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GA WAN & WORSe
By Alexander Kielland
1882 Gylaendal, Kjobenhavn, 367pp. DOUGLAS B. BOUDRA
(1950-1989)
Translated by, Hege M. Hobaek
W E ARE SORRY to report that Dr. oceanic and atmospheric circulation. He
N O T H I N G IS AS spacious as the ocean, Douglas B. Boudra, Associate Professor of fulfilled all these roles with enthusiasm and
nothing as patient. Like a good-humored Meteorology and Physical Oceanography grace. Doug expressed his concern for his
elephant it carries the little manikins who at the University of Miami, passed away on fellow man through his devotion to the
inhabit the earth on its back, and in its vast, Tuesday, September 12, 1989. blood donation program at RSMAS and as
cool depth there is room for all the lamen- We extend our sympathy to his family a leader of the United Way effort. Through
tation in the world. It is not true that the and friends for their loss of this special his example he showed us the importance
ocean is unfaithful, because it never prom- individual. As his friends and colleagues, of broad participation in life. Despite his
ised anything: without demands, without we will miss his contributions to our lives short time with us, Doug's contributions
obligation, free, pure and unadulterated the and science. Doug had many excellent were many. We shall remember Doug as a
big heart beats--the last piece of health in qualities, but by far one of the finest was his lmnmnist, teacher and scholar, but mostly
a sick world. willingness to be a participant in all areas of as a friend.
And while the manikins stare beyond it, life. As a scientist, he contributed many
the ocean sings its old songs. Many do not insights into the complexities of atmos- Contributed by Otis Brown, Chairman,
understand it at all: but two people never pheric and oceanic models. As a mentor to Division of Meteorology and Physical
understand it in the same way, because the students, he spent endless hours discussing Oceanography, Rosenstiel School of Ma-
ocean has a special word For each in par- their concerns and guiding them toward a rine and Atmospheric Science, 4600 Rick-
ticular who stands litce to face with it. more c o m p l e t e u n d e r s t a n d i n g of the enbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149. [21
It smiles with shiny, green wavelets to
the barefooted children who catch crabs: it
breaks in blue swells against the ship and MICHAEL COX
sends the flesh, salty ray of foam far in on (1941-1989)
the deck: heavy, grey seas fall over the
beach, and while weary eyes follow the M I C H A E L C O X ' S many fiiends among Later his interests shifted to the ocean cir-
long, pale grey breakers, the stripes of foam ocean circulation lnodelers feeI a keen loss culation in middle latitudes, where he
rinse the smooth sand in gentle arches. And of one of the real pioneers in the field. Cox demonstrated the feasibility of carrying out
in the mute sound of the wave's lasl fall joined the General Circulation Laboratory eddy-resolving ocean circulation simula-
there is something of a secret understand- of the U.S. Weather Bureau (now N O A A ' s tions over domains of planetary scale. He
i n g - - a s if the ocean were a friend who Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) set high standards in the originality of his
knows all and faithfully keeps its knowl- in 1963 after graduating fl'om George research and the thoroughness with which
edge. Washington University with a B.S. in sta- he analyzed the results of his numerical ex-
tistics. His first job involved operating the periments. The ocean model which Cox de-
He,ge M. Hoback. Gunnarsv~_.i 52, 3700 Skicn. Nor- laboratory computer, but he quickly be- veloped in collaboration with Bcrt Scnltncr
way. came involved in developing ocean circu- and Kirk Bryan has become widely used.
E d i t o r ' s Note: Kielland's novel Garman & llor.~e
lation models and publishing scientific Cox's efforts to document the model, to
was preceded by a collection of sketches or novelettes papers. make it widely available to the community,
entitled Tales o! Two Cn~oltries, subsequently trans- He was the author or coauthor of eight- and to provide advice and encouragement
lated into English by William Archer and publislled in een papers, three of which were given the earned him the respect and warm apprecia-
1891 by Harper and Brothers of New York and Lon-
N O A A Outstanding Paper Award. His first tion of a wide circle of colleagues all over
don. In the inlmduction to thai book, H. H. Boye~en
stresses Kicllands unusual "epigrammaticsparkle," interest was in the ocean circulation in the the world.
here manifestedby manikinson an oceanic elephant. vicinity of the equator, and he wrote two
Both Hobcekand Boyesennote thai Kielland's evoca- seminal papers on the seasonal changes of Contributed by Kirk Bryan, Geophysi-
tive imagery of the sea springs from experience, the circulation in the Indian Ocean and the cal Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, P.O. Box
author having come fl'om a ship-owning family of a
thirty-day waves of the equatorial Pacific. 308, Princeton, NJ 08542. L..I
western coastal town of Norway. CI
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