C.S.S.L. Arthur H. Waynick Memorial Lecture Series

Northrop Grumman has
generously contributed funds
to help support this series.

2009 Waynick Lecture

"Challenges and Opportunities
in the Geosciences"
Friday, May 1, 2009 - 8:00 p.m.
22 Deike Building - Penn State University
University Park, PA

Killeen oversees the Geosciences directorate (GEO), with a fiscal year 2008 budget of $752 million and supports research in the atmospheric, earth and ocean sciences, including climate processes and changes, the water cycle, and natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and severe storms.

Killeen has served as director of the NCAR since 2000. Prior to that, he was professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences, associate vice president for research, and director of the Space Physics Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan. He holds a doctorate in atomic and molecular physics and a Bachelor of Science with first-class honors from University College London. He has held leadership roles in the geosciences for many years, including chairing numerous national committees and advisory panels. He has been president of the American Geophysical Union since 2006, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His research is in satellite measurements and modeling of the upper atmosphere.

Killeen remarked upon his appointment to NSF, "This is a critically important time for the geosciences . . . as we move ahead in analyzing and solving problems of global importance."

Presented by:
Timothy Killeen, Ph.D.
NSF Assistant Director
for the Geosciences

Formerly Director for the
National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR)

President,
American Geophysical Union

Past Lectures
1984-1998 Lectures
1999	2000
2001	2002
2003	2004
2005	2006
2007	2008
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Arthur Henry Waynick
1905-1982

Dr. Waynick profoundly influenced the course of radio science and atmospheric research, both in the United States and abroad. His interest in these fields was established during a period of study at the Cavendish Laboratory from 1937-39. He returned to the United States in 1939, worked in the Harvard University Underwater Sound Laboratory, then transferred to Penn State in 1947. Here he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and served as head and as the first departmental A. Robert Noll Professor until his retirement in 1971.

In 1949 he founded the Ionosphere Research Laboratory, later to become the

Communications and Space Sciences Laboratory at Penn State, served as its director until his retirement, and continued an active participation until his death. Of particular note was his policy of bringing together a group of outstanding international scientists as resident consultants to the laboratory, a program that proved immensely productive in engaging both staff and students in cooperative research activities in important new fields of study. He was chairman of the U. S. National Committee of URSI in 1954 and was a member of the U. S. National Committee for the IGY, the NSF Advisory Panel of the IQSY, and the National Academy of Sciences Geophysical Research Board Panel on the IQSY. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Space Science Board Committee on Atmospheres of the Earth and the Planets and also served as chairman of the NSF Advisory Panel on Atmospheric Sciences. He was a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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