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Glenn Shaw talks with Bill Schneider in Fairbanks, Alaska on May 6, 2000 about...
mother -- death\ Morgan, J.P.\ Rockefeller, John\ barons\ Civil War\ economic expansion\ industrialists\ capitalism\ Carnegie, Andrew\ Montana -- 1860's\ stagecoach\ Oregon Trail\ Indian attack|
2) Settling the American West.
pioneers -- Montana\ pioneers -- Alaska\ grandparents -- French-Canadian\ grandparents -- Catholic\ Great Depression\ father -- homesteading\ Idaho\ cultural history\ Scotland\ Northern England\ wife -- Shaw, Glenn\ Nez Perce Forest\ individualism|
Great Depression\ Shaw, Glenn -- mother\ Shaw, Glenn -- father\ Montana\ Butte, Montana\ job -- night watchman\ college -- metallurgical engineer\ Mr. Kauffman\ Butte Machinery Company\ scientist\ Geophysical Institute\ Age of Enlightenment -- Europe\ individual initiative\ collectivism\ socialism|
4) The melting pot of ideas that were housed in the early Geophysical Institute.
background -- Scandinavian\ newspaper -- editorials\ Geophysical Institute -- scientists\ religions\ political convictions\ science -- style\ Mather, Keith\ Victorian Age\ Australian\ Belon, Al\ Romick, Jerry\ Parthasarathy, Saudi\ Ohtake, Taku\ Benson, Carl\ Deehr, Chuck\ Geophysical Institute -- free thinkers\ genetic engineering\ Romick, Jerry -- physics professor\ photo-multiplier tubes\ polarization -- sky\ grant|
5) The early Geophysical Institute and more about his childhood.
equipment -- old fashioned\ Geophysical Institute -- rundown\ Ester Dome -- experiment\ Shaw, Glenn -- childhood\ Butte, Montana\ immigrants -- Irish\ immigrants -- Chinese\ Butte, Montana -- brothel\ miners\ O'Brien, Jim\ science -- experiment|
6) Experiments and learning as a child.
science experiments\ chlorine gas -- house\ Shaw, Glenn -- only child\ logarithms\ triangle\ modern physics\ interval sign\ calculus|
7) His father's business providing the material for his experiments.
father -- stories\ Golden Gate Bridge\ dams -- art deco\ metallurgical engineering\ Butte Machinery Company\ metallurgical assay laboratories\ mills -- refurbished\ chemical labratories\ gold\ Butte, Montana\ electric meter\ gears -- ratio\ mercury\ arsenic\ sodium metal|
8) More experiments as a child.
water -- electrolysis\ rectifier\ hydrogen gas\ oxygen gas\ electric motors\ spark coil\ Shaw, Glenn -- grandparents|
9) His early lack of respect for school.
Rosenstein, Everett -- magic tricks\ Shaw, Glenn -- science experiments\ cat -- shock\ Geophysical Institute\ school -- slacking\ California -- trip\ history\ sociology\ algebra|
10) Failing algebra and going into the Navy.
algebra -- final exam\ lowest commom denominator\ algebra -- fail\ scientist\ summer school\ teacher -- Mrs. O'Leary\ high school\ Navy\ officer|
11) Managing to see nuclear weapons while in the Navy.
electronic technician\ petty officer\ aircraft carrier\ amateur radio\ transmitter\ radar\ atomic bomb\ special weapons experts\ uranium\ FBI file\ atomic weapons\ Butte mines -- work\ Montana State College\ electrical engineering\ courses -- liberal arts\ courses -- physics|
12) Receiving a fellowship and making the next life decisions.
fellowship -- Howard Hughes\ California\ traveling wave tubes\ transfer functions\ German Air Force\ Hughes Aircraft\ Cal Tech\ Hughes Research Laboratory\ Watts Riots\ Los Angeles, CA\ University of Arizona, Tuscon\ Alaska -- small|
13) His lone wolf style work ethic at the Geophysical Institute.
Geophysical Institute\ radio wave propagation -- research\ whistler propagation -- research\ Auroral research\ work ethic -- personal\ big science\ Shaw, Glenn -- lone wolf\ arctic haze\ ice crystals\ solar radiation\ meteorology|
14) His science style and exploring arctic haze.
curiosity -- scientific\ grants -- scientific\ attention deficit disorder\ Japanese scientists\ Japan -- economy\ arctic haze\ chemistry\ physics\ Ron, Kenneth\ meteorological maps\ chemical signatures\ Arctic\ Cornell University\ National Science Foundation (NSF)\ Siberian high\ pollution -- Eurasia\ pollution -- Europe\ copper smelting\ thermodynamics|
15) Conclusions about arctic haze.
haze -- layers\ haze -- samples\ nickel\ iron\ cobalt\ uranium\ Eurasia -- industry\ Arctic pollution\ child -- discipline\ marketing skills\ grants -- scientific\ faculty review\ Prospero, Joseph\ external reviews|
16) Joseph Prospero's comments regarding Glenn Shaw and greenhouse warming.
Shaw, Glenn -- resume\ astrophysics\ meteorology\ atmospheric chemistry\ dimethyl sulfide -- climate\ University of Washington\ Charlson, Bob\ magazine -- Nature\ greenhouse warming -- suspicion\ US economy -- energy based\ plant -- growth\ political viewpoints\ life -- resilience\ climate -- regulation|
climate -- stability\ ice ages\ climate -- change\ atmospheric particles\ sun -- wavelength\ optical wave\ World War II\ aluminum foil -- radar wavelength\ aerosol -- 1/2 micron\ sulphur particles\ environmentalists\ South Pole\ Arctic\ Antarctica\ industrial compounds|
18) Tackling the phenomenon of sulpher aerosols over Antarctica.
sulphur aerosols\ human pollution\ scientific inquiry\ light -- scatter\ climatic influence\ clouds -- nuclei\ phytoplankton -- ocean\ organic chemical\ atmospheric chemistry\ sulphur dioxide\ sulphate particle\ biosphere\ whales\ man\ journal -- climatic change\ journal -- Nature\ journal -- Science\ Schneider, Steve\ Roederer, Juan -- Geophysical Institute director|
19) Publishing a paper on particulates in the South Pole.
Schneider, Steve\ Roederer, Juan -- Geophysical Institute director\ Swift, Dan -- lawsuit\ professor -- tenured\ Shaw, Glenn -- paper\ science\ nature\ Charlson, Bob\ geophysics\ Hobbs, Peter\ calculus\ hydroynamic flow -- ideas|
20) How Glenn's scientific mind works through problems.
subliminal mind\ air -- clear\ photo-chemical reactions\ atmosphere\ stars -- magnitude system\ Greeks\ Adriatics\ paleolithic age\ cavemen\ records\ anthropologists\ archaeologists\ Antarctica|
21) The scientific mind continued.
Antarctica\ sky transparencies\ particles -- Antarctica\ clouds -- nuclei\ ancient times -- rain\ geology\ hydrological cycle -- ancient times\ sulfates -- particles\ quantum mechanics\ volcanoes -- sulphur\ Radke, Larry\ optical extinction\ Lovelock, Jim\ dimethyl sulfite -- ocean\ fish market -- smell|
22) Dimethyl sulfite, climate, and scientific research.
plankton\ sulphur\ fossil fuel production\ modulates climate\ climate models\ Department of Energy\ scientific question\ research\ science -- comes up little by little|
23) Major achievements of the Geophysical Institute.
Chapman, Sydney\ achievements\ kinetic theory\ geophysical research\ compass\ magnetic field\ Chapman, Sydney -- started International Geophysical Year (IGY)\ thermal infusion|
24) Major achievements of the Geophysical Institute continued.
Chapman, Sydney\ Aurora\ satellites\ Chapman -- allowed his workers to experiment\ 1960's\ 2nd great achievement -- Mather, Keith\ Aurora\ plate tectonics\ solid earth\ meteorology\ National Science Foundation\ Elvey Building|
25) Major achievements of the Geophysical Institute and attracting good people to the Institute.
solid earth\ Akasofu, Syun-Ichi\ money -- raised\ people -- hired\ leader -- great\ director's job -- good for a few years\ early space physics research|
26) The future of the Geophysical Institute.
solid earth geophysics\ Atmospheric Science Program\ remote sensing -- opportunity for the future|
