Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Poetic Obituaries: The high-altitude winds measured by [Reid] Bryson

and [William] Plumley later came to be known as the jet stream.

At Wisconsin, Bryson, who was also a published poet and a weaver, indulged his many scholarly interests and in doing so forged a model of interdisciplinary research that was decades ahead of a trend now firmly established in higher education.

"Now, interdisciplinary studies is almost like a mantra," explains Jonathan Martin, the current chair of the department Bryson founded.

from University of Wisconsin--Madison News: Pioneer of climatology dies at 88

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