Charles F. Brooks

Background

Brooks, Charles F. was born on May 2, 1891 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Son of Morgan and Frona Marie (Brooks) Brooks.

Education

Student of University of Illinois, 1907-1908. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1911, as of 1912, Master of Arts, 1912, Doctor of Philosophy, 1914.

Career

Research assistant, Blue Hill Observatory, 1912-1913. Assistant in meteorology and physiography, Harvard, 1913-1914. Assistant physiography, Radcliffe College, 1914.

Assistant and collaborator in farm management United States Department of Agriculture, 1914-1918.

Instructor geography, Yale, 1915-1918. Instructor meteorology, United States Signal Corps School of Meteorology, College Saint, Texas, World War, May-November 1918.

Meteorologist United States Weather Bureau, editing Missouri Weather Review, 1918-1921. Associate professor meteorology and climatology, 1921-1926, professor, 1926-1932, Clark University, also instructor summers.

Professor meteorology and director, Blue Hill Observatory, Harvard, 1931-1957, professor of meteorology emeritus, since 1957.

Visiting professor University of Chicago, summer, 1939. Visiting lecturer, Clark University, summer 1941, United States Weather Bureau, 1943-1944. Meteorologist Consultant for United States Weather Bureau, 1948.

Expert Climatic Research Division, Question Manager Corps, War Department.

Consultant National Defense Research Committee President Mount Washington Observatory.

Achievements

• Charles F. Brooks has been listed as a noteworthy meteorologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member international commissions, Climatological, 1931-1945, Snow and Glaciers, 1936-1948, Instruments and Methods of Observation 1947-1951 (president sub-committee on station instruments and methods 1947-1953), Clouds and Hydrometeors 1947-1953. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Meteorological Society, American Geography Society. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Meteorological Society (organizer, editor 1919-1925, 27-36, 39.

Connections

Married Eleanor Merritt Stabler, June 4, 1914. Children: Edward Morgan, Margaret, Sylvia, Barbara, Edith Herrick, Norman Herrick, Frona.

Father:

Morgan Brooks

Mother:

Frona Marie (Brooks) Brooks

Spouse:

Eleanor Merritt Stabler

child:

Frona Brooks

child:

Barbara Brooks

child:

Sylvia Brooks

child:

Margaret Brooks

child:

Edward Morgan Brooks

child:

Norman Herrick Brooks

child:

Edith Herrick Brooks