Heritage Oral History Project |
Dr. Russell Schnell, a distinguished scientist and expert in atmospheric science, has made significant contributions to the field of climate research and environmental monitoring. Born and raised in Castor, Alberta, he has a rich ancestral heritage traced back to Norka. Dr. Schnell earned first-class honors degrees in Biology from the University of Alberta and Chemistry from Memorial University in Newfoundland. Seeking further specialization, he obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Wyoming. |
Molly Graham | , , , | Boulder, CO | NOAA Heritage Program, National Weather Service |
Carl S. Bullock | The Research and Development Behind the 1988-1999 Modernization of NOAA's National Weather Service |
Interview with: Carl S. Bullock, Meteorologist with the Forecast Systems Laboratory AWIPS Development
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Barry Reichenbaugh | Boulder, CO | Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research | |
Dennis S. Walts | The Research and Development Behind the 1988-1999 Modernization of NOAA's National Weather Service |
Interview with Dennis S. Walts, former NWS Meteorologist assigned to the Forecast Systems Laboratory AWIPS Development Team
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Barry Reichenbaugh | Boulder, CO | Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research | |
Robert Serafin | The Research and Development Behind the 1988-1999 Modernization of NOAA's National Weather Service |
Interview with Robert J. Serafin, Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research and former Chairman, National Academy of Sciences NWS Modernization Committee
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Barry Reichenbaugh | Boulder, CO | Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research | |
David Waltman | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Dave Waltman, a long-time resident of Boulder, Colorado, has had a diverse and interesting career. Born in St. Louis, he spent his early years as a suburbanite in both St. Louis and Chicago. Following in his brother's footsteps, Waltman attended Purdue University, where his father, a native Hoosier and engineer, had also studied. However, Waltman did not find engineering to his liking and transferred to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he graduated in 1962 with a bachelor's degree in business. |
Gerald Meehl | Boulder, CO | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
Harriet Crowe | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Harriet B. Crowe, born Harriet Barker in 1938, was raised in Mt. Cisco, New York. She was the first member of her family to attend college, a significant achievement given that neither her parents nor their siblings had the opportunity to pursue higher education. Crowe initially attended Michigan State University in 1956 with the intention of studying nursing, a decision influenced by her high school counselor who discouraged her from pursuing her original ambition of becoming a doctor. |
Earl Droessler | 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 | |
Roy Jenne | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
Dr. Roy Jenne provides an overview of his career at NCAR in the computing division. Jenne discusses the Mesa Laboratory and its facilities; his recollections of the various computing systems at NCAR, starting with a Control Data 3600; the significant work NCAR did and continues to do with weather forecasting and observational data; and how creating easily accessible datasets was an important goal and achievement of his unit. |
Stuart “Bill” Leslie | Boulder, CO | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
William Kellogg | UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection |
William Kellogg begins by describing his first acquaintance with the NCAR concept, and his belief in the benefits of team research or big science. He notes the first retreat meeting at Keystone and offers examples of problems that required an interdisciplinary approach. He mentions chairing a group for a larger study called the "Study of Critical Environmental Problems" ("SCEP" study for short), which wrote on human influences on climate, and discusses the challenges of getting scientists to work together, relating an anecdote about having to fire a dynamic meteorologist. |
Ed Wolff, Nancy Gauss | Boulder, CO | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |