Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impacts on Society - Climate Science ...

PREFACE XVII
provided a list of additional readings in Appendix A. This compilation of
articles, books, <strong>and</strong> WWW sites provides substantial insight into the nature
<strong>and</strong> impacts of hurricanes that goes well beyond what is found here.
Our approach is grounded in the different perspectives that we bring to this
issue. Roger Sr was trained as a meteorologist at Penn State University <strong>and</strong> had
the fortunate opportunity to work from 1971 to 1974 for Joanne Simpson at the
US National Oceanic <strong>and</strong> Atmospheric Administration's Experimental
Meteorology Lab (EML) in Miami, which was co-located with the National
Hurricane Center, then with Robert H. Simpson as Director. While at EML,
Roger Sr had the opportunity to know <strong>and</strong> learn from a number of hurricane
forecasters <strong>and</strong> tropical meteorology experts including Rick Anthes, Pete Black,
Bob Burpee, Gil Clark, Marina Estoque, Cecil Gentry, Cecilia Griffith, Neil
Frank, Harry Hawkins, Paul Herbert, Ron Holle, Brian Jarvinen, Bob Jones,
Miles Lawrence, Banner Miller, Charlie Newmann, Jose Fern<strong>and</strong>ez-Partagas,
Joe Pelisser, Stan Rosenthal, Bob Sheets, Arnold Sugg, Jim Trout, Victor
Wiggert, <strong>and</strong> Bill Woodley. In 1974, Roger Sr, along with Bob <strong>and</strong> Joanne
Simpson, began teaching at the University of Virginia where he was fortunate
to interact in tropical meteorology with Dave Emmitt, Bruce Hayden, Mike
Garstang, <strong>and</strong> Pat Michaels. In 1981, Roger Sr joined the faculty at Colorado
State University (CSU) where he has profited from the knowledge <strong>and</strong> expertise
in this subject area of Bill Cotton, Steve Cox, Bill Gray, Dick Johnson, John
Knaff, Chris L<strong>and</strong>sea, Mike Montgomery, John Scheaffer, Wayne Schubert,
Tom Vonder Haar, <strong>and</strong> Ray Zehr.
Roger Jr was trained as a political scientist at the University of Colorado
where he focused on science policy under the guidance of Ron Brunner, Susan
Clarke, <strong>and</strong> Sam Fitch. At Colorado, Roger Jr was trained in the tradition of
the policy sciences, a distinctive tradition in the policy movement, characterized
by an approach to the study of policy that is contextual, problemoriented,
<strong>and</strong> multi-method. In 1991, Roger Jr had an opportunity to work for
the House Science Committee in Washington, DC, then under the leadership
of Representative George Brown. The Chief of Staff of that Committee, Rad
Byerly, has taught Roger Jr much about the relation of science <strong>and</strong> policymaking,
both at the Committee <strong>and</strong> since. In 1994, Roger Jr joined the staff
of the Environmental <strong>and</strong> Societal <strong>Impacts</strong> Group (ESIG) at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) where he has benefited from a
close working relation with Mickey Glantz, a world leader in the study of the
relation of climate <strong>and</strong> society.
The idea for this book has its origin in a post-doc position funded by the
National Science Foundation that Roger Jr spent at ESIG studying societal
responses to extreme weather events. A National Oceanographic <strong>and</strong> Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) conference on hurricanes organized by Henry
Diaz <strong>and</strong> Roger Pulwarty provided the first opportunity for us to collaborate
on the subject of hurricanes, bringing together some of Roger Sr's earlier work
with Roger Jr's post-doc research. With so much discussion in recent years