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1980-1993. Maturity: The Years of Broadening and Deepening

Relations with NOAA and ERL

Relations with NOAA and especially with ERL remained excellent throughout these years. Especially critical to the continuing success of CIRES was the strong support and enthusiastic cooperation offered by Wilmot Hess and Joseph Fletcher. Hess left NOAA to become the director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research shortly after Sievers became director of CIRES. Fletcher succeeded him as ERL director, and maintained the close working relationship with the Institute that he had developed as deputy director, especially in the general area of climate studies and other areas of CIRES research that were closely tied to NOAA scientific interests.

The leadership offered by the heads of the ERL laboratories located in Boulder was also of prime importance to progress in development of programs of mutual interest. Eldon Ferguson was the director of the Aeronomy Laboratory [ About this Lab ] when CIRES was founded and continued in that role until he took over as head of the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, a position he held until his retirement from NOAA. Daniel Albritton. succeeded Ferguson as head of Aeronomy. CIRES has major interactions with this laboratory. In the beginning The ERL laboratory with which CIRES had the closest association was the Wave Propagation Lab, under Gordon Little. Little was succeeded by Steven Clifford and the name of the laboratory was changed to the Environmental Technology Lab, and collaboration has continued. Ernest Hildner, director of the Space Environment Center (formerly Space Environment Lab) also provided excellent leadership in cooperative activities.

Marilyn Moll contributed vital services as the liaison between CIRES and the administrations of ERL and NOAA. From the CIRES side, the excellent contributions of Lynn Walloch and the extraordinary institute staff that she and Sievers recruited have been widely recognized, from the vantage points of both NOAA and CU.

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