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Reid Bryson - 1920-2008
A memorial service will be held on August 23rd in Madison. Details can be found here
UW Obituary news release
Reid Bryson Memorial Blog - A place for all to share condolences, sorrow, or memories of Reid
We are very sad to report that Emeritus Professor Reid Bryson passed away at his home in Madison on Wednesday, 11 June 2008.
Reid will be remembered as founder of our Department of Meteorology in 1948, founder of the Center for Climate Research and its endowed Climate, People, and Environment Program, and founder of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His fertile mind gave birth to a wide range of studies and opinions on the earth's climate and it peoples. His legacy survives in our University of Wisconsin research and teaching activities extending from our building to other disciplines.
He is survived by his wife Frances, and children Ann, Bill, Bob, and Tom.
Reid Bryson Biography page, courtesy of CCR
2008 Student Awards
Congratulations to the following outstanding AOS students (view pictures):
- Sarah Monette and Neil Berg – Horn Award for excellence in overall performance as an undergraduate
- Andrew Field and Rebecca Westby – Lettau-Wahl Award for excellence in overall performance as an undergraduate
- Benjamin Sulman – Schwerdtfeger Award for excellent performance in first year graduate studies
- Mark S. Kulie – Wahl Award for outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant
- David Ullman – Lettau Award for outstanding MS Thesis
- Mark S. Kulie and Gijs de Boer – Colloquium Student Service Award for creative dedication to the department's intellectual life
Reid Bryson honored with SAA symposium
The Society for American Archeology hosted a symposium in honor of Reid Bryson. The "Climate People and Behavior" symposium held on March 29 at the SAA annual meeting in Vancouver, BC concentrated on the development and use of Bryson's Macrophysical climate model. Congratulations Reid!
Prof. Pao K. Wang elected as a Fellow of Taiwan's Meteorological Society
Prof. Pao K. Wang was recently elected as a Fellow of Taiwan's Meteorological Society, the highest honor the society bestows upon its members. Pao is the only fellow elected this year. The citation states that the honor is to recognize Pao's outstanding contributions to the fields of cloud dynamics, physics, chemistry and model simulations, and the influence of aerosol on clouds.
Mr. Chiang-Lin Hsin, Director-General of the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan, also the President of the Meteorological Society, presents the certificate of Fellow to Prof. Pao Wang on March 28, 2008.
AOS Fall/Winter 2007 Newsletter
You can now download our most recent bi-annual newsletter in
PDF format. Read about all the recent and upcoming
events at UW-Madison AOS. Download the
Fall/Winter 2007 newsletter now.
Journal of the UW-AOS
This is an unofficial journal of working papers written by undergraduate and graduate students of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. These papers are not intended to be used as official references.
Check out their work in the Journal of the UW-AOS
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