Professional of the Year for 2007 in Meteorology Research: Richard T. Wetherald, Meteorologist

	Richard T. Wetherald, Meteorologist
Industry	Government laboratory
Title	Research Meteorologist
Expertise	Greenhouse and global warming
Current Organization	Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab
Type of Organization	Government research lab
Major Product	Climate research, scientific research
Area of Distribution	International
University/Degree	B.S., 1962; M.S., 1963, Civil Engineering (Meteorology), University of Michigan
Born	March 28, 1936, Plainfield, New Jersey
Published Works	50 articles, 1 book chapter including- Carroll A.B., Wetherald R.T., 1967, Application of parallel processing to numerical weather prediction, Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 14(3), 591-614; Manabe S., Wetherald R.T., 1967, Thermal equilibrium of the atmosphere with a given distribution of relative humidity, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 24(3), 241-259; Manabe S., Wetherald R.T., 1975, The effects of doubling CO2 concentration on the climate of a general circulation model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 32(1), 3-15; Wetherald R.T., 2002, Greenhouse warming research, Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, 3rd Edition, 7, Academic Press, 107-128; other papers listed at http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/reference/bibliography/authors/wetherald.html
Affiliations	A.M.S.; Program Director, Y.M.C.A. (program Indian Guides and Princesses for 4 years); Past Scoutmaster; Former Member, American Meteorological Society; Member, Princeton Chapter, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society and participated in educational outreach (SCIAD) program
Hobbies & Sports	Astronomy, singing
Career Accomplishments	Outreach activities include professional presentations to public school classes k-12, various civic and professional groups such as Rotary International, American Chemical Society, International Radiation Symposium, Princeton Chamber of Commerce, American Meteorological Society, PULSE and QUEST
Work History	Associate Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Co., Baltimore, MD, 1963-64; Senior Research Associate, primary field-Greenhouse Warming Research, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Washington, DC, Princeton, NJ, 2008
Children	Barbara, Kenneth, Cindy; 3 grandchildren
Spouse	Lucille Edith Wiggin
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