Session 8 Remarkable Meteorologists and Their Contributions. Part I

Wednesday, 15 January 2020: 8:45 AM-10:00 AM
104A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 18th History Symposium
Cochairs:
William Henneberg, Commodity Weather Group, LLC, Bethesda, MD and Lourdes Avilés, Plymouth State University, Meteorology Program, Plymouth, NH

Papers:
8:45 AM
8.1
Dr. Tetsuya Fujita: Perspectives from Japan
Jennifer Henderson, CIRES, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
8.2
“The Educated Woman Can Successfully Lead a Double Life”: Pauline Morrow Austin’s Life in Science at the Dawn of Radar Meteorology
Roger D. Turner, Science History Institute, Carlisle, PA
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
8.3
Anne Louise Beck and the "Cutting Edge of Forecasting" in 1921
Jamison Hawkins, Lockheed Martin, Arlington, VA

9:30 AM
8.4
Too Near for Dreams: Exploring the Life of Cleveland Abbe
Sean Potter, Washington, DC
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
8.5
Albert Defant (Trento 1884–Innsbuck 1974)—An Eclectic and Borderless Figure of Meteorologist, Oceanographer, and Climatologist
Dino Zardi, Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy
Recorded Presentation

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