The Wanderer, 1984–2000

Abstract

My official retirement from NASA was dated 3 December 1984. On that day, I started employment as a distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. That was the beginning of visits to Pasadena for one to two months each year. During the period from April 1985 to July 1987 I was also a senior research associate at the Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, where I had grants from both the NSF and NASA. Lucille and I started to spend three to four months in southern Florida, starting in 1989, when I also worked part-time with Frank Marks at the Hurricane Research Division of the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (CIMAS) at the University of Miami. The period 1986–1990 was also devoted in large part to the planning and organization of the Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference, and the editing of the resulting book Radar in Meteorology. During the entire period, I retained an office at Goddard Space Flight Center.