Guenter Loeser Memorial Award

The Guenter Loeser Memorial Award honors the late scientist who lost his life while doing meteorological research for the United States Air Force in 1953. Loeser died in a helicopter crash in Nebraska while conducting the Great Plains Turbulence Field Program.

The award is presented annually by the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (formerly the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories) for an outstanding research contribution. Recipients present a lecture on a topic of scientific interest.

Winners

Year Winner 1955 Jean I. F. King 1956 Robert G. Breene, Jr. 1957 David Atlas 1958 Rita C. Sagalyn 1959 Norman A. Haskell 1960 Hans Hinteregger 1961 Yoshio Tanaka 1962 Kenneth S. W. Champion, Robert A. Mapleton 1963 Herman Yagoda 1964 Jules Aarons 1965 Allan C. Shell 1966 Hari K. Sen 1967 John W. Evans 1968 Robert E. Huffman 1969 John W. Salisbury 1970 Rocco S. Narcisi 1971 Norman W. Rosenberg 1972 Leon J. Heroux 1973 Paul H. Carr 1974 A.T. Stair, Jr. 1975 Edward A. Burke 1976 Robert A. McClatchey 1977 William Swider 1978 George Vanasse 1979 Ralph Shapiro 1980 Donald H. Eckhardt 1981 Randall E. Murphy 1982 Edmond Murad 1983 George W. Simon 1984 John R. Jasperse 1985 Don F. Smart, Margaret Ann Shea 1986 John F. Paulson 1987 David A. Hardy 1988 William J. Burke 1989 Herbert C. Carlson 1990 Nelson C. Maynard 1991 Donald Neidig 1992 John A. Klobuchar 1993 M. Susan Gussenhoven 1994 E. Gary Mullen 1995 Laurence Rothman 1996 Albert A. Viggiano 1997 David N. Anderson 1998 Ernest R. Huppi 1999 Stephan D. Price 2000 Edmond M. Dewan 2001 Ramesh D. Sharma 2002 Rainer A. Dressler 2003 Edward W. Cliver 2004 Frederick J. Rich 2005 Frank Marcos 2006 Santimay Basu 2007 Bamandas Basu 2008 Greg Ginet 2009 Steve Kahler 2010 Anton Dainty 2011 2012 Evgeny Mishin 2013 Dale Ferguson 2014 Todd Pedersen, Nicholas Shuman

References

• AFGL Chronology - Defense Technical Information Center
• AGU Will Present Edmond M. Dewan Scholarship
• Prairie Wind: In Nowheresville, Nebraska, the Air Force learned a thing or two about turbulence. - Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine

Bibliography

Chronology: From the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory to the Geophysics Directorate, Phillips Laboratory, 1985–1995; Ruth P. Liebowitz, Evelyn M. Kindler, 26 September 1995. Phillips Laboratory Special Reports, No. 275. PL-TR-95-2134.