Tuesday, October 23 Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer
8:00 Speaker - Farthing Auditorium
Dr. William H. Hooke
A New Apocalypse :
Disasters, Plagues, and Turmoil of the 21st Century".
William H. Hooke is a Senior Policy Fellow and the Director of the Atmospheric Policy Program. He has been with the Atmospheric Policy Program since June, 2000.
His current policy research interests include: natural disaster reduction; historical precedents as they illuminate present-day policy; and the nature and implications of changing national requirements for weather and climate science and services. He also directs AMS policy education programs, including the AMS-UCAR Summer Policy Colloquium, and the Congressional Fellow Program.
Between 1993 and 2000, he held two national responsibilities: Director of the U.S. Weather Research Program Office, and Chair of the interagency Subcommittee for Natural Disaster Reduction of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.
From 1987 to 1993 he served as the Deputy Chief Scientist and Acting Chief Scientist of NOAA, setting policy and direction for $300M/year of NOAA R&D in oceanography, atmospheric science, hydrology, climate, marine biology, and associated technologies.
From 1973 to 1980, he was Chief of the Wave Propagation Laboratory Atmospheric Studies Branch. From 1980 to 1983 he rotated through a series of management development assignments. From 1984 to 1987 he directed NOAA's Environmental Sciences Group (now the Forecast Systems Lab), responsible for much of the systems R&D for the NWS Modernization, as well as a range of other weather and climate research activities.
From 1967 to 2000, Dr. Hooke worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and antecedent agencies.
Dr. Hooke was an adjoint faculty member at the University of Colorado from 1969 to 1987, and served as a fellow of two NOAA Joint Institutes (CIRES, 1971-1977; CIRA 1987-2000). The author of over fifty refereed publications, and co-author of one book, Dr. Hooke holds a B.S. (Physics Honors) from Swarthmore College (1964), and S.M. (1966) and Ph.D (1967) degrees from the University of Chicago.
For more information check the following web sites:
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/atmospolicy/bios/hookebio.html
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/seminars/97514DD.html