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A Family Tree of Tropical Meteorology's Academic Community and its Proposed Expansion

Robert E. Hart Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

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01 Dec 2013
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01 Dec 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00110.1
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1837–1848
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As part of the American Meteorological Society's 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, in April 2012, an academic lineage (“family tree”) of that community was presented to document the history of contributors to the field on the anniversary. For every self-identified or colleague-identified tropical meteorology scientist, the year of the person's most senior degree, major professor or mentors of that degree, and institution of that degree were documented and graphically presented. This information was supplemented through mining of websites, libraries, news and journal articles, obituaries, and other various historical archives. This manuscript documents the genesis of the family tree, the overall history represented by it, some statistics represented by the current incarnation, colorful personal stories that have come forward during its development, and plans for its expansion to the broader meteorology community.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Robert Hart, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, The Florida State University, 404 Love Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4520, E-mail: rhart@fsu.edu

As part of the American Meteorological Society's 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, in April 2012, an academic lineage (“family tree”) of that community was presented to document the history of contributors to the field on the anniversary. For every self-identified or colleague-identified tropical meteorology scientist, the year of the person's most senior degree, major professor or mentors of that degree, and institution of that degree were documented and graphically presented. This information was supplemented through mining of websites, libraries, news and journal articles, obituaries, and other various historical archives. This manuscript documents the genesis of the family tree, the overall history represented by it, some statistics represented by the current incarnation, colorful personal stories that have come forward during its development, and plans for its expansion to the broader meteorology community.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Robert Hart, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, The Florida State University, 404 Love Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4520, E-mail: rhart@fsu.edu
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