When Paul B. MacCready, CCM passed away on August 28, 2007, the weather and climate community lost one of its most prestigious members. Fortunately for posterity, we have a short video (approximately 20 min) filmed in 2003: Paul MacCready: Flying on Solar Wings, in which he talks about his life and his many accomplishments and inventions. This video is available to watch on, or freely download from, the TED website.
In addition to being an AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Dr. MacCready, was an AMS Honorary Member, an AMS Fellow, and an AMS Councilor. The citation for his 1984 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advance of Applied Meteorology reads: "for basic and applied contributions in turbulence and diffusion, air quality, cloud properties, wind power, and advances in instrumentation to monitor the atmospheric environment. In these pursuits, as in his innovation of ultralight aircraft, he has demonstrated the value of interdisciplinary vision in achieving goals."
Friday, September 28, 2007
Paul MacCready Video Available Online
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