ICHM Archive 2007
Sam Randalls has been appointed to a lectureship in geography at University College London. Sam is really pleased about the position, which will provide some stability from which he can build new research projects. The university liked Sam's work in building non-determinist and critical social science research on climate change. The position supports his interests in weather/climate-society research, so Sam can continue to engage with the questions that really interest him.
History of Meteorology editor and ICHM Past-President Jim Fleming appeared on television, April 15th-20th.
History of Meteorology,
the peer-reviewed journal of the ICHM, has
been added to DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals, at
The
Callendar Effect --Awarded the "2006 ASLI CHOICE in the History
of Meteorology Category‚" from the Atmospheric Science Librarians International
-- is the untold story of the remarkable individual who established the carbon
dioxide theory of climate change. Guy Stewart Callendar discovered that global
warming could be brought about by increases in the concentration of atmospheric
carbon dioxide due to human activities, primarily through burning fossil fuels.
He did this in 1938!
Intimate Universality edited by James Rodger Fleming, Vlad Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen, contains eight essays on weather and climate from the Enlightenment to 2006. The atmosphere and humans interact on all scales, from lungs and laboratory flasks to the Austrian Alps and Latin American airways; from an overly hot (or cold) day to the science and politics of climate change; from gusty winds to the general planetary circulation.
From
Beaufort to Bjerknes and Beyond, edited by Stefan
Emeis and Cornelia Lüdecke, papers from the 2004 ICHM meeting in Polling,
Germany, Algorismus 52 (2005).
" AMS Graduate Fellowship
in the History of Science. The American Meteorological Society
(AMS) invites applications for 2007/2008. It will be awarded to a student
wishing to complete a dissertation on the history of the atmospheric, or related
sciences. The award carries a stipend of $15,000 US and will support one
year of research. Application must
be posmarked no later than
" Abstracts of
the Conference on the Occasion of the 225th Anniversary
of the Societas Meteorologica Palatina co-sponsored by ICHM are now available:
" New Publication: FROM BEAUFORT TO BJERKNES AND BEYOND: Critical Perspectives on Observing, Analyzing, and Predicting Weather and Climate, edited by Stefan Emeis and Cornelia Lüdecke has just been published with 19 papers from the ICHM meeting in Polling, Germany. See the flier or order direct from the publisher.
Conference: Making Science Global: Reconsidering the Social and Intellectual Implications of the International Polar and Geophysical Years, was held at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. USA, 31 October to 1 November, 2007. Visit the conference website at: http://www.nasm.si.edu/getinvolved/makingscienceglobal/ . Publication of selected conference papers is under consideration.