87th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 4: The History of Atmospheric Science

Wednesday, 17 January 2007: 11:15 AM-3:00 PM
208 (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)
Cochairs:  Jean Phillips, Librarian, Univ. of Wisconsin and Jinny Nathans, AMS
Papers:
  11:15 AM
4.1
40 Years of Observations from Geostationary Orbit
W. Paul Menzel, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

  11:45 AM
Lunch Break

  1:00 PM
4.2
George Washington Carver as a Volunteer Weather Observer
Doria B. Grimes, NOAA Central Library (Retired), Silver Spring, MD

  1:30 PM
4.3
  2:00 PM
4.4
Data from the other side of the world, but...what shall we do with the paper?
Christine Sherratt, Lindgren Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  2:30 PM
4.5
Break -- Join Susan Tarbell, ASLI Chair; Keith Seitter, AMS Executive Director and ASLI members at the ASLI Booth during the break for a special cake-cutting ceremony in celebration of ASLI’s 10th Anniversary.