Meteorology / Atmos. Science
Academic Family Tree

Robert Hart¹ and Josh Cossuth^2
1Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, FSU
²Office of Naval Research

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Photos above (L-R): C. Rossby, H. Riehl, J. Simpson, J. Charney, P. Austin, S. Syono, Sir B. J. Mason, V. Bjerknes

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Particular thanks are given to the following individuals for their invaluable contributions to this project:

• Kelly Hirai of Florida State University and David Wojtowicz for their work on the post-processing modification and printing of the tree
• Mitch Keller of the Mathematics Genealogy Project for his advice and examples for graphical display of family tree information
• Janet Webster and Tiah Edmunson-Morton of Oregon State Univ. for determining the supervisor of John A. Day for his PhD thesis.
• John Gyakum for researching the mentors of Walter Hitschfeld and F. Kenneth Hare.
• John Methven of U. Reading and colleagues for their "Origin of Theses" project documenting the past four decades of lineage (at the time) at University of Reading.
• Christine Sherratt of MIT for her numerous library investigations regarding MIT students over the past century.
• Jean Phillips and Katherine Winiecki of U. Wisconsin-Madison for library investigations regarding UWisc Alumni, as well as NYU Alumnus Franklin Badgley.
• Carol Wolf of University of California-Berkeley for her investigative work on Hans Panofsky's lineage from original thesis hardcopies
• Kristine Harper of Florida State Univ. for her book, "Weather by the Numbers" on the origins of modern Meteorology.
• Robert Muller, Barry Keim, Laurence Kalkstein, Vernon Meentemeyer, Marlyn Shelton, Robert Davis for Douglas Carter's lineage and progeny.
• Richard Skaggs, James Shortridge, and Stan Morain for David Simonett's lineage.
• Darlene Oosterhof for T.N. Krishnamurti's student record
• Amie Hedstrom for Bill Gray's student record
• Mike Wallace and Peggy LeMone for Robert Fleagle's lineage.
• Jim Deardorff for providing information on his own lineage, as well as background on Alfred Woodcock.
• John Cahir for his own as well as John Hovermale's lineage.
• Sigrid Zimmerman and the U. Bern Library for Hans Thalmann's PhD supervisor.
• Alexandra Bainbridge and the Special Collections Library of Penn State University for Hans Neuberger's dissertation supervisors
• Bogdan Antonescu for his own and prior lineage.
• Pasha Groisman and Mike MacCracken for Mikhail Budyko's information.
• Fordyce Williams for Phil E. Church's lineage.
• Carl Wunsch for his own and Henry Stommel's lineage.
• Tina Qin of Harvard U. for Gordon McLeod Harris' and Richard Pearson, Jr.'s Ph.D. dissertations.
• Karen Aplin of U. of Bristol for J. A. Chalmers lineage.
• John M. Lewis for his numerous articles on the history and lineage of several colleagues in the tree.
• Charles Hosler, Richard Somerville, Dennis Thomson, Robert Houze, Peter Webster, and Ed Zipser for their respective student records
• T.N. Krishnamurti, Dick Greenfeld, Howard Friedman, Robert Rogers and Yoko Ooyama for Vic Ooyama and Bernard Haurwitz's lineages
• Yongjie Huang for providing missing information on Shouting Gao and Shiyan Tao.
• Greg McFarquhar, Cynthia Twohy, Joanna Corden, Anne Barrett, Clive Saunders, John Latham, Tom Choularton, and U. London Library staff for addressing inquiries and submissions.
• The following for filling numerous gaps in the family tree: Jenni Evans, Bill Frank, T. N. Krishnamurti, John Dutton, Richard Johnson, Gabriel Lau, Frank Marks, Sharon Nicholson, Robert Rogers, Gabe Vecchi, and Ed Zipser.

• We also profusely thank the Department of Atmospheric Science at CSU for their 50th Anniversary web page as an unusually valuable source of data for this project.
• We are grateful to the AMS and UCAR for their invaluable series of Tape Recorded Interview Project summaries.
• We are grateful for the National Academies of Science and Engineering for their online biographies.
• The first author is grateful to Prof. J. Evans for introducing him to the history of many Japanese meteorologists through a course at Penn State Univ. -- in particular through the Lewis (1993) article in BAMS.

• Finally, many many thanks to the hundreds who contributed their information (or that of their peers) to the database.