International Perspectives on the History of Meteorology:

Science and Cultural Diversity

Symposium Convener, James R. Fleming

Topics and Speakers

Archives, Libraries and Bibliography in the History of Meteorology
Roy E. Goodman (American Philosophical Society, USA)

Benjamin Franklin and the History of Lightning Protection
E. Philip Krider, ( The University of Arizona, USA)

Los Inicios de la Meteorología en el Perú y la Labor del Cosmografiato: 1753-1856
Lizardo Seiner (Universidad de Lima, Perú)

Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Relations with Luke Howard and His Activities in the Field of Meteorology
Karl-Heinz Bernhardt, (Leibniz-Sozietat, Germany)

Dmitrii Mendeleev and Russian Meteorology During the Second Half of the 19th Century
Nathan M. Brooks (New Mexico State University, USA)

Cleveland Abbe and the Birth of the National Weather Service, 1870-1891
Edmund P. Willis (Kinsale Research. USA) and William H. Hooke (American Meteorological Society, USA).

The First International Polar Year: A big science experiment with small science equipment
Cornelia Luedecke (University of Munich, Germany)

Enclave Vision: Foreign Networks in Peru and the Internationalization of El Niño Research during the 1920s
Gregory T. Cushman (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Sverre Petterssen, the Bergen School, and the Forecasts for D-Day
James R. Fleming, (Colby College, USA)

Otto Jesse and the Development of Upper Atmospheric Research in the 19th Century — (abstract only)
Wilfried Schröder (Bremen, Germany)

The Scandinavian Tag-Team: Providers of Atmospheric Reality to Numerical Weather Prediction Efforts in the United States
Kristine C. Harper (Oregon State University, USA)

Choosing the Right Axis: An Institutional History of the Belgrade ETA Forecast Model
Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester, UK)

Data Collection and the Ozone Hole: Too much of a good thing?
Maureen Christie (University of Melbourne, Australia)