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NCAR and UCAR opened our doors in 1960 (more about our history). As we continue into our second half-century, we note the passing of colleagues within our organization and in the broader research community . We mourn the loss of these colleagues who have worked together with us to develop atmospheric and Earth system science, advancing knowledge for the benefit of life on Earth. To note a colleague's passing, please contact us.
Recent losses as we become aware of them:
Henry Lansford (NCAR Public Relations) - March 2, 2024 - Darrell Howe Mortuary
Orlando Taylor (UCAR Board of Trustees) - January 16, 2024 - Legacy
Kathryn Strand (NCAR High Altitude Observatory, UCAR Operations, UCAR President's Office) - January 9, 2024 - Legacy, Dignity Memorial
Allan Lazrus (NCAR Atmospheric Quality Division) - November 27, 2023 - Obituary
Jeff de La Beaujardière (NCAR Computational and Information Systems Lab and GLOBE) - November 16, 2023 - Boulder Daily Camera
Richard E. "Dick" Hallgren (former director of the National Weather Service and former Executive Director of the American Meteorological Society) - Novemer 7, 2023
Matthew Norman "Norm" Zrubek (Earth Observing Laboratory / Research Aviation Facility) - September 22, 2023 - Boulder Daily Camera
Dolores Boyd (NCAR Scientific Computing Division) - August 11, 2023 - Boulder Daily Camera
Dan Nagle (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Lab) - August 6, 2023
Walt Pollock (Laboratory of Atmospheric Science / Atmospheric Chemistry Division) - June 27, 2023 - Boulder Daily Camera
Grant Gray (NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory) - June 9, 2023 - Gold Hill Townsite
Kristine Rock Fisher (NCAR High Altitude Observatory) - March 28, 2023 - Staff Notes, October 1991
Heather Lazrus (NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab) - February 26, 2023 - Legacy
Ryan McCoy (UCAR Operations, Logistics in Facilities Management) - February 17, 2023 - Dignity Memorial
Nancy Dawson (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Lab and SOARS) - February 9, 2023 - Dignity Memorial
Will Steffen (NCAR Advisory Panel and Paul Crutzen & NCAR Explorer series lecturer) - January 29, 2023 - The Guardian
Dusanka Zupanski (VSP/CPAESS) - January 26, 2023 - Dignity Memorial
Lavon (Jay) Miller (NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab & SOARS) - January 11, 2023 - Dignity Memorial
Florence Ormond - January 8, 2023 - Echovita.com
Arthur Few (UCAR Member Representative from Rice University) - December 3, 2022 - NCAR Global Change Instruction Program | KJAS.com
Connie Cage (UCAR Finance & Administration) - November 30, 2022
Maria Krenz (NCAR Environmental and Societal Impacts) - November 9, 2022 - Boulder Daily Camera
Linda Iva Miller (UCAR UNIDATA) - October 16, 2022 - Boulder Daily Camera
Paul Rotar (NCAR Scientific Computing Division) - October 9, 2022 - Boulder Daily Camera
Eugene Bierly (National Science Foundation) - July 8, 2022 - Pumphrey Funeral Home
Bruce Kovalski (UCAR Operations) - June 6, 2022 - Boulder Daily Camera
Jack Herring (NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab) - May 26, 2022
Ro (Rosanne) Suer (UCAR Contracts) - May 5, 2022
Bill Buzbee (NCAR Scientific Computing Divison) - April 22, 2022 - Los Alamos Daily Post
Akira Kasahara (NCAR Senior Research Associate) - March 30, 2022 - NCAR/UCAR Tribute | Boulder Daily Camera
Jon Rush (UCAR Information Technology) - March 14, 2022 - Boulder Daily Camera
Gregory McArthur (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Lab) - March 9, 2022 - Boulder Daily Camera
Tommy Lumpkin (NCAR Balloon Facility) - March 15, 2022 - McCoy Funeral Home and about the NCAR Balloon Facility
R.C. 'Merc' Mercure (UCAR Foundation) - February 10, 2022 - Daily Camera
Lisa Goddard (US CLIVAR) - January 8, 2022 - Death Obituary
Eron Brennan (UCAR MMS) - January 5, 2022
Robert Harriss (NCAR Environmental and Societal Impacts Group) - December 24, 2021 - University of New Hampshire TODAY and Dignity Memorial
Harry Van Loon (NCAR) - December 13, 2021 - NCAR Tribute
Charles Jose "Carlos" Garcia (Observations, NCAR High Altitude Observatory) - November 19, 2021 - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Eric Wood (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University) - November 3, 2021 - Princeton University
Sally Bates Shankman (NCAR & UCAR Communications) - October 15, 2021 - Boulder Camera
Charles Gregory (NCAR & UCAR Facilities) - September 30, 2021 - Kalamazoo Gazette
Jack Bell (NCAR Directorate) - September 29, 2021 - Murphy Funeral Directors
William (Bill) Rawson (UCAR Finance & Administration) - September 12, 2021 - Desert News
James Fankhauser (NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab) - September 16, 2021 - Boulder Camera
Francis Bretherton (NASA Earth Observing System) - June 27, 2021 - Cremation Society of Missouri
Bruce Ramsay (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Lab) - June 16, 2021 - Horan & McConaty
Barbara (Lucy) Warner (NCAR & UCAR Communications) - May 22, 2021 - Boulder Daily Camera
John Latham (NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab) - April 27, 2021 - The Guardian
Velma Ryan (NCAR Event Services) - April 2, 2021 - Horan & McConaty
Peter Fox (NCAR High Altitude Observatory) - March 27, 2021 - American Geophysical Union | Research Data Alliance | Earth Science Information Partners
Astrik Deirmendjian (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Lab) - March 20, 2021 - Boulder Daily Camera
Betty Norma Wells Wilson (NCAR) - February 23, 2021 - Glenwood Springs PostIndependent
Robert (Bob) Greenwald (UCAR Office of the CFO, previously Finance & Accounting) - February 8, 2021 - Howe Mortuary and Crematory | Boulder Camera
John Kutzbach (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - January 29, 2021 - Gunderson Funeral & Cremation Center
Paul Crutzen (NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling) - January 28, 2021 - ACOM Tribute | Washington Post
Jagadish Chandran Kaimal (NOAA) - January 25, 2021 - Uticaod.com
Oran Richard (Dick) White (NCAR High Altitude Observatory) - December 19, 2020 - Solar News
Franco Einaudi (Cooperative Institute of Research in Environmental Sciences and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) - December 10, 2020 - The Washington Post
Hans Friedli (NCAR Advanced Study Program) - October 29, 2020 - Boulder Daily Camera
James McFadden (NOAA) - September 28, 2020 - NOAA
Janette Heung (UCAR Community Programs) - September 5, 2020 - UCP Tribute
Henry Boynton (Research Aviation Facility) - August 30, 2020 - Central Maine
W. Timothy Liu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) - August 14, 2020
Konrad "Koni" Steffen (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder) - August 8, 2020 - Daily Camera | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | AGU Blogosphere
Michael Freilich (UCAR Board of Trustees) - August 5, 2020 - Dignity Memorial
Kris Marwitz (NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab) - May 3, 2020 - Boulder Daily Camera
Bill Bonner (Founding director, UCAR COMET Program and UCAR Community Programs) - April 25, 2020 - UCP Weekly Newsletter Tribute
James "Sandy" Albertson (UCAR Maintenance) - April 22, 2020 - Boulder Daily Camera
Richard "Dick" Greenfield (National Science Foundation) - November 13, 2019 - Demaine Funeral Home
Patricia "Pat" Waukau (NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab) - October 22, 2019 - Schneider Funeral Directors
George Lamb (NCAR/UCAR Facilities) - October 15, 2019 - Boulder Daily Camera
Stephen "Steve" Dickson (NCAR/UCAR Budget & Finance, Special Projects) - October 9, 2019 - Boulder Daily Camera
William"Bill" Lapenta (NOAA) - September 30, 2019 - Weatherboy
David Robertson (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Lab) - September 21, 2019 - Boulder Daily Camera
Anthony "Tony" Janetos (Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future) - August 6, 2019 - Boston University | Remick & Gendron Funeral Home
George Veronis (Yale Geology & Geophysics director & professor emeritus) - June 30, 2019 - Beecher & Bennett Funeral Service | Yale Geology & Geophysics News
Michael James (UCAR Unidata Program) - June 29, 2019 - Oregon Live
Sigvard "Sig" Stenlund (NCAR Atmospheric Technology Division) - May 27, 2019 - Dignity Memorial
Paul Smith Jr. (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, longtime NSF Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities collaborator) - May 10, 2019 - Kirk Funeral Home
Norman Phillips (Princeton, MIT, NOAA NWS National Meteorological Center (former director), UCAR Science Advisory Committee) - March 15, 2019 - UCAR-AMS Oral history Project | New Hampshire Union Leader
John DeLuisi (NCAR Climate Project, NOAA Environmental Research Lab) - February 26, 2019 - Boulder Daily Camera
Wallace Smith Broecker (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) - February 18, 2019 - AP News | The New York Times
Betty Louise Bloom (NCAR Scientific Computing Division) - February 12, 2019 - NCAR Staff Notes | Boulder Daily Camera
Lester Milen "Bill" Zinser (NCAR Research Aviation Facility) - February 8, 2019 - NCAR Staff Notes | Boulder Daily Camera
Donald Veal (NCAR National Hail Research Experiment, University of Wyoming) - January 20, 2019 - University of Wyoming | Boulder Daily Camera
Albert "Bert" J. Semtner (NCAR Climate & Global Dynamics, Naval Postgraduate School) - December 15, 2018 - Monterey Herald
Jack Wainwright (NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling) - November 25, 2018 - Boulder Daily Camera
Raymond Arritt (Iowa State University, longtime NCAR collaborator) - November 14, 2018 - Iowa State Agronomy Tribute | Iowa State Daily
Arthur Wartburg (NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry) - October 29, 2018 - Boulder Daily Camera
Michael Thompson (NCAR Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer) - October 15, 2018 - NCAR & UCAR News | Boulder Daily Camera
Robert Niffenegger (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Lab) - August 27, 2018 - Darrell Howe Mortuary
George William (Bill) Curtis III (NCAR High Altitude Observatory) - August 25, 2018 - Boulder Daily Camera
Douglas Lilly (NCAR Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences; University of Oklahoma) - June 24, 2018 - Cambridge University Press
Benjamin Herman - (UCAR GPS/Met experiment; University of Arizona) - June 8, 2018 - University of Arizona Tribute
John T. "Jack" Gosling - (NCAR High Altitude Observatory, Los Alamos National Lab, University of Colorado) - May 10, 2018 - Earth & Space Science News
A. F. "Fred" Spilhaus Jr. (American Geophysical Union) - April 30, 2018 - EOS
Stephen Piotrowicz (NOAA, U.S. Argo program) - April 2, 2018 - NOAA Biography | Argo Remembrance
Roger Barry (Founding Director of the National Snow & Ice Data Center) - March 29, 2018 - Boulder Daily Camera | NSIDC | CLIVAR
Phillip Merilees (NCAR Global Research Program, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab, and Climate & Global Dynamics Lab; Atmospheric Environment Service of Canada; Naval Research Lab, Marine Meteorology Division) - March 7, 2018 - Canadian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society (ou en français) | Shikany's Bonita Funeral Home
Tiruvalam Natarajan "T.N." Krishnamurti (Florida State University, emeritus; longtime NCAR Visitor) - February 7, 2018 - Indian Meteorological Society
Robert Bushnell (NCAR dropsonde program [now part of EOL]) - January 28, 2018 - Boulder Daily Camera
Tracy Vialpando (UCAR Event Services) - January 25, 2018 - Dignity Memorial/Olinger
Susan Baltuch (UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs [now CPAESS]) - January 21, 2018 - Rundus Funeral Home
Bob Gough (Rising Voices co-founder) - September 17, 2017 - Rising Voices | Honor the Earth
John Clark (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory) - September 10, 2017 - Darrell Howe Mortuary
Walter Grotewold (NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory) - August 11, 2017 - Greenwood & Myers Mortuary
A. Richard "Dick" Kassander (Founding member of UCAR and former chair of the Board of Trustees) - July 27, 2017 - Arizona Daily Star
Roscoe Braham, Jr. (University of Chicago, emeritus; co-author of NCAR|UCAR Blue Book) - May 28, 2017 - NCAR-AMS Oral History - OpenSky | Brown-Wynne Funeral Home
Margaret Davidson (NOAA Coastal Inundation and Resilience) - May 23, 2017 - NOAA | Charleston Post and Courier
S. T. Wu (University of Alabama Huntsville; UCAR Member Representative & PACUR Member) - May 21, 2017 - The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Griffith Mon Morgan, Jr. (NCAR National Hail Research Experiment) - May 1, 2017 - NCAR|UCAR
Theodore Ware "Ted" Hildebrandt (NCAR Scientific Computing Division [now the Computational & Information Systems Laboratory]) - April 29, 2017 - Boulder Daily Camera
Chester Newton (NCAR Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory) - NCAR|UCAR (1995) | OpenSky Oral History
Robert Snow (NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory) - April 24, 2017 - Boulder Daily Camera
Nelder "Med" Medrud, Jr. (NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory) - April 18, 2017 - Boulder Daily Camera
Bill Zelt (NCAR High Altitude Observatory) - April 11, 2017 - Boulder Daily Camera
Matthew J. Parker (American Meteorological Society and Savannah River National Laboratory) - March 15, 2017 - NCAR|UCAR | American Meteorological Society | Augusta Chronicle
Edward Brown (NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory/Research Aviation Facility) - February 24, 2017 - Boulder Daily Camera
Edwin Wolff (NCAR Directorate) - February 23, 2017 - NCAR|UCAR | Boulder Daily Camera
Keith Watson (NCAR High Altitude Observatory) - February 22, 2017 - Boulder Daily Camera
Stan Ruttenberg (NCAR Directorate and UCAR President's Office) - February 12, 2017 - Boulder Daily Camera | Eos
Laura Kriho (NCAR Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory) - January 30, 2017- Boulder Daily Camera
Julian Pike (NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory) - January 13, 2017 - Boulder Daily Camera
Tom Horst (NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory) - January 12, 2017 - NCAR|UCAR
Piers Sellers (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) - December 23, 2016 - Washington Post
William "Buck" Frye (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory) - December 21, 2016 - Boulder Daily Camera
Cleon Biter (NCAR Research Applications Laboratory) - December 9, 2016 - Boulder Daily Camera
Raisa Leifer (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory) - December 4, 2016 - NCAR|UCAR
Joseph Henry Choy (NCAR Scientific Computing Division [now the Computational & Information Systems Laboratory]) - November 29, 2016 - Boulder Daily Camera
Erich Bloch (National Science Foundation) - November 25, 2016 - Washington Post
Roy Jenne (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory) - November 18, 2016 - NCAR|UCAR Oral History Interview | Boulder Daily Camera
Jay S. Fein (National Science Foundation) - November 7, 2016 - Washington Post
Ralph J. Cicerone (University of California, Irvine; National Academy of Sciences) - November 5, 2016 - New York Times
Carl M. Brandauer (NCAR High Altitude Observatory) - October 26, 2016 - Boulder Daily Camera
Gordon Hamilton (University of Maine) - October 22, 2016 - University of Maine | New York Times
Cecil E. "Chuck" Leith (NCAR Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction) - October 13, 2016 - The Register Guard
Arthur Rickel (NCAR scientific ballooning analysis) - October 9, 2016 - Boulder Daily Camera
James J. O'Brien (Florida State University) - September 20, 2016 - Florida State University | Tallahassee Democrat
Gerhard "Gary" Langer (NCAR cloud research) - September 17, 2016 - Boulder Daily Camera
Andrew G. Slater (NCAR land modeling) - September 9, 2016 - Earth & Space Science News | Forever Missed
Al (Alasdair) Kellie (NCAR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory) - September 7, 2016 - NCAR|UCAR | Boulder Daily Camera
Vic Tisone (NCAR High Altitude Observatory) - July 14, 2016 - NCAR|UCAR | Boulder Daily Camera
Molly K. Macauley (Resources for the Future) - July 8, 2016 - Baltimore Sun
Jack G. Calvert (NCAR Atmospheric Kinetics and Photochemistry [now within ACOM]) - June 1, 2016 - NCAR|UCAR
William H. Gray (Colorado State University) - April 16, 2016 - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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