For Release: Feb. 6, 1997
Catherine E. Watson
(757) 864-6122
Release No. 97-010
NASA Scientist Wins Author Award From Meteorological
Society
Dr. Jack Fishman, a senior research scientist at NASA's Langley
Research Center, Hampton, Va., is the 1996 co-recipient of the
American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Louis J. Battan
Author's Award. Fishman and Robert Kalish, an environmental
journalist from Bath, Maine, were honored for their book, The
Weather Revolution, on Feb. 5 at the society’s annual
banquet in Long Beach, Calif.
Fishman has conducted research on global pollution since 1979. A
satellite technique Fishman developed in the late 1980s first
identified large pollution plumes coming from southern Africa that
pollute the entire Southern Hemisphere. In 1992, Fishman led a
NASA-sponsored expedition to the South Atlantic region to study
this pollution. In 1993, he was awarded NASA's Exceptional
Scientific Achievement Medal.
Fishman and Kalish also co-authored Global Alert, The Ozone
Pollution Crisis in 1990. Fishman and Kalish are cousins who
grew up together in St. Louis, Mo. Fishman said, "Spending most of
my life writing research results for technical presentations, I
found it particularly challenging bringing this information down to
a level that could be understood by a general audience. After
spending nearly three years writing this book in collaboration with
my cousin, whose background is journalism, the end result was very
rewarding and it's particularly exciting to receive the recognition
from the AMS."
The Louis J. Battan Author's Award is presented to an author (or
authors) of an outstanding, newly published book of a technical or
non-technical nature, with consideration to those books that foster
public understanding of atmospheric science. The Weather
Revolution describes how advances in technology and our
understanding of meteorology will provide better weather forecasts
before the turn of the century. Louis J. Battan, the award's
namesake, contributed outstanding research efforts in radar
meteorology and wrote several books aimed at non-scientists.
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