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Fleming, James Rodger was born on May 28, 1949 in Windber, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James Thomas and Ellen Jane (Rodger) Fleming.
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Between 1800 and 1870 meteorology emerged as both a legitimate science and a government service in America. Challenging the widely held assumption that meteorologists were mere "data-gatherers" and that U.S. scientists were inferior to their European counterparts, James Rodger Fleming shows how the 1840s debate over the nature and causes of storms led to a "meteorological crusade" that would transform both theory and practice. Centrally located administrators organized hundreds of widely dispersed volunteer and military observers into systematic projects that covered the entire nation. Theorists then used these systems to "observe" weather patterns over large areas, making possible for the first time the compilation of accurate weather charts and maps. When in 1870 Congress created a federal storm-warning service under the U.S. Army Signal Office, the era of amateur scientists, volunteer observers, and adhoc organizations came to an end. But the gains had been significant, including advances in natural history and medical geography, and in understanding the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere.
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( Between 1800 and 1870 meteorology emerged as both a leg...)
Between 1800 and 1870 meteorology emerged as both a legitimate science and a government service in America. Challenging the widely held assumption that meteorologists were mere "data-gatherers" and that U.S. scientists were inferior to their European counterparts, James Rodger Fleming shows how the 1840s debate over the nature and causes of storms led to a "meteorological crusade" that would transform both theory and practice. Centrally located administrators organized hundreds of widely dispersed volunteer and military observers into systematic projects that covered the entire nation. Theorists then used these systems to "observe" weather patterns over large areas, making possible for the first time the compilation of accurate weather charts and maps. When in 1870 Congress created a federal storm-warning service under the U.S. Army Signal Office, the era of amateur scientists, volunteer observers, and adhoc organizations came to an end. But the gains had been significant, including advances in natural history and medical geography, and in understanding the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere.
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This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary and archival sources, the book is filled with interesting perspectives on what people have understood, experienced, and feared about the climate and its changes in the past. Chapters explore climate and culture in Enlightenment thought; climate debates in early America; the development of international networks of observation; the scientific transformation of climate discourse; and early contributions to understanding terrestrial temperature changes, infrared radiation, and the carbon dioxide theory of climate. But perhaps most important, this book shows what a study of the past has to offer the interdisciplinary investigation of current environmental problems.
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Fleming, James Rodger was born on May 28, 1949 in Windber, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James Thomas and Ellen Jane (Rodger) Fleming.
Bachelor of Science in Astronomy, Pennsylvania State University, 1971; Master of Science in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 1973; Master of Arts in History of Science, Princeton University, 1984; Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science, Princeton University, 1988.
Graduate research assistant, Colorado State University, 1971-1973;
meteorologist cloud physics division, U. Washington, 1973;
meteorologist cloud physics division, National Center Atmospheric Research, 1973;
consultant meteorologist, private practice, Florida and New York, 1974-1982;
history consultant, history editor, Bulletin American Meteorological Society, 1987-1988;
professor science, technical and society, Colby College, Waterville, Maine., since 1988;
chair interdisciplinary studies division, Colby College, since 1997. Visiting professor Pennsylvania State University Center Global Change Science, 1994. Visiting scholar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program Science, Technology and Society, 1992-1994.
Research associate Harvard University Department History Science, 1992-1993. Speaker in field.
(This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of...)
( Between 1800 and 1870 meteorology emerged as both a leg...)
( Between 1800 and 1870 meteorology emerged as both a leg...)
Member American Geophysical Union (numerous offices), American Meteorological Society (numerous offices, research grantee 1987-1988, history consultant since 1996), British Society History of Science, History of Science Society (speaker 1986, 87, 92, 95, 97), Society History Technology (speaker 1994).
Married Miyoko Yamato, July 1,1982. Children: Jamitto, Jason Thomas.