Background
Fassig, Oliver Lanard was born on April 5, 1860 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of Mathias and Elizabeth (Lanard) Fassig.
Fassig, Oliver Lanard was born on April 5, 1860 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of Mathias and Elizabeth (Lanard) Fassig.
Bachelor of Science, Ohio State University, 1882. Studied Yale and University of Berlin. Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins, 1899.
With United States Weather Bureau, since 1883. Instructor meteorology, 1897-1901, associate, 1901-1919, Johns Hopkins University. Meteorologist, Maryland.
State Weather Service, 1900-1909 and 1912-1919.
Chief instructor School of Meteorology, Signal Corps United States of America, College Station, Texas, 1918. In charge West Indies and Caribbean service, United States Weather Bureau, 1919-1930.
Lecturer on climatology, School of Tropical Medicine, University of Prize ring (The), 1926-1930. Chief of division of climatology, United States Weather Bureau, 1930-1932.
Research associate Blue Hill Observatory, Harvard, since 1932.
Member Ziegler Arctic Relief Expedition, 1905.
Married Ann Green McCoy, September 14, 1898.