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AcknowledgmentsThis history of CIRES acknowledges the debt owed by those now bene- fiting from the existence of the Institute to the vision and efforts of the founders, and the hard work of those that followed. George Benton and Alan Shapley of IER/ESSA (ERL/NOAA) and James Archer, the Dean of the CU Graduate School, were the visionaries who conceived of CIRES. James Wait and George Reid of NOAA, and Wesley Brittin, James Warwick, and Chris Harrison of CU were the working scientists who led the implementation of that concept. I am especially grateful to Chris Harrison, the founding director, who provided information about the sequence of actions in 1967 and 1968 that led to the creation of the Institute, and to Bob Sievers and Susan Avery, who provided the material for chapters three and four. I also acknowledge the essential contributions to the development of CIRES of Isabel Pelander, the first administrative assistant to the director, who in those early days did everything now performed by the staff on the third floor of the CIRES building and whose help was essential to me in getting started as director in 1972. Other key people in the early days were Jeanette Trebing, the first member of the administrative staff, who served CIRES in many functions for years, and Betty Walters, the first accountant, who organized the accounting system to handle the burgeoning CIRES research budget and put our financial management on a professional basis. A special word of thanks is due to Lynn Walloch, who has been and continues to be a most valued coworker since my earliest days in CIRES. I express my gratitude to Julie McKie, who has given me valuable assistance on a number of major projects over the years, and who helped very much in the preparation of this book. Annette Varani contributed much to the production of the book, including copy editing and arranging the publication. The photographs were provided by several sources. The picture of George Benton and the NOAA logo were taken from the NOAA Internet web site. Those of James Archer and Lawson Crowe were provided by the Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries (CU Photolab Collection; CU News Bureau Collection, respectively). The photo of W. A. Hess was provided by NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. The satellie image of Antarctica (chapter seven) was provided by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The image opening chapter six was taken from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory web site. Paul Sperry, Executive Director of CIRES provided many of the pictures and valuable advice on the entire project. Other photos were provided by the authors of the science chapters and other colleagues working in the various scientific fields. Chapter five was adapted from a report on the history of geophysics at the University of Colorado prepared by the author for inclusion in the International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, copyrighted by the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior Committee on Education, which grants permission for use of the material. This attempt to recapture the story of the past 35 years of institutional history is also intended to offer a glimpse of the foundation that has been created and the aspirations for what lies ahead. The first four chapters summarize the origin and evolution of the structure, governance, and infrastructure of CIRES. The remaining chapters, five through ten, written by senior specialists in each field, review the development of disciplinary areas forming the scientific strength of the Institute and the progress in promoting truly interdisciplinary and outreach programs. The reader will note that the same people and the same research topics often turn up in more than one of those chapters devoted to the science programs. This apparent redundancy is a felicitous consequence of the efforts of the Institute to develop truly interdisciplinary approaches to solving problems of the environment. We close with a statement from the current director on her vision for the future of CIRES. At the beginning of the 21st century CIRES has evolved from the institute envisioned by the founders. It remains committed to the promotion of excellence in the search for understanding of the environment. Carl Kisslinger
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