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Title Obituary Kenneth Potter Kenneth Evan Duke Potter, Director of the Guyana Hydrometeorological Service from 1965 to 1975 and Permanent Representative of Guyana with WMO from 1967 to 1979, died in Sydney, Australia, on 10 June 2008. Ken was born in Georgetown, Guyana, on 14 June 1935. He received his secondary school education at Queen’s College in Georgetown, then obtained a Guyana scholarship to study civil engineering at Aberdeen University in Scotland. He obtained his BSc in 1958 and a postgraduate Diploma in Engineering Hydrology from Imperial College, London University, in 1963. Ken began his professional career in the Drainage and Irrigation Department and held various engineering posts between 1958 and 1965. When the Guyana Hydrometeorological Service was created in 1965 as a centralized Division of the Ministry of Works and Hydraulics, Ken was appointed Chief Hydrometeorological Officer— a position he held for nine years. Under his direction, the Hydromet Service developed rapidly into a well-coordinated and dynamic entity with a solid core of professional personnel. Early in his Hydromet mandate, Ken recognized that a significant 0 | WMO Bulletin 58 (1) - January 2009 limitation to water resources assessment and development in Guyana and throughout the English-speaking Caribbean was the inadequacy of trained hydrological technicians. He accordingly sought the establishment of institutionalized training similar to that being done for meteorological technicians in the region. He became the driving force behind the creation of the Caribbean Operational Hydrology Institute (COHI), set up in 1980 with WMO sponsorship alongside the Caribbean Meteorological Institute (CMI) in Barbados. In 1968, Ken met Lesley, a young Australian graduate student in geography, who was undertaking fieldwork in Guyana as part of her PhD programme at McGill University in Montreal. In 1971, Lesley returned to take up a position at the University of Guyana. She and Ken were married in Georgetown in 1973. In 1975, Ken was appointed Chief Works Officer in the Ministry of Works and Transport with responsibility for coordinating and overseeing the work of the eight Technical Divisions. In 1980, Ken served as a WMO consultant to start the operational phase of the COHI project. Several years later COHI was amalgamated with CMI to create the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology. Ken had more than a professional interest in water; he was enthusiastic about water sports and none more so than rowing. He was founder member of the Georgetown rowing club. He enjoyed sailing on the Demerara River and occasionally ventured out to the Caribbean Sea and around the islands. In 1980 Ken resigned his post in Guyana and settled with Lesley in Adelaide, Australia. From 1981 to 1992 he worked with a consulting firm on a broad range of hydrology and hydraulic engineering projects in South Australia. In 1993 he opened his own consultancy specializing in flood and drainage problems. Ken was highly respected for his work both in the Caribbean and in South Australia. His family and many friends describe him as a gentleman, quiet and kind. It was a pleasure to have known him and worked with him and a privilege to have been his friend. Our thoughts are with his wife Lesley and his sister Ann. John Bassier
News from the WMO Title Secretariat Visits of the Secretary-General The Secretary-General, Michel Jarraud, recently made official visits to a number of Member countries as briefly reported below. He wishes to place on record his gratitude to those Members for the kindness and hospitality extended to him. The Netherlands On 29 September 2008 the Secretary- General visited Amsterdam at the invitation of the President of the European Meteorological Society (EMS), to participate in the opening of the 8th Annual Meeting of the EMS and the 7th European Conference on Applied Meteorology. Mr Jarraud gave a presentation entitled “The evolving role of WMO in climate change adaptation”, which was followed by questions and lively discussion. The Gambia At the invitation of the Government, made through HE the Hon. Momodou Cham, Secretary of State for Forestry and the Environment, the Secretary- General visited The Gambia to participate in the The Gambia Climate Change Forum, which opened in Kololi on 6 October 2008. Among the main session objectives was enhancing awareness on a Banjul, The Gambia, October 2008 — Mr Jarraud is greeted by the Secretary of State for Justice, Ms Marie Saine Firdaws. To her right are Mr Ousman Jah, Head of the Social Sciences Department, University of The Gambia, and Mr A. Ndiaye, Director, WMO Regional Office for Africa. number of key environmental reports, including the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which WMO has co-sponsored since 1988. Mr Jarraud underscored the importance of rapidly advancing both the mitigation of greenhousegas emissions and adaptation to the local effects of climate change. He welcomed the The Gambia climate change initiative and highlighted the urgent need for all Africa to address the climate change issue. The Secretary-General met with HE Ajaratou Isatou Njie-Saidy, Vice President of the Republic of The Gambia, for discussions on sustainable development. He also visited the Central Weather Forecast Office at Banjul International Airport. United Nations New York The Secretary-General attended the second 2008 regular session and retreat of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), chaired by the UN Secretary-General at United Nations headquarters in New York, on 24 and 25 October 2008. The session focused on climate change, staff security and WMO Bulletin 58 (1) - January 2009 | 1
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