Table Of Contents

Descriptive Summary

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Information

Arrangement of the Collection

Restrictions

Subject and Genre Headings

Administrative Information

Container List

Series 1: General Electric- Non-Project Cirrus 1891-1993

Series 2: General Electric- Project Cirrus 1943-1954, 1981, Undated

Series 3: Munitalp Foundation 1940-1968, Undated

Series 4: Consulting 1950-1983

Series 5: Loomis School/Natural Sciences Institute 1949-1990, Undated

Series 6: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 1950-1993, Undated

Series 7: The Institute on Man and Science 1963-1991

Series 8: Environmentalism 1940-1993

Series 9: Correspondence 1922-1993, Undated

Series 10: A Field Guide to the Atmosphere 1949-1992, Undated

Series 11: Films 1932-1971, Undated

Series 12: Biographical & Autobiographical Materials 1909-1993, Undated

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VINCENT J. SCHAEFER PAPERS, (UA-902.010), 1891-1993


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Descriptive Summary

Title: Vincent J. Schaefer Papers
Date:1891-1993
Physical Characteristics: 135 cubic ft.
Abstract:The Vincent J. Schaefer Papers represent the professional accomplishments and personal interests of the scientist who discovered cloud seeding. Schaefer spent more than 20 years with General Electric in Schenectady, New York, working his way up from apprentice, to research assistant, to research associate. In those years he was mentored by Irving Langmuir, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. The work Schaefer did at General Electric laid the foundation for further success as he became director of research for the Munitalp Foundation, began a highly successful summer science program for high school students, acted as an independent consultant, and founded the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York at Albany. This collection contains research data, notes, correspondence, publications, and photographs that showcase Schaefer's long, industrious scientific career as well as highlighting his many hobbies in local history and environmentalism.
Storage:The materials are located onsite in the department.
Language: The materials in the collection are in English.
Repository: M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, SUNY

Biographical Sketch

Vincent J. Schaefer was born July 4, 1906, the oldest son of Peter Aloysius and Rose Agnes (Holtslag) Schaefer. Schaefer had two brothers, Paul and Carl, and two sisters, Gertrude and Margaret. The Schaefers lived in Schenectady, New York but enjoyed spending summers in the Adirondack Mountains. Schaefer had a lifelong association with the Adirondacks, as well as more general interests in hiking, natural history, and archeology. In his youth he was the founder of a local tribe of the Lone Scouts and with some of his friends wrote and printed a tribe paper called "Archeological Research." Schaefer credited this publication with his introduction to many prominent individuals in the Schenectady area, including Dr. Willis R. Whitney of the General Electric (G.E.) Research Laboratory.

In 1922 Schaefer found himself in the difficult position of having to leave school to supplement the family income. On the advice of his maternal uncles, Schaefer joined a four-year apprentice machinist course at G. E. During the second year of his apprenticeship, Schaefer was granted a one-month leave to accompany Dr. Arthur C. Parker, New York State Archeologist, on an expedition to central New York. As Schaefer was concluding the apprentice course in 1926 he was assigned to work at the machine shop of the G. E. Research Laboratory, where he worked for a year as a journeyman toolmaker.

Somewhat discouraged by his work in the machine shop, Schaefer sought to satisfy a desire to work outdoors and to travel by joining, initially through a correspondence course, the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery in Kent, Ohio, in 1927. After a brief period working in Michigan, Schaefer asked to be transferred back to the Schenectady area and for a while worked as an independent landscape gardener. Upon the advice of Robert Palmer, superintendent of the G.E. Research Laboratory, in 1929 Schaefer declined an opportunity to enter into a partnership for a plant nursery and instead rejoined the machine shop at the Research Laboratory, this time as a model maker.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s Schaefer built up his personal library on natural history, science, and his other areas of interest and read a great deal. He also organized groups with those who shared his many interests--the Mohawk Valley Hiking Club in 1929, the Van Epps-Hartley Chapter of the New York Archaeological Association in 1931, and the Schenectady Wintersport Club (which established snow trains to ski slopes in the Adirondacks) in 1932. In 1933 Schaefer began work on creating the Long Path of New York (a hiking trail beginning near New York City and ending at Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks). During this period Schaefer also created adult education programs on natural history topics which gave him opportunities to speak in the community. Through these many activities Schaefer continued to expand his acquaintances, including John Apperson, an engineer at General Electric and a devout conservationist of the Adirondacks. Apperson introduced Schaefer to Irving Langmuir, a scientist at the G.E. Research Laboratory who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry. Among other things, Langmuir shared Schaefer's love of skiing and the outdoors.

At the Research Laboratory machine shop, Schaefer built equipment for Langmuir and his research associate, Katharine Blodgett. In 1932 Langmuir asked Schaefer to become his research assistant, which Schaefer accepted. In 1933 he began his research work with Langmuir, Blodgett, Whitney, and others at the Research Lab and throughout the G.E. organization. With his new colleagues as well as by himself, Schaefer published many reports on the areas he studied, which included surface chemistry techniques, electron microscope techniques, polarization, the affinity of ice for various surfaces, protein and other monolayers, studies of protein films, television tube brightness, and submicroscopic particulates. After his promotion to research associate in 1938, Schaefer continued to work closely with Langmuir on the many projects Langmuir obtained through his involvement on national advisory committees, particularly related to military matters in the years immediately before and during the Second World War. This work included research on gas mask filtration of smokes, submarine detection with binaural sound, and the formation of artificial fogs using smoke generators-- a project which reached fruition at Vrooman's Nose in the Schoharie Valley with a demonstration for military observers.

During Schaefer’s years as Langmuir's assistant, Langmuir encouraged him to carry on his own research projects. In 1940 Schaefer became known in his own right for the development of a method to make replicas of individual snowflakes using a thin plastic coating called Formvar. This discovery brought him national publicity in popular magazines and an abundance of correspondence from individuals, including many students, seeking to replicate his procedure.

In 1943 the focus of Schaefer's and Langmuir's research shifted to precipitation static, aircraft icing, ice nuclei, and cloud physics. Many of their experiments were carried out at Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire, where conditions were ideal for ice studies. In the summer of 1946, Schaefer developed a laboratory method to seed supercooled clouds with dry ice, and in November 1946 he conducted a successful field test seeding a natural cloud by airplane. The resulting publicity again brought him an abundance of correspondence, this time from people and businesses making requests for snow as well as scientists around the world also working on weather modification. Schaefer's discovery also led to debates over the appropriateness of tampering with nature through cloud seeding. In addition, the successful field test enabled Langmuir to obtain federal funding to support additional research in cloud seeding and weather modification by the G.E. Research Laboratory. Schaefer was coordinator of the laboratory portion of the U.S. military-sponsored Project Cirrus while the Air Force, Army Signal Corps, and Navy supplied the aircraft and pilots to carry out field tests and to collect the data used at the Research Laboratory. Field tests were conducted in the Schenectady area as well as in Puerto Rico and New Mexico.

When the military pilots working on Project Cirrus were assigned to duties in connection with the Korean War, G.E. recommended that Project Cirrus be discontinued after comprehensive reports were prepared of the project and the discoveries made. The final Project Cirrus report was issued in March 1953. While Project Cirrus was winding down, Schaefer was approached by Vernon Crudge on behalf of the trustees of a foundation called Munitalp to work on their newly-developed meteorological research program. For a time, Schaefer worked for both the Research Laboratory and Munitalp, but in 1954 he left the Research Laboratory to become the director of research for Munitalp. There Schaefer worked with the U.S. Forest Service in the northern Rocky Mountains on Project Skyfire, a program to determine the uses of cloud seeding to affect the patterns of lightning in thunderstorms (and the resulting forest fires started by lightning stikes). Project Skyfire had its roots in an association between the Forest Service and Schaefer begun in the early days of Project Cirrus. Schaefer also worked on developing a mobile atmospheric research laboratory and time-lapse films of clouds. Schaefer left Munitalp in 1958, turning down an offer to move with the organization to Kenya, but he remained an advisor to Munitalp for several years thereafter.

After leaving Munitalp, Schaefer's career turned toward scientific education. His own educational background left him with a firm belief in the power of independent learning and the importance of hands-on, practical experience. He worked with the American Meteorological Society and National Science Foundation on an educational film program and to develop what eventually became the Natural Sciences Institute (NSI) summer programs. The Atmospheric Sciences Program, as it was first known, gave high school students the opportunity to work with scientists while also conducting their own field research and experimentation. From 1959 to 1961 Schaefer was director of these summer sessions at the Loomis School in Connecticut. From 1962 to 1968 he continued the program under the auspices of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the State University of New York at Albany, where it became the NSI. During this period Schaefer also continued his consulting work for many companies, government agencies, and universities. These consulting activities spanned most of Schaefer's career and extended beyond his retirement from the ASRC in 1976.

While conducting the Atmospheric Sciences Program, Schaefer’s work attracted the attention of Dean Oscar Lanford and President Evan Collins of the New York State Teachers College. They extended an invitation for Schaefer to come teach, which ultimately led to his founding of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center in 1960. Schaefer himself became director in 1966, a position he held for ten years before giving control to Volker Mohnen. Schaefer brought highly qualified atmospheric science researchers to the ASRC, many of whom he had met through his work at G.E. and Munitalp. Bernard Vonnegut, Raymond Falconer and Duncan Blanchard were all veterans of Project Cirrus who joined Schaefer at the University at Albany. In addition to the NSI summer programs, Schaefer led annual research expeditions to Yellowstone National Park for scientists to conduct field work in the vicinity of Old Faithful. In the 1970s Schaefer's other research interests focused on solar energy, aerosols, gases, air quality, and pollution particles in the atmosphere. His work in some of these areas culminated in a three-part report on “Air Quality on the Global Scale” in 1978. In addition, during the 1970s, Schaefer was an instructor in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Chautauqua short courses for science teachers.

During his retirement, Schaefer worked with photographer John Day on A Field Guide to the Atmosphere (1981), a publication in the Peterson Field Guide series. In addition to continuing his consulting work, Schaefer was in a position to devote much more of his time to some of his life-long interests such as environmental issues and natural and local history. This included the writing of numerous articles and the delivering of many presentations concerning the natural environment of upstate New York and the human impact on it. He also devoted much of his time to the fight for the preservation of many wilderness areas and parks, such as the Mohonk Preserve, Vrooman's Nose, and the Great Flats Aquifer. Schaefer's long-term interest in Dutch barns made it possible for him to assume the editorship of Dutch Barn Miscellany for a time and to build a scale model of a Dutch barn. He also did a lot of research on the original settler families of the Schenectady and Mohawk Valley areas. During his retirement, Schaefer reflected on his extraordinary life, preparing timelines, an unpublished autobiography, and indices to some of his research notebooks and film collections. Schaefer also attended to the disposition of his papers and library. He worked on a project he entitled "Ancient Windows of the Earth," which involved the slicing of rocks thinly so as to create a translucent look. When he mounted such pieces on lampshades or other objects, it created a stained-glass window effect from the natural rock layers, highlighting the rock's geologic history. As part of this project, Schaefer designed and built a window in memory of his parents for the Saint James Church in North Creek in the Adirondacks.

Schaefer married Lois Perret on July 27, 1935. Until their deaths they lived on Schermerhorn Road in Schenectady, in a house Schaefer built with his brothers, which they called Woestyne South. Woestyne North was the name the Schaefers gave to their camp in the Adirondacks. The Schaefers had three children, Susan, Katherine, and James. Vincent Schaefer passed away July 25, 1993 at the age of 87.

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Scope and Content Information

The Vincent J. Schaefer Papers span Schaefer’s young adult years all the way through his retirement after leaving the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the University of Albany. His professional papers also include General Electric, the Munitalp Foundation, the Loomis School, and independent consulting. Schaefer was particularly well known for his role as the scientist who discovered cloud seeding, a development that stemmed from work he did with precipitation and ice nuclei studies during World War II. Schaefer was also known for his studies of surface chemistry, solar energy, and aerosols, and was a driving force in the environmental movements of the 1960s through the 1980s. The collection includes documentation of all of these topics, not only by Schaefer but by colleagues with whom he worked closely.

Additionally, this collection contains files documenting Schaefer's myriad personal interests, many of which focus on outdoor activities and demonstrate his love of nature. Researchers will find that there is much crossover between Schaefer's professional pursuits and the activities he enjoyed in his spare time.

While there are many records in the collection such as research notes, letters, notebooks, and maps, Schaefer also donated many photographs and films of his work, particularly in the area of cloud seeding. While the bulk of the collection comprises his professional life, there are also many files demonstrating Schaefer’s interests in local history, archaeology, and geography.

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Arrangement of the Collection

The collection is organized into the following series and subseries:

Series 1 - General Electric (Non-Project Cirrus), 1891-1993, Undated
Subseries 1: Ice and Snow Research, 1932-1979, 1986, Undated
Subseries 2: Cloud Seeding & Weather Modification, 1932-1957, Undated
Subseries 3: General Research Notes, 1922-1954, 1970-1971, Undated
Subseries 4: Research Notebooks, 1936-1954
Subseries 5: Correspondence, 1939-1954, Undated
Subseries 6: Subject Files, 1891-1978, Undated
Subseries 7: Reports & Publications by Schaefer, 1936-1954, Undated
Subseries 8: Reports & Publications by Others- General Electric, 1913-1957, 1968, 1989, Undated
Subseries 9: Reports & Publications by Others- Non-General Electric, 1901-1953, 1978, 1988, Undated
Series 2 - Project Cirrus, 1943-1954, 1981, Undated
Subseries 1: Flight Data & Research, 1946-1953, Undated
Subseries 2: Subject Files, 1943-1953, 1981, Undated
Subseries 3: Reports & Publications, 1946-1954, Undated
Series 3 - Munitalp Foundation, 1940-1968, Undated
Subseries 1: General Research, 1948-1964, Undated
Subseries 2: Project Skyfire, 1940-1962, Undated
Subseries 3: Correspondence, 1950-1965, Undated
Subseries 4: Subject Files, 1948-1968, Undated
Subseries 5: Reports & Publications, 1952-1960, Undated
Series 4 - Consulting, 1950-1983, Undated
Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1950-1968, Undated
Subseries 2: Supplementary Materials, 1950-1983, Undated
Series 5 - Natural Sciences Institute, 1949-1990, Undated
Subseries 1: American Meteorological Society, 1949-1980, Undated
Subseries 2: Loomis School/NSI Administrative Files, 1958-1984, 1990, Undated
Subseries 3: Field Station Files, 1962-1968
Subseries 4: Student Papers & Notebooks, 1959-1973, Undated
Subseries 5: Reports & Publications, 1959-1978, Undated
Series 6 - Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, 1950-1993, Undated
Subseries 1: Administrative Files, 1954-1990, Undated
Subseries 2: Educational Activities, 1959-1992, Undated
Subseries 3: General Research, 1950-1993, Undated
Subseries 4: Desert Research Institute, 1953-1991, Undated
Subseries 5: Yellowstone Field Research Expeditions, 1961-1984, Undated
Subseries 6: Subject Files, 1953-1992, Undated
Subseries 7: Reports & Publications, 1948-1992, Undated
Subseries 8: Photographs, 1946-1988, Undated
Series 7 - The Institute on Man and Science, 1963-1991, Undated
Series 8 - Environmental Activism, 1926-1993, Undated
Subseries 1: Huyck Preserve, 1940-1988, Undated
Subseries 2: Mohonk, 1963-1993, Undated
Subseries 3: Great Flats Aquifer, 1971-1991, Undated
Subseries 4: Subject Files, 1926-1992, Undated
Subseries 5: Photographs, 1922-1986, Undated
Series 9 - Correspondence, 1922-1993, Undated
Subseries 1: General, 1923-1993, Undated
Subseries 2: By Topic, 1922-1993, Undated
Series 10 - A Field Guide to the Atmosphere, 1949-1992, Undated
Series 11 - Films, 1942-1971, Undated
Series 12 - Biographical/Background Materials, 1909-1993, Undated
Subseries 1: Personal Records, 1922-1993, Undated
Subseries 2: Dutch Barns, 1930-1993, Undated
Subseries 3: Local History and Archeology, 1909-1993, Undated

The overall arrangement of the Vincent Schaefer Papers is chronological in an attempt to show the order of his professional accomplishments. This arrangement, however, is not a perfect reflection of exact order because many of Schaefer's professional ventures crossed over with other projects. For example, he conducted independent consulting work while also involved with Munitalp and the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, and his work with the Atmospheric Sciences Center for high school students began as an independent project at Connecticut's Loomis School before migrating with Schaefer to the New York State Teachers College (later the University at Albany).

Most of the files in the series and subseries of the Vincent Schaefer Papers are arranged in alphabetical order. Exceptions are the subseries that contain reports and publications, which are arranged chronologically. Documents published in the same time frame are in order alphabetically by title.

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Restrictions

Access

Access to this record group is mainly unrestricted with the exception of fourteen folders in Series #5, the Natural Sciences Institute, and two folders in Series #6, the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center. Researchers with inquiries about this material should contact the head of archives.

Copyright

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of copyright. Whenever possible, the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives will provide information about copyright owners and other restrictions, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the researcher. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the Head of Special Collections and Archives.

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Subject Headings

Persons

Blanchard, Duncan C.
Blodgett, Katharine
Crudge, Vernon
Day, John
Falconer, Raymond
Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957
Maynard, Kiah
Schaefer, James
Schaefer, Katherine
Schaefer, Lois (Perret)
Schaefer, Susan
Schaefer, Vincent J.
Suits, C. Guy, (Chauncey Guy), 1905-1991
Vonnegut, Bernard
Whitney, Willis Rodney, 1868-1958

Corporate Bodies

Advance Cooler Manufacturing Corporation
Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Bechtel Power Corporation
Boeing Engineering and Construction Company
General Electric Company
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Knolls Research Laboratory
Munitalp Foundation
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
State University of New York. Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
U.S. Army Signal Corp of Engineers
United States. Department of the Interior.

Associated Titles

Adventures Ahead
A Field Guide to the Atmosphere

Subjects

Aerosols-- adverse effects
Archeology
Clouds-- dynamics
Consulting contracts
Environmentalism
Ice
Ice nuclei
Snowflakes
Solar energy
Surface chemistry

Places

Albany (N.Y.)
Flagstaff (A.Z.)
Hokkaido (Japan)
Mount Greylock (Mass.)
Mount Washington (N.H.)
Mount Washington Observatory
Schenectady (N.Y.)
Yellowstone National Park

Genres and Forms

Administrative reports
Annual reports
Books
Charts
Correspondence
Glass plate negatives
Laboratory notebooks
Maps
Minutes
Newsletters
Newspaper clippings
Papers
Photographs

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Vincent J. Schaefer Papers, 1891-1993. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Schaefer Papers).

Acquisition Information

All items in the Vincent J. Schaefer Papers were donated by Vincent Schaefer or his heirs to the University Libraries, M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, between 1979 and 1993.

Finding Aid Information

Created by: Kerry Lynch
Date: andcopy; 2011 By the University at Albany, SUNY. All rights reserved.
Revision history: -

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Container List

Series 1: General Electric- Non-Project Cirrus, 1891-1993 21.0 cubic ft.
Arranged alphabetically, with the exception of the reports and publications which are chronological.
The research laboratory at General Electric was the launching pad for some of Vincent Schaefer’s most pivotal scientific work. This series contains research notes, photographs, reports (published and unpublished, internal and external), and correspondence relating to all of his more famous experiments as well as a range of lesser-known work accomplished during his years at the G.E. Research Laboratory in Schenectady. The materials cover topics such as smoke/artificial fog generation, surface chemistry, studies of ice and snow particles, and early cloud seeding. The series is divided according to areas of specific interest to Schaefer as well as correspondence and publications.
Researchers looking for information on Project Cirrus will want to refer to Series #2, which is devoted entirely to notes, reports, and photos on that endeavor. However, any material not clearly and specifically identified by Schaefer as being Project Cirrus-related was not housed in that series; therefore it is likely that some correspondence and reports in Series #1 are in fact based in Project Cirrus. Researchers are encouraged to utilize both Series #1 and #2 if their interest lies with that project. Also notable is the fact that Schaefer was assigned to spend 50% of his work time on Project Cirrus, so although he was involved with that project for about five years, he did spend half of his time working on other tasks at G.E.’s research laboratory.
Subseries 1: Ice and Snow Research, 1932-1979, 1986, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
The formation and behavior of snow and ice crystals were a lifelong interest of Schaefer’s, and in his time at General Electric he was able to focus on the subject during the World War II years as ice related to the safety of U.S. Air Force planes. Schaefer and Irving Langmuir’s interest in that topic grew as a result of their World War II-era contract work with the military, and the experiments they conducted after the war’s end led directly to their Project Cirrus contract in 1947—an undertaking so extensive that their work in that area merited its own series in this collection. Much of their foundational work in snow and ice composition and behavior was grounded in observations and experiments conducted on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Schaefer discovered during this time that ice crystals and snowflakes could be captured and observed using Formvar plastic. Using this method, he documented very specific data about ice and snow before creating some of the first replicas of specific snowflake shapes. The work of Schaefer and his colleagues regarding ice research includes handwritten notes, drawings, charts, photographs, reports, and correspondence specific to ice, snow, and Mount Washington.
BoxFolder
11Adams, John Mead- Review of Work, Undated
2Aeronautical Ice Research Laboratory Reports, 1946
3Aircraft Deicing and Heat Pump Storage Systems, 1952
4Altitude and Ice Formation, 1945
5American Geophysical Union Committee on Snow, 1952
6Anchor Ice Charts, May 1949
7Antice 107- Letter From Princeton University, August 11, 1947
8Antice 1001- Explanation and Efficiency Graph, Undated
9Association for the Study of Snow and Ice, 1939
10Autograph Book with Daily Notes from Ice Collection Experiments, January 1942
11Barnes, H.T.- Film reviews, June 3, 1949
12El Bastonero Newsletter, July/August 1942
13"The Concentration of Ice Nuclei at the Summit of Mount Washington", c. 1952
14Convent, Photos, 1945
15Cooperative Snow Research Project, Letters, April/May 1945
16Crystal Forms, Undated
17"Crystal Soul of Grace"- Poem, James; R. Roberts, Undated
18Data from Mount Washington Observatory, 1945
19De-Icing and Crystals/Snowflakes- Article Drafts, Correspondence, Notes, and Conferences, 1947 Undated
20Density Graphs, 1944
21Detachment: Eighth Weather Squadron, Mount Washington Observatory- Report to Commanding General, February 27, 1946
22Draft: Report of Panel on Fundamental Problems (Subcommittee on Icing Problems), Undated
23Eastern Snow Conference, 1946 1950 1954
24Electron Microscope Images of Snowflake Replicas, 1985
25Equipment Photos and Data, 1944 Undated
26Essay on Snow (Untitled Manuscript), Undated
27Final Report on Icing Research up to July 1, 1945, October 1945
28Final Report on Icing Research up to July 1, 1946, August 8, 1946
29Florek, Forian- Snowflake Replicas, 1944
30"For the First Time, Snowflakes are Made to Order," Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 120, January 1932
31Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI- Relative Humidity of Saturated Salt Solutions at Different Temperatures, May 5, 1940
32Formvar, 1945-1947
33Formvar, 1948 1951
34Formvar Article: Schenectady Works News, December 29, 1944
35Freezing Level, Impact on Precipitation, letter, January 14, 1948
36General Electric Review Article, 1941, Undated
37Harvard-Mount Washington Icing Research Report 1946-1947, Chapter 1, June 22, 1948
38Harvard-Mount Washington Icing Research Report 1946-1947, Chapter 2, June 22, 1948
39Harvard-Mount Washington Icing Research Report 1946-1947, Chapter 3, June 22, 1948
40Harvard-Mount Washington Icing Research Report 1946-1947, Chapter 4-5, June 22, 1948
41High Altitude Data, 1947
42Howell, Wallace E.- Correspondence and Research Notes, 1948-1950
43Ice and Crystal Data, 1949 1950
44Ice and Rime Studies, 1952
45Ice Crystals and Nuclei, 1948-1953
46Ice Crystals- "Figure 5 Originals", Undated
47Ice Crystals- "Figure 11 Originals", Undated
48Ice Deposits, Undated
49Ice Fogs Feature in Research for Industry Stanford News Bulletin, July 1953
50Icing and Precipitation Static Reports- Index, Undated
51Icing and Precipitation Static Reports, Book 1/Report 1, 1944 Undated
52Icing and Precipitation Static Reports, Book 1/Report 2, 1944 Undated
53Icing and Precipitation Static Reports, Book 1/Report 3, Undated
54Icing and Precipitation Static Reports, Book 1/Report 4, 1944 Undated
55Icing and Precipitation Static Reports, Book 1/Report 5, 1944 Undated
56Icing and Precipitation Static Reports, Book 1/Report 6, 1944 Undated
57Icing Experiments, 1945
58Icing Nomenclature- Section XXVII of Unidentified Larger Document, Author Unidentified, Undated
59Icing Problems: International Civil American Organization, March/September 1950
60Icing Report by University of California, 1946
61Icing Research, May-September 1946
62Icing Research- Correspondence, Drawings, Photos, April 1944-March 1945
63Icing Research- Correspondence, April-December 1945
64Icing Research- Correspondence, 1945 1950 1951 1953
65Icing Research- Correspondence, January-May 1946
BoxFolder
21Icing Research- Correspondence, October 1946- March 1947
2Icing Research- Correspondence, April 1947-September 1948
3-4Icing Research: Germany and Czechoslovakia, Rare Reports from the Era of WWII, with Later Explanatory Note by Schaefer, 1943-1945 1987
5Icing Research: Helicopter Blades & Airfoils, May/June 1945 Undated
6Icing Research instruments: Letter to C.G. Suits from Schaefer, Undated
7Icing Research Reports- Air Technical Service Command and M.I.T, 1945 1946
8Icing Research Reports- Procedure Reminds, Observation Methods, Status Reports, and Helicopter Blade Tests, 1945
9-10Japanese Research on Snow and Ice, 1934-1936 1940
11The Journal of Glaciology, January 1947
12Letter to Schaefer Regarding Returned Photos from Mount Washington Newsletter(photos included), 1944-1945 September 11, 1953
13Micrographia by Robert Hooke, Undated
14Minutes of Meeting Regarding Icing Research at Mount Washington, June 19, 1945-June 21, 1945
15M.I.T De-Icing Lab data from B. Vonnegut, April 25, 1945
16M.I.T De-Icing Lab Photos and Data, December 22, 1943
17Morgan, W.D.- Correspondence, August 1941
18Mount Washington Observatory: Atmospheric Phenomena, Undated
19Mount Washington Observatory: Background Brochure, 1950
20Mount Washington Observatory : Changes to By-Laws, 1948
21Mount Washington Observatory: Clark, Victor F.- Letter, 1944
22Mount Washington Observatory: Contribution to the Theory of the Constitution of Clouds, January 20, 1949 April 20, 1949
23Mount Washington Observatory: Contribution to the Theory of the Constitution of Clouds, July 20, 1949
24Mount Washington Observatory: Contribution to the Theory of the Constitution of Clouds, October 20, 1949
25Mount Washington Observatory: Contribution to the Theory of the Constitution of Clouds, January 31, 1950
26Mount Washington Observatory: Contribution to the Theory of the Constitution of Clouds, April 30, 1950
27Mount Washington Observatory: Contribution to the Theory of the Constitution of Clouds, July 31, 1950
28Mount Washington Observatory: Contribution to the Theory of the Constitution of Clouds, April 23, 1951
29Mount Washington: "Contributions to the Theory of the Constitution of Clouds" by the staff of the Observatory, October 23, 1951
30Mount Washington Observatory: Correspondence, 1944-1945
31Mount Washington Observatory: Correspondence, 1948
32Mount Washington Observatory: Correspondence, 1953-1954
33Mount Washington Observatory: Correspondence re: Pilots, January 1945-May 1945
34Mount Washington Observatory: Cottage on Mount Washington, Undated
35Mount Washington Observatory: Eighth Weather Squadron, 1946
36"Mount Washington Observatory for Field Research ", Manuscript, 1953
37Mount Washington Observatory- Helicopter Main Rotor Blades and Icing Issues, May-June 1945
38Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Conditions at Airports, 1946
39Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Data, January 1945-March 1945
40Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Data, April 1945-May 1945
41Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Data, June 1945-September 1945
42Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Data, October 1945-December 1945
43Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Data, January 1946-May 1946
44Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Data- Supplement to 5/45 Icing Report (Statistical Analysis), May 1945
45Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Instruments Final Report by W.E. Howell, July 15, 1945
46Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Research Articles (W.E. Howell), 1946
47Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Research Project with Harvard University, 1946
48Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Studies, 1945-1949
49Mount Washington Observatory: Icing Tests of Model XFD-1 Airplane, 1948
50Mount Washington Observatory: Insect Specimens, 1946
51Mount Washington Observatory: Maps, Photographs, Brochures, 1948-1954
Oversized
4Mount Washington Observatory: Mini notebook set, 1940s
BoxFolder
252Mount Washington Observatory: New Test Facility, letter, May 24, 1951
53Mount Washington Observatory News Bulletin, 1941-1960
BoxFolder
31Mount Washington Observatory News Bulletin (Not Continuous), 1960-1967
2Mount Washington Observatory News Bulletin with letter, Fall 1985
3Mount Washington Observatory: Nuclei Data Sheets, 1952
4Mount Washington Observatory: Nuclei Data Sheets, 1953
5Mount Washington Observatory: Nuclei Data Sheets, 1954
6Mount Washington Observatory: Postcard to Lois Schaefer, 1943
7Mount Washington Observatory: "Preliminary Report", April 1947
8Mount Washington Observatory: Research Notes, 1944
9Mount Washington Observatory: Research Proposals 1-63, Undated
10Mount Washington Observatory: "Research Studies at Mount Washington Observatory", c. 1970s
11Mount Washington: Reunion of Former Observers, 1979
12Mount Washington Observatory: Rime Collection Studies, 1939
13Mount Washington Observatory: Snow Measurement, 1943
14Mount Washington Observatory: Sublimation Nuclei Project Cirrus, 1948-1950
15Mount Washington Observatory: Trace coat Calibrations, Undated
16Mount Washington Observatory: "Visibility and Water Content in Clouds"(H.J. Aufm Kampe), September 1946
17Mount Washington Observatory: "A Visit to the Mount Washington Observatory with Langmuir", Undated
18Mount Washington Observatory: Volt-Ampere Charts, Undated
19Mount Washington Observatory: Weather guides and photos of instruments, 1936-1945
20Mount Washington Observatory: Wind Research-Diary, 1944
21National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Icing Research: Correspondence, Reports, Charts, 1947-1951
22Nevada Cooperative Snow Surveys, 1944-1946
23National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics- Letter to I. Langmuir with Report from Conference on Aircraft Ice Prevention, June 1947 October 6, 1947
24National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics- Subcommittee on Icing Problems, Member Lists and Responsibilities, December 31, 1948 January 1, 1949
25National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics- Technical Report: "The Design, Operation and Uses of the Water Channel as an Instrument for Investigation of Compressible- Flow Phenomena", January 1950
26Newspaper Clippings, 1941-1945
27Notes and Formulas- Ice Crystals, Undated
28Photo: Aerial View of Mount Washington, c. 1940s
29Photo: Ice Crystals- Microscopic View, Undated
30Photo: Gage Towers, Undated
31Photo: Graph- "Types of Frozen Precipitation", October 17, 1949
32Photo: Mount Washington Research Unit, United States Air Force, Undated
33Photo: Rime Deposits, 1944
34Photo: Rotating Multi-Cylinder with Ice, February 16, 1945
35Photo: Schaefer in Laboratory, Undated
36Photo: Schaefer Looking at Plate of Casts Through Microscopes, G.E. Research Lab, Undated
37Photo: Schaefer Preserving Snowflakes- Flakes Included with Picture, Undated
38Photo: Shrinking Snow in Stages, February 20, 1946-February 28, 1946
39Photo: Star of Brighton, Undated
40Photo: Unidentified Man with Ice Chunks (possibly Robert Smith-Johannsen), Undated
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41Photo: Unidentified, Possibly Microscopic View of Crystal Cross-Section, Undated
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341Photo Negatives: Electrical Properties of Snow, 1943-1944
42Photo Negatives: Frost Crystals and Replicas, 1941 Undated
43Photo Negatives: German Water Droplet Charts, Undated
44Photo Negatives: Glacial Ice, Undated
45Photo Negatives: Hailstones, Undated
46Photo Negatives: Ice Nucleus Detection, Undated
47Photo Negatives: Ice Replicas, 1946
48Photo Negatives: Ice Storm, 1946
49Photo Negatives: Mount Washington Observatory, 1943-1944
50Photo Negatives: Mount Washington Observatory, 1945-1948
51Photo Negatives: Mount Washington Observatory, Undated
52Photo Negatives: Sea Ice ( Negatives show text, not pictures), Undated
53Photo Negatives: Snow Crystals, Undated
54Photo Negatives: Snow experiments, 1947
55Photo Negatives: Snowflake replicas, 1944-1946
56Photo Negatives: Snowflakes, 1944
57Photo Negatives: Sublimed Snow, February 26, 1946
58Photos: Corn Snow at Granular Level, Undated
59Photos: Damaged Aircraft, Undated
60Photos: Electric Charge on Snow, Undated
61Photos: Frazil Ice, Undated
62Photos: Frost Crystal Replicas, Undated
63Photos: Ice (General), 1945
64Photos: Icing Experiments, 1942-1945
65-66Photos: Individually Labeled Packets, 1945
67Photos; Measuring Devices, Undated
68Photos: Mount Washington Observatory, 1943-1948 Undated
69Photos: Outdoor Snow Scenes, Undated
70Photos: Schaefer Studying Snowflakes, c. 1942
71Photos: Sleet Particles, Magnified, Undated
72Photos: Sleet Replicas- Transparent form, Undated
73Photos: Snow and Snow Scenes, 1949 Undated
74Photos: Snow Crystals, Undated
75Photos: Snowflake Replicas, 1941 Undated
76Photos: Snowflakes, 1949-1961
77-79Photos: Snowflakes and Snowflake Replicas, 1940s-1960s
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41-7Photos: Snowflakes and Snowflake Replicas, 1940s-1960s
8Photos: Supercooled Clouds, Various Locations Including Mount Washington, Undated
9Photos: Tug Hill Observations (Livingston Lansing), Undated
10Photos: Winter Scenes, Undated
11Precipitation static, 1943-1944
12Presentation Planning- Preliminary Notes, Undated
13Press Release: Snowflakes and Static Electricity, June 1946
14Princeton University De-icing Data With Letter, August 1947 January 26, 1948
15Propeller Tests- Icing on Blades, April 1946
16Publication Rights Request, August 26, 1986
17"Research Studies at the Mount Washington Observatory"- How General Electric Came to Mount Washington, With Photos, 1944 Undated
18Rime and Icelac- Photos, Notes/Formulas, Charts, 1944-1945 Undated
19Snow and Ice Classification, 1948-1954
20Snow and Glaciers, International Commission and U. Nakaya, 1945-1948
21-22Snow and Ice, International Commission, August 1946-June 1953
23Snow Cover Chart, Undated
24Snow Crystal Charts and Electrical Properties of Snow, 1944-1949 Undated
25Snow Crystal Correspondence, 1950 1956 1970
26Snow Crystal Formations, 1942
27Snow Crystal Illustrations, Rutland, Vermont, March 1948
28Snow Crystal Notes, Undated
29Snow Crystal Survey- December and January Reports, Undated
30Snow/Electricity request for Information, February 27, 1947
31Snow, Ice and Permafrost Report, 1949
32Snow Making in the Pocono Mountains, December 31, 1950
33Snow Research: Correspondence, Photocopied articles, Supply orders, Notes, 1945-1949
34-39Snow Research: Laboratory at Schenectady, 1944
40Snow Research Reports, 1944
41Snow Research : Storm Data, 1944
42Snow Storm Survey, 1945-1946
43Snow Storm Survey Notebook, c. 1949
44Snow Survey, New York, March 1948
45Snowfall Data, 1946-1947
46Snowfall Data, Shattuck Observatory, NH, 1867-1949, 1950 Undated
47Snowflake Catalog, February 1941-March 1941
48Snowflake Distribution Graphs, Undated
49Snowflake Model for Schools, 1946
50Snowflake Photo Requests, Undated
51"Snowflake Photography" by V. Schaefer, c. 1942
52Snowflake Preservation and Replica Correspondence, especially with Natural History Magazine, 1941-1943
53Snowflake Preservation Poster, Undated
54-55Snowflake Replicas, 1940s 1957
56"Snowflakes" (Minicam Photography), c. 1945
57Snowflakes and Ice Crystals: Note, Graphs, Photos, 1943-1950
58-59Snowflakes Captured on Cardboard, 1945 Undated
60Snow Making for Movie Production, 1948
61-62Special Icing Observations at Mount Washington Observatory, 1945
63Types of Frozen Precipitation, 1943 1947 Undated
64University of Michigan Engineering Research Institute- Work Report to Wright Air Development Center, U.S. Air Force, April 1952
65University of Michigan Icing Research Project, 1952-1953
66Vortex Ice Generator, 1947
67Western Snow Conference: The Snow Surveyors' Forum, 1950
68Winter Magic (Proposed book by Schaefer), October 8, 1946
Subseries 2: Cloud Seeding and Weather Modification, 1932-1957, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
The inspiration for Schaefer’s work with cloud seeding began during his experiments with Irving Langmuir during World War II. At that time they were under contract with the military for other weather-related reasons, but their research led them to wonder about the possibilities of controlling weather beyond military needs. Schaefer accomplished some of his most important foundational work with cloud seeding in 1946, before General Electric joined in another contract with the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Army Signal Corps. These records document some of Schaefer’s initial work with cloud seeding, before the official birth of Project Cirrus. Researchers will also find about a dozen files on Project Blowdown, a cloud seeding operation conducted in Honduras to aid the United Fruit Company.
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51Advisory Committee on Weather Control, 1953-1954
2Advisory Committee on Weather Control- Correspondence, 1955
3Advisory Committee on Weather Control- Correspondence, 1956 Undated
4Advisory Committee on Weather Control- Correspondence, 1957
5Advisory Committee on Weather Control- Reports, 1954
6Anderson, Clinton P.- Weather Control Bill (with article by Schaefer), 1950
7Cloud Code Chart, 1949
8Cloud Droplet Research, Booted Cylinder, Negatives, 1945
9Cloud Meter, 1945-1946
10Cloud Seeding Advice to W.D. Williams, El Paso, Texas, July 17, 1947
11Cloud Seeding and Snow Data with Illustrations, Undated
12Cloud Seeding by Others: Arizona, 1948
13Cloud Seeding by Others: Around the United States, 1950-1952
14-15Cloud Seeding by Others: Australia, 1946-1947 1951
16Cloud Seeding by Others: Bolivia (Montreal Engineering Co., LTD., 1951
17-22Cloud Seeding by Others: Bonneville Power Administration (evaluations), 1950-1952
23Cloud Seeding by Others: California, with photos, 1948
24Cloud seeding by Others: Clippings, June 1947-July 1947
25Cloud Seeding by Others: Colorado, c. 1952
26Cloud Seeding by Others: Gathman, Louis- "Rain Produced at Will", Undated
27Cloud Seeding by Others: Mexico, 1947 1950-1951
28Cloud Seeding by Others: Montana and Washington, 1952
29Cloud Seeding by Others: New York City, 1949
30Cloud Seeding by Other: Oregon, Photo, April 4, 1947
31Cloud Seeding by Others: Philippines, 1947-1948 Undated
32Cloud Seeding by Others: South Dakota, June 13, 1953
33Cloud Seeding by Others: Statistical Evaluation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, October 30, 1952
34Cloud Seeding Data- Air Expansion and Ice, 1951 Undated
35Cloud Seeding Data- W.E. Howell to V. Schaefer, April 1950-November 1950 February 12, 1953
36Cloud Seeding: Newspaper Articles by Schaefer, September 1953
37Cloud Seeding- Post Project Cirrus: Trip to Norway (Newspaper articles in Norwegian), 1952-1954 October 1952
38Cloud Slides with Letter, Idaho and Montana, 1953-1954
39Cloud Stereos, Negatives, 1944
40Clouds: Device for Measuring Liquid Water Content, January 29, 1945
41Codes for Cloud Forms and States of the Sky, 1938
42Congressional Bill (H.R. 4582) on Chief of Weather Bureau Conducting rainfall experiments, November 25, 1947 February 27, 1948
43Congressional Bill (S. 2225) "To Create a Committee to Study and Evaluate Public and Private Experiments in Weather Modification", October 1951
44Congressional Bill (S.285) on Weather Control, August 13, 1953
45Congressional Hearings on Weather Control, 1951
46Congressional Testimony on Weather Control by D.E. Chambers, March 16, 1948
47Diagrams: Potential Seeding Operations, February 6, 1947
48Dyed Data, Undated
49First Cloud Seeding Flight- Temperature Record, November 13, 1946
50Gardner, Jr., C.- Articles on Rain Making (Staff Member for Senator Francis Case), 1951 Undated
51Governmental Affairs Legislative Daily- Blurb about Control of Rain Making, March 16, 1951
52"House Bill No.66" Re: Weather Modification, April 1951
53Langmuir, Irving: Periodicities in Seeding, Schedules, 1952
54Langmuir, Irving: Rainfall Data, 1950
55Langmuir, Irving: Socorro, NM- Average Rainfall Distribution, 1950
56Legislation and Testimony Regarding Weather Control, 1951
57Map: Storm Track and Origin of Air Masses, January 30, 1946
58Memorandum on Introduction of Ice Nuclei into Clouds- Irving Langmuir (with related notes), August 16, 1946
59National Weather Improvement Association, 1952
60"New Flights Confirm Artificial Snow Production"-GE Press Release, 1946
61Operation B (Multiple Plan Operation), Undated
62"Cloud Seeding in Cold Chamber. Schaefer, Langmuir and Vonnegut", c.1946
63Photo: Montana Thunder Cloud, Undated
64Photo: Woman Reading "Snowstorm Manufactured" Article from Boston Globe, c. November 1946
65Photo Negatives: Cloud Box Experiments, Undated
66-68Photo Negatives: Cloud Formations, 1942
69Photo Negatives: Cloud Formations, Undated
70Photo Negatives: Clouds at Woestyne South, October 22, 1945
71Photo Negatives: Conversion of Super Cooled Ground Fog to Snow, Undated
72Photos: Aerial Shots- Clouds, Undated
73Photos: Cloud Chamber Work, 1952 Undated
74Photos: Cloud Formations, 1948-1950 Undated
75Photos: Cloud Formations, Undated
76Photos: Clouds- Montana, Oregon, and Unidentified, Undated
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61Photos: Dry Ice Experiments at General Electric, c.1946
2Photos: First Cloud Seeding Flight, November 13, 1946
3Photos: Schaefer and Bernard Vonnegut at Work with Cloud Chamber, c.1946 1947
4Second Dry Ice Seeding Near Saratoga Lake Photos, December 20, 1946
5Physics of Clouds, 1945-1948
6Poster Mock-up: "I.A.S. Present Mr. Vincent J. Schaefer…", Undated
7Priest River Forest Experimental Station- Climatological Summary, 1932
8Radio Appearances by Schaefer on Snowmaking, November 1946 Undated
9"The Scribble- In Book" with Assorted Cloud photos, Undated
10Short Report on Dry Ice Properties, Author Unidentified, Undated
11Statements on Weather Modification (Assorted Contributions), 1951
12Statement on Weather Modification Possibilities, June 8, 1951
13Stokes Law Graph: Falling Cloud Droplets, Undated
14Suggestions for Cloud Studies to Establish Importance of Artificial Seeding Operations in a particular Area, May 11, 1951
15Super Cooled Cloud, Method for Producing Spiral Vortex, Undated
16Thunderstorm Formation, Undated
17U.S. Senate Bills on Weather Modification, 1951
18Weather control: Arthur Godfrey humor, July 29, 1947
19Weather Control: Bills and Correspondence, 1951 1953
20Weather Control: Newspaper Clippings, 1953-1959
21Weather Control: Research and Development Board Meeting, June 12, 1951
22Weather Observations, 1942-1944
23Weather Research: Project Outlines, Graphs, Experimental Weather Forecasts (Schaefer and Falconer), 1951-1953
Subseries 3: General Research, 1922-1954, 1970-1971, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
This subseries is comprised of various research data retained by Schaefer that were not filed specifically with cloud seeding or ice and snow research. These are the notes, graphs, drawings, and photographs of experiments that supported later discoveries in his larger projects. Notes and photos in this subseries include subjects such as surface tension, monomolecular layers, smoke generation, fog, uses of calgon, and electron microscopy. Also of note are his observations on precipitation and precipitation static, which he worked on with Irving Langmuir during World War II. While the bulk of the notes are Schaefer’s own, there are also papers that belonged to Langmuir and various other scientists who shared observations with Schaefer.
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71Absorbing Membranes- Notes, Graphs, Correspondence, Photos, 1944-1945
2Acid Values, Solar Radiation, etc., 1936-1938
3Atmospheric Electricity Observations, 1944-1945
4Atmospheric Electricity- Mount Washington, Collector Tapes, February 1944
5Atmospheric Electricity, Mount Washington- Blowing Snow: Cross Current Storm with Arrival of Cold Front/Mount Washington, Cross Current Storm, Schenectady, Collector Tapes, March 1944
6Atmospheric Electricity, Types of Clear Weather Currents, Collector Tapes, March 1944
7Atmospheric Electricity- Overcast- Comparison of cc and cp Collector Tapes, March 30, 1944-March 31, 1944
8Atmospheric Electricity: Tapes of Rain, Sleet, and Brief Snow Showers, Collector Tapes, 1944
9Atmospheric Electricity- Snow Lab, Schenectady, Woestyne- Schonwee, Collector Tapes, June 10, 1944
10Atmospheric Electricity: Rainstorm - No Thunder or Lightening Synchronous Electrical Measurements, Rain Traces, Collector Tapes and Photographs, June 10, 1944
11Atmospheric Electricity: Measurements of Flow of Electricity to Ground During Heavy Rainstorms Accompanied by Lightning , Collector Tapes, June 15, 1944-June 16, 1944
12Atmospheric Electricity- Ordinary Type Thunderstorm Mohawk Valley, Schenectady NY, Moderate- Heavy Rain, Collector Tapes, June 19, 1944
13Atmospheric Electricity- Traces of Drizzle, Heavy Rain Showers, End of Heavy Thunderstorm, Collector Tapes, June 19, 1944
14Atmospheric Electricity- Violent Type Thunderstorm, Rain Cloud burst Proportions, Woestyne Station, Collector Tapes, June 19, 1944
15Atmospheric Electricity- Drizzle, Positive Type Rain, Collector Tapes, Undated
16Atmospheric Electricity- Rain Storm, Very Little Thunder, Heavy Rain to Light Mist, Anomalous High Frequency Effect, Collector Tapes, June 20, 1944
17Atmospheric Electricity- Thunderstorm with Hail Showing Effect of Distant Storms, July 4, 1944
18Atmospheric Electricity- Thunderstorms, Schenectady, Mount Washington Collector Tapes, June 6, 1944
19Atmospheric Electricity- Thunderstorm, No Rain Collector Tapes, July 1944-September 1944
20Atmospheric Electricity- Wet Snow Storm Collection Tape, November 18, 1944
21Atmospheric Oscillations- Proposal for a Study, Undated
22Badily Ridge/ Looking Glass Summit- Weather Observations and Map, August 1, 1948
23Barium Stearic Acid, 1937
24C23 Acid Data, c. 1940
25Calculation of Light Scattering by Smoke Particles, 1942-1943
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1Calibrated Filters (Blodgett) and Snow Replica Slides (Schaefer), September 9, 1943 Undated
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726Cannon Mountain - Weather Observations, 1943-1944
27Capacitor Calculations, November 25, 1947
28Coil Frosting Rates, 1947
29Cold Chamber: Diagram with Photo Negatives, Undated
30Chemical Lists- Prior to 1950 and Prior to 1954, c. 1954
31Cholesterol/Epicholesterol Notes, Drawings, Undated
32Cold Chamber: Equipment List, Undated
33Cold Chamber: Graphs, Undated
34Cold Chamber: Sublimation Nuclei Detection, Undated
35Cold Chamber: Temperatures During Benzene Run, Undated
36Condensation Notes with Drawings, Undated
37Condensation Nuclei Notes- Incomplete, Undated
38Condensation Nuclei Symposium, November 7, 1954
39Construction Details- Trace Coat Tape Recorder, April 1945
40Crystal Deposits on Plastic, c. 1942
41Crystal Deposits- Unidentified, 1945
42Crystal Growth Report- Central Engineering Plant, Dept. of Research, August 15, 1946
43Cycol Theory of Protean Structure/ Mechanisms of Lubrication, 1949 Undated
44-45Cytological Research, 1933
46Daily Temperatures (Location Unknown), 1952
47Deposition Rates, c. 1939-1940
48Diamond Dust- Observations, Undated
49Diffusion Rates of H2O from Clean H20 Surface, 1940 1945 Undated
50Di-N-Propyl Sebacate- Synthesis, May 29, 1940
51Electric Hygrometer Development Report with Letter, November 28, 1944 April 23, 1945
52Electrometer Illustrations with Notes, January 1949 November 1949
53Electron Microscopy: Magnified Crystals Images, Undated
54Electron Microscopy: Magnified Images, Undated
55Electron Microscopy: Photomicrographs, Undated
56Electron Microscopy: Photomicrographs with Notes, 1939-1941 Undated
57Electron Microscopy: "Replica Technique and Metallographic Presentation for the Electron Microscope" with Images, 1944
58Enlarger- Diagrams and Notes, June 9, 1943 Undated
59Evaporation Rates and Surface Films, 1940
60Evaporation Rates: Data on Dehydrating Materials, 1939-1940 Undated
61Evaporation Studies, c. 1950-1970
62Evaporation Through Surface Films, 1940
63Experiment Using Photographic Plates, Instructions, Undated
64Experiments with Color Photography- Photos and Notes, 1945
65"Experimental 30-Day Forecasts, June 1953-September 1953
66"Experimental 30-Day Forecast for the Albany-Schenectady Area" R. Falconer, July 1953
67Filter Data, 1941
68Fluxometer Theory, November 13, 1940
69Fog Dispersal Studies, 1943-1952
70Fog Dispersal Studies, 1946
71Forest Fire Data- Coconino Forest, Undated
72Friction Studies, 1934
73General Experiments, 1941 1944-1945 1950 1952 Undated
74General Notes: Weather Observations and Contract with Navy, 1946
75Glass Filter Research, c. 1940
76Graph: Time Changes in Smoke in a Vessel of Volume V, Undated
77Gregg, Arthur- Research Notes, 1940-1942
78H2O Vapor- Data and Drawings, 1947-1948 Undated
79Hail Report- Flight Research Division, NACA, February 1951
80Halo Measurement, January 10, 1943
81Hand Unit Nuclei Counter, April 7, 1949
82Hartford, CT- Weather Conditions, June 5, 1949 June 6, 1949
83Heat Pump Defrosting Studies, 1951-1952
84Hydrology and Related Matters, Undated
85Hypsometer Study, 1948
86Index Card File- Scientific Notes and Contacts, 1951-1956 Undated
87Index to Schaefer's General Electric Research Notebooks, c. 1954
88Iron Particles, Nucleation and Growth of During Electrode Position into Mercury Cathodes, Summer 1953
89Jet Stream: Black Sheep Project, Technical Note #4, September 9, 1954
90Jet Stream: Map- Tornadoes, Undated
91Jet Stream: Schaefer's Observational Data, June 21, 1950 Undated
92Jet Stream: United States Maps, March 1953-September 1953
93Jet Stream: United States Maps (Conic Projection), January 1, 1953-March 14, 1953
94Jet Stream: United States Maps, June 1953-November 1953
95Kansas and Wyoming Projects, 1948 1952 Undated
96Laboratory Notes and Graph, 1934 1935 Undated
97Light Spectra Images, Undated
98Liquid Oil Fog Generator- Notes and Drawings, Undated
99"Match Angle Data- Absolute Thickness of Monolayer's Considering n." From Data Supplied by Dr. K.B. Blodgett,
100Meteorological Records- Monthly Meteorological Summaries, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Weather Bureau, 1946
101Methods of Dissipating Supercooled Clouds in the Natural Atmosphere- Notes and Formulas, Undated
102Molar Equivalents per 1/2 Liter of H2O, Undated
103Monolayer Graphs, Undated
104Monomolecular Firms: Calgon, 1936
105Monomolecular Firms: Calgon, 1936-1937
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81Monomolecular Films: Calgon, 1937
2Monomolecular Films: Electrical Tests of Monomolecular Firms with Ionized Gaseous Electrode, GE Engineering Laboratory, February 1938
3Monomolecular Films: Lubrication/Viscosity, 1934-1935
4Monomolecular Films: Microanalysis, April 1937
5Monomolecular Films: Properties, 1939
6Monomolecular Films: Protein Films, 1939-1940
7Monomolecular Firms: Protein Monolayer Viscosity, 1937
8Monomolecular Films: Proteins, Monolayers, and the Tobacco Mosaic Virus, 1933-1937
9Monomolecular Films: Temperature Measurements with Assorted Reports by Non- G.E. Workers, 1940-1941
10Monomolecular Films: Thin Films, 1941
11-12Monomolecular Films: Thin Film Studies, 1938-1942
13Molecular Films: The Films- Spectrophometer Curves Transmission- Reflection Characteristics, 1939-1940
14Monomolecular Films: Torsion and Viscosity Tables and Formulae, 1937-1938
15Monomolecular Films: Torsion Data and Slides, Bearings, 1934-1936
16Navy versus Air Force Bombers- Comparison, May 16, 1953
17Nucleonic Project, May 24, 1946
18Odor Performance of Aluminum Surfaces, 1952
19Oil on Water, 1948
20Organic Chemistry Notes (and other), Undated
21OTK Sprinkler, 1952-1953
22Output Steam Generator Measurements, September 20, 1949
23Oxygen in the Atmosphere, 1950
24Parallel Tube Collimator, 1944-1945
25Particle Studies, Undated
26Pepsin Studies, c. 1936-1937
27Perfuorodecanoic Acid, c. 1940s
28Permafrost Research, Undated
29-30Permeability of Combination Films, Fatty Acids, and Cholesterol, 1940
31PH Charts, Undated
32Photos: Artificial Fog Testing, June 24, 1942
33Photo: Capped Hexagonal Column, Undated
34Photo: Electron Micrograph Cross Section, Barium Behenate and Barium Palmitate, Undated
35Photo: Fog Generator, Undated
36Photo: Langmuir, I., C.G. Suits and W.D. Coolidge at Vrooman's Nose- Smoke Generator Tests, June 1942
37Photo: Lightning Bolts, with Loan Note re: Ed Evans, Undated
38Photo: Lightning Strikes over Priest Lake, Undated
39Photo: Schaefer, Langmuir and Robert Smith- Johansen watch Katharine Blodgett at work, Undated
40Photo: Schaefer's desk at General Electric, Schaefer at work, 1942
41Photo Negatives: Adirondacks, 1927-1939 Undated
42Photo Negatives: Airborne Particles, Undated
43Photo Negatives: Aluminum and Copper Replicas, Undated
44Photo Negatives: Bubble Trajectory and Camera Spheres, 1951 Undated
45Photo Negatives: Cartoons, Undated
46Photo Negatives: Cold Chamber Diffusion, Undated
47Photo Negatives: Crystals- Velocity of Fall and Charge, Undated
48Photo Negatives: Effect of Dissolved Salts on Expansion Patterns, Undated
49Photo Negatives: Elk Mountain, Wyoming, Undated
50Photo Negatives: Expansion Patterns of Proteins, Undated
51Photo Negatives: Fiber Cellulose, Undated
52Photo Negatives: Fog Particles and Generation, 1943 Undated
53Photo Negatives: Formation of Expansion Patterns, Undated
54Photo Negatives: General Lab Experiments, Undated
55Photo Negatives: Lab Apparatus, 1945
56Photo Negatives: Large Particle Sampling, Undated
57Photo Negatives: Leaf Replicas, Undated
58Photo Negatives: Macro Experiments, 1943
59Photo Negatives: Quartz Replicas, Undated
60Photo Negatives: "SC PVA", Undated
61Photo Negatives: Scientific Adventures, 1952
62-65Photo Negatives: Smoke Generation, 1942
66Photo Negatives: Smoke Generation, 1942-1944
67-68Photo Negatives: Smoke Generation, Vrooman's Nose, 1942
69Photo Negatives: Smoke Screen Tests, September 22, 1941
70Photo Negatives: Spontaneous Ignition, December 1943
71Photo Negatives: Sooted Slides, December 31, 1943
72Photo Negatives: Steam Jet, December 16, 1943
73Photo Negatives: Supercooled Solutions, Undated
74Photo Negatives: Vrooman's Nose, June 24, 1942
75Photo Slides: Grand Canyon Expedition, 1949-1950
76Photocopied Images: Schaefer at Work in Research Lab and with Colleagues, 1922-1954
77Photocopied Images: Snowflake Patterns, Creating Replicas, 1946 Undated
78Photo micrographic Equipment- Lists and Drawings,
79Photos: Crystals from Cold Chamber, Undated
80Photos: Crystals, Magnified, 1944 Undated
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91Photos: Crystals, Magnified, Undated
2Photos: Diatoms, Undated
3Photos: Eclipse of the Moon, August 25, 1942
4-5Photos: Electron Microscopy, Undated
6Photos: Frost Crystals and Frost Replicas, Undated
7Photos: General Experiments, February 12, 1944 February 17, 1944 July 1950 Undated
8Photos: High-Magnified Snow and Unidentified, Undated
9Photos: Light Transmission through Focused Multicell, Undated
10Photos: Meteor Grains, April 1953
11Photos: Microscopic Surfaces, ex. Maidenhair Fern Fond and Goldthread Leaf Replica, Undated
12Photos: Oil Firms on Water- Langmuir Experiments, 1936
13Photos: Oxidized Oil Patterns on Monofilms, Undated
14Photos: Sand, Microscopic View, Undated
15Photos: Septaria, Undated
16Photos: Severe Thunderstorms, 1944 1945
17-18Photos: Smoke Generation at Vrooman's Nose, 1942
19Photos: Smoke Generation at Vrooman's Nose, 1942-1943
20Photos: Smoke Screen Test: Vrooman's Nose, Prints, June 24, 1942 Undated
21Photos: Van De Graff Generator, Undated
22Photos: Volcanic Ash Under Microscope, January 24, 1947
23Photos: and Negatives: Droplets, 1946 Undated
24Photos, Negatives and Slides: Pentaeythritol Seeded Crystals, Undated
25Projection Print Scales- Kodak, Undated
26Point Discharge Recorder Charts, 1944
27Potential Gradient Measurements, Analysis of, 1945
28Precipitation Deposits, 1947
29Precipitation Research, 1941-1947
30Precipitation Research, 1953-1956
31Precipitation Static, February 1943-October 1943
32Precipitation Static, November 10, 1943-January 21, 1944
33Precipitation Static, January 1944-September 1944
34Precipitation Static, September 20, 1944-November 4, 1947
35Precipitation Static: Photos, Aircraft Investigation, Undated
36Precipitation Static- Snowstorm Studies , Cloud Particles, 1943-1944
37Pressure Data: F-A Curves, F-A Apparatus, 1940
38Project Cloud Trail Sample Data Card, Undated
39Project SOIAS, 1951
40Project Summit, 1948-1949
41Pseudo- Adiabatic Diagrams, 1941-1942
42Psychometric Charts (Air Conditioning Processes), 1945 1947
43"Records on Lubrication" Notebook, Part I, December 1, 1933-March 1934
44"Records on Lubrication" Notebook, Part II, May 1934-September 1934
45Reflection Transmission Data, 1939-1940
46Relation of Certain Oils to Certain Metals, 1934
47Research Lab Weather Forecasts, May 1947 November 1948-May 1949
48Research Lab Weather Forecasts, June 1949-September 1949
49Research Lab Weather Forecasts, September 1949-November 1949
50Research Lab Weather Forecasts, November 1949-February 1950
51Research Lab Weather Forecasts, March 1950-May 1950
52Research Lab Weather Forecasts, June 1950-August 1950
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101Research Lab Weather Forecasts, September 1950-March 1951
2Research Lab Weather Forecasts, April 1951-September 1951
3Research Lab Weather Forecasts, October 1951-March 1952
4Research Lab Weather Forecasts, April 1952-August 1952
5Research Lab Weather Forecasts, September 1952-February 1953
6Research Lab Weather Forecasts, March 1953-August 1953
7Research Laboratory: Assorted Project Reports, Undated
8Research Laboratory: Notebooks- Indices to, 1930s-1950s
9Research Laboratory: Notebooks- Lab Assistant Task, Notebook for V. Schaefer, 1933
10Research Laboratory: Notebooks- Various Topics, 1934-1935
11Research Notes: General, 1939-1952 Undated
12Research Notes: Graphs (0 degrees-39 degrees Celsius, Levels: Graphs), 1949
13Rime Studies- Results, 1945
14Salt and Sea Water, Undated
15Sewage Treatment Plant, Schenectady- Weather Conditions, 1942-1943
16Skeleton Films, 1936-1937
17Sketch of Langmuir Invention by Schaefer, 1940
18Sketches, Layouts, and Doodles of Langmuir and Whitney, Undated
19Skim Analysis- Stearic Acid Calcium Stearate, Tannic Acid, Calcium "Tannate", 1935
20Skim Crystals Slide data, 1937
21Sky, Relative Brightness of from Woestyne, February 8, 1946
22Slide Project Report (incomplete), Undated
23Small Particle Study, Undated
24Smoke Generation, 1940-1942
25Smoke Generation, 1941-1942
26Smoke Generation, 1946-1947 1952
27Smoke Generation, 1991-1993
28Smoke Generation (Smoke Box Data), 1942
29Smoke Generation (Smoke Generator Data), 1942
30-31Smoke Generation (Testing in the Schoharie Valley), 1942 1944 1971
32Smoke Particles- Calculations, Undated
33Smoke Screening- Observations, Formulas, 1942 1949 Undated
34Soap Bubble Solution, Undated
35Spherical Powders Made From Various Metals, 1952
36Splash Patterns: Acid, Steady Particles, and Water Drops, 1944-1946
37Stellar Crystals, Undated
38Stokes' Law (Incomplete), Undated
39Supercooled Droplets/Crystals- Handwritten Notes, Undated
40Supersaturation of Water Vapor Report (Universite de Montreal), 1951
41Surface Active Oils, Undated
42Surface Chemistry, 1940
43Surface Replicas: Electron Microscopy Articles and Photos, 1942-1943
44Surface Replicas: Formvar, 1934-1935
45Surface Replicas: Photos, 1942
46Surface Replicas: Photos, Undated
47-48Surface Replicas: Photos- Metals, 1938-1945
49Surface Tension Measurements, 1936
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111Temperature Charts (Knolls), July 1952-October 1952
2Tentative Research Programs, Undated
3Terrestrial Magnetism, 1947 1949
4Thunderstorm Project (Aerophysics Institute), 1948
5Time Lapse Unit, Undated
6Transparent Balloons, 1947
7Ultraviolet Light, Light Scattering, Non-Glare Studies, 1937-1939
8Upper Winds- Notations on Index Card, Undated
9Variance Analysis, 1954
10Virus Detection, 1941
11Water Divining, 1944-1945
12Weather Bureau, 1946
13Weather Data Journal, 1948 1951
14Weather Modification- Synopsis of Questions Answered and Those Remaining, Undated
15Wetting Agents, 1940 1949
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1Wind Speed Charts, c.1952
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1116Wind Tunnels Data on Pilots, February 1944-February 1945
17WV-84A Ultrasensitive Micrometer, 1953
Subseries 4: Research Notebooks, 1936-1954, Undated
Arranged by size, then chronological within each set.
Comprising the years 1934 to 1954, Vincent Schaefer’s research notebooks are bound volumes containing handwritten observations, formulas, and drawings from his scientific endeavors. They comprise their own subseries partly due to the fragile nature of the bindings, covers, and paper itself, but also because the nature of the bound books prevents their being divided among the categories of snow and ice research, cloud seeding, general research, etc. Researchers are encouraged to consult these notebooks for information on Schaefer’s World War II projects, cloud seeding, surface chemistry, and more. Please note that Schaefer kept two sets of notebooks from 1940 to 1943—in addition to the larger hardback notebooks, he also kept a set of small softcover books that dealt with very specific topics such as smoke filters and artificial fog. He also used some of the smaller-size notebooks for scientific observations from his own home.
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121Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#2474, October 19, 1934-April 13, 1936
2Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#2642, April 1, 1936-May 13, 1937
3Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#2750, May 6, 1937-December 1, 1937
4Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#2836, December 3, 1937-February 8, 1938
5Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#2891, May 3, 1938-February 20, 1939
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131Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#2991, February 24, 1939-March 25, 1940
2Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#3132, March 29, 1940-September 7, 1943
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141Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#3771, October 8, 1945-February 3, 1945
2Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#3896, February 5, 1945-February 24, 1950
3Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#4653, July 19, 1948-February 26, 1954
4Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#3211, September 23, 1940-January 10 1942
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151Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#3398, December 3, 1941-February 9, 1942
2Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#3672, March 22, 1943-September 17, 1943
3Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#4651, June 25, 1948-February 10, 1950
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161Research Laboratory: Notebooks-#4652, July 14, 1948-July 8, 1950
Subseries 5: Correspondence, 1939-1954, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
Schaefer’s correspondence files are arranged alphabetically by subject. They include letters sent and received by Schaefer as well as some to and from Irving Langmuir. Schaefer also retained letters that were to and from others at General Electric but carbon copied to him. While most of Schaefer’s letters came to the archives grouped in large, general batches, some were retained separate from the larger groups. The archivist kept that arrangement, which is why certain letters are foldered individually or in very small groups while the majority of this subseries is simply categorized as “general”.
Due to time constraints, correspondence that might relate to Project Cirrus was not culled from this series to be placed in Series #2, so researchers might wish to peruse this subseries for Cirrus letters, especially those two and from various branches of the military.
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171Aerological Instruments- Recommendations (I. Langmuir), November 1, 1944
2"Altimeter Effects Resulting from Orthographic Lifting"- Report w/Letter, October 21, 1947
3Amateur Weathermen of America, October 1947-December 1947
4American Geophysical Union- Schaefer's membership, May 9, 1946 May 13, 1946
5The American Magazine- Rejection Slip, October 24, 1946
6American Meteorological Society, Letters and Memos, 1948-1949
7Angus, John- Distillation Products, March 1949-April 1949
8Beere, Norman (Editor of Nucleonics)- Visit to General Electric, October 31, 1949
9Blodgett, K.- Letters from Various Sources: Non-Reflective Coating Technology, January 1948-April 1948
10Blodgett, K.- Letters from Various Sources: Semi-Conducting Glazes, February 1948-March 1948
11Blodgett, K. and Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., May 1948
12Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, March 17, 1944 January 1947
13Bowden, Dr. Phillip, Cambridge and I. Langmuir, April 30, 1948
14Byers, Horace R., Dept. of Meteorology at University of Chicago- to V. Schaefer regarding "Cloud Electricity", February 22, 1950
15Card from "Marcy C." Upon Schaefer's Departure from G.E., c. February 19, 1945
16Cathode Ray Tube with Increased Writing Speed, March 10, 1942 November 12, 1942
17Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, January 1947-February 1947
18Church, James E.- University of Nevada, January 1947-February 1947
19Clouds: Data Collection Devices (incomplete letter by C.G. suits), November 20, 1945
20Cloud Seeding by Others: Alaska, June 5, 1951 June 7, 1951
21Cloud Seeding by Others: Barnes, C.S., December 27, 1946 January 3, 1947
22Cloud Seeding by Others: Belgian Congo, December 19, 1949
23Cloud Seeding by others: Israel, June 7, 1949
24Cloud Seeding by others: North Dakota and Wyoming, August 5, 1951 Undated
25Cloud Seeding- Pre Project Cirrus, 1946-1947
26The Collected Works of Irving Langmuir- Memos and Correspondence, 1958-1961 1966
27Collodian Replicas, Woods Hole, September 1, 1942
28Communication among V. Schaefer, I Langmuir, K. Blodgett and A. Rothen, December 1946-September 1947
29Conducting Films, Draft, Undated
30Cornish, Paul Floyd- Letter with Poem, 1951 June 17, 1952
31Curry, John J. Major General USAF (retired), February 10, 1954
32Davidson, A.E. and C.S. Wright- Frazil Ice, 1948-1949
33Deer Fly- Speed of Flight, Rochester Museum of Arts and Science, March 28, 1939
34Department of Defense: "Ice Crystal Nuclei"- Security Clearance for Publication of Schaefer Articles, June 30, 1951
35Eddy, C.O. (Niagara Sprayer and Chemical Co.) to Dr. Lyall Hagmann- Particle sizes, June 30, 1945
36Electron Microscope- Imperial Paper and Color Corp. and State of New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, January 6, 1945 December 14, 1942
37Encyclopedia Arctica- V. Stephansson, September 26, 1950 December 7, 1950 January 30, 1951
38Falconer, R. Letter re: Cloud Meter, June 13, 1945
39Falconer, R. to Fred Milan, Weather Bureau Airport Station, July 7, 1947
40Falconer, R.- Recommendations for Atmospheric Science Equipment at Knolls Atomic Power Lab, December 22, 1948
41Fernandez Company, Albuquerque, NM- Cloud Seeding, 18508
42Fischer, Nathan B. (Louis Fischer Inc.) and K. Blodgett, September 18, 1949 September 29, 1949
43Foreign Government Requests, August 1954-November 1954
44G and W Filters, Testing of (Schaefer letter to Langmuir), Undated
45General Correspondence, 1939-1945
46General Correspondence, January-February 1946 December 1946
47General Correspondence, January 3, 1946 July 1946-November 1946
48General Correspondence, January 1947
49General Correspondence, February 1947-March 1947
50General Correspondence, April 1947-May 1947
51General Correspondence, June 1947-July 1947
52General Correspondence, August 1947-September 1947
53General Correspondence, September 1947
54-55General Correspondence, October 1947
56General Correspondence, November 1947
57General Correspondence, December 1947
58General Correspondence, January 1948
59General Correspondence, February 1948
60General Correspondence, March 1948
61General Correspondence, April 1948-June 1948
62General Correspondence, July 1948-August 1948
63General Correspondence, November 1948-December 1948
64General Correspondence, 1949-1950
65General Correspondence, 1952-1954
66General Correspondence, January 20, 1928
67Gisborne, H.T. to Dr. Ross Gun- Lightning- Induced Fires, March 25, 1948
68Gisborne, H.T. to V. Schaefer, pre- and post-Schaefer Visit to Priest River Area- Lightning Fires, April 1948-August 1948
69G.M. Giannini and Co., Inc. to R. Falconer, August 26, 1948
70Handwritten letter to Schaefer from "Vic" (Clark?) Regarding Droplet data and Voltages Applied with Point Collector Graphs included, Undated
71Hansen, Jr., C.A.- General Electric, Hanford Engineering Works, May 1947-June 1947
72Harnischfeger Corp.- General Electric Crane Cab Spray, August 1947-September 1947
73Heat Pump dept. at General Electric, April 24, 1953
74Home-Made Rain: Publishing Contract for Booklet, January 3, 1953-May 5, 1953
75Honorary Degree From Notre Dame, V. Schaefer, 1946-1948
76Howell, W.E.- Print reproductions, Cloud Seeding locations, January 23, 1951
77Howell, W.E. to K.H. Brown at State House, Albany NY, April 8, 1953
78Hubert, Ernest, August 31, 1948-December 5, 1949
79Hurd, Dorothy to Schaefer- Re: Wyoming, November 1946-January 1948
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181Icing Research: Rime on Mount Washington, November 26, 1945
2Industrial Museum for General Electric, November 27, 1931 December2, 1931
3Jet Stream and Cloud-related Correspondence, 1951-1953
4Jet Stream and Cloud-related Correspondence with Additional News Clips and Research Notes, 1954
5Jet Stream, Clouds and Sweden- W.E. Hubert, December 2, 1952
6Jordan, J.P (Syracuse Works) and K. Blodgett, August/September 1948
7Journal of Colloid Science and K. Blodgett, September 1946-September 1947
8Langmuir, I. and Dorothy Wrinch (Smith College), October/November 1947
9Langmuir, I. and the Government of the Province of Alberta Dept. of Agriculture- Field Crops Branch, February 1945 October 1945 February 1947
10Langmuir, I. and J.L. Kavanau, February 27, 1947 March 3, 1947
11Langmuir, I. Letters- General, 1950 1951
12Langmuir, I.- Protein Monolayers, August 11, 1939
13Langmuir, I to Margaret Bakuzonis from Socorro, New Mexico, April 22, 1953
14Langmuir, I. to Schaefer from Arizona, May 1, 1953
15Letters about Schaefer, 1941 1947
16Linear Expansion of Rails, Milton Jay Kimmel, April 25, 1952
17Liquid Lens Press Release with Photograph, February 24, 1953
18"Ludox" Colloidal Silica, DuPont, June 1, 1949
19McKibben, Dr. J.L. (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) and K. Blodgett- Electrostatic Accelerators, February 1948 March 1948 July 1948
20Meteorite Specimens, Smithsonian Institution, September 18, 1943
21Milliken and Farwell, Inc. to Schaefer and Langmuir, June - August 1947
22Morgan McDermott Post No.7, Tucson, AZ, April 1947- April 1948
23Mott, Harvey (Phoenix Republic) and Amos Hoff (Phoenix Junior College) to and from V. Schaefer and I. Langmuir, July 1947- January 1948
24Multicell Systems- from G.E. Apparatus Dept., November 2, 1951
25Nakaya, U- Travel to Oslo and Need for Movie Film (Includes Photo of Anaya Family), June 1948 September 1949 Undated
26National Military Establishment- Research and Development Board, July 1948-August 1948 April 1949
27Natural History- Proposed Photo Series (Includes Images with Schaefer's Captions, May 25, 1943
28Naval Research Lab to I. Langmuir- Personnel Evaluation, May 7, 1948
29Navy Department Office of Naval Research, July 3, 1952
30North American Weather Consultants, Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, June 27, 1952
31Office of Secretary of Defense, February 5, 1954
32Paschkis, Victor to General Electric, with reply, February 1947
33Philo, Alice Warner to Schaefer, February 2, 1947
34Postcard from Paris, August 3, 1952
35Proposal for Support by the Office of Naval Research- Post Project Cirrus (with follow-up letter), April 21, 1952 May 5, 1952
36Revised Proposal to Office of Naval Research for Past Project Cirrus Work, May 27, 1952
37Rice, Maurice to Dr. Irving Langmuir- Description of Weather Event, with Pictures, February 9, 1950
38Roan, Kathleen to V. Schaefer, May 23, 1948 June 4, 1948 June 10, 1948
39Robbins Motion Picture Service, March 25, 1949 April 20, 1949
40Shade, David/Apex Tool Company to K. Blodgett, with reply, July 1947-August 1947
41Split Rock Lodge- Snow for Ski Facilities, December 1946-January 1948
42State University of New York to I. Langmuir- Langmuir's Resignation from Board of Trustees, September 12, 1949
43Stetson, Harlan T.- Letter re: Mean Hourly Discharge, May 2, 1944
44Surface Replicas: Biological Applications, October 10, 1942
45Surface Replicas: Botanical Applications, Undated
46Teale, Edwin Way- Letter to Schaefer (Snowflakes), August 12, 1945
47Union of South Africa- Scientific Liaison Office, March 1947-January 1948
48Vancouver Forest Service, November 1947-July 1948
49Ventilation Studies, January 21, 1947
50Vonnegut, B. to I. Langmuir- Rain Gauge Cloth (Cloth Included), August 1, 1944
51Walton, Sande, High School Student, to I. Langmuir, with reply, September 22, 1947 October 14, 1947
52Waugh, Dr. David to I. Langmuir and K. Blodgett, February 1947-April 1947
53Waugh, Dr. David (MIT) from I. Langmuir, April 30, 1948
54Weather Control: Article for Grolier, June 1951-July 1951
55Wrinch, Dr. Dorothy- Oxford University, Undated
56Yagoda, H. Article and Letter to Schaefer: "Analytical Patterns in the Study of Mineral and Biological Materials", February 1943 April 29, 1944
57Younger, Dorothy- Rhyming Letter, November 28, 1946
Subseries 6: Subject Files, 1891-1978, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
The Schaefer subject files are a collection of brochures, notes, and other ephemera that have enduring value but do not belong in other categories such as cloud seeding or snow and ice research. These files include research notes from sources other than General Electric; scientists and entrepreneurs frequently exchanged results of their work with one another, but to avoid confusion, the work of Schaefer and other G.E. scientists can be found in the next subseries while informal research notes and observations by others are located here.
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191Address Book, Undated
2Aerial Photos, Assorted, 1942
3Aeronautical Chart for Hudson, 1947
4Air Material Command, Dayton Ohio- Temperature Distribution notes and photos, c.1946
5Advancing and Receding Contact- Angles, 1949-1950
6Albany Airport Instrument Approach Chart, October 4, 1951
7Amateur Weathering of America, 1947
8American Chemical Society, Eastern New York Section, Directory and By-Laws, 1949
9American Chemical Society- Schaefer's Enrollment for 1938, 1937
10American Geophysical Union- Relationship with General Electric, 1945-1946 1948 1952
11American Men of Science Questionnaire, c.1948
12American Meteorological Society Committee on Professional Ethics and Standards-Report to the Council, May 3, 1951
13American Meteorological Society, Meetings and Code of Ethics, 1949-1951
14American Meteorological Society, Meeting Programs, 1946-1954 Undated
15American Polar Society- Membership Invitation, Undated
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42American Society for Testing Materials- Poster Advertising V.J. Schaefer and P.E. Kraght Speaking Engagement, April 13, 1948
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1916Apprenticeship Records, 1923-1924
17Atmospheric Data from Rocket-Flights- News article and letter, 1948 January 13, 1949
18Atmospheric Motion and Particle Movement, 1953
19Biography- Bensin, Basil M., 1948
20Binaural Effect Studies, 1942
21Biography of Schaefer, Capital Cogs, September 6, 1950
22Biography of Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
23Bishops Cap (Mitella sp.) photo negative, Undated
24News Clipping, Award Recipient (photocopy)- Blodgett, Katherine, November 9, 1972
25Boeing Aircraft Photos, 1960 Undated
26Brazilian Traction, Light and Power 36th Annual Report, 1948
27British Glaciological Society, 1947-1951
28Calgon- Formulas, Properties, Graphs, 1937 Undated
29Calrod Experiment Summary with Letter, Undated
30Candid Camera- Picture of I. Langmuir, December 29, 1944
31Cartoons and Comics, 1947-1950
32Centennial Publication: "G.E. 100-Toward the Second Century", 1978
33Character Reference for Schaefer, September 16, 1947
34"Class Assignment" Notebook, 1934-1935
35Climatic Trends in the Northeastern U.S. Symposium, 1952
36"Cloud Forms of the Jet Stream" articles with related photos & news clippings, 1953
37Cold Chamber: Bowser, Inc. Refrigeration Division Brochure- Temperature Altitude and Humidity Simulation Units, Undated
38Cold Chamber: Demonstration at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Undated
39Colloid Symposium (MIT)- Program of Papers, June 9, 1938-June 11, 1938
40Committee on Geophysical Science of the joint Research and Development Board- Panel on Meteorology, April 23, 1947
41Compendium of Meteorology tentative table of contents with partial letter, 1949
42Costs for Making Copies of Reports, 1944-1945
43Crystallization of Metals, Rocks and Ice-Symposium, October 1951
44Current Science, Vol. XXVIII #4, featuring I. Langmuir, V. Schaefer, K. Blodgett, C.G. Suits, October 5, 1942-October 9, 1942
45Distribution of Contract recommendation (with note to Schaefer from "Vic", Undated
46Dutch (?) Meteorological Map, Undated
47Eastern Snow Conference Materials, February 16-17, 1950 February 15-17, 1951 February 14-15, 1952
48Edison General Electric Company: Instructions to Foremen Fragile Item, 1891
49Einladung zur Sitzung der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft- Zurich, December 1953
50Electron Microscopy: Description with Letter, June 2, 1942 Undated
51Electron Microscopy: Newspaper Clippings, November 6, 1941 November 21, 1941
52Electron Microscopy: Symposium, November 27, 1942
53Electronic Stratometer vs. Radio Sonde- Nomenclature Change from Minutes of University of Chicago Dept. of Meteorology, 1945
54Employee Rating Sheets instructions, July 1949
55"Essais de Modification des Nuages dans les Pyrenees", June 6, 1951
56Fasciation (collected articles on), 1948 1971 Undated
57Fire Danger Meter and Burning Index Meter, April 1942
58Fires in Ontario- Map and Data, June 1948
59"A Five- Year Record of Lightning Storms and Forest Fires", H.T. Gisborne, April 1931
60Flashtubes- General Electric and Strobo Research, 1947-1948 Undated
61Copy of 1752 letter on Electricity- Franklin, Benjamin, 1920
62General Engineering Lab Research Publications, 1955-1959
63Geodimeter description, 1951
64Groundwater Elevation in the Hudson- Mohawk Drainage Basin, 1931-1950
65Hailstones, 1949-1950 Undated
66High Altitude Observatory: Contributions and Supplemental Information, March 1953
67High Voltage Radiography Symposium, March 4, 1952-March 5, 1952
68Identification badge- Schaefer, General Electric, Undated
69Incense (Blue Smoke) graph, Undated
70Institute of Navigation Meeting Program, February 13, 1947-February 14, 1947
71Instructions for Operating the Kodaslide Projector, Model 2A, c.1947
72Instructions: Portable and Switchboard Recording Instruments (Types CF-1, 2, 4, and 5), c.1950
73Instrumentation for Industrial Hygiene Symposium, May 24, 1954-May 27, 1954
74Iodine Abstracts and Reviews, Vol. I #3-6 and Vol. II #1, January-October 1950 January-April 1951
75Isotopes-Supplement #1, September 1949
76Japanese Article, Undated
77Jet Stream- Radio press releases, January 26, 1953
78Laboratory Conference No.8- research presentations, artists rendering at the knolls, plans for research lab, October 11, 1945-October 12, 1945
79Laboratory Study and Development Program, Undated
80Landform Map of the Northwestern States, Copyright 1941, Undated
81Landform Map of the United States, 1939
82Langmuir, Irving: Biography by A.C. Langmuir, December 1932
83Langmuir, Irving: Biography by K.B. Blodgett, July 1933
84Langmuir, Irving: Biography by W.R. Whitney, February 1941
85Langmuir, Irving: Biography Reprinted from Scientific American, September 1937
86Langmuir, Irving: "Book U" Supplements, 1952-1953
87Langmuir, Irving: The Collected Works of Irving Langmuir-Introduction to Volume VII by Schaefer, 1960
88Langmuir, Irving: The Collected Works of Irving Langmuir-Introduction to Volume 10 by Schaefer, Undated
89Langmuir, Irving: Columbia University Engineering Center News, December 1951
90Langmuir, Irving: Memorial Speech by Nephews, Union College, August 21, 1957
91Langmuir, Irving: Memorials by Schaefer, 1957-1958
92Langmuir, Irving: Perkin Medal Award, 1928
93Langmuir, Irving: Photo album index, c.1950
94Langmuir, Irving: Portrait Photos, Undated
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43Langmuir, Irving: Portrait Photo, Undated
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1995Langmuir, Irving: Priestley Medal Award, October 1929
96Langmuir, Irving: Publications list, Undated
97Langmuir, Irving: "A Tribute to Irving Langmuir, 1881-1957", August 19, 1957
98Le Recueil, March 1947
99"Lichtstreuung an Aerosolteilchen", April 1952
100Map: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, 1948
101Memo: H.T. Gisborne- Use of B-29 Jets in Lightning Fire Prevention, June 29, 1949
102Meteorological office equipment requirements, March 6, 1952
103Mohawk Association of Scientists and Engineers Newsletter, August 27, 1952
104Mohawk Association of Scientists and Engineers Newsletter (MASE), June 17, 1953
105Multicell structure- official patent with original letter regarding application of invention, November 3, 1950 January 24, 1956
106Museum Service-Bulletin of Rochester Museum of Arts & Sciences, March 1939 April 1939
107National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics- Research abstracts, June 15, 1951
108Newspaper clippings, 1939-1950 Undated
109New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Catalog, 1951-1952
110New York Academy of Sciences Meetings, 1949- 1950
111North American Weather Consultants, 1951-1952
112Northern Rocky Mountain Forest & Range Experiment Station- List of Publications Available for Distribution of Loan,, June 1958
113Notebook with E.E. Hubert Business card, 1948
114Nucleation Symposium- Industrial & Engineering Division, American Chemical Society, Undated
115Outdoor Hobbies of Schaefer's (GE news release), c.1942
116Ozone Pollution- American Optical Company, 1953 Undated
117Panel Discussion- "The Public Looks at the College", Undated
118Papers and speakers- Presentations through the year, 1951
119Patents, 1934-1952
120"Petrographic Analysis of Novacite", author unidentified, Undated
121Photo Caption cards (?), Undated
122Photo: Einstein, Albert with unidentified group, Undated
123Photo: "Man Makes Snow!" exhibit, Undated
124Photo: Model "A" Microscope Illuminator, Undated
125Photo: Pennsylvania electric Association Hydraulic Power Committee, with list of names, April 1952
126Photo: Portrait of Schaefer, c. 1945
127Photo: Research laboratory(?), Undated
128Photo: Schaefer and Langmuir at General Electric, c.1946
129Photo: Schaefer with unidentified colleagues, Undated
130Photo: Schenectady and Glenmont, Aerial View,
131Photo : School Science fair (weather station), Undated
132Photo: Schoon, Alexander-"Class of 1931", Undated
133Photo: Woman Reading Boston Globe Story on Schaefer's First Successful Cloud Seeding, c.November 1946
134Photographic Data Kodachrome Professional Set Film-List, July 1943
135Photos: Dr. C. Guy Suits and General Electric Research Laboratory, Undated
136Photos: Equipment, Schaefer and Colleagues, Unidentified Experiments, 1940 Undated
137Photos: Lab instruments, August 11, 1945 September 10, 1945
138Photos: Langmuir, I., 1910 1935 Undated
139Photos: Mount Cimone and unidentified, Undated
140Photos: New York State Barge Canal, Aerial Views, Likely Schenectady Area, October 26, 1935 Undated
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201Photos: New York State Barge Canal, Aerial Views, Likely Schenectady Area, April 23, 1941 Undated
2Photos: New York State Barge Canal, Aerial Views, Likely Schenectady Area, Undated
3Photos: Schaefer Alone, with Colleagues, and with Family, c.1930-c.1970
4Photos: Schaefer and unidentified men, possibly at Crater Lake, June 20, 1947
5Photos: Science Forum Panel First Meeting, 1944
6Photos: Scientific instruments, Undated
7Photos: Smoke generator assembly (with key to identify parts), March 13, 1942
8Photos: Unidentified (includes negatives), 1949
9Photos: Unidentified subjects,
10Physics Today, August 1948
11Porous Vycor Glass shipping memorandum, January 31, 1952
12Postcard from Mexico, Undated
13Press Release: "High School Girl Constructs Snowmaking Device for $4.32", June 27, 1947
14Press Release: "Oil Drops Assume Geometrical Shapes on Protein Films", with photo, Undated
15Priest River Photos, August 1948
16Program for Appliance and Merchandise Department, March 13, 1951
17Programs: American Meteorological Society 102nd National Meting with 30th Annual Meeting of American Geophysical Union,
18Project Jupiter- Conference at Schenectady, list of names, November 14, 1952
19Publicity Department Photos (includes electron microscope images), 1943
20Radiosonde and Rawinsonde Stations in the U.S, Undated
21Rain Forest, June 1953
22Raindrop Physics Study Proposal, 1951
23Report Recipients Checklist (report unspecified), Undated
24Research Laboratory Bulletins, 1947 1949 Undated
25Research Laboratory- Ceremony of Dedication Program, October 9, 1950
26Research laboratory: "Current Research Activities", October 1, 1948
27Research Laboratory: History by I. Langmuir and others, manuscript, Undated
28Research laboratory: Request for project summary, April 1, 1947
29Research Laboratory: Shop Order requests, 1947
30Research Laboratory: Time Clock Requirement Memo, June 17, 1938
31Research Site Map, Undated
32Reviews by Schaefer and Others, 1940 1980
33Robert M. Losey Award to Schaefer- Press Release, January 20, 1953
34Roche Research Club Program, 1950-1951
35Rochester Museum Council- Fellowship to Schaefer, 1943
36Royal Meteorological Society- Centenary materials, charter and by-laws handbook, 1948 1950
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211Royal Meteorological Society- Centenary meeting: correspondence, brochure, & supplemental materials, 1949-1950
2Salt: The Story of Diamond Crystal Salt, Undated
3Schaefer Statements on Weather Modification with Unidentified "Council Letters", June 8, 1951 February 1953-March 1953 Undated
4Schaefer Statement Prepared for Senator James P. Kem- Kansas-Missouri Floods, Undated
5Schaefer with unidentified colleagues, Ottawa- photo, Fall 1949
6Schenectady Plant- Visits, 1949 1952
7Schenectady Works Apprentice Alumni Association-Book and Photograph, 1941
8Science: Vol.89, #2316, May 19, 1939
9Science Service (Scientific News Reports), 1946-1948 1952
10Scientific Conferences, 1950-1951 Undated
11Severe Storms Report- University of Chicago,
12Shell Aviation News, Issue #180(Schaefer on pp. 4-6),
13"Sketches of Dr. Langmuir and Dr. Whitney", With Additional Drawings and Notes by V. Schaefer, 1934-1935 Undated
14Smoke Generation- Article in Popular Science, July 1943
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21Snowflake Preservation and Replica Posters, Undated
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2115"Snowflake Scientist" Cartoon from Young Catholic Messenger, November 23, 1951
16"Some Questions Science Does Not Answer", Dr. Harold A. Larrabee- Talk Delivered in G.E.'s "Science Forum" Radio Program, April 4, 1951
17Speech: "Planning Unplanned Research", Research laboratory Colloquium, I. Langmuir, December 12, 1951
18Speech: "Progress in Control of Meteorological Factors", V.J. Schaefer, April 1952
19Surface Replicas: "Snowflake Hobby Leads to New Way of Studying War Metals", May 1942 June 1942
20Symposium on Nucleation- Program and Paper Abstracts, December 27, 1951-December 28, 1951
21Talks: American Chemical Society (Wooster College section), 1949
22Talks: Eastern Colleges Science Conference, 1953
23Talks: "Farm Forum" (WGY) "Doing Something About the Weather", 1947
24Talks: The Franklin Institute, 1947
25Talks: Friends of the Land, June 21, 1951
26Talks: Hanford Engineer Works (Hanford, WA), April 19, 1947
27Talks: Institute of Navigation, February 13, 1947-February 14, 1947
28Talks: The Johns Hopkins Research Conference, Undated
29Talks: Kiwanis Club of Gloversville, 1948
30Talks: Kiwanis Club of Rotterdam, 1951
31Talks: Lake Pleasant Central School (Speculator, NY), 1948
32Talks: New Mexico Wool Growers Association, 1952
33Talks: New York Railroad Club, 1949
34Talks: New York University, 1953
35Talks: Pittsfield, MA Chamber of Commerce, Undated
36Talks: The Rensselaer Physical Society, April 27, 1948
37Talks: Rotary Club of Schenectady, January 1, 1947-17183
38Talks: "Science Forum" (WGY), April 9, 1947
39Talks: Education Board Conference (Program), 1947
40Talks: Sigma Xi, March 27, 1948
41Talks: Sigma Xi- Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Chapter, May 20, 1948
42Talks: Union College Physics Society, November 7, 1951
43Talks: University of Delaware, 1947
44Talks: Western Forestry and Conservation Association, December 11, 1952
45Technical Development Committee- Symposium on Polar Navigation, December 16, 1946-December 20, 1946
46Text Proposed for Guest Column of Mr. Robert S. Allen, Post-Hall Newspaper Syndicate (By V.J. Schaefer), August 7, 1953
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221Thunderstorm Electricity Conference- Advance Materials, March 1950
2Topical Organization of First National Conference on the Electron Microscope, November 27, 1942
3Tribute to Schaefer- Research Laboratory Memo, May 1948
4Trurnit, Hans J. (M.D.)- Bibliography, Undated
5U.S. Department of Agriculture Circular #591: Influence of Altitude and Aspect on Daily Variations in Factors of Forest-Fire Danger, February 1941
6U.S. Military Map, Undated
7"Unforeseeable Results of Research," I. Langmuir- Radio Broadcast, January 21, 1945
8Union Geodesique et Geophysique Internationale Association de Meteorologie, 1951
9United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources,
10Vocational Training Record Card for V. Schaefer (National Defense), December 22, 1941
11"We the People" Radio Script Featuring V.J. Schaefer, January 19, 1947
12"Weather as a Natural Resource"- Proposed Script for Radio Talk, 1949
13Weather! Bulletin of the National Weather Improvement Association, August 30, 1951 September 7, 1951
14Weather Zone Map- United States, Undated
15Western Snow Conference, 1947
16Western Snow Conference, January 16, 1948
17Whitney, Willis R.- Whitney Day, News Clippings, Brochures, Correspondence, 1933-1957 Undated
18"Why You Fly Thunderstorms the Way You Do," P.J. Harvey, February 1952
19Winter Magic- Tentative Plan for Book, Undated
20Worcester Tornado- Correspondence and Reports, 1954
21Young People's Weekly,
Subseries 7: Reports & Publications by Schaefer, 1936-1954, Undated
Arranged chronologically
These are reports and articles written by Vincent Schaefer that did not directly cover work done through Project Cirrus. Many are from his early days at General Electric when he was still a research assistant, covering topics such as surface chemistry. Any articles co-written by Schaefer and his colleagues are included in this subseries. Some articles and reports do discuss early cloud seeding issues but do not appear to be directly related to Project Cirrus. When in doubt, the archivist looked for credits or acknowledgements to the U.S. military to help determine how a certain article or report should be categorized. Please note that many of the articles are reprints, which are reflected in the folder dates. Some folders also include manuscripts of the published articles or reports, which is indicated in the folder title.
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231"Composition of Fatty Acid on Water Containing Calcium or Barium Salts"- I. Langmuir and V.J. Schaefer, February 1936
2"Some Observations on the Mechanism of Lubrication" (Manuscript), March 6, 1936
3"Optical Measurements of the Thickness of Film Absorbed from a Solution"-Irving Langmuir and V.J. Schaefer, July 1937
4"Multilayers of Sterols and the Adsorption of Digitonin by Deposited Monolayers"- Langmuir-VJS and Harry Sobotha, September 1937
5"The Effect of Dissolved Salts on Insoluble Monolayers"-Irving Langmuir and VJS, November 1937
6"Biological Activity of Enzyme Monolayers" (Manuscript), February 28, 1938
7"Activities of Urease and Pepsin Monolayers"-Irving Langmuir and VJS, June 1938
8"Expansion Patterns of Protein Monolayers on Water", November 1938
9"Salted out Protein Films"-Irving Langmuir and VJS, November 1938
10"Effect of Ultraviolet Light on Built-up Multilayers", May 1939
11"An Indian Spoon?", January 1941
12"A Method for Making Snowflake Replicas", March 1941
13"Studies of Surface Properties by the Light Scattering of Deposited Liquid Films"- Notes Photos and Negatives, April 1941 October 1941 Undated
14Making "Fossil" Snowflakes, July 1941
15A Method of Making Replicas of Snowflakes, Ice Crystals and other Short Lived Substances, September 1941
16Use of Snow Flake Replicas for Studying Winter Storms, January 1942
17Surface Replicas for Use in the Electron Microscope, April 1942
18New Methods for Preparing Surface Replicas for Microscope Observation, November 1942
19"How to Fingerprint a Snowstorm", January 1943
20Dry Stripped Replicas for the Electron Microscope, February 1943
21"Getting Close to Nature's Surfaces", March 1943
22"Surface Replicas Containing Dye for Use in the Light Microscope", July 1943
23"Snow and Experimental Meteorology", 1943
24Winter Magic, January 1944
25"A Study of Biaural Perception of the Direction of a Sound Source" -I. Langmuir- C.V. Ferguson- E.F. Hennelly-Photos, August 11, 1943
26"Properties of Single Particles of Snow and the Electrical Effects they Produce in Storms" (Manuscript), 1944 Undated
27"Properties of Single Particles of Snow and the Electrical Effects they Produce in Storms"-Notes and Photos, April 1944 April 1945 Undated
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241"Properties of Single Particles and the Electrical Effects They Produce in Storms", Ca. 1945
2"Doing Something About Weather", January 1945
3"Report on Icing Studies Underway on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire and Schenectady, New York-Up to and Including January 20, 1945", February 1, 1945
4"Equipment and Procedures for Making Very Thin Absorbing Membranes" (Manuscript), February 22, 1945
5"Report in Installation of New Liquid Water Content Instrument on Mt. Washington" (Manuscript), April 7, 1945
6"Report in Installation of New Liquid Water Content Instrument on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire and Other Studies Underway at the Observatory and the Laboratory in Schenectady, New York", April 7, 1945
7"Demountable Rotating Multicylinders for Measuring Liquid Water Content and Particle Size of Clouds in Above and Below Freezing Temperatures ", 1945
8"Heat Requirements for Instruments and Airfoils During Ice Storms on Mt. Washington", April 1946
9Icing Study Reports-3 in 1, April 1946
10"The Liquid Water Content of Summer Clouds on the Summit of Mt. Washington"-VJS, April 1946
11The Preparation and Use of Water Sensitive Coating for Sampling Cloud Particles, April 1946
12"So You Want to Live in a Lake", June 5, 1946
13"Final Report on Icing Research-July 1, 1945-July 1, 1946", August 8, 1946
14"Report on General Electric Cloud Meter (Plane Model) with Photographs", August 16, 1945
15Production of Ice Crystals in a Cloud of Supercooled Water Droplets, November 15, 1946
16"Demountable Rotating Multicylinders for Measuring Liquid Water Content and Particle Size of Below Freezing Temperatures " (Manuscripts), Ca. 1946
17"Down from the Sky", 1946
18"An Historical Account on the Development of My Smoke Generator", June 4, 1947
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22"Historic Scene at Vroman's Nose in 1942", June 26, 1947
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2419"Methods of Dissipating Supercooled Clouds in the Natural Atmosphere", September 1947-December 1947
20"Doing Something about the Weather" (Manuscript with letter), November 1947
21"Heat Requirements for Instruments and Airfoils During Ice Storms on Mt. Washington", November 1947
22"The First Flight to Make Snow" (Manuscript), 1947
23"The Production of Clouds Containing Supercooled Water Droplets or Ice Crystals under Laboratory Conditions", April 1948
24"Rates of Evaporation of Water Through Compressed Monolayers on Water", April 1948
25"The Development of a Snow Classification System", August 1948
26"Types of Solid Precipitation in Snowstorms", December 1948
27"International Commission on Snow and Ice Committee on Snow Classification", 1948
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251"Up Where the Clouds are Made" (Manuscript), 1948
2"Scientific Adventures in the Fields, Mountains and Sky", 1948-1949
3"The Possibilities of Modifying Lightning Storms in the Northern Rockies" (includes annotated maps), January 1949
4"When the Snow Lays on the Ground" -VJ Schaefer (Manuscript), December 30, 1949
5"Induced Precipitation and Experimental Meteorology", June 1950
6"A New Method for Studying the Structure of Glacier Ice" -VJ Schaefer, October 1950
7"Factors Related to Experimental meteorology", November 1950-December 1950
8"The Formation of Frigid and Anchor Ice in Cold Weather", December 1950
9"Snow and Experimental Meteorology", December 1950
10"Cloud-Seeding Discoverer Stresses Urgency of Federal Control Agency", April 10, 1951
11"Rain and Rainmaking", May 31, 1951 June 7, 1951
12"Where Rain Falls All the Time: Including a Plan for Building a Simple Cloud Chamber", May 1951-June 1951
13"Freezing and Frozen Raindrops" (Manuscript), November 7, 1951
14"The Ice Borers" (Manuscript), December 10, 1951
15"Publications" -VJ Schaefer, 1936-1951 Ca. 1951
16"Rainforests and Shadows" (Manuscript), March 14, 1952
17"Continuous Cloud Chamber for Studying Small Particles in the Atmosphere", June 1952
18"Sky Riders of Antiquity" (Manuscript), June 30, 1952
19"Cloud Forms of the Jet Stream", October 8, 1956
20"Cloud Forms of the Jet Stream", February 1953
21"Jet Stream Clouds" (Manuscript), 1953
22"Earth Movers of the Past" (Manuscript), 1953
23"Electric Observations of the Formative Stages of the Worchester, Massachusetts Tornado", November 1954
24"Suggested Program for Further Time Lapse Cloud Photography" (Manuscript), Ca. 1954
25"Adventures Ahead" (Manuscripts), Undated
26"Adventures Ahead" (Manuscripts), 1953 Undated
27"The Beauty that Falls from the Sky" (Manuscript), Undated
28"The Castles of the Sky" (Manuscript), Undated
29"Down from the Sky", Undated
30"The Experimental Apparatus and Procedure" (Incomplete Draft on the Cold Chamber), Undated
31"The Formation of Snow Crystals on Airborne Dust Particles", Undated
32"Frozen Volcanoes" (Manuscripts), Undated
33"Scientific Adventures", Undated
34"How to Make Snow at Home", Undated
35"Improved Methods of Conditioning Surfaces for Adsorption" - I. Langmuir (Manuscript), Undated
36"Langmuir's Role in Conservation Activities", Undated
37"The Multice II" (Manuscript), Undated
38"Rambles in an Arizona Desert" (Manuscript), Undated
39Simple Laboratory Apparatus for the Study of Clouds, Undated
40"Snow" (Manuscript), Undated
41"Suggestions Related to a Proposed Thunderstorm Study" (Manuscript), Undated
Subseries 8: Reports & Publications by Others-- General Electric, 1913-1957, 1968, 1989, Undated
Arranged chronologically
Vincent Schaefer welcomed his colleagues’ professional input and used their published works for reference as he refined his own studies. The articles and reports in this subseries are a sampling of findings by scientists like Irving Langmuir, Katharine Blodgett, Bernard Vonnegut, and more. This subseries also includes magazine and brochure types of publications such as G.E.’s Adventures Ahead, booklets about Association Island, and occasional G.E. newsletters. Please note that many of the articles are reprints, which are reflected in the folder dates.
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261"The Emissiuty of Oxidized Metallic Surfaces"-C.P. Randolph and M.J. Overholser, August 1913
2"The Nitrogen Filled Lamp", October 1913
3"The Flicker of Incandescent Lamps on Alternating Current Circuits and Stroboscopic Effects", March 1914
4"The Constitution of Liquids with Especial Reference to Surface Tension Phenomena", October 15, 1916
5"The Condensation Pump: An Improved Form of High Vacuum Pump"- I. Langmuir, Undated
6"Types of Valence", July 22, 1921
7"The Mechanism of the Catalytic Action of Platinum in the Reactions of 2CO+O2=2Co2+2H2+O2=2H20", September 21, 1921
8"Chemical Reactions on Surfaces", July 1922
9"Thermionic Effects Caused by Alkali Vapors in Vacuum Tubes", January 12, 1923
10"The Pressure Effect and Other Phenomena in Gaseous Discharges", December 1923
11"Currents Limited by Space Charge Between Concentric Spheres"-I. Langmuir and K.B. Blodgett, July 1924
12The Apprentice System of the Schenectady Works, November 1924
13"Scattering of Electrons in Ionized Gases", November 1925
14"Flames of Atomic Hydrogen"-Irving Langmuir, March 1926
15"The Flow of Ions through a Small Orifice in a Charged Plate"-Lewi Tonks-H.M. Mott-Smith Jr. and Irving Langmuir, August 1926
16"The Theory of Collectors in Gaseous Discharges"-H.M. Mott-Smith and Irving Langmuir, December 1920
17"On The Surface Heat of Charging"-Lewi Tonks and Irving Langmuir, May 1927
18"A Method of Measuring the Mean Free Path of Electrons in Ionized Mercury Vapor-K.B. Blodgett, July 1927
19"The Characteristics of the Tungsten Filaments as Functions of Temperature"-Howard A. Jones and Irving Langmuir, September 1927
20"Electric Discharges in Gases at Low Pressures", September 1927
21"The Effect of Monomolecular Films on the Evaporation of Ether Solutions"-I. Langmuir and D.B. Langmuir, January 1928
22"Atomic Hydrogen as and Acid to Industrial Research"-Irving Langmuir, April 1928
23"Collisions Between Electrons and Gas Molecules", April 1928
24"Electric Discharges in Gases at Low Pressures"-Irving Langmuir, December 1928
25"Electric Discharges in Gases at Low Pressures" -Irving Langmuir, 1928
26"Contact Potential Measurements with Adsorbed Films", July 1929
27"General Theory of the Plasma of an Arc"-Lewi Tonks and Irving Langmuir, October 1929
28"Forces Near the Surfaces of Molecules"-Irving Langmuir, January 1930
29"Effect of End Lasses on the Characteristics of Filaments of Tungsten and other Materials"-I. Langmuir- S. MacLane-K.B. Blodgett, March 1930
30"Effect of End Losses or the Characteristics of Filaments of Tungsten and Other Materials"-Irving Langmuir- S. MacLane-K.B. Blodgett, May 1930
31"Electrical Discharges of Gases, Part I"-Karl T. Compton and Irving Langmuir, June 1930
32"Selecting the Chemist-Elect"-I. Langmuir, Ca. 1930
33"Oxygen Films on Tungsten, Part I"-Irving Langmuir and D.S. Villeur, March 1931
34"Experiments with Oil and Water"-Irving Langmuir, May 1931
35"A Study of Light Signals in Aviation and Navigation"-I. Langmuir and W.F. Westendarp, November 1931
36"Regions of Reversed Magnetization in Strained Wires"-I. Langmuir, December 1931
37"Modern Concepts in Physics", 1931
38"Study of a Neon Discharge by Use of Collectors", January 15, 1932
39"Regions of reversed Magnetization in Strained Wires"-I. Langmuir and K.J. Sixtus, January 1932
40"A Study of Light Signals in Aviation and Navigation"-I. Langmuir and W.F. Westendarp, January 1932
41"Study of a Neon Discharge by Use of Collectors"- Clifton G.Found and Irving Langmuir, March 1932
42"Accommodation Coefficient of Hydrogen; A Sensitive Detector of Surface Films"-K.B. Blodgett and I. Langmuir, May 1932
43"Vapor Pressures, Evaporation, Condensation and Adsorption"-Irving Langmuir, August 1932
44"Surface Chemistry"-Nobel Lecture Presented in Stockholm, December 14, 1932
45"An Extension of the Phase Rule for Adsorption Under Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Conditions"-I. Langmuir, March 1933
46"Irving Langmuir, Scientist"-Willis R. Whitney, March 1933
47"The Nature of Adsorbed Films of Cesium on Tungsten"-Irving Langmuir, April 1933
48"Irving Langmuir"-Katharine Blodgett, July 1933
49"Physiological Variations in Certain Crop Plants Following Seed Exposure to High-Voltage X-Rays"- C.N. Moore and C.P. Haskins, July 1933
50"Copper Embrittlement III"- Wyman, L.L., October 1933
51"The Evaporation of Atoms, Electrons from Cesium Films on Tungsten"- John B. Taylor and Irving Langmuir, October 1933
52"Oil Lenses on Water and the Nature of Monomolecular Expanded Films"- Irving Langmuir, December 1933
53"Surface Chemistry"-Irving Langmuir, December 1933
54"Monomolecular Films of Fatty Acids on Glass"-Katharine Blodgett, March 1934
55"Mechanical Properties of Monomolecular Films"-I. Langmuir, August 1934
56"Science as a Guide in Life"-Irving Langmuir, August 1934
57"Standard Lamps for the Spherical Photometry of Sodium Arc"-Frank Benford, August 1934
58"Mechanical Properties of Monomolecular Films"-I. Langmuir, September 1934
59"Oil Film Whirl-A Non-Whirling Bearing"-Burt L. Newkirk and Lloyd P. Grobel, September 1934
60"The Design of Tungsten Springs to Hold Tungsten Filaments Taut"-K.B. Blodgett and I. Langmuir, October 1934
61"Addresses Given in Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Sendai, Kyoto (Japan)", November 1934
62"Electric Discharges in Vacuum and in Gases at Low Pressures"-I. Langmuir-Denki Gaskkwai, November 1934
63"Fundamental Industrial Research"-I. Langmuir, November 1934
64"Surface Chemistry"-I. Langmuir, November 1934
65"Interference Colors in Oil Films on Water"- K.B. Blodgett, January 1935
66"Films Built by Depositing Successive Monomolecular Layers on a Solid Surface"- K.B. Blodgett, June 1935
67"Surface Chemistry"- I. Langmuir, September 1935
68"Mechanical Properties of Matter", August 1935
69"The Integrating Factor of the Photometric Sphere"-Frank Beneford, October 1935
70"What are Atoms?"-Irving Langmuir-Harry C. Furston and Buel Rice, April 1936
71"Duration of Sunshine on Vertical Surfaces"-Bedford-Frank and John E. Back, June 1936
72"The Heat Conductivity of Tungsten and the Cooling Effects of Heads upon Filaments at the Low Temperatures"-Irving Langmuir and john Bradshaw Taylor, July 1936
73"Airplane Tracks in the Surface of the Stratus Clouds", September 1936
74"Two-Dimensional Gases, liquids and Solids"-Irving Langmuir, October 1936
75"Built-up Films of Barium Stearate and their Optical Properties"-K. Blodgett-I. Langmuir, June 1, 1937
76"Multilayers of Aerosols and the Adsorption of Digitonin by Deposited Monolayers"-I. Langmuir-V.J. Schaefer-H. Sabotka, September 1937
77"Properties of Built-up Films Stearate"-K.B. Blodgett, October 1937
78"Surface Electrification Due to the Recession of Aqueous Solutions from Hydrophobic Surfaces"-I. Langmuir, May 1938
79"Overturning and Anchoring of Monolayers"-I. Langmuir, June 1938
80"A Time Analysis of Sunshine"-Frank Benford and John E. Bock, August 1938
81"Vector Maps and Crystal Analysis", September 1938
82"The Structure of the Insulin Molecule"-I. Langmuir and D.M. Wrinch, September 1938
83"Repulsive Forces Between Charged Surfaces in Water and the Cause of the Jones-Ray Effect"-I. Langmuir, November 1938
84"The Role of Attractive and Repulsive Forces in the Formation of Tactoids, Thixotropic Gels, Protein Crystals, and Coacervates"-Irving Langmuir, December 1938
85"Effect of X-Rays on Surface Potentials of Multilayers"-I. Langmuir, 1938
86"The Thunderstorm"- F.A. Evans and K.B. McEachron, 1938
87"Nature of the Cycol Bond"-I. Langmuir and D. Wrinch, January 14, 1939
88"Laws and Corollaries of the Black Body"-Frank Benford, February 1939
89"Use of Interference to Extinguish Reflection of Light from Glass"-K.B. Blodgett, February 1939
90"Molecular Layers", March 1939
91"Properties of Structure of Protein Monolayers"-Irving Langmuir and VJ Schaefer, April 1939
92"Protein Monolayers"-I. Langmuir, June 1939
93"Illumination from Extended Sources Computed by the Theory of the Integrating Sphere"-Frank Bedford, January 1940
94"Monolayers on Solids"-I. Langmuir, April 1940
95"Aerosols: A Selected Bibliography", October 1, 1940
96"Pressure-Soluble and Pressure-Displaceable Components of Monolayers of Native and Denatured Proteins"- I. Langmuir and D.D. Waugh, October 1940
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22"Progress of Science in 1940," Dr. A.W. Hull, March 7, 1941
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2697"Illumination in the Focal Plane"- F. Benford, May 1941
98List of Publications- Irving Langmuir and Katharine Blodgett, 1906-1942, Ca. 1942
99The Story of Lightning, 1942
100"Science, Common Sense and Decency"- I. Langmuir, January 1, 1943
101"The American Association for the Advancement of Science: Science, Common Sense and Decency", January 1943
102"Super Cooled Water Droplets in Rising Currents of Cold, Saturated Air", October 1943-August 1944
103What’s New in the World of Science, 1943
104"A Lone Scout- The Story of Vincent J. Schaefer, "Ad Run Nationwide by General Electric, Ca. 1943
105The Monogram, 1943-1945 1948 1953
106"Report on Smokes and Filters," Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett, January 1944
107Aerological Instruments for the Study of Icing and Precipitation Static Problems"-I. Langmuir, October 1944
108Publications: Irving Langmuir, Katharine Blodgett, and Vincent J. Schaefer, 1906-- (A Bibliography), c.1944
109"Order Hardening: Its Mechanism and Recognition"-D. Harker, 1944
110"Super Cooled Water Droplets in Rising Currents of Cold, Saturated Air Part I"-I Langmuir, 1944
111"Mathematical Investigation of Water Droplet Trajectories", December 1944-July 1945
112"Mathematical Investigation of Water Droplet Trajectories"-Irving Langmuir, January 1945
113"The Cooling of Cylinders by Fog Moving at High Velocities", March 1945
114"Science and Postwar Incentives"-I. Langmuir, May 17, 1945
115"Final Report on Investigating of Fundamental Phenomena of Precipitation Static"-I. Langmuir, May 1945
116"Final Report on Icing Research up to July 1, 1945"-I. Langmuir, October 1945
117"A Mathematical Investigation of Water Droplet Trajectories"-Langmuir and Blodgett-Notes and Charts, 1945-1946
118"Memorandum on Introduction of Ice Nuclei into Clouds"-I. Langmuir, August 16, 1946
119The Knolls News, 1946 1948-1949 1951
120"Use of Pitot Tube to Compensate for Pressure Deficiency Caused by Wind on Mount Washington, New Hampshire"-R.E. Falconer, April 1947
121Project Summary, July 1, 1947
122Adventures Ahead, 1947
123Research Laboratory Memo, February 1948
124"Cloud Chasers"- G.E. Monogram, May 1948-June 1948
125Research Laboratory Bulletin, June 1948 April 1950 May 1951
126Research Laboratory Memo, September 1948 February 1949 September 1942
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271"Particle Size Determination"-Francis J. Norton, October 1948
2"The Production of Rain by a Chain Reaction in Cumulus Clouds at Temperatures above Freezing"-I. Langmuir, October 1948
3"The Research Laboratory Builds a House"- with "Pictorial Supplement", November 1948 October 1950
4Research Laboratory Foto Facts, November 1948 October 1950
5Adventures Ahead, 1948
6Camp General Electric and Association Island, 1948
7Adventures Inside the Atom- Comic Book, 1948
8"The Story of Research"- General Electric, Ca. 1948
9"The Growth of Particles in Smokes and Clouds and the Production of Snow from Supercooled Clouds"-I. Langmuir, 1948
10"Rate of Nucleation of Solid Particles in a Subcooled Cloud"-J.C. Fisher-J.H. Hollomon-D. Turnbull, February 1949
11"The Behavior of Water Drops at Terminal Velocity in Air"-D.C. Blanchard (Includes News Clippings), December 1950-March 3, 1949
12Research Laboratory Memo, June 1949
13"Super-Cooled Water Droplets in Rising Currents of Cold Saturated Air Parts I and II"-I. Langmuir, June 1949
14Super-Cooled Water Droplets in Rising Currents of Cold Saturated Air"-I. Langmuir (Includes Notes and Formulas), Undated
15"Homogenous Nucleation"- D. Turnbull and J.H. Hollomon, September 1949
16Adventures Ahead, 1949
17"Experiments with Silver Iodide Smokes in the Natural Atmosphere"-B. Vonnegut, May 1950
18Story of the Turbine, June 1950
19"Control of Precipitation from the Cumulus Clouds by Various Seeding Techniques"-I. Langmuir, June 14, 1950
20"Preliminary Report on the X-Ray Microscope"-C.M. Lacht and D. Harker, July 1950
21General Electric News Digest, December 10, 1950
22Research in General Electric 1900-1950, October 9, 1950
23"Barium Stearate Stepgauge"- K. Blodgett, October 1950
24Knolls News, October 1950
25"Preparation of Copy for Lantern Slides and Charts", November 1950
26"Tests of Direction Selection Color Television Screens"-L.R. Koller and K. Smith, December 1950
27Adventures Ahead, 1950
28"Periodicity of Rainfall"-I. Langmuir, 1950
29More Power to America (Comic Book), 1950
30"Third Annual Listing Reports Published by Research Lab Publications", January 1951-December 1951
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281Knolls News, January 1951
2Research Laboratory Memo, March 1951
3Research Laboratory Memo, April 1951
4"An Hypothesis for the Origin of Cancer Foci", June 1951
5"Reporting Procedures in the General Electric Research Laboratory"-M. Martin, June 1951
6Adventures Ahead, September 1951-October 1951
7Laboratory Activities Developments, October 1951
8Research Laboratory Memo, October 1951
9Weatherwise, October 1951
10"Cloud Seeding by Means of Dry Ice, Silver Iodide, and Sodium Chloride"-Irving Langmuir, November 1951
11Kinetics of Solidification of Supercooled Liquid Mercury Droplets"-David Turnbull, November 1951
12"Recent Experiments on the Effect of Ultraviolet Light on Silver Iodide Nuclei"- Bernard Vonnegut and Raymond Neubauer, November 1951
13Thunderbolts in Harness, 1951
14"Reproduction of Manuscripts- An Elementary Description of Printing and Duplicating Processes"- Miles J. Martin, March 1952
15"Detention and Measurement of Aerosol Particles", June 1952
16"Thin Films of Supersaturated Solutions for Detecting, and Identifying Very Small Crystalline Particles"- B. Vonnegut, June 1952
17"Screw Dislocations, Etch Figures and Holes", July 30, 1952
18"Research Laboratory Foto Facts", July 1952
19"Preparation of Copy for Lantern Slides and Charts for Technical Presentation"- Miles J. Martin, August 1952
20The Monogram, August 1952
21Research Laboratory Memo, August 1952
22Developments (For GE Employees), Summer 1952
23Adventures Ahead, 1952
24Knolls Newsletter, January 7, 1953
25General Electric Review, July 1953
26"An Electrical Humidistat"- White, W.C., December 1953
27Adventures Ahead, 1953
28Why Study English?, 1953
29Adventures Ahead, 1954
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22"Should Your Child be a Chemist?" I. Langmuir, 1954
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2830"Widespread Control of Weather by Silver Iodide Seeding"- I. Langmuir, July 1955
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291"The Control of Hurricanes"-I. Langmuir (Manuscript), December 15, 1955
2"Hurricane Control"-I. Langmuir (Manuscript), December 29, 1955
3"Freedom: The Opportunity to Profit from the Unexpected"- I. Langmuir, Fall 1956
4Research Laboratory Digest, Summer 1957
5"Pathological Science"- I. Langmuir, April 1968 October 1989
6"The Distribution of Orientation Molecules", Undated
7"An Objective 30-Day Forecast Method for Precipitation and Temperature at Albany, NY"- R. Falconer, K. Maynard (Abstract), Undated
8"A Study of High-Voltage Corona Discharger from Points at Atmospheric as a Cause of Radio Interference"- E.J. Lawton, Undated
9"A Theory for the Behavior of Barium Stearate Monolayers and Multilayers"- D. Harker, Undated
Subseries 9: Reports & Publications by Others-- Non-General Electric, 1901-1953, 1978, 1988, 1993, Undated
Arranged chronologically
As with the work of his own General Electric co-workers, Schaefer collected articles and reports by colleagues outside of his own institution as well. These are an assortment of publications relating directly to Schaefer’s own work in areas like surface chemistry, ice/snow studies and cloud seeding as well as peripheral interests in the science world that happened to catch his attention. Please note that many of the articles are reprints, which are reflected in the folder dates.
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301"Shooting Away Hail-Storms," E.P Lyle, Jr. (Photocopy), June 1901
2"Meteorological Conditions Affecting the Freeman Lake (Idaho) Fire," G.M. Jemison, January 1932
3"The Isolation, Identification and Quantitative Determination of Ethyl Alcohol Normally Present in Human and Animal Tissues," A.O Gettler, J.B Niederl, and A.A Benedetti-Pichler, 1932
4"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Problems of the Boundary State," Sir William Hardy, 1932
5Snow Research: "Snow Surveying: Its Principles and Possibilities," J.E Church, October 1933
6"Evaporation at High Altitude and Latitudes," J.E Church, April 1934
7"Snow Surveys as an Aid to Flood Forecast and Control," J.E Church, June 20, 1935
8"Principles of Snow Surveying as Applied to Forecasting Stream Flow," J.E Church, July 15, 1935
9"The Snow Survey and Summer Precipitation," J.E Church, October 1935
10"The Measurement of "Bound" Water by the Freezing Method," S.S Kistler, June 1936
11"Measuring Fire Weather and Forest Inflammability," H.T Gisborne, July 1936
12"The Human Side of Snow: The Saga of Mount Rose Observatory," J.E. Church, February 1937
13"International Snow," J.E. Church, March 1937
14"South Continental Divide Snow-Survey Conference": Reports and Papers, July 1937
15"National Research Council: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union" Washington D.C, August 1938
16"Contribution to the Knowledge of the Photographic Latent Image and Development Process," L.W. Strock, 1938
17U.S Department of Agriculture -Weather Bureau "Codes for the Cloud forms and States According to the International System of Classification, 1938
18"Investigation on Snow, No.13-Window Hoar Crystals on Clean Glass Surfaces," Zyungo Yosida, January 1940
19"Report on a Laboratory Investigation of "Precipitation Static" Interference as Encountered on Aircraft" R.H. George, April 1940
20"Visibility Through Haze and Smoke, and a Visibility Meter" w/ Priest River G.D Shallenberger and E.M. Little, April 1940 1946 1948
21"Snow Surveying," J.C. Mass, June 1940
22"The Effect of a High- Frequency Disturbance on the Direct-Current Corona from a Sharp Point," M. O'Day, August 1940
23"Portrait of a Snowflake," W. Brinkerhoff, August 1941
24"A Method of Making Replicas of Snowflakes, Ice Crystals, and Other Short Lived Substances", September 15, 1941
25"The Melting of Snow," J.E. Church, Proceedings at the Central Snow Conference Volume I, December 1941
26"Meteorological Studies," J.E Church, 1941
27"The Human Side of Snow II: Sport and Transport," J.E. Church, March 1942
28"Western Interstate Snow- Survey Conference"-Reports and Papers by Joint Regional Meeting With Section of Hydrology of American Geophysical Union Pasadena, California, January 16, 1942
29"Human Side of Snow III: Perennial Snow and Glaciers," J.E. Church, March 1943
30"The Human Side of Snow IV: Snow Perils and Avalanches" J.E. Church, April 1943
31"New Smoke Generator," Blurb in The Stevens Indicator, May 1943
32"Snow- Study Program at Soda Springs Near Donnor Summit of Central Sierra Nevada," J.E. Church, 1943
33"Three Unusual Runoff Years in the Humboldt Basin, Nevada, 1940-41, 1941-42, and 1942-43," J.E. Church and H.P. Boardman, 1943
34"Utilization of 'Pore Spaces' of Semi-Permeable Membranes," Moore, William A., December 1, 1944
35"Effect of High Water- Table in Exaggerating Stream-Flow: Further Analysis of Unusual Year 1942-43 and Analysis for year 1943-44 on Upper Humboldt River Nevada," J.E. Church and H.P. Boardman, 1944
36"Experientia", M. DeQuervain, January 1, 1945
37" An Investigation to Determine Anti-Icing Requirements of the K- Type Airship in Flight," (With photos) W.H Hillendahl, K.W. Grace, B.F Jenkins, G.V Whittle, June 14,1945
38"Icing Report- Vol. I, No. 7", July 1945
39"Icing Report- Vol. I, No. 8", August 1945-September 1945
40"Icing Data- Vol. I, No. 9", October 1945
41"Icing Report-Vol. I, No. 10", November 1945
42"The Basic Mechanisms of Static Electrification," L.B. Loeb, December 7, 1945
43"The Water Analogy of Supersonic Air Flow," R.H Johnson, December 13, 1945
44"The Intertropical Convergence Zone of the Eastern Pacific Region (I)," L. Alpert, December 1945
45"Light Transmission and Water Content in Clouds" H.J Aufru Kampe, 1945
46"A Note on the Rate of Morphogenetic Movement in the Slime Mold, Dictyostelium Discoideum," Bonner and Eldredge, 1945
47"Über monomolekulare Filme an wassergrenxflächen und über Schichtfilme," Trurnit, H.J, 1945
48"Whiteface Mountain-Icing Severity During Helicopter Rotor Blade Tests Compared with Actual Flight," V. Clark, 1945
49"An Investigation to Determine Anti-Icing Requirements of the K-Type Airship in Flight"- Photos and Emergency Bills, 1945-1947
50"Icing Report, Vol. I No. 11"- Mt. Washington Observatory, December 1945
51"Icing Report-Vol. II, No. 2", February 1946
52"Artic North America, Program for Possible Scientific Investigations," Arctic Institute of North America Bulletin No. 1, March 1946
53"Icing Report- Vol. II, No. 3", March 1946
54"Icing Report-Vol. II, No. 4", April 1946
55"The Effect of Impurities in Water on Ice Adhesion," R. Smith-Johannsen, May 9, 1946
56"Selection, Installation and Operation of Seismographs," U.S Dept. of Commerce, 1946
57"Icing Report- Vol. II, No. 5", May 1946
58"Lightning Discharges to Aircraft and Associated Meteorological Conditions" Tech. Note #1001 by L.P. Harrison, May 1946
59"Notes on the Weather and Climate of Seymour Island, Galapagos Archipelago," L. Alpert, May 1946
60"An Mean Hurricane Sounding for the Caribbean Area" by Elmer J. Schacht, June 1946
61Snow Research: Western Snow Conference- Research Committee on Snow, Report of J.E. Church and Others, June 1946
62"Comparison of Formation of Ice and Water Particles, Vol. II, No. 8," W. Schwerdtfeger, August 1946
63"Basis High Voltage De-Icing," Hamacher, September 1946
64"Suitability of Disc and Cone for Ice Layer Measuring by Aerodynamic Drag" R. Bottger; Air Material Command Transaction, September 1946
65"Visibility and Water Content in Clouds, Vol.II," H.J Aufru Kampe), September 1946
66"Statistical Structure of Ice and Ammonium Fluoride" and "X-Ray Examination of Hail," K. Lonsdale, October 26, 1946
67Weather, September 1946
68"Amount of Energy Needed for De-Icing Equipment"- Report No.4 of the Experiment Group "Ice Accretion," Ritz-Hentrich, October 1946
69"Status of Carbon Black Agglomeration Project"- Progress Report Carperton Horaley, William Van Allen, Gordon Seavey, Alan Smith, December 20, 1946
70"First Technical Report Under Signal Corps Project", December 31, 1946
71"Experimental Investigations in Formation of Ice and Water Nuclei at Low Temperatures. Inferences Regarding the Growth of Atmospheric Ice Crystals," (With Photos) Weickmann, 1946
72"Hot- Air Discharge for De-Icing-Über das Ausblasen Von Warmluft für Enteiser," K. Wieghardt, December 1946
73"Diurnal Variation of Cloudiness over the Subtropical Atlantic Ocean," Herbert Riehl, January 1947
74"An Analytical Investigation of the Heat Losses from a U.S. Navy K-Type Airship," W.H. Hillendahl and R.E. George, February 17, 1947
75"An Example of Colloidal Instability of Clouds in Tropical Latitudes" by W.J. Kotsch, February 1947
76"Diurnal Variation of Moisture and Stability Aloft in the Vicinity of San Juan, Puerto Rico" by Herbert Riehl, March 1947
77"Ground Pressure Tests on Landing Skis," J. Skydow, March 1947
78"Preliminary analysis of NACA Measurements of Atmospheric Turbulence within a Thunderstorm-U.S Weather Bureau Thunderstorm Project," H.B.Tolefson, March 1947
79"Immunological Reactions Between Films of Antigen and Antibody Molecules," Alexander Rothen, April 1947
80"Earth Motion from the Atomic Bomb Test," L. Don Left, Spring 1947
81"Snow as an Environmental Factor in the West," Phil E. Church, April 1947
82"NACA Conference on Aircraft Ice Prevention", June 26, 1947-June 27, 1947
83"An Air Tester" by P. R. Zealley, June 1947
84"The War Against Hail," M. Mann, June 1947
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23"Vroman's Nose Twitched"- Poem, Anonymous, July 3, 1947
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3085"Precipitation Affected by Solar Variation," C.G. Abbot, August 11, 1947
86"A Revised Analysis of Solar- Constant Values," C.G. Abbot, August 30, 1947
87"Artificial Stimulation of Rain Formation," J.K. Bannon, August 1947
88Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 1947
89"Harmonic Analysis of the Diurnal Variations of Pressure and Temperature Aloft in the Eastern Caribbean," B. Haurwritz, September 1947
90"Internal Waves in the Atmosphere and Convection Patterns," B. Haurwritz, September 1947
91"Technical Report#3- Standard Operational Procedures" by Edwin L. William and George A. Wilson, October 1, 1947
92"Evidence for the Formation of Cell Aggregates by Chemotaxis in the Development of the Slime Mold Dictyostelium Discoideum," John Tyler Bonner, October 1947
93"The Sailplane for Cloud Seeding Studies," Aerophysics Institute Inc., November 1947
94"Measurement of Rainfall by Radar," J.S. Marshall, R.C. Langille and W. McK. Palmer, December 1947
95"Cloud Modification Report," Sampson & Chipman, December 1947
96"Ein Schubmesser für monomolekulare Filme" Hans Joachim Trurnit, 1947
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311"Snow as an Environmental Factor in the West," J.E. Church, 1947
2"Snow Survey Versus Winter Precipitation for Forecasting Runoff of the Tuolumne River, California," H.P. Boardman, 1947
3"Testing of Production- Scale Anti-Icing System in the ME210 Airplane-Fifth Part," Bosch, 1947
4"Notes on the Areal Distribution of Annual Mean Rainfall Over the Tropical Eastern pacific Ocean," L. Alpert, January 1948
5"The Static Electrification of Dust Clouds," J.G. Miller, H. Heineman, W.S.W. McCarter, February 6, 1948
6"The Weather: Not Much Change," Kiplinger Magazine, March 22, 1948
7"Aircraft Icing Instruments: Instruments for Measuring Atmospheric Factors Related to ice Formation on Airplanes," R.E. Katz and R.M. Cunningham, March 1948
8"Radar Weather Observations in the Vicinity of Johannesburg" P. Meerholz, April 1948
9"The Production of Snow and Rain in Cloudy Skies," Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, April 1948
10"A Report on Thunderstorm Conditions Affecting Flight Operations," Weather Bureau, April 1948
11"Das Korngefüge von Schnee," De Quervain, Dr. M., May 1948
12"An Objective Method of Forecasting Visibility," J.E. Miller and H.T. Mantis, May 1948
13"Influence of Butyl Alcohol on Shape of Snow Crystals Formed in the Laboratory," B. Vonnegut, June 6, 1948
14Technical Note- "Analysis & Preliminary Design of an Optical Instrument for the measurement of Drop Size & Free Water Content of Clouds," Willem J.R Malkus, Richard H. Bishop, and Ribert O. Briggs (NACA), June 1948
15Journal of Meteorology Vol. 5, No.3, June 1948
16"Canadian Survey of Physical Characteristics of Snow-Covers," Klein, G.J., June 1948
17"Weather Radar Research"- Eleventh Progress Report, August 14, 1948
18"Casting Techniques for Polyesters," W. Weeks, August 1948
19"Long Range Enzymatic Action on films of Antigen," Alexandre, Rothen, August 1948
20"A Study of Wing De-Icer Performance on Mount Washington," B.F. Goodrich Co., September 1948
21"Quarterly Bulletin of the National Research Council of Canada Aeronautical Laboratories", September 30, 1948
22"The Chemist Analyst", September 1948 June 1950 Undated
23"Inlet Icing and Effectiveness of Hot- Gas Bleedback for Ice Protection of Turbojet Engine,"William Fleming and Martin J. Saari(NACA), November 26, 1948
24"The Freezing of Supercooled Water," N.E. Dorsey, November 1948
25"The Question of Establishing United Nations Research Laboratories", December 1948
26"A Thermal Precipitator for Sparse Dispersions of Aerosols," E.R. Harrington and W.D. Crozier, December 1948
27"In Argentine Tierra del Fuego: Notes on a Tour" J.E. Church, 1948
28"Ueber Den Abbau Der Alpinen Schneedecke" Quervain, Marcel de, 1948
29"Solar Activity, the Ozone Layer, and the Lower Atmosphere" B. Haurwitz, c.1948
30Reports on Snow Making in Algeria, 1948-1950
31"Extrait des Comptes rendus des seances de l'Academie des Sciences", January 3, 1949
32"Etude, par diffaction Electronique, des Vapeurs d'iodure d'argent" by J-J Trillat et A. Laloeuf, January 1949
33"Icing Problems of the Airlines" D. North, January 1949
34"Investigation of Meteorological Conditions Associated with Aircraft Icing in Layer- Type Clouds" D.B. Kline, January 1949
35"Equatorial Flow Patterns" L. Alpert, January 10, 1949
36"Können Wir es Wirklich Regen Lassen!" H. Weickmann, January 1949
37"On Energy Equations for the Atmosphere" J.E.Miller, January 1949
38"Effects of Wind Shear on Same Aspects of Convention" Joanne Starr Malkus, February 1949
39"Weather Radar Research"- Progress Report #4, February 1949-May 1949
40"An Ominous Drought" H.P.Gillette, March 1949
41"Recommended Values of Meteorological Factors to be Considered in the Design of Aircraft Ice-Prevention Equipment, Tech.Note" #1855" Alum R. Jones and William Lewis, March 1949
42"A Review of Instruments Developed for the Measurement of the Meteorological Conducive to Aircraft Icing", April 26, 1949
43"Science and Adventure," J.E. Church, April 26, 1949
44"Extended Applications of the Hote Wire Anemometer," Stanley Corrsin- Tech. Note #1864, April 1949
45"Hail Damage to Stimulated DC-6 and Convair Leading Edges Under laboratory Conditions and Development of a Suitable Hail Catcher," American Airlines, May 3, 1949
46"On the Measurement and Nature of Atmospherics Produced by Electric Dischargers in Snow Squalls and from other sources," H. Norinder, May 1949
47"Observations of Icing Conditions Encountered in Flight During 1948" Tech. Note #1904" Williams Lewis and Walter H. Hoecker Jr.), June 1949
48"The Pulse Integrator: Description of the Instrument and its Circuitry," Tech. Note #8 Edwin L. Williams Jr. (MIT), August 1, 1949
49"Appraisal of Water Resources: Research in Artificial Precipitation," J.L. Orr, August 17, 1949
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23"Scientist Predicts World Weather Control," A.M. Low, August 28, 1949
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3150"Four Series of Weather Cycles which Presage a Dry Fall and Winter," H.P. Gillette, September 1949
51"Intermittent Heating for Protection in Aircraft Icing," Miron Tribus, September 1949
52"Analysis of the audio-Frequency Fluctuations in Radar Storm Echoes: A Key to the Relative Velocities if the Precipitation Particles" Tech. Note#9 by Glenn R. Hilst, November 1, 1949
53"The Effect of Geologic Inequalities on the Path of Lightning, as Indicated by Model Experiments," N. Horinder and O.N. Salka, November 1949
54"Marine Meteorology" J.S. Malkus, A.F. Bunker, K. McCasland, November 1949
55"A Measurement of the Scattering of Radio Waves From Small Spheres" V.D. Burgmann and R.B. Coulson, December 1949
56"Die Eisphase in der Atmosphäre" H. Weickmann, 1949
57Letters to the Editor reprints J.E. Church, 1949 Undated
58"The Measurement of Daylight" (With accompanying letters) W.F. Davidson, 1949
59U.S Department of Interior "A Progress Report on an Investigation of the Influence of Reforestation on Stream Flow", 1949
60"Method of Forecasting Precipitation Onset Time in Winter" Peter E. Kraght, 1949 1950
61Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, January 1950
62Snow Research: Micro-Notes, Vol.5, No.1, January 1950-March 1950
63Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, February 1950
64"Visibility and Liquid Water Content in Clouds in the Free Atmosphere" H.J. Aufm Kampe, February 1950
65"Instrumentation of a B-17 Aircraft for Weather Radar Flights," Tech. Report #10 Harry Dresios, March 1, 1950
66"Ice Protection for Turbojet Transport Airplane" P.T Hacker and Others, March 24,1950
67"Meteorology as a General Factor in Air-Pollution Problems" N.R. Beers, March 1950
68Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April 1950
69"The Glacial AntiCyclone Theory Examined in the Light of Recent Meteorological data from Greenland--Part 2" F.E. Matthes and Arthur D. Belmont, April 1950
70"Extrait des Cannales de Geophysique" H. Dessens, E.m. Fournier d'Albe and Charles Maurain, April 1950-June 1950
71Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, May 1950
72"A Model of a Tropical Cyclone in the Steady State" H.T. Mantis, May 1950
73"Physical Chemical Factors Involved in Atmospheric Phase Transitions" H. Reiss, May 1950
74"Developments in Meteorology: Centenary Celebrations of the Royal Meteorological Society", June 3, 1950
75"Leak Detector Using Ionization Vapor current Leak Detection Principle" D.J. Santelar, June 28, 1950
76"The Atomic Structure of Water and some of its Manifestations" W.A Weyl, June 1950
77Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, June 1950
78"An Investigation of the Freezing of Water in Exposed Pipe Lines" T.M. Riddick, N.L. Lindsay, A. Tomassi, June 1950
79"Investigation of Stratosphere Winds and Temperatures from Acoustical Propagation Studies" A.P. Crary, June 1950
80"On the Rate of Evaporation and Condensation of Falling Drops" M. Tsuji, June 1950
81"Photomicrographic Investigation of Spontaneous Freezing Temperatures of Supercooled Water Droplets" Tech. Note #2412, Robert G. Dorsch and Paul T. Hacker, July 1950
82"Weather Radar Research-Progress Report #1", July 1950-September 1950
83"Beam Width and Pulselength in Radar Weather Detection" Tech. Note #12, A.E. Bent, P.M. Austin and M.L Stone, August 1, 1950
84"Studies on Polydispersity & Nucleation" Victor. K. La Mer, August 1950
85"Weather Radar Research"- Progress Report #20, August 1950-November 1950
86"Physical Chemical Factors Involved in Atmospheric Phase Transitions" H.Reiss and H. Saltsburg, September 15, 1950
87"On the Interaction of Protein Films" A. Rothen, September 22, 1950
88"Smoke Pall might have Caused Extra Heavy Rains" Wadsworth Likely, September 26,1950
89Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 1950
90"Quantum-Mechanical Resonance between Identical Molecules" H. Jehle, September 1950
91"Physical Chemical Factors Involved in Atmospheric Phase Transitions" H. Reiss and H. Saltsburg, September 15, 1950-December 15, 1950
92"Kinetics of Nucleation in Atmospheric Phase Transitions", October 1950
93"Weather Radar Research"- Progress Report#2, October 1950-December 1950
94"Air Coupled Flexural Waves in Floating Ice", November 1950
95"A Balsa-Dust Technique for Air-Flow Visualization and Its Application to Flow Through Model Helicopter Rotors in Static Thrust" (M.K. Taylor), November 1950
96Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, November 1950
97Current Science and Aviation Vol.36, No.9, November 6, 1950-November 10, 1950
98"High Altitude Meteorological Balloon Techniques" H.N. Edwards, November 1950
99"The Northeast Trade of the Pacific Ocean" H. Riehl, T.C Yeh, J.S. Malkus, N.E. La Seur, November 1950
100"Push-Button Weather…Fact or Fancy?" Roscoe Fleming, November 1950
101"Cloud-Seeding Experiments in the Santa Ana Watershed and Escondido Drainage Area" J.A. Bottle, November 1950-April 1950
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321Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December 1950
2"The Performance of the British Grid System in Thunderstorms" J.S. Forrest, December 1950
3"Proceedings of the Conference on Ionospheric Research", December 1950
4"Statistical Explanation of Spontaneous Freezing of Water Droplets"- Tech. Note #2234 Joseph Levine, December 1950
5"Total Hemispheric Radiometers" J.T. Gier and R.V. Dunkle, December 1950
6Upper Atmosphere Ice Detection "Signal Corps Research-Final Report", December 1950-May 1951
7"Report on Cloud Seeding Operation in Southeast Arizona", December 1950-October 1951
8Air Pollution in Washington State- Report With Letter, 1950-March 19. 1951
9"Condensation Nuclei and Meteorological Elements in Dublin" P.J. Nolan and O.G. Tedde, 1950
10"Das Waschstum der Kondensationskerne mit der relativen Feuchtigkeit" C. Junge, 1950
11"A Determination of the Velocity of Light" Bergstand, Erik, 1950
12Die Festigkeitseigenschaften der Schneedecke und Ihre Messung Quervan, Marcel de, 1950
13"Lluvia Artificial", 1950
14"Snow Cover, Its Formation and Properties" G.D. Rikhterm translated by W. Mandel, 1950
15"Studies on Niobium and Tantalum-Parts 1 and 2" N.R. Srinivasan, 1950
16"Rain Making and South Dakota's Need for Water" Charles Gardner, January 2, 1951
17"Facts about Increasing Precipitation through Cloud Seeding", January 1951
18Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, January 1951
19"Weather Radar Research"- Progress Report #3, January 1951-March 1951
20"Direction Finding & Ranging on Atmospherics" W.J. Kessler and S.E. Smith, February 1, 1951
21"Special Radar Scope Cameras" Myron G.H. Ligda, February 1, 1951
22Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, February 1951
23Electron-Microscope Study of Fog Nuclei Daisuke Kuroiwa, February 1951
24"Cloud Seeding" A New Technology E. Bollay, R.D. Elliot and P.B. MacCready, February 1951
25"Facts on Rain-Making", February 1951
26"Niederschlag aus Kumuluswolken durch Künstliche Keime" With letter (H. Kleiner), February 1951 November 1951
27Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, March 1951
28"Meteorological Analysis of Icing Conditions encountered in Low-Altitude Stratiform Clouds" Dwight B. Kline & Joseph A. Walker, March 1951
29"Should the U.C Government Control Rain Makers?"- Debate between Clinton P. Anderson and Wallace E. Howell, March 1951
30Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April 1951
31"A Comparison of Icing Conditions on Mount Washington with those Encountered in Flight" Wallace E. Howell, April 1951
32"Some Evaluations of Sustained Cloud Seeding Operations" I.P. Krick and T.B. Smith, April 1951
33"Le Soleil Bleu de Septembre 1950" H. Dessens, April 1951 June 1951
34"Weather Radar Research"-Progress report #4, April 1951-June 1951
35Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, May 1951
36Research Reviews-Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy, May 1951
37"The Disdrometer-An Instrument for Measuring the Distribution of Raindrop Sizes Encountered in Flight"-Tech. Report #13 A.C. Bemis, June 1, 1951
38"Comparison of Radar Signal Intensity with Precipitation Rate"-Tech.Report#14 Pauline M. Austin and Edwin L. Williams Jr., June 1, 1951
39"A Radar Installation for Weather Radar Research"-Tech. Report #15 Alan C. Benis and Edwin L. Williams Jr., June 1, 1951
40Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, June 1951
41"A Recorder for an Airborne Liquid Water Content Measuring Instrument"- Tech Report#16 C.E Jensen, A.C. Benis, R. M Cunningham, July 15, 1951
42"Airborne Particle Study- Status Report for Quarter Ending 30 June 1951", June 30, 1951
43"A Raindrop Spectrograph" E.G Bowen and K.A. Davidson, July 1951
44"The Canadian Snow Survey 1947-1950", August 1951
45Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 1951
46"Comparison of Heat Transfer from Airfoil in Natural and Simulated Icing Conditions"-Tech.Note#2480 Thomas F. Gelder and James P. Lewis, September 1951
47Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October 1951
48"Contributions to the Theory of the Constitution of Clouds", October 1951
49"A Bibliography on Snow & Ice" D.C. Pearce, October 1951
50"Experimental Values of the Surface Tension of Supercooled Water"-Tech.Note #2510 Paul Hacker, October 1951
51"Interpretations of the Fluctuation Echo from Randomly Distributed Scatterers" P.R. Wallace, October 1951
52Progress Report #6, October 1951-December 1951
53"X-Ray Diffraction Study of the Internal Structure of Supercooled Water"-Tech. Note #2532 Robert Dorsch & Bemrose Boyd, October 1951
54"Forward Angle Scattering Aerosol Camera" Pui-Kum Lee, November 30, 1951
55"Pile Foundations for Large Towers on Permafrost" L.E. Nees, November 1951
56"Some Observations of Natural Precipitation Processes" Robert M. Cunningham, November 1951
57Monogram Magazine, November 1951-December 1951
58"Report on Cloud Seeding Experiments in the San Diego County and the Santa Ana River Watershed", November 1951-April 1952
59Report of Cloud Seeding Operation in Santa Barbara County", November 1951-May 1952
60"Catalysis and Olfaction" J. Alexander, December 21, 1951
61"A New Method for Calculating Water Droplet Trajections & Streamlined Bodies"- University of Michigan Report, December 1951
62"Report of Cloud Seeding Experiments in Santa Clara County"- Weather Modification Company, December 1951-March 1952
63"Die auBergewöhnlichen scheneefälle vom Januar und Februar 1951 in den Schweizer Alpen undihre Folgen" M. de Quervain and Th. Zingg, 1951
64"Evaluation of Cloud Seeding Operations of the Water Resource Development Corporation of Denver" J. Kaplan, 1951
65"Facts About Increasing Precipitation Through Cloud Seeding", 1951
66"The Dielectric Behavior of Snow Cover" Kuroiwa, Daisuke, 1951
67"Lluvia Artificial"- Includes Summary of Report in English (Dr. Siliceo), 1951
68""On Methodology of Evaluating Cloud Seeding Operations" Jeeves, LeCam, Neyman and Scott, 1951
69MIT Department of Meteorology-Progress Report #5 Contract #DA-36-039-SC124, 1951
70"Storm Over Rain-Making" W.H. White, 1951
71"Über electronmikroskopische abbildung lebender Zähne mit Hilre des Polymerisationabdruckverfahrens" S. Mennenöh and M.Fahnenbrock, 1951
72"The Use of Radar in Weather Forecasting with Particular Reference to Radar Set AN/CPS-9", 1951
73Weather Engineering for Industry, 1951
74"Zur Entstehung der Lawinen" de Quervain, Dr. M., 1951
75"Department of Interior Geological Survey New York Cooperative Snow Survey", January 7, 1952-January 9, 1952
76"Modern Icing Technology"- Lecture Notes, Myron Tribus, January 1952
77"Weather Radar Research"- Progress Report #7, January 1952-March 1952
78"Some Characteristics of Stratiform Clouds Over North Ireland in Relation to their Precipitation" B.J. Mason and B.P. Howorth, April 1952
79"Small Experiences on Centimeter-Wavelength Scattering Small Obstacles" N.R. Labrum, April 10, 1952
80"The Distribution and Growth of hydrometeors around a Deep Cyclone"- Tech. Report #18 Robert Cunningham, May 9, 1952
81"Analysis of the Imoactometer an Instrument for Measuring the Distribution of Raindrop Sizes Encountered in Flight"- Tech. Report #19 Bronislaw Smulowicz, May 16, 1952
82"A Study of the Amplitude Distribution Function for Radar Echoes from Precipitation"-Tech. Report #17 Pauline M. Austin, May 31, 1952
83"Weather Radar Research"- Progress Report #8, June 30, 1952
84"Atmospheric Salt Particles and Raindrops" A.H. Woodcock, June 1952
85"The February Minimum in Hawaiian Rainfall as a Manifestation of the Primary Index-Cycle of the General Circulation" J. Namias & W.A. Mordy, June 1952
86"Design of an Icing Wind Tunnel" J.A. Nichols, R.B. Morrison, M. Tribus, A. Weir Jr., June 1952
87"Local Weather of the Chicama Valley" (W.E. Howell), June 1952
88"Evaluation of Cloud Seeding for the Niagara-Mohawk Power Cp." W.E. Howell, June 1952-November 1952
89"Artificial and Natural Shower Formation" Ludlam. F.H, July 1952
90"Australian Experiments on Artificial Stimulation of Rainfall" E.G. Bowen, July 1952
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331"Report on Bonneville Power Administration Cloud Seeding Operations", July 1952
2"Evaluation of Cloud Seeding in Louisiana & Mississippi", July 1952-December 1952
3MASE Newsletters, August 13, 1952 August 20, 1952
4"Mechanism of Standard Development of Aircraft Crash Fires" Irving Pinkel, G. Merritt Preston and Gerars Pesman, August 28, 1952
5"Cloud Seeding Operations in the Connecticut valley for the Disaster Relief & Research Administration, Inc.", August 1952
6"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", September 1952
7"Climate Control through Ionization" Martin, Thomas L., October 1952
8"Observations of the Rate of Growth of ice Crystals Artificially Produced in the Atmosphere" G. Yamamoto, S. Ogiwara, K. Yoshida, A. Minura, T. Okita, T. Ohtake, October 1952
9"The Production of Showers by the Growth of Ice Particles" Ludlam, F.H., October 1952
10"Some Aspects of the Peruvian Rainfall Climate" Howell Wallace E. and Paul Putnins, October 1952
11MIT Department of Meteorology-Progress Report#10 Contract# D-36-039-SC-124 Alan C. Bemis, October 1, 1952
12"Increasing Water Resources through Weather Modification" Irving P. Krick, November 1952
13"How to keep Pollution out of Streams" Kenneth S. Watson, November 1952
14"Evaluation of Cloud Seeding for the Water and Power Co. in the St. Maurice River Watershed", November 1952-December 1952
15"Evaluation of the Cloud Seeding on the Androscoggin River Watershed for the Brown Company" W.E. Howell, November 1952-December 1952
16"Critical Supercooling of Pure Water Droplets by a new Microscope Technique" G.M. Pound, Madonna Peake, December 1952
17"Evaluation of Cloud Seeding Activities in Peru (Roland J. Boncher), December 1952
18"Salt Nuclei in Marine Air as a Function of Altitude and Wind Force" Alfred H. Woodcock, December 1952
19"The Scattering of Radiowaves by Meteorological Particles" N.R. Labrum, December 1952
20"An Appraisal of Cloud Seeding as a Means of Increasing Precipitation", 1952
21"A Condensation Nuclei Counter with Photographic Recording" L.W. Pollack, 1952
22"Grossversuch zur Bekämpfung des Hagels auf der Magadincebene", 1952
23"Counting Large Sodium-Containing Particles in the Atmosphere by their Speetral Emission in a Hydrogen Flame" B. Vonnegut and R.L. Neubauer, 1952
24"The Properties of Liquid Phase Embryos at the Intersections of Plane Solid Surfaces" R.G. Wylie, 1952
25"The Storm of July 8, 1951 in North Central Illinois", 1952
26"Studies of Thunderstorm Rainfall with Dense Rainage Network & Radar" H.E. Hudson, G.E. Stout, F.A. Huff, 1952
27"Climatological Analysis of Cloud Seeding Experiments during the Second Year of the Experimental Period in Israel" N. Rosenan, December 1952
28"A Technique for Tagging & Tracing Air Parcels" Braham, Seely and Crozier, December 1952
29"The Growth of Cloud Drops by Condensation" Squires P., 1952
30"Sampling of Condensation Nuclei by Means of a Mobile Photo-Electric Counter" L.W. Pollack and T. Murphy, 1952
31"Process Arctic Snow?", January 31, 1953
32"Program from the American Meteorological Society's 20th National Meeting- 33rd Annual Business", January 26, 1953-January 27, 1953
33Final Report- Theoretical Cloud Physics, January 31, 1953
34Bulletin of the Observatory of Puy de Dome, January 1953
35"The Information Contained in Weather Noise"- Tech. Report #22 Fleisher, January 1953
36"Iodine"- Abstracts and reviews, January 1953-April 1953
37"Rainfall Stimulation Potential" Walter Dydiw, February 1953
38"Cube-Root-Normal Precipitation Distributions", February 1953
39"A Selected Bibliography of French Reports in the Field of Aircraft Icing" M. Tribus, March 1953
40"The Potential Usefulness of Natural Tritium" W.F.Libby, April 1953
41"Icing Detectors", March 1953
42"Meteorological Design Requirements for icing Protection Systems" D. Fraser, March 1953
43"A Charter for Climatology", March 1953
44"Earthquake Notes" Donn and Jennemann, March 1953
45"Calculations on drop Size Growth and Supersaturation on Air in an Icing Wind Tunnel" Myron Tribus and J. Klein, March 1953
46"Eidgenoessisches Volkswirtschaftsdepartment", March 1953
47"On the Growth of Snow Flake and Graupel" C. Magono, March 1953
48"Recent Studies on Tropical Meteorology", March 1953
49"Evidence of Man-Made Climatic Change" Irving Krick, April 1953
50"Cloud Seeding May Turn Wheels from P.G & E from Electric Light & Power", April 1953
51"Electric-Microscope Study of Atmospheric Condensation Nuclei" Kuroiwa, April 1953
52"Extended Use of the Double Mass Curve" Carroll F. Merriam, April 30, 1953
53"A Balloon Fog Meter and the Vertical Distribution of Liquid Water Contents in Lower Atmosphere" Kuroiwa and Kinosita, April 1953
54"The Turbulent Diffusion of Fog Water near the Ground and the Fog-Preventing Effect of an Artificial Model Forest" Kuroiwa, April 1953
55"Summary Evaluation of Cloud Operations in Cuba", April 1953
56"Wind Force on a Conifer Tree and the Quantity of Fog Water Thereby Captured" Zyungo Yosida and Daisuke Kuroiwa, April 1953
57"Marine Meteorology-Some Results of a Trade Cumulus Cloud Investigation" Joanne Starr Malkus, May 1953
58"Tomorrow's Weather", May 1953
59"Dallas Cloud Seeding Operations" Irving P. Krick, June 9, 1953
60"It's Done with Mirrors" Matthews, C.F., Summer 1953
61"Distribution of Solar Energy over the United States" I.F. Hand, July 1953
62"Turbulence in Clouds as a factor in Precipitation" East and Marshall, July 1953
63"A Theory of Snow Crystal Habit & Growth" J.S. Marshall M.P. Langleben, July 1953
64"The Distribution of Rain in Tropical Storms" C.S. Ramage, August 1953
65"Rockets and Rainmaking" Leon Slawecki, September 1953
66"Uniformly Conductive Surfaces", September 1953
67"Quarterly"-Tech. Report #2, September 15, 1953
68"Maximum Evaporation Rates of Water Droplets Approaching Obstacles in the Atmosphere Under Icing Conditions"-Tech. Note #3024 Herman H. Lowell, October 1953
69Weatherwise Magazine, October 1953
70"Atmospheric Oscillation & Related Synoptic Patterns"- Tech. Report on Meteorology #1, D. William, R. Rommer, F. Press, M. Ewing, November 1953
71"Sea Salt Nuclei Studies", December 1953
72"Algal Culture" (J.S. Berlin), July 15, 1953
73"Radar Observation of Rain from Non-Freezing Clouds" R.S. Styles and F.W. Campbell, 1953
74"On the Ice Crystals Nuclei and other Substances found in Snow Crystal" K. Isono, c.1953
75"The Influence of Volcanic Dust on Precipitation" K. Isono and M. Komabaysi, c.1953
76"Early History of Cloud Seeding" B.S. Havens, J.E. Jiusto and B. Vonnegut, 1978
77"Langmuir-Blodgett Films" V.K. Agarwal, June 1988
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23"Sky Island: A View of Vrooman's Nose," Laura Ten Eyck, March 25, 1993
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3378Air Pollution Conference Report, Undated
79"A Comparison of Icing Conditions on Mt. Washington with Those Encountered in Flight" W.E. Howell, Undated
80"Concentration of Ice Crystal Nuclei under Various Weather Conditions" W.E. Hubert and H.J. Wells, Undated
81"The Formation of Snow Crystals: Results of Snow Investigation at Aerological Observatory at Friedrichschafen- 1940-1943" E. Wall, Undated
82"Economic Significance of Snowfall and Snow Retention on Western Watersheds" W.W. McLaughlin, Undated
83"Frazil Ice Trouble at Chicago's New Filtration Plant" W.W. DeBerard, Undated
84"Indian Studies Rain Making as Aid to Food Production", Undated
85"La Pluie Artificielle" J. Roulleau, Undated
86"Meteorological Conditions at Selected Airports in Canada Newfoundland and Labrador", Undated
87"Meteorological Problems in Forecasting Mountain Waves" DeVer Colson, Undated
88"On the Methodology of Evaluating Cloud Seeding Operations" Jeeves, LeCam, Neyman, Scott, Undated
89"Periodic Fluctuations in the Ohio Basin Moisture Balance" W.E. Hubert and H.J. Wells, Undated
90"The Problem of Artificial Control of Rainfall on the Globe" Tor Bergeron, Undated
91"Selection of Meteorological Quantities for the Design of Thermal Ice-Prevention Equipment" A.R. Jones and W. Lewis, Undated
92"The Water Equivalent of Snow on Ground" C.A. Mixer, Undated
Series 2: General Electric- Project Cirrus, 1943-1954, 1981, Undated 9.5 cubic ft.
Arranged alphabetically, with the exception of the reports and publications which are chronological.
In 1952, General Electric published its own “History of Project Cirrus”, compiled by Barrington Havens of G.E.’s public relations department. In his introduction, he writes that “[Project Cirrus] was very complex, with a number of subdivisions associated with the main activity. Some of these subdivisions ran consecutively, some operated in parallel, and others intertwined or branched off in variously divergent directions.” This preface is relevant to Schaefer’s own collection of materials because the “intertwined” nature of Cirrus itself, as well as its roots in Schaefer and Langmuir’s previous work, sometimes made it difficult for the archivist to separate Project Cirrus documents from materials that related to cloud seeding efforts but were not strictly part of the work done under the government contract that defined Project Cirrus.
The archivist made every attempt to be strict with materials placed into the Project Cirrus series, using dates, acknowledgements to the military, and the Army Signal Corp’s own stamp to help identify documents as Project Cirrus when needed. Researchers may find it helpful to consult the cloud seeding materials in Series #1 for items documenting the events that led to the project’s founding.
Project Cirrus bloomed from multiple experiments that converged late in 1946. Vincent Schaefer and Irving Langmuir did extensive work for the United States military during World War II. Among their projects was the issue of precipitation static interfering with U.S. Airforce pilots' ability to fly and land safely. (See Series #1, General Electric) Their efforts to deal with the problem took them to the peak of New Hampshire's Mount Washington, where Schaefer and Langmuir observed behaviors of snow and ice crystals that were relevant to their current work but also gave them ideas for future research regarding supercooled water droplets.
When their contracts with the U.S. military ran out shortly after World War II, Schaefer and Langmuir continued studying behaviors of snow and ice particles in earnest. Schaefer discovered that he could use a type of special plastic called Formvar to capture and preserve snowflakes, some of which can be found in Series #1. These experiments led Schaefer to investigate further the behavior of particles in cloud formations. On a hot July day in 1946, while working with a cold chamber, Schaefer accidentally discovered that the use of dry ice in a supercooled cloud would form instant ice crystals. Drs. Irving Langmuir and Bernard Vonnegut added their expertise to the process, working with silver iodide as well as dry ice. In no time they worked out the potential effects of their discovery on weather modification, and the seeds of Project Cirrus were firmly planted.
Ultimately, on November 13, 1946, Schaefer led a successful cloud seeding expedition over Mount Greylock in Massachusetts. His efforts convinced the U.S. military to sign a contract with General Electric yet again early in 1947. This time, it was a mutual agreement between G.E., the Army Signal Corps of Engineers, the Air Force, and the Office of Naval Research. The government hoped that fruitful cloud seeding experimentation would open doors for agricultural success and even improved safety for the people of the United States. The project sponsored well over 150 flights as well as ground operations, with 1948-1950 being the major years for flights conducted. Besides basic cloud seeding work, they also experimented with hurricane seeding and wildfire fighting in the fall of 1947. The project wrapped up in September 1952 when the Airforce pilots began to be called away to Korea, and the G.E. team decided they had gone as far as they could with their work.
This series is divided into three parts: flight data and research, subject files, and reports and publications. Each one highlights various aspects of G.E.'s efforts to work with the military as they explored cloud seeding options in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Subseries 1: Flight Data and Research, 1946-1953, Undated
Arranged Alphabetically
This subseries contains materials on specific flights, though the availability of data ranges from a single page for some flights to multiple pages with photos for other flights. Each one is labeled by flight number, where it took place, what operation was performed, and on what date. There are also files on research efforts that took place on the ground and in the lab, including charts, diagrams, weather observations, and research notebooks. Photographs include particular flights, most of which feature aerial cloud views, but there are also general photos that were not labeled by Schaefer or his colleagues.
Researchers will also find documents on two extra Project Cirrus missions, one dealing with Hurricane King and the other with Operation Red. Both pursuits took place in the fall of 1947. The former related to cloud seeding a hurricane in order to expend its energy before it made landfall while Operation Red focused on cloud seeding over wildfires in New England. The Hurricane King effort is not to be confused with the Hurricane King of 1950; the Project Cirrus crew named the 1947 hurricane on their own but did not have a title from official weather bureaus.
Please note that Schaefer's preliminary materials on cloud seeding, as well as data and photos from his 1946 cloud seeding flights, are located in Series #1 because they took place before the official creation of Project Cirrus in 1947.
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11Adiabatic Diagrams, April 1950-December 1950
2B-17G Airplane- Axis and Viewing Angles, September 30, 1947
3Characteristics of a Good Crystalizer, Undated
4Chart: Corrections for Photograph Horizon, Undated
5Charts, Graphs, and Formulas, Undated
6Climate Research, 1949-1952
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1Cloud Observations and Data- "Constellation Flight", November 4, 1950
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17-8Cloud Seeding Notes and Data, 1947-1951
9Cloud Seeding Notes and Data, 1949-1952
10Diagrams: Seeding Tracks and Stratiform Clouds, Undated
11Discharge Correlations of Gaging Stations, Undated
12Experimental Meteorology Data, 1946-1949
13Flight Notes, February 19, 1948 February 20, 1948
14Flight Summary-Kiah Maynard to Schaefer, Undated
15Flights I-58 Summary Chart, March 6, 1947-December 12, 1948
16Flights I-175 Summaries, September 11, 1947-July 13, 1950
17Flight #1 Photos, Schenectady, DI Seeding, September 11, 1947 Undated Undated
18Flight #9 Photos, Schenectady, No Identified Operation, January 22, 1948
19Flight #21 Data, Schenectady, DI Pattern Seeding, April 28, 1948
20Flight #21 Photos, Schenectady, DI Pattern Seeding, April 28, 1948
21Flight #23 Data, Cape Cod, DI Seeding- MIT Project, April 29, 1948
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2Flight #23 Data, Including Path of B-17, April 29, 1948
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122-24Flight #23 Photos and Negatives, April 29, 1948
25-26Flight #24 Schenectady, Seeding, Photos, April 30, 1948
27Flight #27 Photo, Schenectady, DI Pattern Seeding, May 18, 1948
28-29Flight #27 Photos, May 18, 1948
31Flight #29 Data, New Jersey Coast, DI Cumulus Seeding, June 3, 1948
32-37Flight #29 Photos, June 3, 1948
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21-4Flight #29 Photos, June 3, 1948
5Flight #33 Data, Lake George, DI Seeding, July 26, 1948
6Flight #33 Photos, July 26, 1948
7Flight #36 Photos, Schenectady Water Seeding, August 4, 1948
8Flight #39 Photos, Schenectady, DI Seeding, August 10, 1948
9-12Flight #45 Data, Albuquerque, SI and Di Seeding, October 14, 1948
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2Flight #45 Data Charts, October 14, 1948
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213-14Flight #45 Photos, October 14, 1948
15Flight #45 Photos, Undated
16Flight #48 Data, Schenectady, DI Seeding Pattern, November 15, 1948
17Flight #50 Data, East of Albany, DI Seeding Pattern, November 17, 1948
18Flight #51 Data, Schenectady, DI Pattern Seeding, November 23, 1948
19Flight #52 Data, Schenectady and Amsterdam, DI Pattern Seeding, November 24, 1948
20Flight #53 Data, Schenectady and Rome, DI Pattern Seeding, November 24, 1948
21Flight #53 Photos, November 24, 1948
22Flight #53 Photos, November 24, 1948
23Flight #54 Data Schenectady, DI Pattern Seeding, December 1, 1948
24Flight #57 Data and Photos, East of Albany, SI and DI Seeding Pattern, December 21, 1948
25Flight #58 Data, Albany Area, DI Seeding Pattern, December 22, 1948
26Flight #59 Data, West of Coxsackie, DI Seeding Pattern, January 14, 1949
27Flight #60 Data and Photos, Puerto Rico, Survey, February 4, 1949
28Flight #60 Photo Slides, February 4, 1949
29Flight #61 Data, Puerto Rico, and Water Seeding, February 5, 1949
30Flight #62 Data, Puerto Rico, Water Seeding, February 5, 1949
31Flight #62 and #63 Photos, February 5, 1949 February 6, 1949
32Flight #64 Data, Puerto Rico, Data Seeding, February 8, 1949
33Flight #64 Photo, February 8, 1949
34Flight #65 Data, Puerto Rico, Survey, February 8, 1949
35Flight #65 Photo, February 8, 1949
36Flight #64 or #65 Photos, February 8, 1949
37Flight #66 Data, Puerto Rico, Survey, February 10, 1949
38Flight #67 and #68 Data, Puerto Rico, February 11, 1949
39Flight #67 Photos, February 11, 1949
40Flights #67-70 Photo Slides, February 11, 1949-February 12, 1949
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1AFlights #67 and #68 Charts- Puerto Rico, February 11, 1949
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241Flights #69 and #70 Data, Puerto Rico, Survey, February 12, 1949
42Flight #69 Photos, February 12, 1949
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3Flight #70 Data, February 12, 1949
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243Flight #71 Data, South of Lake Ontario, SI and DI Seeding-Pattern, March 3, 1949
44Flight #72 Data, Sprakers, Temperature Soundings, March 4, 1949
45Flight #73 Data and Photos, Albany, SI Seeding-Pattern, March 10, 1949
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3Flight #73 Data, March 10, 1949
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246Flight #73 Photos, March 10, 1949
47Flight #74 Data, West of Syracuse, DI Seeding, March 15, 1949
48Flight #78 Data, Albany Area, Testing Vortex Thermometer, March 25, 1949
49Flight #79 Data, Schenectady, DI Pattern Seeding, March 30, 1949
50Flight #79 Photos, March 30, 1949
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31Flight #80 Data, Albany Area, DI Pattern Seeding, March 31, 1949
2Flight #82 Data, Schenectady, DI Seeding, April 8, 1949
3Flight #83 Data, Schenectady, SI Pattern Seeding, April 18, 1949
4Flight #83 Photos, April 18, 1949
5Flight #85 Data and Photos, Schenectady, Instrument Testing, April 25, 1949
6Flights #88 and #89, Schenectady and Ashokan Reservoir, DI Seeding and Instrument Testing, May 05, 1949
7Flight #89 Photos, May 05, 1949
8Flight #99 Data Ballston Spa, Salt Water Seeding, June 17, 1949
9Flight #99 Photos, June 17, 1949
10Flight #103 Albuquerque, DI Seeding, July 13, 1949
11Flights #103-112, Data Progress Reports, September 1949-October 1949
12Flight #104 Data and Photo, Albuquerque, DI and Liquid CO2 and Water Seeding, July 14, 1949
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24Flight #105 Data: Vertical Cross-Section Forecast, United Nations Air Forces, July 15, 1950 [sic]
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313Flight #106 Data, Albuquerque, DI Seeding, July 16, 1949
14-15Flight #106 Photos, July 16, 1949
16Flight #107 Data, Albuquerque DI and SI Seeding, July 18, 1949
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1Flight #107 Upper Section True Air Plot, July 18, 1949
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317Flight #108 Data, Albuquerque, DI Seeding, July 19, 1949
18Flight #108 Photos and Negatives, July 19, 1949
19Flight #109 Data, Albuquerque, SI Ground and DI Air Seeding, July 20, 1949
20Flight #109 Photos, July 20, 1949
21Flight #109 and #110 Photo Slides, July 20, 1949-July 21, 1949
22-23Flight #110 Data, Albuquerque, SI Ground and DI Air Seeding, July 21, 1949
24Flight #110 Photos and Slides, July 21, 1949
25Flight #110 Photos, July 21, 1949
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1Flight #110 Upper Section True Air Plot, July 21, 1949
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326Flight #111 Data, Albuquerque, SI Ground and DI Air Seeding, July 22, 1949
27Flight #112 Data, Albuquerque, SI Ground and DI Air Seeding, July 23, 1949
28Flight #113 Photos, Schoharie Valley, Observing Ground Seeding, August 24, 1949
29Flight #121 Photos, East of Schenectady, DI Seeding; Ground Operation #17, September 28, 1949
30Flight #126 Data, Albany, Observation, October 24, 1949
31Flight #126 Photos, October 24, 1949
32Flight #128 Data, Schenectady, Observation -GO- 39, November 10, 1949
33Flight #133 Data, Schenectady/Indianapolis, Instrument Test and Weather Observation, November 30, 1949
34Flight #134 Data Indianapolis/Schenectady, Instrument Test -GO-47-48, December 1, 1949
35Flight #136 Data and Photos, Schenectady, Snow Replicas and Vortex Thermometer -GO-55, December 15, 1949
36Flight #137 Data, Cape Cod, DI Seeding with MIT, December 16, 1949
37Flight #137 Photos, December 16, 1949
38Flight #138 Data, Mount Washington, SI Detection -GO-63, January 4, 1950
39Flight #138 Photos, January 4, 1960
40Flight #139 Data, Schenectady/ Mount Washington, Instrument Check and DI Seeding, January 20, 1950
41Flight #139 Photos, January 20, 1950
42Flight #140 Data and Photos, Schenectady, Snow Replicas; GO-71, January 30, 1950
43Flight #140 Photos, January 30, 1950
44Flight #142 Data, Schenectady, DI Clear-Air Seeding, February 3, 1950
45Flight # 142 Photos, February 3, 1950
46Flight #143 Data, Schenectady, Snow Replicas/Vortex Thermometer, February 6, 1950
47Flight #143 Photos, February 10, 1950
48Flight #144 Data, Schenectady, Photos/ Snow Replicas, February 10, 1950
49Flight #144 Photos, February 10, 1950
50Flight #146 Data, Schenectady, DI Seeding/ Snow Replicas, February 28, 1950
51Flight #148 Data, Schenectady, Attempted Vapor Trails, March 3, 1950
52Flight #150 Data, Schenectady, Snow Replicas, 2 Small Photos, March 20, 1950
53Flight #151 Data, Schenectady/ Dayton, Weather Reconnaissance, March 21, 1950
54Flight #151 Photos, March 21, 1950
55Flight #152 Data, Dayton/Schenectady, Weather Reconnaissance, March 22, 1950
56Flight #153 Data, Schenectady, Snow Replicas, April 10, 1950
57Flight #153 Photos, April 10, 1950
58Flight #154 Data, Schenectady/ Amsterdam, Sow Replicas, April 12, 1950
59Flight #154 Photos, April 12, 1950
60Flight #155 Data, Schenectady, Observation, April 18, 1950
61Flight #155 and #156 Photos, April 18, 1950 April 19, 1950
62Flight #157 Data, Schenectady/ Boston/ Bangor, etc., SI Seeding, April 25, 1949-April 26, 1950
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4Flight #157 Surface Charts, April 26, 1950
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363Flight #159 Data, Schenectady Area, DI Area, DI Clear-Air Seeding, May 23, 1950
64Flight #159 Photos, May 23, 1950
65Flight #160 Data, East Troy and Albany, DI Seeding, June 6, 1950
66Flight #160 Photos, June 6, 1950
67Flight #162 Data, Albuquerque, DI Cumulus Seeding, June 26, 1950
68Flight #163/164 Data, Albuquerque, DI Cumulus Seeding, June 27, 1950
69Flights #163-170 Summary- Draft Letter to Dr. Ference, July 7, 1950
70Flight #165 Data, Albuquerque, DI Cumulus Seeding, June 28, 1950
71Flight #166 Data, Albuquerque, DI Cumulus Seeding, June 29, 1950
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5Flight #166 Data, June 29, 1950
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372Flight #167 Data, Albuquerque, DI Cumulus Seeding, June 30, 1950
73Flight #168 Data, Albuquerque, DI Cumulus Seeding, July 1, 1950
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5Flight #168 Data, July 1, 1950
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374Flight #168 Photo Slides, Albuquerque, DI Cumulus Seeding, July 1, 1950
75Flight #168 Photos, July 1, 1950
76Flight #169 Data, Albuquerque, Tracing Ground SI and DI Seeding, July 5, 1950
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5Flight #169 Data, July 5, 1950
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377Flight #170 Data, Albuquerque, Tracing Ground SI and DI Seeding, July 1950
78Flight #171 Data, Albuquerque, DI Seeding, July 7, 1950
79-80Flight #172 Data, Albuquerque, SI and DI Seeding, July 8, 1950
81Flight #172 Photos, July 8, 1950
82Flight #172 Photos and Negatives, July 8, 1950
83Flight #173 Data, Albuquerque/ Burbank, Gathering Weather Data, July 11, 1950
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41Flight #177 Data, Mount Washington, SI Seeding-Joint, February 15, 1951
2Flight #178 Data, Schenectady, SI and DI Seeding, April 8, 1951-April 9, 1951
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25Flight Data Charts, September 11, 1947-July 13, 1950
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43Flight Procedures, Including Gamma and Figure 4 Patterns, January 11, 1949 Undated
4Flights- Airspeed and Altimeter Corrections, Flight Calibration Data; Airplane 7746, September 26, 1948
5Flights- Calculations by Langmuir, May 27, 1947
6Flights- Catalogue of Data Collected by Operations Group, 1950
7Flights- Data Charts, Non-Flight Specific, August 15, 1948
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2Flights: Hurricane Seeding, Test 1-1-1, Loran Special Air Navigation Chart, October 13, 1947
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48Flights- Local Flight #5667, April 19, 1950
9Flights- Observational Flight #3, L-5, Schenectady, Balloon Soundings, December 14, 1948
10Flights- Test Flight Photos, Schenectady, DE Seeding, March 7, 1947 Undated
11Flights- Test Flight, Schenectady, DE Seeding, April 7, 1947
12Flights- Test Flight, Schenectady, Observation, January 22, 1948
13Flights- Test Flight, Schenectady, Stereoscopic Camera Test, November 30, 1948
14Frost Studies- Notes and Correspondence, 1947-1948
15General Research Notes: Charts, Graphs, Drawings and Observations, 1948 1950 Undated
16General Summary-Project Cirrus Flights, December 9, 1948
17Grand Canyon Photo Negatives- Project with Langmuir, 1949
18Ground Operation #2 Photos and Data, Schenectady County Airport, Cloud Photos, March 23, 1949
19Ground Operation #4, Schenectady County Airport, Cloud Photos, June 6, 1949
20Ground Operation #48 Photos and Data, Schenectady Airport, Time Lapse Movies, December 1, 1949
21Ground Operation #68 Data, Schenectady Airport, Time Lapse Movies, January 16, 1950
22Ground Operation #71 Photos, Schenectady Airport, Still Photos, Flight #140, 141, January 30, 1950
23Hurricane King Crew and Aircraft Photos, 1947 Undated
24Hurricane King Photo: Schaefer en Route to Seeding, October 1947
25Hurricane King Seeding Data and Photos, October 13, 1947 Undated
26Hurricane King Photo Slides, c.1947
27Hurricane King Seeding, Test #1-1-1, October 13, 1947
28Hurricane Research Charts and Graphs, 1946-1955
29Ice Nuclei Concentrations at Mount Washington Observatory-Includes Photos, 1947-1952
30Inadvertent Modification Proposal, Undated
31Instrument Checklists, 1949-1950
32Langmuir, Irving- Cloud Seeding Results, August 1950
33Langmuir, Irving- Notebooks, July 6, 1949 July 15, 1949 July 18, 1949
34Langmuir, Irving- Notebook for Project Cirrus, January 24, 1952-February 26, 1952
35Log of Rainmaking Experiment, August 18, 1947-1947-08-18
36Maps and Notes, Project Cirrus Research Area, 1948-1949
37Mount Washington, Correspondence and Data, 1948-1949
38Project Cirrus: National Weather Improvement Association, 1951
39"NMIMT" Photo Negatives, Likely New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, July 1950
40-42New Mexico School of Mines, 1949-1953
43-45Nuclei and Precipitation Data, 1948-1950
46Nuclei Data Sheets, 1949
47Nuclei Data Sheets, 1950
48Nuclei Data Sheets, 1951
49Operation Institution #16, December 1949
50Operation Red Data, October 29, 1947
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4Operation Red Data (Part of Mini Notebook Set), 1940s
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3Operation Red Navigational Track, c.October 1947
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451Operation Red Photos, Plane #5560, October 29, 1947
52Operation Red Photos, Plane 7746, October 29, 1947
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51Operation Red Photos, Plane 7746, October 29, 1947
2Operations Summary and Justification of Project Cirrus, Incomplete, March 7, 1951
3Ozone Research, 1950 Undated
4OTK Sprinkler, Guymon, OK, 1952
5Personal Rosters, Organizational Chart, 1949
6Photo Negatives, Project Cirrus General, July 1949 Undated
7Photo Negatives: Replicas from B-24, Undated
8Photos: Aerial Views, Unidentified Flights and Cloud Formations, Undated
9Photos: Cloud Seeding, Unidentified, Undated
10Photos: Clouds and Cloud Seeding, Unidentified, Undated
11Photos: Gamma Seeding Pattern, Includes Letter from Wilding Picture Productions, 1953 Undated
12Photos: General- Aerial and Personnel, 1949 Undated
13Photos: Mount Washington, Undated
14Photos: Seeding Plane at Runway, Undated
15Precipitation Data, 1948-1950
16Precipitation Deposits, 1947
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26Precipitation Measurements- New Mexico, July 19, 1949
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517Precipitation Static: Cold Electrodes Used on Mount Washington, Photos, January 9, 1947
18Precipitation Statistics, 1951
19Priest River Experimental Forest Station, 1948
20Principles to Guide Cloud Seeding Activities, Draft, Undated
21Puerto Rico Cloud Seeding Operations- Cartoon of Plane and Crew by "B.B.", Undated
22Racetrack Seeding Pattern, Photo, Undated
23Rainfall Correlation Coefficients, 1950
24Requirements for a Projectile Used in Cloud Seeding, January 20, 1948
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61Research Notebooks, Miniature, 1948-1949 1952 Undated
2Seeded Cloud Photos, Aerial Views, Undated
3Seeded Cloud Photos: Gamma, Racetrack, and "L" Patterns, Undated
4Seeding Data from Regions around United States, 1952
5Silver and Lead Iodide, 1948 Undated
6Silver Iodide Studies, Pacific Northwest, 1952
7Small Notebook, Names, Plans, Observations, 1947
8Snow Crystal Growth, 1949-1952
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2Snow Replica Slides, 1955-1957
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69Snowmaking Machine Blueprint, Undated
10Snowstorm in Colorado, Data, January 22, 1948-January 27, 1948
11Sublimation Nuclei, 1948-1949
12Sublimation Nuclei Operations, Silver Iodide Testing at the New Mexico School of Mines, 1950
13Sublimation Nuclei Operations, Silver Iodide Testing at the New Mexico School of Mines, 1950-1951
14Sublimation Nuclei Studies, 1948-1949
15Supercooled Clouds, Seeding with Dry Ice, 1947
16Types of Frozen Precipitation, Chart, Undated
17Unnumbered Flights, New York and Rhode Island, January 31, 1950
18Untitled Discussion of Laboratory and Field Research, Ca. 1950
19Weather Maps of the United States, 1948
20Weather Maps of the United States, 1950
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1Weather Plotting Charts, July 1950
Subseries 2: Subject Files, 1943-1953, 1981, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
The subject files feature documents and photographs directly related to Project Cirrus, but not to specific flights. Photos include equipment, precipitation, general cloud photos, and Schaefer appearing at functions during the Cirrus years. Researchers will also find some data on cloud seeding endeavors elsewhere, such as California and Sydney, Australia. Correspondence files do exist within this subseries, but researchers might also want to consult the correspondence files in Series #1 for the years 1947 to 1952 as it is likely that Schaefer kept Cirrus letters with his other General Electric correspondence. Other documents include news clippings, bulletins from meteorological conferences, and weather radar reports from MIT.
One highlight of the subject files is the material on Project Blowdown. Unlike Hurricane King and Operation Red, which were direct offshoots of Project Cirrus, Project Blowdown was a side project of Irving Langmuir’s in which he was advisor to Joe Silverthorne, a commercial seeder acting on behalf of the United Fruit Company. But their methods were those being used at the same time in the Project Cirrus operations. Project Blowdown dealt with intense storms that would destroy stands of fruit trees in Honduras.
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71Addresses Delivered by Dr. Vincent Schaefer, Dr. Harry Wexler, and Dr. Irving P. Krick Before The Great Plains Agricultural Council, August 3, 1951
2Administrative Correspondence and Reports, 1946-1948
3Administrative Correspondence and Reports, 1949-1952
4American Meteorological Society: 91st National Meeting Program, 1946
5Analysis, Methods of Telegram, 1951
6"Artificial Stimulation of Precipitation" South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1948
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3Atmospheric Photos from Rocket Flights- Johns Hopkins University, 1948
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77Berkshire Eagle Account of Project Cirrus with Letter from G. Chapman to B. Vonnegut, January 20, 1981-January 22, 1981
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27"Can We Help It Rain?" B. Renshaw of The Prairie Farmer, May 8, 1948
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78"Characteristics of a Good Crystalizer", Undated
9Christmas Poem, Undated
10Cloud Seeding Cartridges- Memorandum Report from Frankfort Arsenal's Pitman, Dunn Laboratory with Drawings, January 1950
11"Cloud Seeding in the Sierra Near Bishop, California", 1952
12Cloud Seeding Reports in California, March 1950
13Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Radio- Meteorological Program, 1950
14Congressional Cloud Nucleation Committee Bill, Representative Thomas H. Werdel, 1951
15Correspondence: Alexander, Jerome, 1949
16Correspondence: Cloud Seeding / De-Icing, 1950-1953
17Correspondence: Dry Ice Exposure Device, May 13, 1948
18Correspondence: General, 1947-1949
19Correspondence: General, 1950
20Correspondence: General, 1951
21Correspondence: General, 1952-1954 Undated
22Correspondence: Hurricanes and Dry-Icing, September 11, 1951
23Correspondence: Maynard Kiah- Note on Cloud and Airplane Difficulties, Undated
24Correspondence: Rainmaking Logs- Illinois, 1947
25Correspondence: Receipts for Photos and Data, 1949-1950
26Correspondence: Smith, Robert B., 1951
27Correspondence: Statistical Methods, I. Langmuir letter to W. Reichelderfer, 1950
28Correspondence: with Additional Materials Regarding the Beginning of Project Cirrus, 1946
29Department of the Army, Permission to Travel via Special Mission Aircraft, Rainmaking in the Caribbean, October 5, 1947
30"Every Cloud has a Silver Lawsuit," N.R. Jaffray, Poem in Saturday Evening Post, Undated
31Experimental Meteorology Text, Galleys, Ca.1950
32Flood Control in the Midwest, 1951
33French Language Articles, 1950
34Government Regulation of Cloud Seeding, 1951
35Grand River Valley Weather Improvement Association, Preliminary Report #3 on Cloud Seeding Activities, Lemmon, S.D., July 25, 1953
36Hawaii, Geophysical Research, 1952
37IGE News, January 30, 1951
38Institute of Mathematical Statistics Meeting, 1952
39Inventions by Schaefer, Drawings, Undated
40Inventory of 35 mm. Photopanel Film in the Custody of the Operations Group, January 10, 1950
41Item #5 of Minutes of Seventh Regular Meeting of Project Cirrus Technical Committee, January 16, 1948
42Joint Meeting of Columbia River Basin Water Forecast Committee and Western Snow Conference, April 19, 1951-April 20, 1951
43Joint Research/ Operations Group Meetings, 1948
44Kansas-Missouri Flood: Letters to F.W. Reicheldefer and V.J. Schaefer from Senator Francis Case, August 3, 1951
45Kansas- Missouri Flood: Statement Prepared for Senator James P. Kem by Schaefer, Undated
46Langmuir, Irving, Time Article, August 28, 1950
47Magazine Articles, 1943-1950
48Maps, "The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System", 1948
49Memo: Invitational Travel Orders, Puerto Rico, January 25, 1949
50Memo: Time Irregularities Posted on Pictures from July 22, 1949, July 22, 1949 January 31, 1950
51National Weather Improvement Association, News Releases, 1951
52New Foundland, Artificially Induced precipitation, 1952
53Weather Data for New Mexico, Fourth New Mexico Operation, June 1950-July 1950
54Newspaper Clippings, 1946-1954 Undated
55Newspaper Clippings, 1948-1951
56Newspaper Clippings from Sweden, Undated
57Nucleation Symposium, December 27, 1951-December 28, 1951
58"The Occurrence of Ice-Crystal Nuclei in the Free Atmosphere" Galley, Undated
59"Operation Snowflake" Engineering Report No. 1032, The Development of Snow Manufacturing Techniques by Use of Climactic Test Cold Rooms, January 31, 1949
60Pathfinder Magazine and Letter, March 22, 1950
61Photo: AAF, Wright Field- Ohio, Undated
62Photo: Alto Cumulus Bellows, Undated
63Photo: Cirrus Clouds, Undated
64Photo: Cloud Seeding Effects, Undated
65Photo: Clouds as Seen from Space, Undated
66Photo: Cumulus Clouds, Undated
67Photo: Hurricane King Reconnaissance- Weather Briefing, October 1947
68Photo: Mixed Cloud Types, Undated
69Photo: Mountain Summit, Unidentified, Undated
70Photo: Racetrack Pattern, With Graph Showing Gamma and Racetrack Patterns, November 24, 1948 Undated
71Photo: Schaefer and Langmuir with Unidentified Associates, Undated
72Photo: Seeding Trail Produced by B-17 Airplane, Undated
73Photo: Schaefer with Agricultural Scientists, ca. 1950
74Photo Negatives: Cloud Beds, Undated
75Photo Negatives: Cloud Seeding, July 1, 1950 Undated
76Photo Negatives: Snow Crystal Replicas, Undated
77Photos and Negatives: Cloud Seeding- Sydney, Australia, Undated
78Photo Negatives: Clouds and Precipitation, 1948-1952
79Photo Slides, Socorro, New Mexico, July 1949 Undated
80Photos: California, Undated
81Photos: Equipment, 1948 Undated
82Photos: Precipitation, Undated
83Photos: Puerto Rico, 1948 February 10, 1949
84Photos: Unidentified Clouds and Snowflakes, Some Labeled with Army Signal Corps Stamp, 1949 Undated
85Press Release: Cloud Seeding With Dry Ice and Silver Iodide, October 12, 1950
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81Press Release: Discontinuation of Cloud Physics Research at Clinton County Air Force Base, August 4, 1949
2Press Release: Experimental Meteorology, August 1949
3Press Release with Text, Photocopied, 1949 Undated
4Presentation on Project Cirrus, Includes Illustrations of Uncertain Relationship to Text, ca. 1949
5Press Releases from General Electric, 1949
6Project Blowdown, November 1948-December 1948
7Project Blowdown, March 1949
8Project Blowdown, April 1949-May 1949
9Project Blowdown, July 1949
10Project Blowdown- Camayagua River Gauge Readings, 1949-1950
11Project Blowdown- Correspondence, 1948-1949
12Project Blowdown- Experimental Flights, August 1949
13Project Blowdown- Experimental Flights, September 1949
14Project Blowdown- Ground Observations, August 1949
15Project Blowdown- Ground Observations, September 1949
16Project Blowdown, Map of Lake Yojoa Area, January 5, 1949
17Project Blowdown- Photo Slides of Honduras Experiment, April 18, 1949 Undated
18Project Blowdown- Pseudo-Adiabatic Diagrams, May 1949
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91Project Blowdown- Pseudo- Adiabatic Diagrams, June 1949
2Project Blowdown- Pseudo- Adiabatic Diagrams, August 1949
3Radio Broadcast on Cloud Seeding, John Vandercook, 1947
4Radiometer Data from Caltech, 1951
5RDB Weathers Control Briefing- Persons Attending, 1951
6Saskatchewan Farmers, Resolution, 1947
7Science Service Press Release: Rainmaking Project Stops After Five Years", February 11, 1952
8Signal Corps- ORC Training Bulletin, June 1950
9Snow Research Press Conference: Letters and Photos, 1947
10Speech Given to New York Railroad Club by Schaefer, Undated
11Speech on Background of Project Cirrus, Audience Unknown, Undated
12Statements to Press by Schaefer, 1948-1949
13Swiss Meteorological Office, 1950
14Technical Notes- Meteorological Conference at G.E. Company, December 12, 1946
15Technical Steering Committee, 1947-1950
16United Nations, Outline of Paper, Undated
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44United States Government Organizational Structure for Meteorology (Chart), April 1, 1949
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917University of Stockholm Institute of Meteorology- Schedule for Schaefer, 1952
18Water Shortages in the West, 1949
19Weather Bureau Precipitation Stations in New Mexico, Undated
20Weather Corporation of America- Cloud Seeding Public Relations, February 1953
21Weather Diagrams, 1951
22Weather Radar Research Progress Report, MIT, No. 8, August 14, 1947-November 14, 1947
23Weather Radar Research Progress Report, MIT, No. 17, November 15, 1947-February 14, 1950
24Weather Radar Research Progress Report, MIT, No. 18, February 15, 1950-May 15, 1950
25Weather Radar Research Progress Report, MIT, No. 19, May 15, 1950-August 14, 1950
26Weather Radar Research Technical Report, MIT, No. 9 Part B, 1950
27Weather Radar Research Final Report, MIT, February 28, 1951
28Weather Station Map, United States, Undated
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28"Weather Under Control," Fortune by Time, Inc., February 1948
Subseries 3: Reports & Publications, 1946-1954, Undated
Arranged chronologically
These are the articles and reports dealing specifically with Project Cirrus-related matters. Some are direct reports to the government regarding progress made while others were published in research journals for purposes of letting the outside world know what the Cirrus team was accomplishing. The subseries includes some drafts as well as the finished products. Researchers might find General Electric’s “Project Cirrus: The Story of Cloud Seeding” (Nov. 1952) and Barrington Havens’ “History of Project Cirrus” (1952) to be particularly useful summaries.
As noted in Series #1, Subseries #7, it was not always immediately clear to the archivist if a specific publication should be categorized as Project Cirrus or not. In those cases, the archivist looked for dates, credits or acknowledgements to the U.S. military, or footnotes regarding military contract numbers, to decide where the article or report should be filed. Schaefer spent 50% of his work hours on Project Cirrus so the fact that a document falls in the Cirrus date range does not automatically mean that it was a product of that pursuit.
Special note: Occasional Report #23 is dated before #22, and the same situation is true for Occasional Reports #8 and #9. The archivist has left them in numeric order despite the reversed dates.
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101"Development of Hypsometer Method of Atmospheric Pressure Measurement- First Monthly Progress Report" by GE for US Signal Corps, November 1946
2"The Nucleation of Ice Formation by Silver Iodide" B. Vonnegut, March 1947
3"Snow and Clouds in the Sky" V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, April 9, 1947
4"Basic Meteorological Factors Which Must Be Considered in the Production of Snow or Rain in the Natural Atmosphere by Artificial Seeding Methods" V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, April 21, 1947
5"Summary Results Thus Far Obtained in Artificial Nucleation of Clouds" I. Langmuir, April 23, 1947
6Mount Washington Observatory Bulletin- "Environmental Studies of Snow and Supercooled Clouds on Mount Washington" V.J. Schaefer, June 1947
7"First Quarterly Progress Report: Meteorological Research", July 15, 1947
8"Properties of Particles of Snow and the Electrical Effects They Produce in Storms" V.J. Schaefer, August 1947
9"Hurricane Seeding Test", September 1947
10Hurricane Study Preliminary Report and Diagrams, October 15, 1947
11"Heat Requirements for Instruments and Airfoils During Icing Storms on Mount Washington" V.J. Schaefer, November 1947
12"Methods of Dissipating Supercooled Clouds in the Natural Atmosphere" V.J. Schaefer, September 1947-December 1947
13The Natural and Artificial Formation of Snow in the Atmosphere, V.J. Schaefer, with Manuscript, 1947-1948
14Quarterly Progress Reports 1-5, 1947-1948
15"Experiments with Cloudy Skies," V.J. Schaefer, February 1948
16"The Story of Man-made Weather," in American Fruit Grower V.J. Schaefer, March 1948
17Occasional Report #1 "The Production of Rain by a Chain Reaction in Cumulus Clouds at Temperatures Above Freezing," Langmuir, April 15, 1948
18Occasional Report #2 "A New Plane Model Cloud Meter," Falconer and Schaefer, May 15, 1948
19Occasional Report #3 "Some Experiments on the Freezing of Water," Smith-Johannsen, June 1, 1948
20Occasional Report #4 "Smoke from Smelting Operations as a Possible Source of Silver Iodide Nuclei," Falconer and Vonnegut, July 15, 1948
21"The Story of Man-made Weather," V.J. Schaefer, Summer 1948
22Occasional Report #5 "I Production of ice Crystals by the Adiabatic Expansion of Gas; Nucleation of Supercooled Clouds by Silver Iodide Smokes; III Influence of Butyl Alcohol on Shape of Snow Crystals Formed the Laboratory," B. Vonnegut, September 15, 1948
23Occasional Report #6 "Variation of Temperature of Nucleation Rate of Supercooled Liquid Tin and Water Drops," B. Vonnegut, October 15, 1948
24Occasional Report #7 "Observations on the Behavior of Water Drops at a Terminal Velocity in Air," Blanchard, November 1, 1948
25"Larger Scale Seeding of Stratus and Cumulus Cloud with Dry Ice," I. Langmuir, December 15, 1948
26"Methods and Techniques for the Study of Atmospheric Nuclei Clouds and Precipitation" -Abstract, December 15, 1948
27"Methods and Techniques for the Study of Atmospheric Nuclei Clouds and Precipitation," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, December 15, 1948
28Introduction and Occasional Reports 1-10, December 31, 1948
29Final Report Part II, December 31, 1948
30"First Trials of the Schaefer- Langmuir Dry-Ice Cloud Seeding Technique in Hawaii," L.B. Leopold and M.H. Halstead, December 1948
31"The Detection of Ice Nuclei in the Free Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, 1948
32Faith Quarterly Progress Report, Ca. 1948-1943
33"The Growth of Particles in Smokes and Clouds and the Production of Snow from Supercooled Clouds," I. Langmuir, with Notes, 1948
34"The Laboratory Cold Chamber for Simulation of Natural Clouds and the Reactions which Occur in Them," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, 1948
35"The Production of Precipitation in the Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, Abstract for Symposium Talk, 1948
36Proposed Work within Project Cirrus, 1948-1950
37"A Hydrometeorological Analysis of Venezuelan Rainfall," R.D. Fletcher, January 1949
38Occasional Report #8 "A Method for Obtaining a Continuous Record of the Types of Clouds in the Sky During the Day," Falconer, March 1, 1949
39Occasional Report #9 "Detection of Ice Nuclei in the Free Atmosphere," Schaefer, February 1, 1949
40Occasional Report #11 "Possibility of Modifying Lightning Storms in the Northern Rockies," Schaefer, February 1, 1949
41Occasional Report #12 "Report on Cloud Studies in Puerto Rico," Schaefer, April 1, 1949
42"The Formation of Ice Crystals in the Laboratory and the Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, April 1949
43"Quarterly Progress Report Number 8", June 15, 1948
44Occasional Report #13 "Silver Iodide Smoke," Vonnegut, July 1, 1949
45"The Economic Aspects of Experimental Meteorology," Schaefer, July 6, 1949
46"Experimental Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer, August 1949
47-49"The Economic Aspects of Experimental Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer Manuscript, August 1949
50"Economic Aspects of Experimental Meteorology" -Additional Materials, August 1949
51Occasional Report #14 "Vortex Thermometer for Measuring True Air Temperature and True Air Speed in Flight," Schaefer, September 1, 1949
52Occasional Report #15 "The Distribution of Rain Drops in Natural Rain," Blanchard, November 15, 1949
53Occasional Report #16 "The Use of Sooted Screen for Determining Raindrop Size and Distribution," Blanchard, November 15, 1949
54Occasional Report #17 "Experiments with Water Drops and the Interaction Between Them at Terminal Velocity in Air," Blanchard, December 15, 1949
55Occasional Report #18 "Correlations Between Variations in the Atmospheric Potential Gradients at Schenectady and Certain Meteorological Phenomena," Falconer, December 15, 1949
56"An Early Account of a Flight to Modify Lightning Storms," V.J. Schaefer, with Memo from H.T. Gisborne, 1949 Undated
57"The Occurrence of Ice-Crystal Nuclei in the Free Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, Additional Materials, 1949
58Quarterly Progress Reports 6-10, 1949
59"Relation Between 7-Day Periodicity in Silver Iodide Seeding and 7-Day Periodicity in Rainfall and in Temperature," I. Langmuir, Ca. 1949
60"Report on Cloud Control Experiments in Honduras," I. Langmuir, 1949
61Occasional Report #19 "Continuous Recording Condensation Nuclei Meter," Vonnegut, January 1, 1950
62Occasional Report #20 "Occurrence of Ice Crystal Nuclei in the Free Atmosphere," Schaefer, January 15, 1950
63"A Confirmation of the Workman Reynolds Effect," V.J. Schaefer, January 1950
64Supplement to Bimonthly Report, November and December 1949, Ca. 1950
65"Progress in Cloud Modification in Project Cirrus Part I," V.J. Schaefer, February 14, 1950
66"Snow and its Relationship to Experimental Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, March 1950
67"Snow and its Relationship to Experimental Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscripts, Spring 1950
68"The Occurrence of Ice-Crystal Nuclei in the Free Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, March 1950
69"The Occurrence of Ice-Crystal Nuclei in the Free Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, March 1950
70Report to the Technical Steering Committee on Meteorology Meetings in England and Switzerland, March 28, 1950-April 17, 1950
71Occasional Report #21 "Progress in Cloud Modification by Project Cirrus," Langmuir, April 15, 1950
72"Experiments With Silver Iodide Smokes in the Natural Atmosphere," B. Vonnegut, May 1950
73"Induced Precipitation and Experimental Meteorology", May 1950-June 1950
74Occasional Report #22 "Cause and Effect Versus Probability in Shower Production," Langmuir, July 15, 1950
75Occasional Report #23 "A Common Pattern Seeding of Stratus Clouds, Flight 52 and a Racetrack Pattern Seeding of Clouds, Flight 53," Woodman and Langmuir, June 1, 1951
76Occasional Report #24 "Results of Seeding of Cumulus Clouds in New Mexico -A Partial Report on Flight 45," Langmuir, June 1, 1950
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111"The Effects Produced by Seeding Supercooled Clouds with Dry Ice and Silver Iodine," V.J. Schaefer, June 1950
2Occasional Report #25 "Studies of Tropical Clouds," Langmuir, July 1, 1950
3"Localized Effects Induced by Seeding Supercooled Clouds with Dry Ice and Silver Iodide," V.J. Schaefer, Press Release and Manuscripts, October 12, 1950 Undated
4"Localized Effects Induced by Seeding Supercooled Clouds with Dry Ice and Silver Iodide," V.J. Schaefer, Abstracts and Manuscripts, October 1950
5"Snow and Experimental Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer, December 1950
6"The Control of Precipitation by Seeding Techniques," I. Langmuir, Manuscript, 1950
7"The Effects Produced by Seeding Supercooled Clouds with Dry Ice and Silver Iodine," in the Centenary Proceedings of the Royal Meteorologist Society, V.J. Schaefer, 1950
8"Experimental Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer, 1950
9Meteorology Meetings in England and Switzerland, 1950
10Quarterly Progress Reports 11-15, 1950-1951
11Occasional Report #27 "Seven Day Periodicity in Upper Air Temperatures Induced by Localized Silver Iodide Seeding," Hubert and Wells, January 15, 1951
12"1948-1949 Trials of the Schaefer- Langmuir Cloud-Seeding Technique in Hawaii," L.B. Leopold and W.A. Mordy, February 1951
13"Effect of Sunlight on the Action of Silver Iodine Particles as Sublimation Nuclei," Bernard Vonnegut and Vincent Schaefer, February 1951
14"Snow and its Relationship to Experimental Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer, April 1951
15"Weather Modifications: Extracts from Hearings on Weather Legislation- Statements of Dr. C.G. Suits, Dr. V.J. Schaefer, and Dr. B. Vonnegut", April 7, 1951
16Occasional Report #26 "Periodic Fluctuations in the Ohio Basin Moisture Balance," Hubert and Wells, June 15, 1951
17Occasional Report #28 "Concentration of Ice Crystal Nuclei under Various Weather Conditions," Hubert and Wells, June 15, 1951
18Final Report, Introduction and Occasional Reports 11-29, July 30, 1951
19Occasional Report #29 "Detection and Measurement of Aerosol Particles by the Use of an Electrically Heated Filament," Vonnegut and Neubauer, September 1, 1951
20Occasional Report #30 "A Vortex Whistle," Vonnegut, November 1, 1951
21"Publications by Vincent J. Schaefer," 1936-1951, Ca. 1951
22"The Scientific Aspects of Rainmaking," Abstract only and Related Paperwork, V.J. Schaefer, 1951
23Weather Control and Augmented Potable Water Supply: Extracts from Hearings, 1951
24Quarterly Reports 16-19, 1951-1952
25Occasional Report #31 "Spray Nozzle Type of Silver Iodide Smoke Generator for Airplane Use," Vonnegut and Maynard, February 15, 1952
26Occasional Report #32 "A Continuous Cloud Chamber for Studying Small Particles in the Atmosphere," Schaefer, March 1, 1952
27Occasional Report #33 "The Formation of Ice Crystals in Ordinary and Nuclei-Free Air," Schaefer, March 1, 1952
28Occasional Report #32 "Thin Films of Supersaturated Solution for Detecting, Counting, and Intensifying Very Small Crystalline Particles," Vonnegut, April 15, 1952
29Continuous Cloud Chamber for Studying Small Particles in the Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, June 1952
30"Formation of Ice-Crystals in Ordinary Nuclei-Free Air," V.J. Schaefer, June 1952
31"History of Project Cirrus," Havens, July 1952
32Occasional Report #35, "The Concentration of Ice Nuclei at the Summit of Mount Washington," Schaefer, August 1, 1952
33Occasional Report #36 and #37, "Production of Monodisperse Liquid Particles by Electric Atomization," Vonnegut and Neubauer, "Multiple-stage Dilution of Aerosols by Use of Aspirators," Vonnegut, Gelles and Maynard, October 1, 1952
34Occasional Report #38 and #39, "Counting Sodium- Containing Particles in the Atmosphere by their Spectral Emission in a Hydrogen Flame," Vonnegut and Neubauer and "Effect of Halogens on the Production of Condensation Nuclei by a Heated Platinum Wire," Von, October 1, 1952
35"Project Cirrus: The Story of Cloud Seeding," General Electric, November 1952
36"Rain and Rain Making," V.J. Schaefer, December 1952
37"Problem of Documentary Evidence of the Effectiveness of Cloud Seeding," T.A. Jeeves, L.M. LeCam, J. Neyman and E.L. Scott, Ca. 1952
38Final Report, Part I, Marked Draft, March 1953
39-40Final Report Part I. Laboratory, Field, and Flight Experiments by Vincent Schaefer, March 1953
41Occasional Report #40, "Variations in the Concentrations of Condensation Nuclei in the Atmosphere," Falconer, Maynard and Vonnegut, April 15, 1953
42"The Nucleation and Growth of Ice Crystals," V.J. Schaefer, with Notes, April 1953
43Final Report, Thank You Letters, April 1953-December 1953
44"The Mount Washington Observatory for Field Research," V.J. Schaefer Manuscript, May 18, 1952
45Final Report: Part II. Analysis of the Effects of Periodic Seeding of the Atmosphere with Silver Iodide, May 1953
46"The Mount Washington Observatory for Field Research," V.J. Schaefer, June 1953
47"The Formation of Smoke Aerosols," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, July 30, 1953
48"Text Proposed For Guest Column of Mr. Robert S. Allen, Post-Hall Newspaper Syndicate," by VJS, Manuscript, August 7, 1953
49"Text Proposed For Guest Column of Mr. Robert S. Allen, Post-Hall Newspaper Syndicate," by V.J. Schaefer, October 7, 1953
50"Silver and Lead Iodides as Ice Crystal Nuclei," V.J. Schaefer, October 6, 1953
51"The Measurement of High Concentrations of Ice Nuclei in a Small Parcel of Air", October 15, 1953
52"The Concentration of Ice Nuclei in Air Passing the Summit of Mount Washington," V.J. Schaefer, November 11, 1953
53"Cloud Forms of Jet Streams," V.J. Schaefer, December 1953
54Final Report, ONR Project, Contract No. NONR-925(00), December 1953
55Office of Naval Research Project Final Report, December 1953
56"Office of Naval Research (ONR) Project Contract #NONR-925(00) Final Report" [Atmospheric Physics], December 1953
57Office of Naval Research Project Final Report- Manuscripts, 1953
58"Report on Evaluation of Past and Future Experiments on Widespread Control of Weather," (I. Langmuir), Ca. 1953
59Final Report Mailing List, 1953
60"Ice Crystals Formed Spontaneously by the Rapid Expansion of Moist Air," V.J. Schaefer, April 1954
61"The Measurement of High Concentrations of Ice Nuclei in a Small Parcel of Air," with Undated Notes, V.J. Schaefer, May 1954 Undated
62"The Concentration of Ice Nuclei in Air Passing the Summit of Mount Washington," with Manuscripts and Graphics, V.J. Schaefer, September 1954 Undated
63"Silver and Lead Iodides as Ice Crystal Nuclei," V.J. Schaefer, With Photos and Charts, October 1954 June 1954-August 1954 Undated
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121Final Report, Ch.2 "The Laboratory Phase of Project Cirrus," Manuscript, Undated
2Final Report, Ch. 3, "The Field Observation Phase of Project Cirrus", Manuscript, Undated
3Final Report, Ch. 4, "Flight Experiments Under Project Cirrus," Manuscript, Undated
4Final Report, Ch. 5, "Conclusions," Manuscript, Undated
5Final Report Ch. 12, Periodic Seeding and Silver Iodide, Revision of May 15, 1953, Undated
6Final Report- Draft/Manuscript, Undated
7"Increasing Rainfall and Snowpack through Cloud Seeding," North American Weather Consultants, Undated
8"Plans for the Puerto Rico Trip," Discusses Flight 45; Partial Copy, Author Unknown, Undated
9"The Production of Snow and Rain in Cloudy Skies," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
10"The Production of Snow and Rain in Cloudy Skies," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
11"Properties of Particles of Snow and the Electrical Effects They Produce in Storms" V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
12"Tethering the Weather," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
13"Summary of Work in 1948 by Physical Studies Group," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
14"The Use of Seeding Techniques for Studying The Atmosphere," Fragment of larger Document, Undated
15"The Use of Silver Iodide for Seeding Supercooled Clouds," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
16"Weather Reconnaissance by Airborne Time Lapse Camera," Schaefer with W.M. Taylor, Manuscript, Undated
Series 3: Munitalp Foundation, 1940-1968, Undated 11.5 cubic ft.
Arranged alphabetically, with the exception of the reports and publications which are chronological.
Vincent Schaefer's first contact with the Munitalp Foundation came in the early 1950s around the time that Project Cirrus was winding down. The day-to-day routine in the research lab at General Electric was changing from the way it was in the days of Willis Whitney, so in 1951 Schaefer began scaling back his hours at G.E. to collaborate with Munitalp's board of trustees. By 1954, Schaefer was ready to make a complete break from G.E. to become Munitalp's director of research.
Munitalp's main focus was meteorological research, specifically cloud physics. Three advisors helped formulate the group's goals in the early fifties: Svere Petterssen, Horace Byers, and Vincent Schaefer, all of whom came from respected scientific backgrounds. As director of research, Schaefer brought some unexplored ideas from Project Cirrus to the table, ideas that were given time and attention under the resources provided by Munitalp. In collaboration with Director Vernon Crudge, Schaefer oversaw research efforts that expanded throughout the United States and beyond. Munitalp not only sponsored its own original experiments, but also guided grant-funded projects by other organizations having an interest in meteorological work. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the University of Hokkaido (Japan), the University of Stockholm, and Mount Washington Observatory are just a few of the many institutions that collaborated with Munitalp
Two of the best-known research projects to come from Munitalp are Project Skyfire, which dealt with lightning-induced forest fires in the American Northwest, and the first use of time-lapse films to track cloud formations. The former attempted to use cloud seeding technology to reduce risks of forest fires while the latter provided a whole new understanding of everything from jet stream cloud behavior to development of low-lying fog-- information used by the American Meteorological Society as well as flight crews of the world's major airlines.
The Munitalp Foundation moved its headquarters to Africa in the late 1950s, and while Schaefer traveled there to oversee the transfer, he decided not to remain as director of research. Though he officially left the Foundation in 1958, he maintained an advisory role for several years thereafter.
Subseries 1: General Research, 1948-1964, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
General research essentially covers all documents not dealing with Project Skyfire. Since Munitalp’s purpose was to aid other organizations with their meteorological experiments, it had many different projects under its wing. Schaefer’s papers in this area deal mainly with jet stream and cloud studies and weather modification. One specific example of a new weather modification experiment was Project Shower, which took Schaefer to Hawaii to work with the Pineapple Institute. Some of the files are reminiscent of his work at General Electric since his fascination with particle studies continued well beyond his days in the Knolls Research Laboratory. There are documents and photographs dealing with clouds, precipitation, and atmospheric particles, including some from Mount Washington since Schaefer continued to foster a working relationship with the lab there. Time lapse films of clouds and cloud formations were also a ground-breaking aspect of Schaefer’s work with Munitalp.
There are also some files on the mobile lab that Schaefer engineered, an idea that followed him after Munitalp when he went to other institutions. Researchers will find somewhat less extensive field notes in this subseries than in General Electric, which may be a reflection of Schaefer’s increased administrative role with Munitalp.
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11200-300 Millibar Analyses, 1953 1957
Map-Tube
6300 Millibar Analysis Maps (Central Analysis Office- Montreal Airport), November 21-24, 1957
BoxFolder
12Aerial Photo, Unidentified, Undated
3Africa- Plans for Research Program, 1956-1958
4Africa- Notecards, Undated
5-6Africa, Photo Slides, 1957
7Africa- Time Lapse Films, 1954-1959
8Air Weather Service, 1953-1955
9Atmospheric Electrical Measurements in the Hawaiian Islands, 1954-1955
OversizedFolder
45Atmospheric Pressure Map, May 1, 1952
BoxFolder
110Behenate- Photo, April 30, 1960
11Bergen, Photos and Slides, 1954-1964
12Canyon Creek Area- Various Charts/Measurements, Undated
13Cloud Form Manual, Weather Bureau, 1949
14Cloud Patterns in a Hurricane from 30,000 Feet- Photo, Undated
15Cloud Physics, Research Planning Conference, 1958
16Cloud Photo Slides: Puerto Rico, Hawaii, London, 1949-1959
17Cloud Photos, 1954 1958
18Cloud, Unseeded, Cumulus- Photo, 1958
19Cloud Formations, Photos, 1950 1956 Undated
20Cloud Seeding, Newspaper Clippings, 1955
21Cloud Seeding Dash 80, 707, 1st Trip, Photo Negatives, 1955
22Cloud Seeding, Photo Negatives, 1952-1953 1958-1961 Undated
23Cloud Seeding Photos, August 22, 1957
24Cloud Seeding Photos, 1952-1955 1958 Undated
25Cloud Seeding SFC Peaks, Maroon Bells, Photo Negatives, Undated
26Clouding Seeding, West Fork Butte, Photo Negatives, 1957
27Cloud Studies, 1953 Undated
28Cloud Study, 1955-1958
29Clouds, Photo Negatives, 1953-1959
30Comet Reports, 1954
31Clouds and Cloud Formations, Photo Negatives, 1956 Undated
32Clouds and Cloud Formations, Photo Negatives to Collier's, November 1956-December 1956
33Clouds and Cloud Formations Photos, Undated
34Clouds in the Jet Stream, Photo Negatives, 1958
35Clouds in the Jet Stream, Photos, 1952-1953 Undated
36Clouds, Woestyne, Photo Negatives, 1959
37Comet Arend-Roland, Photo, 1957
38Contrails, Photo Slides, 1948-1959
39Corona Photos, Undated
40Crystal Studies, Photos, 1959-1960 Undated
41Crystals, New Mexico, Photo Negatives, May 2, 1955
42Drops on Trees, Photo Negatives, Undated
43Edge of a Cirrus Cloud, Canopy Followed For More Than A Thousand Miles, Photograph, Undated
44England, Photo Slides, 1950
45Eroded Rock in The Grand Canyon, Photo, Undated, Undated
46Erosion Lines with Falling Level of River, Photos, Undated
47Equipment-Bell + Howell Company, Film Splice Instructions, Undated
48Equipment-Bell + Howell Price List Booklet, January 1, 1954
49Equipment- Linhoff, Technika Camera Instructions and Certificate of Ownership Booklet, Undated
50Equipment- Photovision, Time Lapse Mechanism Brochure, Undated
51Equipment- Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Microameter Instructions, Warranty Certificates and Packing Lists, 1949 Undated
52Equipment- Royco, Inc., Particle Counter Instructions, Undated
53Experimental 30 Day Weather Forecasts, 1954
Oversized
5Experimental Roll Charts- Cloud Meter Data, 1945 1954-1955
BoxFolder
154Falconer, Raymond, Long-Range Forecasting, 1954-1960
55Film Project, Photos, August 1958-January 1961
56Film Record Notebook, #201-342, 1953
57Film: MARP, 1954-1959
58Films: Miscellaneous, 1953-1958
59Films: Time Lapse, 1954-1959
60Films: Time Lapse- General A-N, 1956-1959
61Films: Time Lapse-General O-Z, 1955-1958
62Films: Time Lapse- General (Misc.), 1954 Undated
63-64Films: Time Lapse- Geographical, 1953-1959
65Films: Time Lapse- "Project Time Lapse,", 1953-1958
66First Adirondack Conference on Cloud Nuclei, Photo Negatives, 1957
67Flow Charts for Projects, 1955
68General Notes: Jet Stream Clouds, Photomicrograph, Adventures Ahead, Particle Studies, Undated
69Generator, Salt Particle, Photo Negatives, 1953
70Germany- Data and Correspondence, 1954-1955
71Germany, Photo Slides, 1954
72Gisborne Mountain- Notebook of Trial Run Up the Mountain, August 23, 1955-August 25, 1955
73Gisborne Mountain, Photos of Measurements, 1955
74Gisborne Mountain Photo Negatives, August 9, 1952
OversizedFolder
46Gisborne Mountain Weather Data Charts, August 23-24, 1955
BoxFolder
175Gore Mountain Survey, Photo Negatives, 1957
76Grand Canyon, Photo Negatives, 1956
77Hailstone Photos, Undated
78Hailstone Photos, Undated
79Hailstones, Grand Island Nebraska, Photograph, 1959
80Hailstones and Hail Damage, Photos, 1957 Undated
81Hail, Photo Negatives, 1958
82Hail, Negatives, Undated
Flat-File
4Hawaii: Raindrop Diameter Graphs, October 26, 1954 November 2, 1954 December 1-3, 1954
BoxFolder
183High Altitude Observatory, Photo Negatives, Undated
BoxFolder
21-3High Altitude Observatory, 1953-1958
4Ice Nuclei Measuring Instruments, 1957 1959
5Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little Inc., December 1953
6Ice Nuclei, Photo Negatives, Undated
7Icicles, Helderbergs, Photo Negatives, Undated
8Idaho- Priest River Experiment Station, Photo Negatives, 1948 1952-1955
OversizedFolder
29Island of Hawaii: Map- Rain Gages Operating 1948, c.1948
BoxFolder
29Japan- Data Charts, January 18, 1954-March 18, 1954
10Japanese-American LES, Photo Negatives, Undated
Map-Tube
7Jet Stream Analysis Charts, February 15-26, 1958
BoxFolder
211Jet Stream and Precipitation Measurements, June 15, 1954 July 7, 1954 Undated
OversizedFolder
46Jet Stream Cloud Photo- Kansas City, April 3, 1956
BoxFolder
212Jet Stream Clouds Notebook Pages, August 15, 1951 August 15, 1952
13Jet Stream Clouds, Photo Negatives, 1952-1955 1957
14Jet Stream Clouds, Photo Negatives, 1952-1958
15Jet Stream Clouds, Woestyne South, Photo Negatives, April 1957
16Jet Stream: Fiction, Occurrence in, Ca.1955
Flat-File
5Jet Stream: Flights #32 and #33, January 23, 1955 January 25, 1955
OversizedFolder
210Jet Stream: Maps- 200 and 300 Millibar Analysis, November 18-25, 1957
BoxFolder
217Jet Stream Records at 300mb, June 1952-September 1952
18Jet Stream: Research, 1955-1957
19Jet Streams Talk (Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences), 1955
20-26Jet Stream Project, 1955
27Leiterdes Meteoroloischen Observatoriums, Photos, 1954
28Lenticular Lee Wave Cloud Over New Zealand- Notes, Ca. 1952
29Light Scatter Multilayers, Photo Negatives, Undated
30Livestock Weather Safety Index, Undated
OversizedFolder
211Location Record: MARP Time Lapse Cameras, 1952-1953
Flat-File
6Lolo National Forest- Map of West Half, 1950
OversizedFolder
47Lolo National Forest- Map With Notations, 1949 Undated
BoxFolder
231Manned Hot Air Balloons, Raven, Photos, 1950-1963
OversizedFolder
61MARP Field Notes, 1954-1955
BoxFolder
232MARP Weather Observations File Folder-Correspondence, Bulletins and Memos, 1952-1953 Undated
33Mauna Loa Expedition, 1956-1957
34Meteorology Research, Inc. -An Integrated Program for Cloud Physics Studies, January 28, 1958
35Mission Mountain Montana, Photograph, 1949
36Mobile Weather Observatory, 1954-1961 Undated
37Mobile Weather Unit -Photos, Undated
38-40Mount Washington Observatory Icing Experiments, Photos, Undated
41Mount Washington Observatory: Nuclei Data Sheets, 1955
42Mount Washington Observatory: Nuclei Data Sheets, 1956
43Mount Washington Observatory: Nuclei Data Sheets (Incomplete), 1957
44Mount Washington Observatory: Nuclei Data Sheets, 1958
45Mount Washington Observatory: Nuclei Data Sheets, December 29, 1958-December 29, 1959
46Mount Washington Observatory: Nuclei Data Sheets, December 1959-January 1961
47"The Munitalp Atmospheric Research Project," V.J. Schaefer (With Photographs), May 25, 1953 Undated
48Munitalp Atmospheric Research Project (MARP)- Field Notes, 1952-1957
49Munitalp Atmospheric Research Project (MARP)- Field Notes, 1955-1957
50Munitalp Atmospheric Research Project (MARP)- Italy Field Notes, Undated
51Munitalp Atmospheric Research Project (MARP)- Lima Camera Test, Field Notes, February 25, 1953
52Munitalp Atmospheric Research Project (MARP)-Movie Notebook, 1952-1953
53Munitalp Atmospheric Research Project (MARP)- Notebook pages, Books #1-7, 1952-1953
54Munitalp Atmospheric Research Project (MARP)-Notecards, 1952-1957
55Munitalp Atmospheric Research Project (MARP)- Personnel and Field Notes, 1952-1953
56Munitalp Films-Packing List for Shipping to Nairobi Headquarters, Undated
57"The Munitalp Time Lapse Cloud Movie Project," Synopsis with Index, Undated
OversizedFolder
48Newfoundland: General Plan of Drainage Areas (Map), February 13, 1952
BoxFolder
31Notebook, Miniature (Disbound), 1952
2Notebook, Miniature- "VJS L.T. Record", Ca. 1952
3Notebook, Various Topics, 1958 Undated
4Notebooks, Miniature, 1955
5Notebooks, Miniature, 1956 1957
6Notebooks, Miniature, 1959 Ca. 1960 Undated
7Northwest Photo Slides, 1957
8Norway Photo Slides, 1958
9Notebooks, 1954-1959
10NSI/Whiteface Mountain, Photo Negatives, 1959
11Office of Naval Research, New York- Chart of Classification Categories and Contact Information, Undated
OversizedFolder
49Precipitation Chart- Sky Brightness, Corona Current, and Wind Shifts, November 7, 1954
BoxFolder
312Private Counter (Royco Instruments Model PC-200 A), 1961
13Photography Notes-Flight Photos, November 19, 1953
14Poly Ethylene Bags, Photo, Ca. 1953
15Precipitation Particles, Undated
16Project Black Sheep, 1952-1953
17Project List, 1952-1956
OversizedFolder
410Project Outlines and Successes, 1952-1958
BoxFolder
41Project Shower- Geographical and Climatological Notes, July 28, 1954
2Project Shower- Hawaii and Pineapple Institute, 1954-1955 Undated
3Project Shower- Hawaii and Pineapple Institute, Undated
4Project Shower- Hawaii, Photo Slides, 1954
5Proposals, 1954
OversizedFolder
411Puu Huluhulu Data Chart, October 30, 1954
12Radio Weather Map- Intercoastal, Undated
BoxFolder
46Record of Boeing 707 Flight, Seattle to Washington D.C., October 16, 1955
7Research Notebook #100, With Complete Pages from Notebook #3, 1953-1956 1978
8Schaefer Meeting with Dr. Fujita, University of Chicago, Meso-Analysis Work, May 1957
9Smog Research, 1954-1956
10Snow, Photo Negatives, 1953 1956 Undated
11Snow Crystals, Photo Negatives, Undated
12Southwest, USA, Photo Slides, 1950-1952
13Sphere Camera, Photo Negatives, 1952-1954
BoxFolder
51Staffing Notes, Manuscripts of Articles, and Research Data, August 1958-October 1959 Undated
2Storm Track Chart and Surface Chart, June 27, 1959 Undated
3Sweden, Photo Slides, 1958
4Switzerland, Photos and Slides, 1954-1963
5Switzerland, Photo Slides, 1950-1954
6Time Lapse Cameras and Physical Research- Field Notes, 1955 Undated
Oversized
12Time Lapse Data- Boxed Separately, 1950s
BoxFolder
57Time Lapse Data Notebook, 1954-1955
8Time Lapse Data Notebook, Hong Kong, Ca. 1956
9Time Lapse Notebook, 1954
10Time Lapse Photos, 1954
11Time Lapse Equipment Photos, Ca. 1950
12Time Lapse Research, 1954-1958
13Transvection, Photos, 1953
OversizedFolder
413U.S. Forest Service Photos- Schaefer and Colleagues,
BoxFolder
514Wave Clouds- Schenectady Blizzard, 1950
15Weather Balloon, Photo, 1959
BoxFolder
61Weather Control: Cloud Seeding Studies, 1953-1962
2Weather Films (Notes on Cards), 1955
3Weather Phenomena Pictures- Data Summary for Time Lapse Camera (16 mm Magazines), 1957
4Weather Plotting Charts, 1956
5Wind Charts of US, ca. 1955
6Wind Translator- Photos, Undated
7Your Air Maps of United Airlines with Handwritten Notes on Covers and Within, ca. 1954
Subseries 2: Project Skyfire, 1940-1962, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
Just as Schaefer’s best-known work at General Electric was Project Cirrus, one of his most important jobs with Munitalp was Project Skyfire. Schaefer became familiar with the problem of lightning-induced forest fires while he was still working at G.E., but it wasn’t until he transferred to Munitalp that he could give the issue direct attention. Working alongside Harry Gisborne, chief of fire research in Missoula, Montana, Schaefer researched the use of cloud seeding techniques in changing patterns of lightning storms in the northwestern United States. This subseries contains the data, charts, maps, and photographs from this project.
BoxFolder
71American Meteorological Society, 143rd Meeting, January 24, 1956
2Analysis Map, Undated
OversizedFolder
414Analysis Map, 1954
OversizedFolder
213Analysis Maps, August 8-31, 1955 Undated
BoxFolder
73Brochure by US Department of Agriculture, 1957
4Central Cloud Seeded with Silver Iodide, Photo, 1958
5Clippings about Fire, 1954 1957-1960
6Cloud Seeding in Montana, Photo, Undated
7Cloud Seeding, Photo Slides, 1957
8Committee on Fire Research, 1958
9Correspondence and Miscellaneous, October 1952 August 1955
10-11Correspondence and Miscellaneous, July 1957-September 1960
12Correspondence with I. Langmuir, 1956
13Data Charts: Cumulus Cloud and Lightning Strikes/ Jet Stream Clouds, Undated
14Data, Maps and Reports, 1956-1957
15Dudley Lake, Photo Negative, Undated
16Film Script and Photos, 1957
17Fire Behavior Training Course-Missoula, Montana: Subject Evaluations, April 1958 Undated
18Fire Danger Daily Record with U.S. Department of Commerce Weather Bureau 10 Day Fire-Weather Record, July 1, 1954-July 10, 1954
19Fire Lookout Kits, 1954
20-21Fire Reports, Individual (U.S. Forest Service), 1954-1956
22Fire Research- "Aerial Volume Tables for Ponderosa Pine Type in the Rocky Mountains" by Karl E. Moessner, 1960
23Fire Research: "Approximations for the Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of High Temperature Air", C. Frederick Hansen (NASA Technical Report R-50), 1959
24Fire Research- "Chemical Sampling Downstream of Lean, Flat Hydrogen and Propane Flames" by Burton D. Fine, 1959
25Fire Research Committee, 1960
26Fire Research- Committee on Fire Research Minutes, 1959-1960
27Project Skyfire- Committee on Fire Research Interim Report, December 1, 1957-June 30, 1959 1959
28Fire Research-Correspondence and Contact Lists, 1952-1953
29Fire Research-"Estimating the Area in Logging Roads by Dot Sampling on Aerial Photos" by Karl E. Moesner (U.S. Forest Service), 1960
30Fire Research-"Fire Behavior in Northern Rocky Mountain Forests" by J.S. Barrows (U.S. Forest Service), 1951
31Fire Research-Fire Control Notes, July 10, 1960
32-33Fire Research-Fire Research Abstracts and Reviews, 1958-1959
34Fire Research- Grant Proposal to U.S. Forest Service, Ca. 1959
35Fire Research- International Symposium, 1959
36Fire Research-"Logging Slash Flammability" by George R. Fahnstock (U.S. Forest Service), 1960
37"Man Pits Himself Against Nature," The Timberman, 1958
38Fire Research: Fleishmann Photos (Lightning), Undated
39Fire Research- Missiles Fighting Forest Fires, 1959
40Fire Research- "Natural Phenomena Exhibited by Forest Fires" by J.S. Barrows, 1959
41Fire Research- Notebooks, Miscellaneous, 1960 Undated
42Fire Research- Photos of Schaefer, Undated
43Fire Research- Proposal for Support of Fire Research, 1958
44Fire Research- Proposal to National Science Foundation, 1959
45Fire Research- Review of Literature and Research, 1958
46Fire Research- "The Roseburg, Oregon, Fire, Explosion and Conflagration, August 7, 1959" by The National Board of Fire Underwriters, Ca. 1959
47Fire Research- "Study of the Effect of Chemical Treatment on the Thermal Decomposition of Wood First Progress Report, I. Pyrolysis of Untreated Wood," by Walter K. Tang (U.S. Forest Service), 1960
48Fire Research: "Theories of the Combustion of Wood and its Control: A Survey of the Literature," by Browne (USDA), 1958
49Fire Research: Training and Planning, 1955 Undated
50Fire Research: Training Course on Fire Behavior, 1959
51Fire Research: Training Course on Fire Behavior, 1959
52Fire Research: U.S. Forest Service Summary Progress Report, November 1, 1958-April 30, 1960
53Fire Research- U.S. Forest Service Technical Papers by Various Authors, 1957-1960
54Fire Research: "Water vs. Fire: Fighting Forest Fires with Water," by Alva G. Neuns (U.S. Forest Service), 1950
55Fire Research: "What Do People Know about Fire Prevention?" C.C. Chandler and J.B. Davis (USDA Miscellaneous Paper No. 50), 1960
56Fire Research- "What People Think about Fire Law Enforcement," by J.B. Davis and C.C. Chandler (USDA Miscellaneous Paper No. 51), 1960
57"When the Mountains Roared: Stories of the 1910 Fire," (U.S. Forest Service) and Related Correspondence, 1985 Undated
58Fire Research: Wisconsin Fire, 1957
59Flash Report, 1953
60Forest Fires, 1954-1959
61Forest Fires: Coal Creek Fire, 1958
62Forest Fire Research: Maps, Charts, Notes, and Reports, 1958 Undated
BoxFolder
81Jet Streams, 1954 1957
2Lightning and Thunderstorm Research Reports, 1952
3"Lightning Fire Research Project", 1952-1954
4Information on Lookout- Firemen Assigned to Cloud Survey Network, April 2, 1953-June 18, 1953
5Information on Lookout- Firemen Assigned to Cloud Survey Network With Supplemental Materials, March 30, 1953 Undated
6Munitalp- Forest Service Cloud Survey Operations Guide, May 28, 1953
7Lightning Fires, 1953
8Lightning Photos, Undated
9Map: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, National Forests- Region One, 1951
10-11Maps and Data, July 1957-August 1957
12Memo- Skyfire Field Program, July 9, 1954
13Missoula, Montana, Photo Slides, Undated
14Newsletters, Memos, and Research Data, 1955 Undated
15Northwest Photo Slides, 1950-1953
16Notebook, 1955
17Notebook, Miniature, 1956
Oversized
12Notebooks and equipment instructions- Boxed Separately, 1950s
BoxFolder
818Photo Negatives, 1952
19Photo Negatives, 1952-1960 Undated
20Photo Slides, 1940-1959
21Photos, Various, Undated
22Photos and Measurements, 1957-1960
23Notebook, 1958
24Progress Report, 1954
25"Project Skyfire: A Progress Report on Lightning Fire and Atmospheric Research" by J.S. Barros, V.J. Schaefer and P.B. MacCready Jr. (U.S. Forest Service Research Paper No. 35), 1954
26Report by Meteorology Research, Inc., 1956
27Region 4- Annual Fire Narrative Report, 1955
28Rohn Communication Towers, 1963
29Severe Storms, Photos, 1959
30Severe Storms, Photo Negatives, 1952
31Silver Iodide Seeding, 1958
32"Skyfire Rumblings" Newsletter, July 23, 1954
33Skyfire Schools, Photo Negatives, 1948-1960
34Tentative Conclusions on Skyfire Program, V.J. Schaefer, August 26, 1957
35Thunderstorms, 1955
36Thunderstorms and Cloud Seeding, 1956
37United States Department of Agriculture: Circulars and Reports, 1941 1956
38United States Department of Agriculture and Forest Service: A Calibration Test of the California State Division Forestry Airborne Silver Iodide Smoke Generator, 1957
39United States Department of Agriculture and Forest Service: Project Skyfire Operations Plan- 1957 Field Program, 1957
40USDA Television Package Photos, 1954-1957
41-43Various Topics, 1953-1959
BoxFolder
91Various Topics, 1953-1959
2Visits to Laboratories in Europe- Report from W.L. Fons, Ca. 1958
3Weather Modification, Photo Slides, 1956
4Wildland Fire Danger Rating Handbooks, Ca. 1962
Flat-File
7World Aeronautical Map With Handwritten Notations on Lightning Fires, Undated
BoxFolder
95Writing Book- Skyfire Observations and Photos, 1954-1956
Subseries 3: Correspondence, 1950-1965, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
Since Schaefer was Munitalp’s director of research, and Munitalp participated in meteorological projects internationally as well as domestically, Schaefer was constantly in contact with associates all over the globe. The substantial amount of correspondence that he kept from his Munitalp years shows the greatly increased administrative role he held in comparison to his General Electric days.
The letters include letters directed to him alone, letters that colleagues sent to one another but also carbon copied to Schaefer, and carbon copies of correspondence that Schaefer sent out. Most of these files came to the archives bundled together without labels or other identification, while some were singled out by specific people or topics. The archivist kept that arrangement, so researchers will find most of the letters filed under the name “general” and identified by year. Others are titled by a particular person’s name or subject as well as the year. All of the correspondence is arranged chronologically.
BoxFolder
101Africa, 1957-1959
2American Polar Bear Expedition- Paul Seydel, May 27, 1955
3Aspliden, Carl- Travel, 1957-1959
4Cooperative Research- Weather Control, 1954-1957
5Draft of Letter to Malin and Connie Sorsbie- Final Communication, February 14, 1964
6Educational Program, 1957-1958
7Evaporation Studies, 1954-1958
8Falconer, Raymond- Correspondence with Occasional Data, 1954-1958
9Flower, Jr. Luie C. - Minatare, Nebraska, July 5, 1956 July 31, 1956
10General, 1950
11General, 1951
12-13General, 1952
14-16General, 1953
17-22General, 1954
23-26General, 1955
BoxFolder
111-4General, 1955
5-11General, 1956
12-17General, 1957
BoxFolder
121-7General, 1958
8-10General, 1959
11General, 1960
12General, 1961
13General, 1962
14General, 1963
15General, 1964
16General, 1965
17General, Undated
18Greenland, 1953-1954
19Harney, Pat- Cameras and Reel Films, February 3, 1958 Undated
20Invitations/Reservations, 1957
21Lois Schaefer to Vincent During Trip to Africa, October 1957 Undated
22MacCready, Paul, 1954-1958
23Martimer, W.A., 1958
24Mount Washington Observatory, 1955
25Mount Washington Observatory, 1956
26Mount Washington Observatory, 1957-1959
27Mount Washington Observatory, 1960-1961
28-31Museum at the Atmosphere, 1957-1959
32National Science Foundation, 1955-1958
33Office of Naval Research, 1953-1959
34Other Weather Professionals, 1959
35Personnel and Reports, 1953-1958
Subseries 4: Subject Files, 1948-1968, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
The subject files feature a variety of materials that supplement Schaefer’s Munitalp research documents, such as ephemera from some of his many travels, conference brochures, and weather research activities of groups not affiliated with Munitalp. This subseries also includes administrative files such as personnel information, grant writing endeavors, and budgeting, which are reflections of Schaefer’s role as director of research. There are also photographs of Schaefer and colleagues, non-Skyfire research projects, travels in and out of the United States, and more generic subjects such as research equipment.
BoxFolder
131Accounts and Expenses, 1953-1959
2Activities, 1952-1956
3Adirondack Conference on Atmospheric Nuclei, 1957-1958
4-5Adirondack Conference on Atmosphere, Second, 1958-1959
6Africa Administration, 1958-1959
7Africa-Postcards (unwritten), Undated
8Africa Trip (fragment), 1957
9Africa Trip: Memo and Proposed Itinerary, August 6, 1957
10Agriculture in the West, 1953
11Albertus Magnus Guild, 1955
12-14American Meteorological Society, 1954-1958
OversizedFolder
214American Meteorological Society 120th National Meeting- Photo, January 26, 1953
15American Meteorological Society: Award for Outstanding Services to the Advance of Meteorology by a Corporation, January 1953
16American Meteorological Society Meeting, NYU- Photo, January 26, 1955
BoxFolder
1315Arid Lands, 1953-1955
16Biological and Chemical Defense Planning Board, 1960
17"Brief Outline of Atmospheric Research Activities underway by Various Organizations in the United States", November 10, 1958
18Business Summaries Notebook, 1953
19Canadian Meteorological Service, 1954
20Central Park Observatory, 1957
21Climatic Relations, 1953-1955
22Cloud Modification Photos and Written Materials- Background for Atmosphere Chapter 8, 1948-1968
23Conference on the Evaluation of Weather Modification, September 22, 1954-September 24, 1954
24Contracts, 1953-1954
OversizedFolder
217Daily Olympian: "The Sandy Point Weather Project", 1954
BoxFolder
1325Denver- Water Needs, ca. 1955
26European Trip, Notes on, 1954
27Federation of American Scientists Newsletter, February 10, 1959
28File Systems, 1956-1960
Oversized
9Fortune Magazine- "Forecast for Weather Control: Brighter," Francis Bello, May 1958
BoxFolder
1329General Policy, 1956
30Geodesy and Geophysics, International Union, 1953-1955
31Gisborne, H.T.- Obituary, Undated
32Glaciology on Mount Kenya (IGY), News Clippings, 1957-1958
33-35Grants, 1953-1959
Oversized
9Guest Book: Munitalp Offices, New York City, 1954-1960
BoxFolder
1336Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, 1958
37Jeppesen R Co, Air Map of United Airlines, Denver, Colorado, 1956
38Job Applicants, 1954-1958
39Johnston, Albert Wheeler- Obituaries- Founder of Munitalp, August 25, 1952 Undated
40Long Range Weather Forecasting Conference- List of Participants, September 1958
41Johnston, Albert, 1951
42Mailing Lists and Miscellaneous, 1954-1958
43Meeting at Princeton Inn- Photos of Schaefer, Unidentified Colleagues, Undated
44Microcards, 1955-1956
45Morro Bay Stack, Photo, January 23, 1956
46Northwest United States Photo Slides, 1948-1953
47Notebook- M.I.T. Faculty Club, Undated
48-49Photos, Miscellaneous, Undated
50"Proceedings: First Forum of the Munitalp Foundation, Inc." Includes Cover Letter from Vernon Crudge, November 14, 1951 January 28, 1952
51Rossby, Carl-Gustaf, 1955-1957
BoxFolder
141Photos for Publication, 1953-1958
2-3Photos Loaned and Returned, 1959-1967
4Plans for Africa Trip, October 1957
5Precipitation Physics, 1958
6Priest River and Various Meteorology Meetings, 1953-1954
7Project Skyfire and Jetstream Work, 1955
8Public Relations, 1956-1957
9Physical Science Study Committee/Laura Fermi- with Manuscripts Relating to "Monograph on Weather", May 2, 1958 Undated
10Rensselaer Alumni News, March 1959
11-14Reprint Requests, 1953-1961
15Royal Meteorological Society- Meeting Announcements and Meeting Notes, 1948-1950
16Scandinavian-American Meteorological Meeting- Script for Talk on Lyse Monastery, June 24, 1958
17Schaefer and Malin Sorsbie, Dispute Over Policy/Procedures in Africa vs. United States, September 11, 1958 December 13, 1958
18Schaefer, Vincent Taking Pictures out of Window of Plane, Photo, 1955
19Schaefer, Vincent, Photos, 1956 Undated
20Schenectady-Photo Negatives- Album for Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, September 11, 1959
21Scientific Adventure Kits, 1957
22Science Forum, Photo, December 30, 1953
23Security, 1958
OversizedFolder
415Ship Code Card- U.S. Department of Commerce Weather Bureau, Undated
BoxFolder
1424Skyfire Lookouts- Paul MacCready, Jr., March 29, 1954
25Slo-Mo-Shun V, Seattle, Photograph, Undated
26Snow Committee, 1954-1958
27Snow-Preparations for Film, November 25, 1958
28Snow Survey Bulletins, 1953-1958
29Solar-Terrestrial Research, Institute for, 1960
30-31Sorsbie, Malin, 1957-1959 1984
32State Museum Advisory Council, 1956
33Surface Chemistry, 1954-1956
34Television Program, 1954-1958
35Time Lapse Cloud Films, November 4, 1954 October 25, 1957
36Time Lapse Films, Northern Rocky Mountain Experiment Station, Project Black Sheep, Cloud Seeding, 1952-1953
37Tornadoes and Tornado Institute, 1954-1955
38Travel Ephemera- Africa, Germany, England, 1957 Undated
39-43Trips, 1954-1958
44United Nations University, 1958
45Universitätsinstitut für Meteirikigie and Geophysik, February 3, 1954 March 27, 1954
46University of Missouri, Columbia, October 15, 1954-April 5, 1955
47U.S. Forest Service Brochure- Fire Control Notes, July 1952
48Vincent and Lois Schaefer with Unidentified Persons, 1950s
49Wadati, Dr. Kiyoo- Japanese Central Meteorological Observatory, June 1954-October 1954
50Weather Control: Adirondack Conference, 1958
51Weather Control: Advisory Committee on Weather Control, 1953-1958
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151-2Weather Control: Advisory Committee on Weather Control, 1953-1958
3Weather Forecasting Competitions, 1955-1956
4Weather Inc. Photo Negatives, Undated
5Weather-Related News Clippings, 1955-1957 Undated
6Weather-Related Photo Negatives, 1958 1961 Undated
Subseries 5: Reports & Publications, 1952-1960, Undated
Arranged chronologically
This subseries is devoted entirely to articles and reports from Schaefer’s Munitalp years. Materials cover a range of topics including Project Skyfire, jet stream studies, cloud seeding, particle studies, and research on the relationship between environmental factors and the weather. Since this subseries is comparatively smaller than the reports and publications for General Electric, works by Schaefer and others are mixed together. The files are arranged chronologically, then alphabetically by article/report title if necessary. Folder titles note the author of each work. For Schaefer’s writings, the archivist noted if there is a manuscript included with the published copy.
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161"A Proposed Program for the Munitalp Foundation," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript Only, Ca. 1952
2Occasional Papers (0001-0010), October 1952-April 1955
3"Twinkle of Stars May Show Jet Streams of Wind," Wadsworth Likely, February 10, 1953
4"The Munitalp Atmospheric Research Project," V.J. Schaefer, May 25, 1953
5"Cloud Photography Project," V.J. Schaefer, Occasional Paper #2, June 1953
6"The Use of Clouds for Locating the Jet stream," V.J. Schaefer, October 30, 1953
7Jet Stream Articles (2) by Captain Bernard C. Frost, December 1953 Undated
8"Cloud Forms of the Jet Stream," V.J. Schaefer, 1953
9"Cloud Photography," V.J. Schaefer, 1953
10"Flying in Jet Stream Winds," Shell Aviation News, Manuscript, 1953
11Cal Tech Report to Munitalp- Oxygen Isotope, Paul MacCready, Jr., March 29, 1954
12"Atmospheric Electricity Associated with Jet Streams," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Ca. May 1954
13"New Frontiers in the Sky," V.J. Schaefer, WGY Science Forum, May 5, 1954
14"A Possible Explanation of Explosions and Fires Caused by the Electrification of Fine Particle Sprays," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript Only, June 7, 1954
15"A Possible Relationship Between the Solar Corona and Weather Conditions in the Central Midwest," E.D. Farthing, September 22, 1954
16"Cloud and Atmospheric- Electric Observations of the Formative Stages of Worcester, Massachusetts Tornado," R. Falconer and V.J. Schaefer, November 1954
17"Project Skyfire: A Progress Report on Lightning Fire and Atmospheric Research" by J.S. Barros, V.J. Schaefer and P.B. Macready Jr., November 1954
18Review of U. Nakaya's Book Snow Crystals- Natural and Artificial, V.J. Schaefer, with letter, December 8, 1954
19"A Case Study of Jet Stream Clouds," V.J. Schaefer and W.E. Hubert , Occasional Paper #11, with manuscript, December 1954
20Occasional Papers (0001-0010), December 1954-July 1956
21"Report of Activities During Field Trip to Hawaiian Islands October 24-November 24, 1954, V.J. Schaefer, Ca. 1954
22"Jet Streams and Project Skyfire," V.J. Schaefer, with Manuscript, January 1955
23"High and Low Elevations as Thermal Source Regions", MacCready, Paul B. Jr., February 1955
24"Thunderstorms and Project Skyfire," V.J. Schaefer, with Manuscript, April 1955
25"Artificially Induced Precipitation and its Potentialities," V.J. Schaefer, June 1955
26"Nuclei, Water Drops, and Ice Crystals II," V.J. Schaefer, with Manuscript, June 1955
27"Report of Activities During Lecture and Field Trip to Southwest," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, April 20-May 6, 1955, Ca. June 1955
28"Artificial Snowfall from Mountain Clouds," Ludlam, F.H., August 1955
29Occasional Papers (0021-0042), August 1955-June 1958
30"Utilizing a Daily Computed Index of Solar Coronal Activity as the Solar Parameter," E.D. Forthing, September 15, 1955
31"Question of Meteoric Dust in the Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, with Manuscript, September 1955
32"Atmospheric Electricity Associated with Jet Streams," V.J. Schaefer, November 1955
33"Mohawks in the Lower Valley," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript only, November 1955
34-36"Adventures in Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer, 1955
37"The Geography of the Air," S.T. Possony and L. Rosenzweig, 1955
38"Jet Streams and Project Skyfire," V.J. Schaefer, with Manuscript, 1955
39Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, Articles, 1955
40"Meteorology," Malkus, Joanne Starr, 1955
41"Report of Activities During Lecture and Field Trip to Southwest," V.J. Schaefer, April 20, 1955-May 6, 1955
42"Report on Work Done During 1955 in Developing an Objective Long-Range Weather Forecast Method," Manuscript, Falconer, Raymond, 1955
43"Science Improves Jet-Stream Navigation," Hawkes, Russell, April 2, 1956
44"On the Maintenance of Trade Winds," J.S. Malkus, April 16, 1956
45"Second Report on Cloud-Seeding Over Sun Moon Lake Area" (Taiwan Rain Stimulation Institute), April 1956
46"On the Atmosphere Circulation at 500 MB in the Auroral Belt," Riehl, Herbert, May 1956
47"The Forms of Ice Clouds: II," Ludlam, F.H., July 1956
49"Simple Experiments on Atmospheric Physics VII- Production of A Diamond Dust Shower," V.J. Schaefer, December 1956
50-51"Atmospheric Electrical Measurements in the Hawaiian Islands," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript included, 1956
52"Atmospheric Studies from a Moving Weather Observatory," V.J. Schaefer, et al., 1956
53"Jet Streams," Lee, R., 1956
54"A Mobile Atmospheric Research Laboratory" (US Forest Service), Manuscript, Fuquay, D.M., 1956
55"The Skyfire Cloud Survey," Barrows, J.S., 1956
56"Some Relationships of Experimental Meteorology to Arid Land Water Sources" Occasional Paper #18, V.J. Schaefer, 1956
57"Stereo Cloud Photography Equipment," MacCready, Paul B. Jr., 1956
58"Suggestions for Continued Flight Research for Tornado Study," V.J. Schaefer, 1956
59"Thunderstorm Analysis in the Northern Rocky Mountains," Coulson, Dever, 1956
60"Recommendations for a National Institute for Atmospheric Research," V.J. Schaefer and B. Vonnegut, January 1957
61"Atmospheric Studies from a Moving weather Observatory," V.J. Schaefer, March 1957
62"Noctilucent Clouds," Ludlam, F.H., March 1957
63"New Ideas on Hail, Thunder, and Tropical Storms," Ludlam, F.H., April 1957
64"Weather Reconnaissance by Airborne Trime Lapse Camera," V.J. Schaefer and WM Taylor, with Manuscript, April 1957 Undated
65"When is Human Behavior Predetermined?" Boring, E.G., April 1957
66"The San Francisco Peaks: A Unique Region for Atmospheric Research," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, May 29, 1957
67"Research as the Key of Tomorrow," V.J. Schaefer, Synopsis and Notes for Talk in June 1957, Ca. May 1957
68"The Relationship of Jet Streams to Forest Wildfires," V.J. Schaefer, Abstract Included, June 1957
69"The Munitalp Cloud Theodolite," MacCready, Paul B. Jr., October 1957
70"Final Report to the Munitalp Foundation, Inc." T. Fujita et. al., December 1957
71"The Munitalp Foundation, Inc.," American Meteorological Society, December 1957
72"The Museum of the Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, December 1957
73"Cloud Explorations Over Africa," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, 1957
74"Discussion on the Paper by T.A. Rich 'Characteristics of Airborne Particles,'" V.J. Schaefer, 1957
75"The Electrification of Oil and Water Clouds," V.J. Schaefer, 1957
76"Preliminary Proposal on Investigating the Relation Between Solar Outbursts and Subsequent Major Changes in the General Circulation," Aerometric Research Inc., 1957
77"Report on the Mauna Loa Expedition in the Winter of 1956-1957," Nakoya, U. J. Sugaya and M. Shoda, 1957
78"Some Reflections on Equatorial and Tropical Forecasting," East African Meteorological Department, 1957
79"A Tribute to Irving Langmuir, 1881-1957", 1957
80Various Writings About Irving Langmuir by V.J. Schaefer, 1957 Undated
81"Simple Experiments on Atmospheric Physics I-VIIII," V.J. Schaefer, Ca. 1957
82"Our Atmospheric Ocean," V.J. Schaefer, 1957-1958
83"Can we do it Better?," V.J. Schaefer, Occasional Paper #37, February 1958
84"In Memoriam: Irving Lanmuir- Scientist," Author Unknown, February 1958
85"Use of Silver Iodide as an Air Tracer," V.J. Schaefer, Occasional Paper #39, with Manuscript, February 1958
86"Cloud Explorations over Africa," V.J. Schaefer, with manuscript, April 1958
87"Irving, Langmuir, Man of Many Interests," V.J. Schaefer, May 23, 1958
88"The Electrification of Oil and Water Clouds," V.J. Schaefer, May 1958
89"Report on Visit to High Altitude Observatory Boulder, Colorado, July 7-15, 1958," Falconer, Raymond, 1958
90"A Suggested Cloud Physics Research Program for National Institute of Atmospheric Research," V.J. Schaefer, September 1958
91"The Apparent Ionospheric Response to the Passage of Hurricane Diane (1955) at Washington, DC," Mook, Conrad, 1958
92"Artificially Induced Precipitation and its Potentialities," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript Included, 1958
93"The Overseeding of Cumulus Clouds by Ground-Based Silver Iodide Generators," with John Dietrich; Includes Related Correspondence, 1958
94"Project Skyfire," V.J. Schaefer et al., Reprint from Vol. II of Final Report, 1958
95"Snow," V.J. Schaefer, 1958
96"Unique Opportunities on Mt. Washington," V.J. Schaefer, Winter 1958-1959
97"The Case for Weather Control," L.V. Berkner and D. Bergamini, August 1959
98"Diamonds from the Sky," Eliot Tozer, December 9, 1959
99"The Seeding of Cumulus Clouds by Ground-Based Silver Iodide Generators," V.J. Schaefer and J.H. Dietrich, with manuscript, 1959
100"A Review of Small Cumulus Studies and the Modification of Hail," MacCready, Paul B. Jr., 1960
101"Adventures in Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
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62"Adventures in Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
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16102"An African Research Program," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
103"The Atmosphere- A Few of its Features, VJ "Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
104"Cloud Photography," V.J. Schaefer, manuscript, Undated
105"Effects of Abnormal Solar Activity," Walter Orr Roberts, Undated
106"An Experiment on Artificial Stimulation of Rainfall," V.J. Schaefer, manuscript, Undated
107"Falconer's Method of Long-Range Prediction- An Evolution by Herbert Riehl, Undated
108"Field Locations and Research Projects for Basic Studies in Experimental Meteorology," V.J. Schaefer manuscript, Undated
109"The Formation of Ice Crystals by Sublimation IV," V.J. Schaefer, manuscript only, Undated
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171"The Formation of Ice Crystals in a Supercooled Film VIII," Schaefer, Manuscript only, Undated
2"Ice Crystal Nuclei in the free Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, with manuscripts, Undated
3Manuscripts, Miscellaneous, Undated
4"Memorandum on the Value of Whiteface Mountain with Relation to Scientific Education and Research," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
5"Methods for Detecting Ice Nuclei in the Free Atmosphere," Abstract, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
6"Methods of Forming Ice Crystals in a Supercooled Cloud," Manuscript Only, Undated
7"More About the Jet Stream," Frost, Bernard C., Undated
8"Munitalp Research at the Mt. Washington Observatory," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
9Falconer, Raymond E. "An Objective Long-Range Forecast Method for Extreme Weather Events,", Undated
10Scientific Adventure Kits, V.J. Schaefer, manuscript, Undated
11"The Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics- Cold Box," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript and Letter, February 8, 1955 Undated
12"The Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics- Silver Iodide as an Ice Nucleus (V)," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript Only, Undated
13"Simple Laboratory Apparatus for the Study of Clouds," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
14"Surface Active Films for Reducing Water Evaporation," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript with Correspondence, September 11, 1958 December 13, 1958 Undated
15"Thoughts on Experimental Meteorology Past, Present, and Future," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript only, Undated
16TV Program-"Winter Weather," V.J. Schaefer, Manuscript, Undated
17Untitled, Incomplete Manuscript (missing page 1) About Cloud Physics, Undated
18Untitled Manuscript on Mount Washington, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
Series 4: Consulting, 1950-1983 4.5 cubic ft.
Arranged alphabetically
Vincent Schaefer began his work as a meteorological consultant when he was still with General Electric, then continued during his Munitalp years, but his consulting services increased in the late 1950s as he became officially involved with the American Meteorological Society (A.M.S.) and New York State Teachers College. It was through the A.M.S. that Schaefer became a certified meteorological consultant. A highly diverse selection of institutions and individuals sought Schaefer’s advice; his name and work began to be widely known during his General Electric days and continued to be recognized (and respected) when he was director of research for Munitalp.
This series is divided into two subseries because the archivist found the materials divided between pure correspondence and other materials (such as reports or minutes) that had correspondence intermixed. Schaefer’s secretary, Alice Klopfer, handled administrative matters for him during his busiest consulting years and the archivist believes that the materials in the correspondence subseries were arranged in their current manner by Ms. Klopfer. In the interests of preserving that original state, the archivist did not add letters to those files during the processing of the remaining consulting materials. Therefore, researchers should note that correspondence can be found in both subseries.
Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1950-1968, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
The correspondence in this subseries is a mix of letters received by Schaefer as well as carbon copies of letters sent by him or his secretary, Alice Klopfer. The archivist believes that the filing system used in this subseries was created by Ms. Klopfer and has been preserved accordingly. Most folders are titled by the name of the person or company for whom Schaefer was consulting, but there are also files titled simply by letter of the alphabet—these contain correspondence from sources that were not numerous enough to warrant their own folders, and are identified within each folder by subject.
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11"A" Files, November 1964-December 1967
2Air Research & Development Command, 1956, April 1956-November 1956
3Arthur D. Little, Inc., March 1960-October 1962
4"B" Files, February 1955-March 1965
5Bechtel Corporation, January 1956-August 1957
6Biological & Chemical Warfare Division- Office of the Director for Defense, Research & Engineering, May 1957-April 1961
7E. Bollay Associates, Inc., October 1964-December 1967
8Bureau of Reclamation, June 1959-March 1967
9Bureau of Reclamation, December 1961-April 1966
10Bureau of Reclamation Agreements 1962-1967, November 1961-July 1967
11Walter Garstka- Bureau of Declaration 1956-1964, October 1954-December 1964
12Bureau of Declaration Statements 1961-1968, December 1961-May 1968
13"C" Files, December 1953-May 1965
14Cooperative Research, December 1961-November 1964
15Crudge, Vernon 1955-1965, February 1955-May 1965
16"D" Files, August 1958-June 1962
17Department of Defense, September 1959-February 1963
18"E" Files, February 1955-June 1962
19"F" Files, January 1964-October 1967
20Ford Foundation, December 1955-March 1961
21Fresno State College, June 1965-March 1968
22"F" Files, May 1957-December 1964
23"G" Files, December 1953-June 1965
24General Electric- Statements, 1954-1962
25General Electric- Agreements, 1952-1962
26General Electric- Patents, December 1950-February 1960
27General Electric- General, 1964-1968
28General Electric-General, December 1955-February 1963
29Gilbert, A.C Company Science Kits, December 1956-May 1965
30"G" Files, March 1957-February 1964
31Henderson, T.J, February 1965-February 1968
32Henderson T.J, May 1959-December 1964
33"J-L" Files, November 1963-May 1968
34Lake Research Program, August 1964-May 1965
35"H" Files, June 1958-September 1962
36"J" Files, October 1955-March 1962
37"K" Files, April 1958-April 1962
38"M" Files, April 1960-February 1968
39Meteorology Research Inc., March 1959-September 1967
40MRI Consulting Agreement, February 1959-March 1961
41MRI General, October 1958-March 1962
42MRI Flagstaff Project, June 1958-June 1962
43MacCready (ARG & MRI), July 1955-November 1961
44MRI & ARG Statements, August 1959-March 1963
45Museum of Northern Arizona, October 1960-April 1965
46"N" Files, July 1961-December 1967
47"N-O" Files, July 1954-February 1967
48National Center for Atmospheric Research, January 1961-May 1968
49NSF Agreements, Statements, Travel, October 1958-July 1965
50National Science Foundation, September 1958-March 1966
51Northern Forest Fire Lab, February 1959-December 1964
52"P" Files, July 1957-November 1963
53"P,Q" Files, September 1959-May 1965
54Pacific Gas &Electric, April 1960-May 1961
55Pacific Gas & Electric Agreements, Expense Accounts, Statements, April 1959-April 1964
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21Pacific Gas & Electronic, Edward Morris, April 1960-April 1964
2Philip Morris Statements, December 1957-October 1964
3Philip Morris Statements, August 1957-December 1961
4Philip Morris, November 1956-February 1962
5Photos & Films, February 1962-November 1967
6"R" Files, October 1962-July 1966
7"R" Files, August 1956-February 1964
8RPI, March 1958-June 1961
9RPI, NSF Proposals, June 1959-July 1960
10RPI, NSF Proposals, February 1959
11RPI Science Development Council, September 1960-February 1962
12Replicas, March 1954-October 1962
13Reprints, October 1959-September 1967
14"S" Files, October 1963-August 1967
15"S" Files, January 1960-April 1968
16"S" Files, September 1956-June 1965
17Sanger, Dr. Raymond, November 1953-February 1962
18Saturday Review, November 1959-April 1960
19Science Research Associates, December 1953-November 1967
20Society of American Foresters, April 1960-November 1960
21South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, October 1961-June 1965
22Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, October 1955-April 1963
23"T" Files, February 1964-October 1967
24"T-V" Files, May 1955-May 1963
25Travelers Research Center, December 1963-May 1968
26"U" Files, May 1960-February 1967
27United Aircraft Corporation, May 1963-August 1966
28United Aircraft Corporation, January 1963-March 1968
29Universities, February 1954-March 1965
30University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, February 1959-May 1962
31University of Arizona, October 1953-March 1962
32University of Chicago, Tetsuya Fujita, April 1957-August 1965
33University of Chicago, January 1953-June 1961
34University of Wyoming, November 1965-March 1966
35U.S Department of Agriculture, June 1967-October 1967
36U.S Forest Service, May 1962-May 1966
37U.S.F.S Forest Products Laboratory, March 1959-June 1966
38U.S.F.S -Miscellaneous, June 1958-May 1966
39U.S.F.S- Pacific Southwest Forest & Range Station, November 1959-October 1967
40U.S.F.S Southeastern Forest Experiment Station Southern Forest Fire Lab, November 1959-November 1966
41U.S.F.S Statements, July 1960-May 1964
42U.S Department of Agriculture & Forest Service, September 1958-December 1967
43U.S Weather Bureau, December 1956-April 1969
44"V" Files, February 1963-April 1966
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31"W-Z" Files, December 1958-December 1967
2"W-Z" Files, January 1954-September 1964
3Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, June 1959-November 1962
Subseries 2: Supplementary Materials, 1950-1983, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
The documents in this subseries are arranged by name of the organization, institution, or person with whom Schaefer was consulting, followed by a brief indication of the topic(s) within. Schaefer consulted for a wide variety of places, including Boeing; Philip Morris; Arthur D. Little, Inc.; the University of Nevada; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and many more. Files include a variety of items such as meeting minutes and reports from organizations Schaefer was working with, company brochures and newsletters, itineraries and vouchers from Schaefer’s extensive travels, contract agreements, and correspondence that was not already filed with the letters in subseries #1.
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413M Company- Agreements, Meetings, Travel, June 1966-August 1967
2Advance Cooler Manufacturing Corp.- Charts, Graphs: Sand vs. Soil Absorbency, 1979
3Advance Cooler Manufacturing Corp.- Contract Agreements, Research Notes, Correspondence, Environmental Brochures, and News Clippings, 1975 1978-1980
4Advance Cooler Manufacturing Corp.- Edward O'Hanlon Contract Agreements and Goals, Half Moon Town Hall, 1978-1979
5Advance Cooler Manufacturing Corp- Research Notebook, 1979-1981
6Advance Solar Building Systems- Brochures: Zeroenergy Homes and Greenhouses, With Draft and Notes for "Utilization of Earth Temperature for Energy Conservation" by Schaefer, 1981 Undated
7Arthur D. Little, Inc.- Atmospheric Electricity, Storms/Tornadoes, 1956 Undated
8Arthur D. Little, Inc.- Contract Agreements, March 2, 1961 May 8, 1969 February 26, 1970 February 22, 1972
9Atmospheric Research Group- Memorandum on the Informal Weather Research Meetings, Flagstaff, AZ, July 29, 1960
10Atmospherics Incorporated- Letter from T.J Henderson, Weather Modification Program Development, October 26, 1965
11Bechtel Power Corp.- Caravan Talk, "Cooling Towers and the Environment" Booklet With Outdoor Recreation Brochures, October 1974 Undated
12Bechtel Power Corp.- "Cities Service Company 1971 Annual Report" & Air Pollution Materials, 1966 1971-1972 Undated
13Bechtel Power Corp.- Contract Agreements, Travel Plans, 1971-1977
14Bechtel Power Corp.- "The Electric Utility Industry and the Environment" (Mainly Photographic), Undated
15Bechtel Power Corp.- Final Report: Kaiparowits Survey of Air Quality, Undated
16Bechtel Power Corp.- Fine Particle Studies, Collaboration With Arizona Organizations, 1972-1974
17Bechtel Power Corp.-"Prepared Statement of M.C Titus..… for Presentation Before the Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources…Salt Lake City, Utah" With News Clipping, May 25-26, 1971 1971
18Bechtel Power Corp.- Surface and PIBAL Data, 1974
19Bechtel Power Corp.- Travel Expenses and Reports, 1971-1976
20Bechtel Power Corp.- Unidentified Photographs, Undated
21-22Bechtel Power Corp./Dames & Moore-Air Quality Monitoring and Meteorology, Navajo Generating Station, 1971
23-24Bechtel Power Corp./Dames & Moore- Air Quality Monitoring and Meteorology, Navajo Generating Station, 1972
25Bechtel Power Corp./Dames & Moore- Air Quality Monitoring and Meteorology, Navajo Generating Station, 1973
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9Binder: Correspondence, Bulletins, and News Clippings, 1965-1969
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426Blackman, Edson L.- Advice on Career in Sciences, September 1983-October 1983
27Boeing- 500 IOC Fog Generator Brochure with Report and Data Chart, March 5, 1958 Undated
28Boeing- 707 and 720 Jetliner Speed Records, 1959-1960
29Boeing- 707 Flights, 1955
30Boeing- Consulting Fees/Finances, May 1965-December 1965
31Boeing- Contract Agreements, 1958-1971
32Boeing- Correspondence, 1954-1965
33Boeing- Correspondence with Director G.L. Hollingsworth, May 1958-April 1962
34Boeing- Development of an Artificial Stable Water Fog, 1964
35Boeing- Expense Statements, September 1958-December 1964
36Boeing- Schaefer Travel Arrangements, 1967 Undated
37Boeing- Seminar Notes, June 3,1958-June 4, 1958
38Boeing- Various Consulting Projects, 1955-1960
39Boeing- Vernon Crudge, Letter With Photos of Rarely Seen Altocumulus Castelannus Clouds, March 22, 1961
40Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon- Partial Letter Regarding Public Relations Concerns With Weather Modification, March 1, 1963
41Bureau of Reclamation- Consulting Goals, December 1, 1961
42Bureau of Reclamation - "Field Report to Division of Atmospheric Water Resources….. Field Collection of Water Samples from Seeded and Unseeded Storms During Skywater Co-op II ", August 7, 1968-August 12, 1968
43Contract Agreements, Various, 1954-1963
44Correspondence, General- "P" Files, 1961-1962 1964
45Duke University- Contract Agreements, January 9, 1969 August 1, 1970 Undated
46E. Bollay Associates, Inc.- Contract Agreement, 1964
47E. Bollay Associates, Inc.- "Detection of Silver Iodide Nuclei by Their Effect in Ice Crystal Formation," Draft, June 14, 1967
48E. Bollay Associates, Inc.- Monthly Progress Report #13, August 15, 1966
49E. Bollay Associates, Inc.- "Procedure for Preparing Replicas for Study in the Electron Microscope", July 13, 1967
50E. Bollay Associates, Inc.- Schaefer Security Classification, January 26, 1966 January 28, 1966
51E. Bollay Associates, Inc.- Various Topics, Including Ice Nucleants, Sublimation Nuclei, and Aerosols, 1962-1968
52Eastern New York Solar Energy Society- Membership Directory for July 1977 With Additional Solar Heating Materials, 1950 1975 July 1977 Undated
53Educational Services Incorporated- Initial Contact with Schaefer, March 23, 1966
54Environmental Design Systems- Melissa Menthe, Initial Contact With Schaefer, August 25, 1989
55Environmental Research Institute- Informational Brochure, Undated
56Flagstaff, Arizona- Water Resources, July 30, 1971-July 31, 1971 August 1, 1971-1971-08-01
57General Electric- Contract Agreements (Includes Schaefer's Original Apprentice Paperwork), 1922 1957-1961 1969 1971
58General Electric, et.al.- Meteorological Satellites, 1960-1961 Undated
59General Electric/ Mechanical Technology, Inc.- New Technology, 1979-1981 Undated
60Grolier Society, Inc.- Article for Encyclopedia, October 24 1961
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51Klopfer, Alice- Consulting Secretarial Services to Schaefer, May 13, 1968 Undated
2Mac Farms of Hawaii, Inc.- Correspondence, December 21, 1978 July 11,1979
3Melspar, Inc.- Aerosols, January 5, 1963
4Meteorology Research Inc.- Career Opportunities Brochure, Undated
5Meteorology Research, Inc.- Contract Agreements, 1961-1962 1964 1967-1968
6Meteorology Research, Inc. Correspondence with Paul MacCready, September 10, 1961 September 14, 1961
7Meteorology Research, Inc.- Flagstaff Cloud Physics Studies Service Project, Final Report, December 10, 1959
8Meteorology Research, Inc.- Introductory Memorandum on the Water Vapor Content Meter, May 4, 1960
9Meteorology Research, Inc.- Memorandum on Portable Cold Box Calibration, December 13, 1957
10Meteorology Research, Inc.-"Meteorological Equipment by Meteorology Research, Inc.", January 20, 1958
11Meteorology Research, Inc.- Paul B. MacCready, Contract Negotiations, 1965-1966 1968
12Meteorology Research, Inc.- Photo of Schaefer before T-37 Flight, Cloud Physics Project: Flagstaff, AZ, August 1960
13Meteorology Research, Inc.-"Physical Studies of Santa Barbara Storms," T.B. Smith, c.1958
14Meteorology Research, Inc.- Proposal for PR # 158683, Atmospheric Electricity instrumentation Program, April 7, 1960
15Meteorology Research, Inc.- Radar and Cloud Physics Studies of 1960 Santa Barbara Storms, August 1, 1960
16Meteorology Research, Inc. Studies of Contrails from Jet Powered Aircraft, Final Report, October 31, 1956
17M.I.T Faculty Club-"Instrumentation Requirements for Cloud & Weather Modification", February 25, 1959-February 26, 1959
18Munitalp- Discussion of Pure Research, February 13, 1958
19National Aeronautics and Space Administration- G.W. Brier Papers and ICAS, c.1965
20National Air Pollution Control Administration- Personnel, Paperwork, Contract Agreements, 1970 1972
21National Air Pollution Control Administration- Travel to North Carolina for Meteorology meeting, April 21, 1969
22National Science Foundation- 3rd Conference on the Statistical Aspects of Weather Modification, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 25, 1965-June 26, 1965
23National Science Foundation-Advisory Panel for Weather Modification, Summer 1964
24National Science Foundation-Annual Listings of Grants and Contracts in Weather Modification, 1962 1964
25National Science Foundation-correspondence, 1959-1965
26National Science Foundation-"Current Status Report on Weather Modification and Related Subjects," with Correspondence, 1958-1960
27National Science Foundation-Edward Morris, W.E Howell, & Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, 1964
28National Science Foundation-ICAS Panel on Weather Modification, 1965-1966
29National Science Foundation-Information Packet for Participants of the Interdepartmental Conference on Weather Control with News Article on Dr. W.E. Howell, November 26, 1962 Undated
30National Science Foundation-International Conference on Hail Storms and Other Meetings, 1958-1960
31National Science Foundation-Loomis School, 1959-1961
32National Science Foundation-Proposals, 1960-1962 1964
33National Science Foundation- Various topics, 1960-1961
34National Science Foundation/3M- contract agreements, 1959-1967
35New York State- Constitutional Convention, Air as Natural Resource, January 1967-March 1967
36Pacific Gas and Electric (PG &E)- Cloud Seeding, 1960-1961
37Pendar Technical Associates Limited- Radiant Heating, 1981-1982
38Philips Morris- Collaboration with Batelle Memorial Institute, J.C Holmes' Report: "Particle size Determination of Cigarette Smoke", April 30, 1957
39Philip Morris- Correspondence, Notes, Charts on Various Topics, 1960-1961 Undated
40Philip Morris- correspondence: particle studies and cigarettes, May 2, 1957 May 15, 1957
41Philip Morris- Survey of the Literature on Aerosol Filtration Sidney M. Cantor Associates, December 19, 1958
42Philip Morris- Survey of the Literature on Aerosol Filtration Sidney Cantor Associates, p.121-end Plus Supplemental Notes & Materials, December 19, 1958 1959 Undated
43Photograph Reprints and Resales- Schaefer accounts, 1959-1962
44Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute-Agreement with U.S. Forest Service: Fire research, also Equipment and Personnel Lists, 1959-1960 Undated
45Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute-"Permanent Replicas of the Crystalline Structure of Hailstones," with Page R. Painter(1960)- includes correspondence, 1959-1960
46Research Notebook, 1954-1964
47Rodale Press- Consulting on various publications, 1978-1979
48Rodale Press- Future goals, Undated
49"Serendipity and the Development of Experimental Meteorology," with short notes, March 1960 Undated
50Smith- Johannsen, Robert- Energy Efficiency, RAMU International, Rainex Corp., Radiant Glass Heat, 1969 1979 1982 Undated
51Solar Heating Issues, 1978-1979 Undated
52Syracuse University/W.E. Harlow- Parabolic Mirrors and Forest Fire Films, December 1958-March 1959
53Travelers Research Corporation- Contract Agreements, 1963-1964 1969
54United Aircraft Corporate Systems Center- Contract Agreements, 1963-1967
55United States Department of the Interior- "Current Water Resources Conditions in Central New England", c. 1970
56United States Department of the Interior- Personnel Action, 1968-1969 1972-1973
57United States Naval Biological Laboratory- Issues of Chemistry, Biology, and Radiology in Warfare, 1958-1960 Undated
58University of Arizona- Chaff Tests, October 21, 1964
59University of Nevada/Desert Research Institute- Contract Agreements, 1960 1969
60University of Wyoming- E1K Mountain Visit and Reconnaissance, October 11, 1965-October 13, 1965
61Unknown Source- Progress Letter, Contract # 14-06-D-5640, February 15, 1966
62U.S Department of Commerce- Environmental Science Services Administration, Government Versus Private Meteorology Services, January 22, 1964 May 18, 1967
63U.S. Forest Service-"Better Quantitative Observations of Atmospheric Phenomena in Going Fires", 1960
64U.S. Forest Service-Consultant Appointments and Agreements, 1958-1961
65U.S. Forest Service- Correspondence, re: Travel, Fire Research Consulting Agreements, 1960-1963
66U.S. Forest Service- Fire Research, 1961-1964
67U.S. Forest Service- Forest Fire Behavior, 1959-1961
68U.S. Forest Service- Personnel Forms, 1964-1968
69U.S. Forest service- Time and Attendance Reports, 1960-1962
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61U.S Forest Service- Travel Arrangements/Vouchers, 1958-1961
2U.S Forest Service- Travel Arrangements/Vouchers, 1961-1962
3W.E. Howell, Inc.- Evaluation of Cloud Seeding for the P.H. Glatfelter Company, Hanover Water Company, and York Water Company, Sept.- Dec.1963, c. January 1964
4W.E. Howell, Inc.- Resultados Preminares de las Operaciones de Estimulacion de Lluvia en la Hoya Del Rio Anchicaya.... Julip de 1963 y Abril de 1964, c. May 1964
5W.E. Howell Associates, Inc.- Weather Modification Litigation, November 8, 1965 January 15, 1966 February 9, 1966
6Weather Modification Association- Meeting Minutes with Appendices, September 16, 1968-September 17, 1968
7Wilson, Steven- Entheos, Wide Skies Press, Environmental Issues, 1966-1977
8Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute- Notebook, NOvember 1959-May 1960
Series 5: Loomis School/Natural Sciences Institute, 1949-1990, Undated 17.0 cubic ft.
Arranged alphabetically, with the exception of the reports and publications which are chronological.
Around the time of Schaefer’s break with Munitalp, the American Meteorological Society (AMS, of which Schaefer was a member) approached him to inquire about the possibility of setting up a summer science program for promising high school students. They decided on the existing Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut as the location for their summer program, which began in 1959 with the support of the National Science Foundation. Schaefer and his colleagues wanted to give academically strong students with a particular interest in science the opportunity to attend extra lectures and, more importantly, experiment with hands-on projects of their choosing. Schaefer and his AMS associates hoped to cultivate a love of learning and passion for discovery that would encourage teens to follow scientific career paths. Although the program began as a males-only endeavor, it eventually welcomed females into its ranks later in the 1960s.
The Loomis School summer sessions (also known as the Atmospheric Sciences Program) became so successful that the Charles F. Kettering Foundation gave it financial backing in the early 1960s. As director, Schaefer was then able to expand the program to include field stations around the country so that more young people could participate and the opportunities for hands-on experimentation and discovery multiplied considerably. Within a couple of years of the program’s beginning, Schaefer’s work attracted the attention of Dean Oscar Lanford and President Evan Collins of what was then the New York State Teachers College. As the Teachers College expanded into the present-day State University of New York at Albany in the 1960s, the summer science program moved under the auspices of the school and became known as the Natural Sciences Institute, or NSI, which flourished through the 1960s as it welcomed college students to its ranks. Schaefer phased out the NSI in the early 1970s after determining that the program had met its goals.
Subseries 1: American Meteorological Society, 1949-1980, Undated
Arranged Alphabetically
In addition to serving on the Education Committee of the American Meteorological Society, Schaefer also served on the general council of the AMS. This subseries features documents on the AMS educational films project, correspondence, a few AMS bulletins, and some programs from annual AMS meetings. Although the files do not directly relate to the founding of the Loomis School/NSI, the AMS was responsible for the founding of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the Loomis School in 1959, and the documentation of educational programs found in this subseries foreshadows the creation of those summer sessions.
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11143rd National Meeting, American Meteorological Society (Program), January 23, 1956-January 26, 1956
2AMS Appeal to Schaefer- Author Needed for Educational Monograph (With piece by Verne Rockcastle), November 9, 1964 Undated
3Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, Vol. 43, No.8, August 1962
4Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, Vol. 49, No.10, October 1968
5Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, Vol.57, No.12, December 1976
6Certification Renewal as Meteorological Consultant, September 11, 1980
7Correspondence, April 1949-June 1953
8Correspondence: "A-B" Files, April 1959-November 1966
9Correspondence & AMS Bulletins/Reports/Membership Materials, April 1951-February 1953
10Correspondence: "C" Files, January 1960-October 1964
11Correspondence: "E" Files, October 1960-May 1968
12Correspondence - General, March 1964-April 1964
13Correspondence- "M" Files, November 1959-April 1968
14Correspondence - "N" Files, December 1959-March 1966
15Correspondence - "S" Files, January 1959-March 1964
16Council: Nominating Committee, March 1966-May 1966
17Council: Probability Forecasting, December 1963-December 1964
18Council: Correspondence, minutes, and recommendations, January 1963-April 1966
19Council: Reports and Bulletins, 1962-1963
20Council: Reports and Minutes, October 1962-October 1964
21Council: Washington Meeting, April 25, 1962-April 28, 1962
22Films: " The American Meteorological Society Presents Convective Clouds," Dr. W.E Howell, Script, Undated
23Films: Correspondence, 1959-1967
24Films: Development and Finance, December 1963
25Films: Educational Programming and Development, December 1961-May 1965
26Films: Film Panel Meeting Minutes & Correspondence, March 1964-December 1964 February 1967
27Films: Formation of raindrops, November 1963 Undated
28Films: Project Implementation-Correspondence, Notes, Research, November 1956-March 1961
29Films: Project Implementation-Correspondence, Notes, Research, August 1958-January 1961
30Films: Project Implementation-Correspondence, Notes, Research, March 1964-August 1964
31-32Films: Proposal for Development of Educational Films in Meteorology, September 1964
33Films: Report to the Film Panel- Barrie McLean, December 8, 1964 Undated
34Films: Solar Radiation II, November 1964
35Films: "Treatment of AMS Films", January 4, 1963
36International Conference on Cloud Seeding, Australia, September 1961
37Journal of Applied Meteorology- Article Reviews, February 1962 February 1962-August 1964
38Meeting of AMS: Boulder, Colorado, December 1963-January 1964
39"Observations and Experiments for Cooperative Studies of 'Lake Effect' Snowstorms," ASRC-SUNY Publication# 14, May 1962
40Policy Statements of the American Meteorological Society, July 1963
41-43Publications Commission, August 1963-December 1963
44Television Program Planning, May 1963-June 1963
45Visiting Scientist Program, 1961-1963
Subseries 2: Administrative Files, 1958-1984, 1990, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
As director of the Loomis School activities, and ultimately as director of research at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York, Albany, Schaefer kept records pertaining to the operation of the program. There are many correspondence files; some are between Schaefer and colleagues while others are between Schaefer and the students from the summer program. Numerous students kept in touch with Schaefer well beyond the years that they participated in the Atmospheric Sciences Program, and many of them became successful professionals in their own right.
Researchers will also find curriculum planning documents, teaching aids, field site information, and applications and invitation reply forms from students. Please note that some folders in this subseries are restricted due to individual student information contained therein.
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4Architectural Plans: Permanent Field Station, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1963 Undated
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21Brochures: Desert Research Institute, Museum of Northern Arizona, and Center for Field Research, 1964 1967 1974 1975
2Budget Expenses, 1959
3Budget Expenses, 1960 1966
4Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Nucleation- Transcript, July 12, 1967
5Correspondence: Advanced Phase Invited Students, 1960
6Correspondence: Application Questions, 1959-1960
7Correspondence: Blanchard, Duncan- re: al Woodcock, March 1975
8Correspondence: Colloquia, Lectures 1963, September 1962-December 1963
9Correspondence: Colloquia, Lectures 1964, August 1963-October 1964
10Correspondence: Colorado State University, River Basin Program (with supplemental materials), 1969
11Correspondence: Cooperative Research and Exchange Program, 1961-1962, July 1960-January 1963
12Correspondence: Cooperative Research and Exchange Program, 1961-1962, September 1962-September 1964
13Correspondence: D-F Files (by topic), November 1962-October 1964
14Correspondence: Directors Report, 1960
15Correspondence: Directors Report, 1961
16Correspondence: Employment of Students, 1960-1961
17-18Correspondence: European trips, November 1962-July 1963
19Correspondence: F Files (by topic), November 1962-December 1964
20Correspondence: Field Trips, 1960-1961
21Correspondence: Funding and Grants, August 1962-November 1963
22Correspondence: G Files (by topic), 1962-1965
23Correspondence: General, 1960-1961
24Correspondence: General, with supplementary materials (ex. Newsletters and reports), 1960-1961
25Correspondence: General, 1962-1963 1965-1967 1979 1981-1984 Undated
26Correspondence: General (Personal and Professional), 1964-1972
27Correspondence: General, 1967
28Correspondence: General, 1974
29Correspondence: Hailstone Studies, June 1960-May 1965
30Correspondence: Initial Phase Applicants and Participants, 1961
31Correspondence: Initial Phase Program Planning, 1961
32Correspondence: J-K Files (by topic), 1962-1964
33Correspondence: Kettering Fellowship Recipients, June 30, 1965 July 12, 1965 July 20,1965 July 21, 1965 July 23, 1965
34Correspondence: Lab equipment, 1959
35Correspondence: Loomis Film, 1962
36Correspondence: M-P Files (by topic), 1961-1964
37Correspondence: Moore, Frank C., March 1963-August 1963
38Correspondence: New York Academy of Sciences, February 1, 1990
39Correspondence: NSF Grant, 1960
40Correspondence: Planning/Operations for Loomis School Summer Program, 1958-1959
41Correspondence: Reflections on Vincent Schaefer by others, 1976 1983 Undated
42Correspondence: Rensselaerville Unit, 1965
43Correspondence: Request for application Forms Sent to Students and Faculty, 1959
44Correspondence: Schaefer, Dr. Margaret- Gifted Student Summer Programs, August 9, 1984
45Correspondence: Schaefer Photographs, July 1961-August 1966
46Correspondence: State University of New York, preliminary talks, May 1962
47Correspondence: Storm Studies, February 1961-February 1962
48Correspondence: Student Project ideas, 1961
49Correspondence: Students, 1959-1960
50Correspondence: Students, 1966 1979 1981
51Correspondence: Students, Achen-Brody, 1959-1968 1972-1974
52Correspondence: Students, Brower- Callander, 1959-1961 1963-1964 1966 1969-1970 1974
53Correspondence: Students, Carlton-DiGiacomo, 1959 1961-1963 195-1968 1971-1975 Undated
54Correspondence: Students, Dugan-Griest, 1959-1963 1966-1968 1971-1976
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31Correspondence: Students, Haber-Hoeber, 1961-1962 1966-1969 1974 1976
2Correspondence: Students, Holroyd, 1962-1967 1972-1974
3Correspondence: Students, Howell- Konieczny, 1959-1969 1971-1972 1974
4Correspondence: Students, Koolish-Lindl, 1960-1963 1965-1974 Undated
5Correspondence: Students, Long-Miller, 1961-1963 1965-1967 1969-1974 Undated
6Correspondence: Students, Milligan-Nicholson, 1959-1963 1966-1968 1972 1974 Undated
7Correspondence: Students, Cakley-Robins, 1959-1968 1974 1981 Undated
8Correspondence: Students, Sable-Singer, 1959-1969 1971 1973-1975 1981 Undated
9Correspondence: Students, Skee-Watne, 1959 1962-1968 1972-1974 1976 Undated
10Correspondence: Students, Watson- Ziegler, 1959-1963 1966-1972 1974-1975 Undated
11Correspondence: Summer Program 1964, February 1964-May 1964
12Correspondence: Suomi, Dr. Verner- Ice Crystal Cloud Generation, April 7, 1962
13Correspondence: T-W Files (by topic), July 1962-March 1965
14Correspondence: Telluride Association, January 1964-April 1964
15Correspondence: Tornado Studies, 1960
16Correspondence: Travelers Insurance, with Proposal, May 16, 1962
17Correspondence: Visiting Scientists, 1960-1961
18Correspondence: Whitehead, Glen- European Trip Report Included, September 29, 1967
19Expense accounts, 1960-1961
20Field Work- Research Notes and Travel Lists, 1963 1965 Undated
21Final Exercises- Program (Summer Science Programs, The Loomis School, Windsor, Connecticut), August 8, 1959
22Final Plans Acceptance Forms **Restricted, 1966
23Final Plans Acceptance Forms **Restricted, 1967
24General Information and Invitation List, 1965 Field Season, 1965
25General Information Memorandum, Atmospheric Sciences Center at Loomis School, 1960
26General Information Memorandum- 1966 Field Season, May 1966
27General Information Memorandum- 1967 Field Season, May 1967
28Individual Research Projects- Atmospheric Research Program, AMS- Loomis School, 1959
29Institute on Man and Science Brochure- Faculty and Scheduling, 1965
30Invitation Reply Forms **Restricted, 1965
31Invitation Reply Forms **Restricted, Summer 1966
32Loomis Alumni Questionnaire Lists, 1961
33Loomis Bulletin, December 1958
34Loomis School- Proposal (Draft), Undated
35Master Copies of letters and forms for summer program, 1964
36-41Material Related to Gifted Students, 1959-1960
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41-2Meteorology Programs in United States Schools, 1959-1960
3The Mill House- Lectures and Field Trips, 1966
4Modified Proposal- Advanced Phase of Atmospheric Research program, February 8, 1960 Undated
5"The Natural Sciences Institute- An Adventure in Education," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
6The Natural Sciences Institute History and Summary, 1959-1968"-Partially completed, c.1969
7News Clipping: "His 'Lab' Extends to Remote Areas," J.H. Douglas, April 15, 1967
8News Clippings: Arizona newspapers, 1964
9Notebook- Personnel and Program Planning, c.1965
10Notebooks- Miniature- Field Notes, contacts, Undated
11NSI Participant Handbook, 1974
12N.S.F. Institute Schedule, 1960
13Photos: Field Trip to U.S. Naval Submarine Base and Unidentified Trips/Expeditions, 1961 Undated
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8Planning Charts (2)- Research Projects and Daily Activities, Undated
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414Planning Materials- Letters, memos, reports, press releases, handbooks, news clippings, 1958-1959 Undated
15Planning Materials- Letters, memos, reports, press releases, student project lists, news clippings, 1958-1959 Undated
16Planning Materials- Personnel, finances, application forms, 1 copy of The Nucleus Yearbook, 1959
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51Planning Materials- Memos, schedules, brochures, reports, 1960
2Project Descriptions, 1960
3Project Ideas, 1960 Undated
4"A Proposal for a Field Program for the N.Y.S Museum and Science Service," V.J. Schaefer, May 20, 1983
5Proposal for Renewal of Summer Research Activities, September 12, 1961
6Rensselaerville Mill House Teams, 1965-1968, c.1968
7Student Evaluation Data and Correspondence, 1959 1961
8Student Evaluation Data and Research Notes (Notebook), 1959
9Student Evaluation Data and Research Notes (Notebook) ** Restricted, 1960
10Student Evaluation Data and Research Notes (Notebook) ** Restricted, 1961
11Student Evaluation Data and Research Notes (Notebook) ** Restricted, 1962
12Student Evaluations, August 5, 1960
13-14Student Nominee Forms and Letters- Rensselaerville, 1967
15Student Responsibilities- Planning, 1965-1966 Undated
16Students: Applicant and Wait Lists, 1960 Undated
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61-2Teaching Aids, 1959-1960
3Teaching Aids: "Weather Work" Informational Packet, Undated
4"Tomorrows Scientists"- Talk by Dr. Oscar E. Lanford at Loomis Final Exercises, August 6, 1960
Subseries 3: Field Station Files, 1962-1968
Arranged chronologically, then alphabetically by field station.
As the Atmospheric Sciences Program flourished at the Loomis School, Schaefer and his colleagues decided to expand the students’ educational opportunities by offering the summer session in multiple locations across the United States. While Schaefer, as director, would make appearances and coordinate the activities at each site—called field stations—the day-to-day running of each one depended on the talent of the highly reputable scientists Schaefer hired for that purpose. Initially, the field stations were located in New York (Whiteface Mountain), Colorado (Boulder), and Arizona (Flagstaff). Eventually, more sites were added, including Socorro, New Mexico and Rensselaerville, New York. Schaefer’s contacts from General Electric and Munitalp played a helpful role in establishing field stations and attracting accomplished staff members for the summer program.
The files in this subseries are a mix of more correspondence, student reports, charts, graphs, and other data from daily experiments, and occasionally photos of the students as they performed educational tasks or enjoyed recreational time.
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71Arizona- Photos, 1962
2Flagstaff/Whiteface, 1962
3-4Arizona, 1963
5-6Colorado, 1963
7-8Whiteface Mountain, 1963
9-10Arizona, 1964
11-12Colorado, 1964
13-14Whiteface Mountain, 1964
15-16Arizona, 1965
17-18Colorado, 1965
19Fredonia, 1965
20Rensselaerville, 1965
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81Rensselaerville, 1965
2Whiteface Mountain, 1965
3-4Arizona, 1966
5-6Colorado, 1966
7Fredonia, 1966
8New Mexico, 1966
9-10Rensselaerville, 1966
11South Dakota- Colorado, 1966
12-13Whiteface Mountain, 1966
14-15Arizona, 1967
16-17Colorado, 1967
18Fredonia, 1967
19New Mexico, 1967
20-21Rensselaerville, 1967
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91-2Rensselaerville, 1967
3-4Whiteface, 1967
5Arizona, 1968
6Fredonia, 1968
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101-3Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1968
4Lafayette, LA, 1968
5Lake George, 1968
6-7Rensselaerville, 1968
8-9Whiteface Mountain, 1968
Subseries 4: Student Papers and Notebooks, 1959-1973, Undated
Arranged chronologically, then alphabetically by student within each year.
Schaefer retained many notebooks kept by the students who participated in the Atmospheric Sciences Program, as well as some of their final papers that detail the projects they worked on for eight weeks. Encouraged by Schaefer to do self-directed experiments, the students kept logs of observations and measurements to aid them in their final reports to staff and peers. A few also sketched illustrations to accompany their notes. Some of the papers in this subseries are final reports of the students’ experiments while others are thoughts and reflections on the experience as a whole.
Index Card Files: Student Paper Topics, 1959-1968
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111Student Experience Report: A-M, 1959
2Student Experience Report: N-W, 1959
3Student Papers: A-C, 1959
4Students Papers: F-M, 1959
5Students Papers: M-S, 1959
6Student Papers: S-W, 1959
7Student Papers: B-D, 1960
8Student Papers: D-L, 1960
9Student Papers: M-W, 1960
10Student Papers: A-D, 1961
11Student Papers: F-M, 1961
12Student Papers: M-V, 1961
13Student Papers: W, 1961
14Student Papers Advanced Class, 1961
15Bidula, Ronaldland and Blackman, Edson, 1963
16Blackman, Edson Notebook, 1963
17Boddie, Will Notebook, 1963
18Bollay, Bob Notebook, 1963
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121Clark, Stephen Notebook, 1963
2Cyders, William Notebook, 1963
3Holroyd, Edward Notebook, 1963
4Jaros, John Allen Notebook, 1963
5Klieforth, Arthur Notebook, 1963
6Lala, Gilbert Notebook, 1963
7Lewis, Donald Notebook, 1963
8Lindl, John Notebook, 1963
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131Long, Alexis Notebook, 1963
2Michalowski, Al Notebook, 1963
3Nicholson, Frances and NSI Notebooks, 1963
4Quinsland, Donald Notebook, 1963
5Robins, Douglas Notebook, 1963
6Semersley, Frank Notebook, 1963
7Sinclair, Allen Notebook, 1963
8Tester, Jefferson Notebook, 1963
9Trowbridge, Jack Notebook, 1963
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141Wengert, Gene Notebook, 1963
2Achen, Chris and Blackman, Edson Notebooks, 1964
3Cramer, John and Cyders, William Notebooks, 1964
4Blackman, Edson and Cardinck, Robert Notebooks, 1964
5Cramer, Robert and Cyders, Williams Notebook, 1964
6Devereux, Robert and Ryer, Allen Notebook, 1964
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151Dyer, Allen Notebook, 1964
2Dyer, Allen Notebooks, 1964
3Feiland, Robert Notebook, 1964
4Gilland, Jim Bob Notebooks, 1964
5Holrorph, Edward and Gray, Notebooks, 1964
6Gray, Notebook, 1964
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161Holroyd, Edmond and Jaros, John Allan Notebooks, 1964
2Jaros, John Allen and Jemeson Dimitri Notebooks, 1964
3Jensen, Randy Notebook, 1964
4Lindle, John Notebook, 1964
5Long, Alexis Notebook, 1964
6Mackinnon, David J. Notebook, 1964
7Middlemas, Michael Notebook, 1964
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171Oakley, John Notebook, 1964
2Painter, Page and Sable, Bruce Notebooks, 1964
3Schwartz, Eric Notebook, 1964
4Wilder, Norman Notebook, 1964
5Whitehead, Earl Notebook, 1964
6Andersons, Mark Notebook, 1965
7Blitzblau, Alan Notebook, 1965
8Bramel, Robert Notebook, 1965
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181Casper, Paul Notebook, 1965
2Civalier, Joseph Notebook, 1965
3Cohen, Larry Notebook, 1965
4Cramer, Don Notebook, 1965
5Denslow, Stewart Notebook, 1965
6DiGiacomo, Jerry Notebook, 1965
7Ennson, Alvin Notebook, 1965
8Ensslin, Norbert Notebook, 1965
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191Finn, John Notebook, 1965
2Gilleland, Jim Notebooks, 1965
3Godfrey, Norman Notebook, 1965
4Holroyd, Edmund Notebook & Paper, 1965
5Jacobs, Bill Notebook, 1965
6Jemeson, Dimitri and Johannson, Robert, 1965
7Karst, Otto Notebook, 1965
8Lala, Garland Notebook, 1965
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201Lindl, John Notebook, 1965
2Mackinnon, David Notebooks, 1965
3Merry, Michael and Opler, Lewis Notebooks, 1965
4Painter, Page Notebook, 1965
5Parker, Albert Notebook, 1965
6Poskanzer, Alan Notebook, 1965
7Rives, Mark Notebook, 1965
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211Silver, John Notebook, 1965
2Skee, James Notebook, 1965
3Spengler, Jack Notebooks, 1965
4Spengler Thomas Notebook, 1965
5Schwartz, Eric and Thilodeux, Mollie Notebook, 1965
6Watson, Brian Notebook, 1965
7Weininger and Colby Notebook, 1965
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221Whitehead, Earl Notebook, 1965
2Bath, Fred Notebook, 1966
3Bellamy, Henry Notebook, 1966
4Blitzblau, Alan Notebook, 1966
5Bowen, Peter Notebook, 1966
6Bramel, Robert Notebook, 1966
7Breisch, Alvin R. Notebook, 1966
8Callander, Larry Notebook, 1966
9Chase, Charles Notebook, 1966
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231Chire, Yue Kwong Notebook, 1966
2Condon, Guy Notebook, 1966
3DiGiacomo, Jerome Notebook, 1966
4DeLeng, Raymond Notebook, 1966
5Ennson, Alvin Notebook, 1966
6Ensslin, Norbert Notebook, 1966
7Finn, John Notebook, 1966
8Gilleland, Jim Bob Notebook, 1966
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241Gilleland, Jim Bob Notebook, 1966
2Griest, Richard Notebook, 1966
3Guterman, Frederick Notebook, 1966
4Hall, Bruce Notebooks, 1966
5Hauser, Scott Notebook, 1966
6Heysfield, Andre and Holroyd, Edward Notebooks, 1966
7Kasemir, Wolfram Notebook, 1966
8Lindl, John Notebook, 1966
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251Long, Alexis Notebook, 1966
2Merry, Michael Notebook, 1966
3Miller, Dave and O'Reagan, Terence Notebooks, 1966
4O'Regan, Terence Notebook, 1966
5Pettengill, John Sterling Notebook, 1966
6Pokony, James Notebook, 1966
7Poskanzer, Alan Notebook, 1966
8Proctor, Larry Notebook, 1966
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261Sassen, Kenneth Notebook, 1966
2Schaefer, Vincent Workbook, 1966
3Schwartz, Eric Notebook, 1966
4Simmons, Carver S. Notebook, 1966
5Smith- Johannson, Robert Notebook, 1966
6Speed, Donald Notebook, 1966
7Spengler, Thomas Notebook, 1966
8Stokes, Ken Notebook, 1966
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271Stokes, Ken Notebook, 1966
2Turi, Zoltan G. Notebook, 1966
3Wachsman, William Notebook, 1966
4Wert, Douglas A. Notebook, 1966
5White, Glenn Notebook, 1966
6Whitehead, Glen Notebook, 1966
7Yang, Henry Notebook, 1966
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281Baudet, Chris Notebook, 1967
2Bellamy, Henry Notebooks, 1967
3Blitzblau, Alan Notebook, 1967
4Brundage, E.J Notebool, 1967
5Carter Jr, R. Notebook, 1967
6Condon, Greg Notebook, 1967
7Droessler, Carol Notebook, 1967
8Emmett, Joel Notebook, 1967
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291Falconer, Phillip Notebook, 1967
2Fine, Lawrence Notebook, 1967
3Godfrey, Kent Notebook, 1967
4Hall, Robert E. Notebook, 1967
5Hweymsfield, G. Notebook, 1967
6Kasemir, Wolfman Notebook, 1967
7Kamorske, Joseph L. Notebook, 1967
8Landsberg, Dennis R. Notebook, 1967
9Latoorettte, W Alson Notebook, 1967
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301Lukor, Carlos Notebook, 1967
2Madsen, Albert Notebook, 1967
3Patterns, Rainfall Notebook, 1967
4Mornaeu, Micheal Notebook, 1967
5Mylorie, John E. Notebook, 1967
6-7O'Regan, Terence Notebook, 1967
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311Pokorny, James Notebook, 1967
2Pokorny Notebook, 1967
3Poskanzer, Alan Notebook, 1967
4Ptolemy, Roger Notebook, 1967
5Proctor, Larry Notebook, 1967
6Putnam, Vick Notebook, 1967
7Sarat, Frank Notebook, 1967
8Simmons, Carver Notebook, 1967
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321Skee, James and Speed, Don Notebooks, 1967
2Spengler, Thomas M. Notebook, 1967
3Strait, L. E. Notebook, 1967
4Strube, Linda Notebook, 1967
5Wachmam, William Notebook, 1967
6Weiner, Sanford L Notebook, 1967
7Yang, Henry C. Notebook, 1967
8Student Papers, Ensslin and Simmons, September 5, 1967 September 10, 1967
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331Amant, Dale, Anderson Notebooks, 1968
2Baudet, Christopher Notebook, 1968
3Begnaud, Denise Notebook, 1968
4Colby, Kenneth and Comeux, Michael Notebooks, 1968
5Condon, Gregory Notebook, 1968
6Finn, John Notebook, 1968
7Frisby, Mark Notebook, 1968
8Heymsfield, Gerald Notebook, 1968
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341Maughan, Bruce Notebook, 1968
2McMouros Jr., Horace Notebook, 1968
3Miller, James Notebook, 1968
4Merry, Michael Notebook, 1968
5Pettengill, John Notebook, 1968
6Rankine, David Notebook, 1968
7Simmons, Carver Notebook, 1968
8Strait, Lawrence Notebook, 1968
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351Veach, Norman Notebook, 1968
2Wenninger, David Notebook, 1968
3Begnaud, Denise and Ensslin, Norbert Notebooks, Undated
4Karp, Steven Notebbok, Undated
5Lindl, John Notebooks, 1968
6Madsen, Albert Notebook, Undated
7Notebooks, B, 1973
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361Notebooks, B-C, 1973
2Notebooks, C-G, 1973
3Notebooks, G-K, 1973
4Notebooks, L-M, 1968
5Notebooks, M-O, 1973
6Notebooks, P-T, 1973
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371Notebooks, T-W, 1973
2Notebooks, W, 1973
Subseries 5: Reports & Publications, 1959-1978, Undated
Arranged chronologically
This last subseries contains official reports by Schaefer on the activities of the Atmospheric Sciences Program and records its progress as it transforms into the Natural Sciences Institute at the State University of New York, Albany. Some of the reports cover the summer program as a whole, while others focus specifically on field station issues. There are also articles published by current and former students of the program as well as some articles published by Schaefer himself.
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381Progress Report #1 of Summer Science Programs, with responses from Colleagues, June 25, 1959
2The American Meteorological Society Summer Science Program- Final Report, September 1, 1959
3Directors Report: Atmospheric Sciences Program, June 23- August 8, 1959, c.September 1959
4The Nucleus- Loomis School Yearbook, 1959
5"An Adventure in Science Education," V.J. Schaefer, manuscript, with correspondence from Frances J. Laner, 1959-1960
6Director's Final Report- Initial Phase, August 20, 1960
7"Permanent Replicas of the Crystalline Structure of Hailstones," Page Painter and V.J. Schaefer, 1960
8Program Evaluation Report- Parent, J.A, August 5, 1960
9The Nucleus- Loomis School Yearbook (with Dr. Oscar Lanford's Speech from final exercises), 1960
10Atmospheric Sciences Program - Final Report, August 15, 1961
11"Atmospheric Sciences Programs for High Ability Students," VJ Schaefer, October 1961
12Final Report Draft Materials, 1961
13The Nucleus- Loomis School Yearbook, 1961
14" An Apparatus for Studying Crystallization in Solutions Frozen on a Mercury Surface," C.L. Stong, December 1962
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391Final Report of the Atmospheric Physics Program Sponsored by the Desert Research Institute, 1962
2General Information- Field Stations, January 10, 1963
3Final Report, NSI/ASRC: Research Support for 1963 Summer Field Operations, September 15, 1963
4"How to Make and Investigate Vortexes in Water and Flame," C.L. Strong, October 1963
5Interim Report of the Natural Sciences Institute, Publication #19, November 11, 1963
6Field Season 1963 Report, 1963
7Natural Sciences Institute- The Colorado Unit, 1963
8"A Suggested Origin of Conical Graupel," E.W. Holroyd III, April 15, 1964 June 30, 1964
91964 Field Season, May 1964
10Final Report: Research Support of 1964 Flagstaff Field Operations, September 20, 1964
11Second Interim Report of the Natural Sciences Institute Publication #23, September 20, 1964
12Final Report: Summer Program in Meteorology for High School Students, University of California, LA, October 21, 1964
13"Consideration of Nuclei Counts on the Slopes of Little Whiteface Mountain in New York State," J. Tester, 1964
14"Resin Vapor Replication Technique for Snow Crystals and Biological Specimens," R.I. Smith- Johannsen, March 20, 1965
15NSI/ASRC 1965 Field Season, April 1965
16"A Pilot Project in the Atmospheric Sciences for Young Students," V.J. Schaefer, Spring 1963
17Articles (3) on Environmental Factors' Effects on Exposed Wood, E.M. Wengert et.al., July 1965 February 1966 Undated
18"How to Measure raindrops, Make Snowflakes, and simulate subatomic Particle Scattering," C.L. Stong, August 1965
19Final Project of the Natural Sciences Institute for the Years 1963-1965, September 10, 1965
20Final Report: Research Support of 1965 Flagstaff Field Operations, September 10, 1965
21Final Report: Research of 1966 Flagstaff Field Operations, August 28, 1966
22Fourth Report of the Natural Sciences Institute, ASRC Publications #40, September 1, 1966
23Fifth Report of the Natural Sciences Institute, Manuscript, September 1, 1967
24Fifth Report of the Natural Sciences Institute, Publication, September 1, 1967
25Final Reports of Junior Fellows- Fredonia Unit, NSI, Summer 1968
26Final Report of the Natural Sciences Institute for the Years 1966-1968, September 1968
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401"The Rennselaerville Units of the Natural Sciences Institute Held at the Institute on Man and Science and the E.N. Huyck Preserve"(Summers of 1965-1968), c.1968
2Report on the Activity of Dr. J. Podzimek During his Stay at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, c. July 1970
3"Parallel Evolution," F.W Went, May 1971
4"Land Use Factors Controlling Air and Water Pollution," VJ Schaefer, July 25, 1972
5"Suggestions for the Development of Environmental Information Centers in the Adirondack Mountains," V.J. Schaefer, December 28, 1972
6"The Air Quality Patterns of Aerosols on the Global Scale, Part I," VJ Schaefer, 1976
7Summer Science Programs at the Loomis Chaffee School, 1957-1977, W.B Spencer, 1978
8"An Adventure in the San Juan Mountains," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
9"The Natural Sciences Institute- An Adventure in Education," V.J. Schaefer (Incomplete), Undated
10Untitled Report Manuscripts- Founding of Summer Programs, Undated
Series 6: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, 1950-1993, Undated 16.0 cubic ft.
Arranged alphabetically, with the exception of the reports and publications which are chronological.
Schaefer’s connection with the University at Albany began in 1959 when the school was still known as the New York State Teachers College, located in downtown Albany. When Schaefer began the highly successful Atmospheric Physics Program via the Loomis School in Connecticut, he attracted the attention of Dean Oscar Lanford and President Evan Collins of the New York State Teachers College. They asked Schaefer to come teach at their Albany school, and within his first year as a faculty member, the idea for the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) was born. Officially established in February 1961, it was originally located in the old General Electric hangar at Schenectady Airport. Although the former New York State Teachers College expanded to the current uptown Albany campus in the mid-1960s, officially becoming the University at Albany, State University of New York, the ASRC remained centered in Schenectady at that time. Meanwhile, the Atmospheric Physics Program that began at the Loomis School shifted to Albany to be under the sponsorship of the ASRC, where it became the Natural Sciences Institute (NSI). However, since the program’s roots were not originally with the ASRC and University at Albany, those records comprise their own series within this collection (Series #5).
The ASRC was designed in memory of the atmosphere that Schaefer enjoyed at the General Electric Research Laboratory in the 1930s and 1940s, where scientists were allowed plenty of freedom to conduct their experiments and Director Willis Whitney asked each day if his researchers were having fun. Besides conducting their own original research, ASRC scientists were always in contact with other professionals around the United States and internationally, sharing their research and collaborating on new ideas. The Center was also an ideal location for budding scientists from the University at Albany to collaborate with professionals. Schaefer brought some of the best scientists of the day to the ASRC thanks to his contacts from General Electric and Munitalp. Ray Falconer, Bernard Vonnegut, and Duncan Blanchard all became part of the ASRC family as it grew from the G.E. airplane hangar, to a building at 100 Fuller Road by the SUNY Albany uptown campus (1978), and finally to 251 Fuller Road (1997) where it is part of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Technology Management (CESTM).
Although Schaefer was the principle founder of the ASRC, Dr. David Barry and Dr. Eugene McLaren were among the first directors while Schaefer was director of research (and chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee.) However, Schaefer became overall director in 1965, a position he held until his retirement from the ASRC and teaching in 1976. Given the title of Professor Emeritus, he remained an advisor to the ASRC for years after.
Subseries 1: Administrative Files, 1954-1990, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
The majority of the administrative files consist of correspondence; as director of research and then overall director of the ASRC, Schaefer was in constant contact with administrators of SUNY Albany, local colleagues, and other professionals in the field. There are also documents dealing with budget issues, grant applications, conferences, and operation of the N.S.I. field stations.
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11ASRC Staff Meetings, 1960-1974
2ASRC -SUNYA Advisory Committee-Photo and List, 1961
3ASRC-SUNYA: Dissemination of Information, Ideas and Activities Related to Environmental Concern, 1974
4-5Australia-International Conference on Cloud Physics, September 11,1961-September 20, 1961
Oversized
8Book of Project Guests and Participants (Assorted), 1964-1969
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16-7Budget Forms, Supplies, Correspondence Relating to Nuclei Studies, 1976-1979
8Budget, SUNYA- News Clipping and Memo, 1975
9College for Environmental Studies: Preliminary Plans, Undated
10Committee for Business Operations, Undated
11Contracts and Salaries, 1964-1971
12Correspondence: Allied Resin Corporation, East Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1972
13Correspondence: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1968-1969
14Correspondence: American Geophysical Union, 1955-1961
15Correspondence: Archaeology, 1968-1970
16Biology 199-Potential Changes, 1961
17Correspondence: Björnsson, Sveinbjörn (with photos), November 1969
18Correspondence: Blanchard, Duncan, 1968
19Correspondence: Blanchard, Duncan-Report by Angie Barger (2 articles included), 1972
20Correspondence: Bollay, E., Operations of Offshore Airport Nuclear Reactor Facilities (Unpublished Typescript), 1968
21Correspondence: Breed, W.J. and Mackimon, D.J., Proposal to Four Corners Regional Commission to Build a Minimal Resources House in Flagstaff (Unpublished Typescript and letter), 1977
22Correspondence: Cheng, Roger-Acid Rain (with photos), c.1982
23Correspondence: Cloud Physics Committee American Meteorological Society, 1964
24Correspondence: Conservation Issues, 1954-1962
25Correspondence: Corning, Erastus 2nd, 1975-1981
26Correspondence: Crudge, Vernon, 1976-1979
27Correspondence: Crudge, Vernon-Lightning Strikes (with paper by V.P. Idone and R.W. Henderson), June 11, 1982
28Correspondence: Department of the Interior/Bureau of Reclamation-Weather Modification, 1965
29Correspondence: Dessens, Jean-Paper by T.L. Black (Paper Included), November 1978 December 1978
30Correspondence: Droessler, Earl G. Administrative Dean for Research North Carolina State University(with photo), 1967-1974
31Correspondence: Ebenezer Howard Project, 1970
32Correspondence: Electrostatics, 1972-1989
33Correspondence: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, 1970-1974
34-35Correspondence: Environmental Research Institute (Frank L. Craig-Head), 1968-1976
36Correspondence: Farrington Observatory-Sale, 1978
37Correspondence: Five Rivers Project, 1970
38Correspondence: Fostoria Corporation, 1960
39Correspondence: Fradkin (P)"Huge Power Plants Pose Threat", Akwesasne Notes 2.7, November 1970 December 1970
40Correspondence: Garstka, Walter U., 1962-1977
41Correspondence: General, 1955-1970
42Correspondence: General, 1971-1974
43Correspondence: General, 1975-1976
44Correspondence: General, 1977-1978
45Correspondence: General, 1979-1992 Undated
46Correspondence: General Electric, 1968 1973
47Correspondence: General Letterbook, 1972
48Correspondence: General Letterbook, 1973
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21Correspondence: General Letterbook, 1973
2-3Correspondence: General Letterbook, 1974
4Correspondence: General Letterbook, 1975
5Correspondence: General Letterbook, 1976
6Correspondence: Gilleland, H., Museum of Northern Arizona Lake Powell (Correspondence, Notes and Maps), 1970
7Correspondence: Grant, Lewis O.- Colorado State University, Pyrotechnic Tests, April 3, 1964 November 15, 1966
8Correspondence: Hailstone Studies, 1957-1971
9Correspondence: Health Contracts, 1970
10Correspondence: Hebbs, Pater V., Project Cirrus, University of Washington, Seattle W.A, 1990
11Correspondence: Hennigan, Robert D., State University College of Forestry at Syracuse University, 1969
12Correspondence: Herrick, C.S., "Rolling Cylinder Heat Storage System" General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, New York, 1978
13Correspondence: Heymsfield, G. (Unpublished Typescript), 1969
14Correspondence: Hogan, Austin, 1970
15Correspondence: Johnson, C.E., Superintendent, Glen Canyon National Park Service, Page, Arizona, 1970
16Correspondence: Kalliroscope, 1968
17-18Correspondence: Krick, Irving P.- Weather Modification, 1971-1973
19Correspondence: Lanford, O.E., Chancellors Panel on University Purposes, 1960-1981
20Correspondence: Magono, C., Department of Geophysics, University of Hokkaido, Sapparo, Japan, 1968
21Correspondence: Malkus, Joanne S.- With Articles, 1964 1966
22Correspondence: Max C. Fleischmann Foundation, 1975-1976
23Correspondence: Metropolis Exhibits, 1980
24Correspondence: Mitchell (H.A), Associate Provost for the Health Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1977
25Correspondence: Moore, A.D. University of Michigan, 1967-1972
26Correspondence: Moore, A.D. University of Michigan, 1972-1977
27Correspondence: Morris, Edward A., 1972-1974
28Correspondence: Morse, R.S.- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
29Correspondence: Muir, A.J.- Sonic Development Corp., 1970
30Correspondence: Namias, Jerry-Letter and Symposium Booklet, August 1986 May 17, 1987
31Correspondence: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 1974-1978
32Correspondence: National Center for Atmospheric Research and Select Planning Group-"A Plan for a National Hail Field Experiment", February 1969
33Correspondence: National Science Foundation-Grants, 1960 1964
34Correspondence: Natural Sciences Institute, 1959-1964
35Correspondence: New York State Department of Transportation, 1972-1973
36Correspondence: New York State Fruit Testing Cooperative Association, A Catholic of New and Noteworthy Fruits, 1973-1975
37Correspondence: North American Weather Consultants/Eugene Bollay (Includes Research Paper), December 7, 1954 October 16, 1980
38Correspondence: Office of Natural Research Atmosphere Sciences Program "Monitoring the Air Pollution Over the Oceans" (Rough Draft), 1970
39Correspondence: Ottavio, Vittori, 1966-1974
40Correspondence: Pellett(G), NASA-Langley Research Center (Shuttle Environmental Impact Report), 1980
41Correspondence: Recommendations (VJS), 1976-1978
42Correspondence: Regional Haze Analysis, 1990
43Correspondence: River of the Sky Atmospheric Resources Film Script Copy #5 by W.L. Rusho, June 1966
44Correspondence: Rose, Bruce M., 1973-1975
45Correspondence: Schaefer, James (Son), 1969-1974
46Correspondence: Schaefer (VJ), Reprints, 1955-1962
47Correspondence: Schley, R.A (Unpublished typescript), 1960
48Correspondence: Scientific American, 1971
49Correspondence: Smith-Johannsen, Robert, 1970-1973
50Correspondence: South Dakota Weather Control Commission, 1962-1965
51Correspondence: Stanley Newman Company, 1968
52Correspondence: State of New York Council of Environmental Advisers (Heller, Austin N.), 1974
53Correspondence: State University of New York Cloud Seeding, 1964-1965
54Correspondence: Storm Conference, Springfield, MA, March 20,1981-March 22, 1981
55Correspondence: Sturges, Paul M., 1973-1977
56Correspondence: The Council of the City of Sydney, Australia, City Health Department, 1974
57Correspondence: The San Francisco Peaks, Arizona (VJS), 1972
58Correspondence: The Wing Company: Enthalex Energy Recovery Wheel, Undated
59Correspondence: United Aircraft Corporate Systems Center-ESSA Special Room Proposals (with supplementary materials), November 2, 1965 Undated
60Correspondence: Vause, E.H.- Charles F. Kettering Foundation, July 9, 1973
61Correspondence: Vonnegut, B. and I.K. Yang (with Article Reprints), 1984
62Correspondence: Wilson, S.C.- Includes Rolex Award Application, 1983
63Correspondence: Xerox Corporation-Duplication of Schaefer Research Photos, Images Included, May 6, 1976
64Drone and Vortices Field Observation Program, 1970
65Evaluation of the ASRC, 1978
66Field Research Seminar- Proposal to the National Science Foundation (Schaefer and D.G. Barry), April 15, 1962
67Five Rivers Institute, Development, Undated
68Geophysics Research Program Possibilities, Undated
69Grants, 1967-1969
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31Inventories of Reprints, 1962
2Joint Proposal of ASRC/ACR: Feasibility of Recycling Life Support Systems, 1974
3Mailing List: Final Report, 1976-1979
4Maps/Charts/Plans for Space Needs at ASRC, Undated
5Memorandum on Meeting of Potential Users of Electron Microprobe, 1972
6Mohawk River Development Members of Sub-Committees, Undated
7Mohnen, Dr. Volker- Correspondence and Personnel Papers, 1970-1984
8Natural Scientists Institute: Potential Resources, November 13, 1975
9NSI Candidates *Restricted*, 1967
10NSI Candidates *Restricted*, 1967-1969
11Planning Notes, Administrative and Research, 1982 1986 Undated
12Program on Science and Technology Studies, 1971
13Proposal Rating Sheets, 1976-1977
14Schenectady Cloud Physics Facility- Memo, September 10, 1970
15Schenectady County Cloud Physics Laboratory- Potential Purchase, 1968
16Spain PEP Station, May 8, 1978
17Sponsored Research and Sponsored Programs, 1970
18Staff Meeting, December 9, 1980
19Student Leadership Programs (N.S.I), 1974
20Summer Staff, 1971
21SUNYA Presidents Report- With Blurb on ASRC's Volker Mohnen (p.12), 1986
22The Lewis Swyer Senior Fellowship, 1987
Subseries 2: Educational Activities, 1959-1992, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
Schaefer saw research opportunities via the ASRC that promised to have national and even international implications as environmental concerns became more public in the 1960s and 1970s. He was engaged frequently to speak about his research, both to other professionals and to “everyday” people who might be interested in learning more about issues like acid rain or solar energy. He also participated on committees and commissions who were given the responsibility of investigating scientific dilemmas of the day and presenting findings to the government. This subseries contains materials from those speaking engagements, trips, and committees.
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41Adventures Ahead, Undated
2African Eclipse Cruise, 1972
3-9African Eclipse Cruise, 1973
10Ambassador College Research Department, Hippies, Hipocrisy [sic] and Happiness, Pasadena, California, 1968
11American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1978
Oversized
8ASRC Scrapbook: Schenectady Tornado, June 24, 1960
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412Basic Studies in Experimental Meteorology Field Locations and Research Projects, Undated
13Capitaland Natural Science Center-Tivlo Lakes Nature Study Sanctuary- Schaefer Award with citation and brochure, Undated
14Carnahan(R.L), NOAA Industrial Meteorology News Clips, October 13, 1970
15Caumsett State Park, Long Island (Brochure, Notes, Correspondence), 1973
16Chancellor's Fellows (MSS), Undated
17Chautauqua- Type Short Courses for College Teachers, 1973-1975
18Chautauqua- Type Short Courses for College Teachers, 1975-1976
19-20Chautauqua- Type Short Courses for College Teachers (application forms, correspondence, teachers materials, rosters of participants, maps), 1971-1972
21-23Chautauqua- Type Short Courses for College Teachers (application forms, schedules, timetables, grant forms), 1971-1972
24Chautauqua- Type Short Course Program, 1979
25Chautauqua- Type Short Courses for College, 1978
26-28Commission on Science Education, 1963-1966
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51-4Commission on Science Education, 1963-1966
5Cooperative College- School Science Program Guide for Preparation of Proposals, Undated
6Cooperative United States of China Short Course Program for College and University Faculty Development Directory, 1979
7Dedicated Environmental Education for Posterity (DEEP), 1973
8Discovery Center of the Capital District (correspondence, proposal, mission statement), 1984
9Education: Leadership Programs, Undated
10Educational Monographs in the Atmospheric Sciences (American Meteorological Society), 1963-1965
11Environmental Education, 1971-1973
12Environmental Studies #1, September 1970
13Environmental Studies Program, 1971
14Environmental Studies Program, 1971-1974
15Five Rivers Project: Outstanding Students, 1970
16Klinger Scientific Apparatus Corp., Experiments in Optics, Part 2, Bulletin 101-2, 1964
17Melander, Kathleen, Science Teacher (3rd & 4th grade letters and notebooks), 1954-1956
18Membership Cards, V.J. Schaefer, 1960-1961
19Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York- A 1967-1968 Conference Series: Teacher Preparation in the New Industrial State, 1968
20National Science Foundation, 1964-1979
21National Science Teachers (notebook), Undated
22Natural Sciences Institute, Fredonia, 1964-1966
23Proposal for Reorientation, Undated
24Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1940-1967
25-26Schaefer Consulting, 1965-1968
27Schaefer Quiz to Graduate Students in the Atmospheric Sciences, Undated
28Schaefer V.J "A Formula for Happiness" (Notes used in giving commencement address at lake Pleasant Central School), Undated
29Schaefer V.J "A Program on Meteorological Research", Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Typescript, photograph, memorandum), 1959
30Schaefer, V.J and Mohnen, V., Atmospheric Science, Test Edition, AAAS Study Guides on Contemporary Problems- Part of the Chautauqua-Type Short Courses for College Teachers Program, Study Guide, 1974
31Schaefer V.J and Mohnen V.A, "The Sciences, Motions and Sinks of Trace Gases and Fine Particles in the Global Ecosystem", Course for Academic Credit(Syllabus), 1972
32Schaefer V.J, Chautauqua Short Course Lectures for Environmental Planning (Unpublished Typescript), 1972
33Schaefer V.J, "Factors Which Led to The Foundation of ASRC Thirty Years Ago (unpublished Mss.), 1991
34Schaefer V.J Final Report of the Natural Sciences Institute, 1966-1968
35Schaefer V.J "Meteorological Questions and Answers" prepared for the Hand of Wisdom game (typescript), Undated
36Schaefer V.J "Observation, Serendipity and Climatic Change, Journal of College Science Teaching 4.1 (pg. 19-22), September 1974
37Schaefer V.J "Preliminary Draft of Proposal to National Science Foundation", Prepared by Vincent J. Schaefer for the radio Astronomy observatory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (typescript), February 1959
38Schaefer V.J, Salkever L.R, and Widmer W.R, Multidisciplinary Program for Secondary School Teachers, The Research Foundation of State University of New York and State University of New York at Albany, October 12, 1973
39Schaefer V.J , The Early Days of ASRC, Undated
40-41Science Research Associates, Inc., 1963-1964
42-44Science Teaching (guides, notices, programs), 1953-1974
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61Scientific Adventures (photographs, issues, adventure kits), Undated
2Senior Science Seminar, 1960-1961
3Serendipity Hall, Undated
4Simon's Rock Early College, 1972-1977
5Report, New York, NY, 1969
6State of New York Commission on Environmental Education, 1974
7-8State of New York Temporary State Commission on Youth Education in Conservation, 1970-1973
9SUNY- State Teachers College, Albany, New York Notebook, Undated
10Student Science Training Program (Pre-college) for High-Ability Secondary School Students, Undated
11Susquehanna Environmental Education association, 1974
12Talcott Mountain Science Center (brochures, plans, correspondence, reports, experiment possibilities), 1986
13Technical Glossary, Undated
14The Experimental Earth Science Institute, Vestal, New York (correspondence), 1967
15Union College-G.E. Science Fellowship for Teachers, 1951
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71University of Michigan (correspondence), 1970
2-3Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA), 1978
4Waterways '74 Project, 1974
5Whiteface Mountain Field Station Science Lectures Announcement, 1992
Subseries 3: General Research, 1950-1993, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
Although Schaefer had administrative duties as director of research, as well as overall director of the ASRC in later years, he still made as much time as possible for conducting his own research. In addition to experiments carried out in New York’s Capital Region, he oversaw research at the Whiteface Mountain Field Station and Observatory as well as Flagstaff, Arizona, and led highly successful expeditions in the Yellowstone National Park. His fascination with particle studies continued during his ASRC years, leading to crucial investigations of carcinogens, acid rain, effects of particulate matter on global weather, aerosol studies, and much more. He also took great interest in alternative energy sources, solar energy specifically. Of course, cloud studies and ice-forming nuclei also remained a passion of Schaefer’s. This subseries mainly consists of Schaefer’s own investigations into those kinds of topics and offers a glimpse of his own notes, calculations, and observations on the subjects of interest to him.
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81Acid Rain, 1974-1984
2Aerosol Report, 1976-1977
3-6Aerosol Studies-Measurements and Notes, 1971-1976
7Aerosol Studies-Research Notebook, 1950-1971
8Air Pollution in the Household (Measurements, lists, pictures), 1971
9-10Air Pollution/Particle Studies, Undated
11Air Pollution/Particle Studies, Part II: Gases, Sources, Motions, and Sinks, Undated
12In the Adirondacks (Measurements, calculations and photos), 1974
13Air Quality in The Colorado Plateau Region (with notes and measurements), Undated
14Air Quality-Measurements and Research, Undated
15The Air Quality Patterns of Aerosols on the Global Scale Final Report 1976 (photos and measurements), 1972-1975
16The Air Quality Patterns of Aerosols on the Global Scale, Final Report (Measurements, charts, text, survey), 1974-1975
17The Air Quality Patterns of Aerosols on the Global Scale SUNYA, Final Report (notes, correspondence, measurements, budget), 1974-1976
18Aerosol Concentrations- Diurnal Variations, 1968-1969
19The Air Quality Patterns of Aerosols on the Global Scale, Final Report 1976 (summaries, measurements, charts), 1972-1976
20Air Quality Study, c.1978
21Aqua Kane, September 1976
22Arapahoe Chemicals, Ferrocene: A Review of Published Evaluations as a Smoke Reducing Fuel Additive, 1971
23ASRC-SUNYA Global Network- (maps, charts, notes, and photos), 1971-1974
24Associated Press, "Ban on Fouling of Pure Air Upheld", with Schaefer Notes, November 3, 1972 Undated
25Average Aerosol Concentrations, North Atlantic,1966-1971, April 7, 1972
26-27B-Pinene Experiment, M. Landin, Whiteface Summit, June 10, 1972-July 13, 1972
28Bechtel Project, 1974-1978
29Bell Telephone lab, New Jersey: Computer Model for Urban Areas, Undated
30Cahill(T.A) and Feeney(P.J) "Contribution of Freeway Traffic to Airborne Particulate Matter", Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, with Schaefer Notes, June 15, 1973
31Chicago: Particle studies, 1971
32-33Classic Hail Storm of the Great Plains, 1959
34Cloud Droplet Nuclei in the Polar Stratosphere, 1991
35Cloud Formations- Photo slides, 1967
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91Cloud Seeding (T-Effect), 1971-1972
2The Cloud Water Project, 1984
3Colorado Watersheds- Reports and Correspondence, 1964
4-6Condensation Nuclei/Clean Global Air Study- Correspondence Travel Forms, Budget Data, Personnel, etc., 1971-1975
7Development of a RANNYS Program- Proposal by Volker Mohnen, February 25, 1974
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9Droplet Size Comparisons- Diagram, Undated
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98Effect of NO2 on Iodine/Ozone Reaction, Singlet Oxygen Notes, 1973
9Elemental Analysis of Rock Samples, 1981
10Energy Sources, 1972-1974
11Environmental one Corporation, Particle Studies, 1969-1974
12-13F.S. Meteor Expeditions, 1970-1978
14Field Notebook- Grand Canyon Expedition, September 22, 1975-October 8, 1975
15Fiji Field Research Expedition, Undated
16Fiji Islands Trip (Measurements- Particle Studies), 1972
17Forest Fire Prevention and Suppression, 1961-1962
18Forest Fire Research/USDA TV Package-photos, Undated
19Forest influences and Cloud Seeding Evaluation, Rocky Mtn. Forest and Range Experiment Station, Undated
20Fujita- Moire Effect (Transparencies),
21Gardner Counter, Undated
22Gardner Associates- Fog Tubes, May 1973
23General Electric Nuclei Studies-measurements, 1962-1963
24General Outline of a Proposal to Study Atmospheric Aerosols over a Wide Geographic Area, Undated
25Global Air Quality Surveys, 1970-1977
26Grand Canyon Chemistry Studies, with photos, November 20, 1975
27Grand Canyon-Snow Moon Photos, Undated
28Grand Canyon Expedition (measurements and photocopied pictures, maps and charts), 1975
29Hailstones and Water Molecules-Schaefer Research Notes, January 21, 1971 Undated
30Hailstorm Studies, c.1960
31Hawaii-Mac Farms, 1978
32Henderson, T.J- Ozone studies, Atmospheric Incorporated, 1974
33Hurricane Research, 1960 1964
34Ice Crystals- photos and photo slides, 1967
35Ice-Embryo from Electric Charge, Undated
36Ideas for Desalinating Water, Undated
37Inadvertent Weather Modification: Jet Contrails (Photo slides), December 8, 1967
38Inadvertent Weather Modification Pollution- Includes Photo Slides, 1967
39Iodine Crystals and Exhaust Research, Undated
40Ireland, West Coast- Air Quality Studies, 1977
41Kalliroscope- Brochures, Reports and Photos, 1968-1976
42Kazima Dam Catchment Area- Maps, Undated
43Laboratory Notebook (Schaefer)-CN/CCN Project, 1983-1984
44-45Lake Effect Storms, 1964-1971
46Lake Powell Research Project, 1965 1970 1972 1982 Undated
47Lake Powell Research Project, 1971-1975
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101-4Lake Powell Research Project, 1972-1975
5Lake Powell Research Project-Photos, Undated
6Large Airborne Particulates-Collection Methods, August 21, 1972
7Locations of ASRC- SUNY Field Stations in New York State, September 15, 1975
8Long Park Concept, 1971
9Marble Lodge: Precipitation & Temperature measurements,
10Megamex Project-Minutes of Meeting of Hydraulic Power Committee of P.A. Electric Association, April 22, 1952-April 23, 1952
11Megamex Project- Notes, Maps, and Correspondence, 1974-1975 Undated
12Memorandum on The Water Quality of New York State Surface Waters(unpublished typescripts with measurements), 1975
13Mercury Pollution, 1971-1972
14Mexican Research Expedition, 1967-1968
15Millipore Corporation, Detection and Analysis of Particulate Contamination- Catalogue and Technical Brochure, 1966
16Misty Rains and Air Pollution, 1966-1968
17Monitory Stations- List, Undated
18M.T.I Aerosol Runs (Notes and Charts), 1978
19Naquina Head ASRC Fog Facility- Photo Slides, 1966-1967
20National Hurricane Research Laboratory Progress Report #43, November 15, 1964
21The Navajo Project- Correspondence and Photos, 1971
22Nimbus I Weather Satellite Photos (NASA), 1965
23Notebooks- Miniature, 1960-1961
24Notebooks- Miniature, 1962
25Notebooks- Miniature, 1965-1967 Undated
26Notebooks-Miniature, Undated
27Notes and Photos- Cold Chamber, Replicas, Surface Chemistry, and Crystals, 1976 Undated
28N.S.I Observations at Sea, 1973
29Nuclei Concentrations, Undated
30Ozone Runs/Aircraft Flights, 1977
31-33Ozone Studies, 1971-1975
34-36Particle Measurements, 1970-1980 Undated
37Particle Measurements, 1972-1984
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111-2Particle Measurements, 1975-1981
3Particle Measurements and Pollution, 1971-1972
4Particle Measurements Notebook, December 1978
5Particle Runs- Photos, 1975-1976
6"Photo-Micrographs of Solid Pollutions Collected in the Capitol District"- R. Cheng, 1968
7Particle Studies: Charts, Notes, and Calculations, 1973
8Particle Studies: Pseudo-Adiabatic Measurement Charts, 1973
9Photography and Movies: How-to Manuscripts and Lists, Undated
10Photos: Cirrus Clouds, 1973
11Photos: Outdoors and Particle Studies- Also Includes Photo Slides, Undated
12Pine Bush Intermunicipal Study, Undated
13Polaroid Photos, Assorted, 1978 Undated
14Precipitation Measurements, 1964-1975
15Project Air Sample, Undated
16Project Air Sample-Atmospherics, Inc. (includes Photos), December 10, 1966
17Project Air Sample II-Atmospherics, Inc., November 1967-December 1967
18Project Air Sample III-Atmospherics, Inc., 1968
19Project Air Sample IV-Atmospherics, Inc., 1968
20Project Da Vinci, 1974
21Project Flame- Summary, Undated
22Project Hailswath, Undated
23Project Quarry Fog, 1960
24Project Silver Snow, 1965
25Projected Levels of World Atmospheric Pollution- Table, 1971
26Proposed Plan for A Future Program to Study Inadvertent Weather Modification-Draft, Undated
27Range of Particulates- General, Undated
28Reconnaissance Survey of Suspended Particulate Matter- Survey for Schaefer Class, c.1974
29Red Cedar Crystals- Notes and Photos, 1973 Undated
30Research Needs, Undated
31Research Notebook#1, NSI-ASRC-SUNY, July 7, 1962-August 16, 1962
32Research Notebook #3, Colorado-Arizona-NY, June 16, 1963-September 18, 1963
33Research Notebook #5, Colorado-Arizona-NY, July 16, 1964-August 29, 1964
34Research Notebook #8, Field Book, June 12, 1965-September 6, 1965
35Research Notebook #10, Iodine Effect, August 29, 1966-December 6, 1966
36Research Notebook #12, Lab & Field Records-Arizona, June 14, 1967-September 24, 1967
37Research Notebook #14, NSI, June 19, 1968-August 15, 1968
38Research Notebook #15, NAFREI, June 8, 1969-August 17, 1969
39Research Notebook #16, Pentaerythritol as an Ice Nucleus & a DGA, August 21, 1969-April 23, 1970
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121Research Notebook #17, Japanese-American Scientific Cooperative Program, with supplemental materials, January 30, 1970-February 17, 1970
2Research Notebook #18, The I2 Effect, April 10, 1970-August 2, 1970
3Research Notebook #19 The I2 Effect, August 7, 1970-March 31, 1971
4Research Notebook #20, YFRE XI, January 11, 1971-February 4, 1971
5Research Notebook #21, Hawaii 1971 Trip, April 24, 1971-May 15, 1971
6Research Notebook #22, Air Particle Studies & Meteor Expedition, April 1, 1971-June 29, 1971
7Research Notebook #23, T Effect & AAAS Short Course, July 31, 1971-March 1, 1972
8Research Notebook #24, CN-CCN, April 1, 1972-September 4, 1972
9Research Notebook #25, Fine Particle Data, September 7, 1972-January 25, 1973
10Research Notebook #26, Cn-CNN, Alaska/ Transpolar Flight & Eclipse 73, January 31, 1973-July 18, 1973
11Research Notebook #27, CNN/CN/O3/NO2 & AAAS- Chautauqua 1973, January 9, 1973-April 30, 1974
12Research Notebook #28, CCN/CN/O3/NO2 /SO2 HO, May 1, 1974-July 31, 1974
13Research Notebook #29, CN/CCN/GN/Gases, August 1, 1974-December 31, 1974
14Research Notebook #32, CN/CCN, Gas to Particles & Flights, May 5, 1975-November 19, 1978
15Research Notebook #31, CCn/CN/O3/NO2/SO2 & Mohonk, Grand Canyon & Southwest, June 1, 1975-November 6, 1976
16Research Notebook #30, CN/CCN/GN/ Gases & Ozone Flights & Hawaii, December 4, 1974-May 7, 1975
17Research Notebook, Air Sample, I,II, & III, 1966-1968
18Research Notebook, ASRC, Worm Fog, Serendipity, 1966-1967
19Research Notebook, Consulting, 1965 Undated
20Research Notebook CSIR- Sydney, Australia, September 8, 1961-October 20, 1961
21Research Notebook Eclipse '73-NSI, 1973
22Research Notebook, Environmental Studies- Five Rivers, Undated
23Research Notebook, ICCN, 1966
24Research Notebook- Ice Nuclei, 1974
25Research Notebook Index to Other Notebooks, c.1965
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131Research Notebook- Index to Other Notebooks, c.1974
2Research Notebook, Japanese-American Scientific Research, 1967-1970
3Research Notebook, NAFRE II, June 1970-July 1970
4Research Notebook, NSI-ASRC, 1964
5Research Notebook, Solar Energy, December 15, 1973-January 15, 1975
6Research Notebook-ASRC-NSI- Arizona Unit Basic Studies, 1963 1965 Undated
7-8Research Notes, Undated
9Research Photos- AgI2 and AgSpk, August 12, 1967 August 15, 1967
10-11Research Notes, Assorted, 1962-1967
12Research Photos & Negatives, 1976
13Research Proposal to National Science Foundation- The Impact of 20th Century Man's Activities on the Upper Colorado River Basin, c.1970
14Royco Haze Drop Concentrations vs. Visibility, October 31, 1974-November 1, 1974
15Salty River Project/Navajo Project, 1972
16Sastrugi Near Rattlesnake Pass, Elle Mountains, Wyoming- Photo, 1966
17Schaefer Visit to Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan- Photo, Undated
18Scientific Memo- Relationship of Small Particle Count to Pollution, March 12, 1970
19Sediment Studies, 1960 Undated
20Sedimentation, 1970-1972
21Selection of General Research Notes and Photos, 1959-1982
22Silver Snow-Ecospheres, 1968
23"Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Glossary", Undated
24Snow Samples, 1978
25Snowflake Replicas on Glass Plates, January 16, 1966 January 20, 1968
26Solar Energy, 1973-1975 Undated
27Solar Energy, 1974-1978
28Solar Energy- Cherokee Nation, Pond Hill homes, 1981-1988 Undated
29Solar Heated Green Houses High Altitude (RANN-ASRC-MNA)(proposal budgets, articles, project notes), 1975-1978
30-31State of New York Council of Environmental Advisers, 1970-1971 Undated
32State of New York Council of Environmental Advisers, Litter as an Environmental Problem in New York: Discussion and Recommendations for its Alleviation (Draft), January 1975
33State of New York Council of Environmental Advisers, Litter as an Environmental Problem in New York: Discussion and Recommendations for its Alleviation Appendices B-I, January 1975
34Studies of Particles and Crystals- Photos, Undated
35Sun Photometer Data and Research, Undated
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141Tentative Carbon Dioxide Sampling Stations, Undated
2The Terpentine Effect, 1971
3Tans-Polar Ozone Flight (measurements, schedules and correspondence), 1973
4Travel: Congresso Internazionale di Fisica Delle Nubi Verona, Italy, 1960
5Tubing Diffusion Runs- Charts and Notes, 1971
6Typhoon Photos (USAF), 1961
7United States Department of Commerce- Hurricane Research Progress Report 63, July 15, 1971
8United States Department of The Interior, bureau of Reclamation, Environmental Statement: Navajo Project, February 4, 1972
9United States Department of The Interior, bureau of Reclamation, Environmental Statement: Navajo Project Appendix 1: Review Comments, February 4, 1972
10Vortical Patterns in Superposed Stereo Cloud Pictures, January 11, 1966
11Water "Fibers"- Photo Negatives, 1962
12Wake Effect Studies, 1963 Undated
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151Wake Effect Studies, 1958 1963 Undated
2Water Flow Issues (Includes photos), January 14, 1966
3Water Resources Summary, 1966-1967
4Weather Modification Bibliography, Undated
5Weather Modification, correspondence with Tom Henderson, Atmospherics Incorporated, 1962-1967 1970-1973
6Weather Modification, correspondence with Tom Henderson, Atmospherics Incorporated, 1974-1979 1979
7Weather Modification, correspondence with Tom Henderson, Atmospherics Incorporated, 1980-1981 1984-1985 1987-1993
8Weather Modification- Physical Evaluations, 1973-1974
9Weather Modification Studies, 1966-1974
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161Weather Modification Studies, 1966-1974
2Weather Summaries, 1972-1974
3Whitebrook Watershed, Undated
4Whiteface Mountain Project, 1948 1957-1958
5Whiteface Mountain Project, 1957-1992
6Whiteface Mountain Summer Program- Booklet, 1963
7Whiteface Mountain Summer Program- Booklet, 1964
8Yellowstone National Park, United States Department of the Interior, Myriad Group Upper Geyser Basin (Map NP-YEL 8749), 1959
9Zeroenergy Experimental Building- Diagram, Undated
Subseries 4: Desert Research Institute, 1953-1991, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
The Desert Research Institute, or D.R.I., was established in 1959 as part of the University of Nevada (currently called the Nevada System of Higher Education). Their mission calls for a blend of traditional, basic research with interdisciplinary, applied research methods. Although Schaefer did not have a hand in creating the D.R.I., he did act as a consultant for them during his time at the ASRC/SUNY. His Natural Sciences Institute also expanded to include a field station at the D.R.I., so this subseries is a blend of Schaefer’s consulting materials as well as applications and curriculum planning for the N.S.I. summer programs.
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171Administrative Materials- National Advisory Board, Meetings, Summer Program Planning, 1962-1965 Undated
2The Annual Report- DRI/University of Nebraska, 1979
3Armstrong, C.F and Stidd, C.K, "A Moisture- Balance profile on the Sierra Nevada", 1967
4Atmospheric Physics Summer Program Brochures, 1962 1963 1964
5Atmospheric Physics Summer Program- Research Project Preferences, 1963
6Atmospheric Physics Summer Program- Student Papers A-D, Undated
7Atmospheric Physics Summer Program- Student Papers D-H, Undated
8Atmospheric Physics Summer Program- Student Papers H-K, Undated
9Atmospheric Physics Summer Program- Student Papers K-O, Undated
10Atmospheric Physics Summer Program- Student Papers Q-S, Undated
11Atmospheric Physics Summer Program- Student Papers S-W, Undated
12Atmospheric Physics Summer Program- Student Papers W-Z, Undated
13Atmospherium and Planetarium of the DRI- Background Materials, 1953 c.1963
14Berry, E.X and Reinhardt, R.L Modeling and Condensation and Collection within Clouds, Reno, Nevada, July 1973
15Botanical Field Trip, 1982
16Chronology of Desert Research Institute, December 1, 1980
17Correspondence: Administrative, 1960-1968
18Correspondence: Agreements and Expenses, 1960-1968
19Correspondence and DRI Visit Reports, 1980-1984
20Correspondence: Applications and inquiries, NSI/DRI Summer program, 1963
21Correspondence: General, 1960-1962
22-23Correspondence: General, 1960-1985
24Correspondence: General, 1967
25Correspondence: Murino, Clifford- Report on Visit to DRI by Schaefer, December 8, 1980
26Correspondence: NSI/DRI Summer Program, 1962-1963
27Correspondence: Policy Changes/ Successful Operation of the DRI, 1977
28Correspondence with Supplementary Materials- Maps, lists, etc., 1961-1980
29Desert Research Institute Bulletin, December 4, 1962
30Desert Research Institute News- Third Quarter 1989, First-Fourth Quarters 1990, 1989-1990
31Desert Research Institute Quarterly Newsletter Staff, "Dr. Went Gives Serving on Haze", Desert Research institute Quarterly Newsletter 1.2, March 1973
32Domenico, P. "Economic Aspects of Conjuctive use of Water Smith Valley Nevada U.S.A", Undated
33Domenico, P. and Clark, G., " Electric Analogs in Time-Settlement Problems", May 1964
34DRI Run- Yearbook for Summer Program in Atmospheric Research, 1962
35Faculty Bulletin #817, November 10, 1961
36"Famed Scientist here to Teach Prize Students", Wendell A. Mordy, June 24, 1962
37Final Report of the Atmospheric Physics Program, 1962
38Final Report- NSF Summer Science Training Program in Atmospheric Physics, 1962
39Fiscal Charts, c.1963
40Grand Canyon Visibility Issues, 1990-1991
41Informational Booklet- Desert Research institute, Undated
42Nevada Weather Watch, Vol.2, #2, April 1980-June 1980
43Photo Slides- Unidentified, Undated
44Plan for Water Resources Building for the Desert Research Institute, August 4, 1964
45Project Ideas, Undated
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181Proposed Work plan- Bureau of Reclamation Contract, plus Progress Reports#1-5 and #8, 1965
2Report of the National Advisory Board of the Desert Research Institute(Draft), November 1969
3Report on the Desert Research Institute, Undated
4Report on Visitation to Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Undated
5"Scientist Helps Gifted Students find Potentials", Wendell A. Mordy, August 9, 1964
6Sixteenth Nevada Water Conference and Nevada State Reclamation Association, Program, September 27, 1962-September 28, 1962
7"The Nutrient Content of Plants and Soils from Brazil and Surinam, Stark N., 1970
8"Nutrient Cycling II: Nutrient Distribution in Amazonian Vegetation", Stark N., December 1971
9"Research Report: Nutrient Cycling Pathways and Litter Fungi", Stark N., June 1972
10"Threats and Hopes", Stark N., October 1970
11"The nth Root Normal Distribution of Precipitation", Stidd C.K., August 1970
12"A Three Parameter Distribution for Precipitation Data with a Straight- Line Plotting Method", Stidd, C.K.- Proceedings of the First Statistical Meteorological Conference, Hartford, Connecticut, May 27, 1968-May 29, 1968
13State of Nevada Dept. of Economic Development- Newsletter, July 1962
14"University of Nevada Report", Vol.2, #1, Spring 1963
15"Weather, Water, and the Desert", Weekly Seminar Session,
16"The Mobile Laboratories of the Desert Research Institute", 1968
17"Mycorrhiza", Went, F.W & Stark, N., 1968
Subseries 5: Yellowstone Field Expeditions, 1961-1984, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
Among Schaefer’s most successful ventures via the ASRC was the Yellowstone Field Expeditions. In 1960, Schaefer met with National Park Service members in Wyoming’s Grand Tetons to discuss the possibility of leading scientific studies in Yellowstone National Park. Specifically, he was interested in the behavior of supercooled clouds that form in the area of Old Faithful. Clouds and condensation nuclei were still a fascination of Schaefer’s long after his G.E. days, and he foresaw many different kinds of scientists—including cloud physicists—gathering at Yellowstone once a year to devote themselves to conducting experiments, making observations, and comparing outcomes.
January 1961 saw the first Yellowstone Field Research Expedition (YFRE) come and go with great success. Schaefer took care to invite scientists who likely knew each other by reputation but had not had the chance to meet, thereby cementing new professional relationships as well as friendships. He also tried to invite scientists of all ages and backgrounds so that new professionals would benefit from the experience of those who were more seasoned, and scientists from assorted specialties could share their expertise all around. Generally, the expeditions began shortly after the new year and lasted four weeks. Participants could stay all month or come for a portion of it.
As founder of the program, Schaefer nearly always stayed the entire time, with the exception of the last couple of years when he left early to see if the remainder of the expedition would run smoothly without him. While the program ran efficiently in terms of the participants involved, atmospheric conditions had changed since Yellowstone officials began allowing snowmobiles in the park in 1965. The effect on the environment was detrimental to the scientists’ studies, and drastic changes in the administration of the park added to the YFRE woes. The last expedition occurred in 1971 despite Schaefer’s original intentions to continue the program. He shifted studies to Northern Arizona and Southern Utah in the summertime for purposes of analyzing air pollution and land use, but that program lasted just two years.
This subseries contains administrative papers dealing with the operation of the YFRE as well as Schaefer’s own notes, calculations, and photographs of his work at the Yellowstone National Park. Although there is a separate subseries for ASRC reports and publications, those pertaining specifically to the Field Expeditions are included in this subseries. Please note that there are two photo albums in this subseries that are housed in a separate, oversized box.
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191"Atmospheric Studies in Yellowstone National Park", Prepared for American Meteorological Society 41st Annual Meeting, January 1961
2Brochure for Yellowstone Field Research Expedition, Undated
3Correspondence, 1961-1964 1970 1983-1984
4Data Sheets-Field Expedition# 7, 1967
5"Electric Field Perturbations Caused by Eruption of Yellowstone Geysers", VJ Schaefer, March 1963
6Expedition Chart- Total Number of Participants, c.1971
7Expedition Planning Material, 1961
8Expedition Report, Correspondence, Notes, and Charts, 1961
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2Experiment Slides and Glass Plates, 1962-1965
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199Field Expedition Logbook, 1962
10Final Report-Field Expedition #1, 1961
11Final Report-Field Expedition #2, May 1, 1962
12Interim Report-Field Expedition #3, May 1, 1963
13Final Report-Field Expedition #4, May 1, 1964
14Final Report-Field Expedition #7, May 1, 1967
15Final Report-Field Expedition #11, May 1, 1971
16General Notes, 1964 1971 Undated
17History of Yellowstone Field Expeditions- Drafts by Schaefer, Undated
18Ice Crystals- Notes and Photos, 1966 Undated
19-20Interim Report-Field Expedition #5, May 1, 1965
21Interim Report- Field Expedition #6, May 1, 1966
22Interim Report- Field Expedition #8, May 1, 1968
23Interim Report- Field Expedition #10, May 1, 1970
24"Life in the Geyser Basins", T.D. & M.L Brock, 1971
25"The Measurement of Artificially Induced Precipitation and a Look at a Seeding Decision Criterion", W.W. Vickers, March 1966
26"Measurement of Cirrus Optical Infrared Properties", Boeing Report from Yellowstone Location, October 4, 1961
27"Mechanical Effects of a Simulated Lightning Discharge on the Water Droplets of 'Old Faithful' Geyser", G.G. Gayer, June 26, 1965
28Notebook- Yellowstone, January 8, 1963-February 6, 1963
29Notebook- Yellowstone, January 7, 1964-February 4, 1964
30Notebook- Yellowstone, January 1, 1965-January 30, 1965
31Notebook- Yellowstone, January 8, 1965-February 4, 1965
32Notebook- Yellowstone, January 6, 1966-January 31, 1966
33Notebook- Yellowstone, January 10, 1967-February 7, 1967
34Notebook- Yellowstone, January 9, 1968-February 6, 1968
35"Observations of Thermophilic Algal Communities in Mount Rainier and Yellowstone National Parks", J.G. Stockner, Results from Expeditions #5 & #6, January 1967
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416Old Faithful Area Maps- Upper Geyser Basin, 1965
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1936Participant Planning for Field Expedition #4, 1963-1964
Oversized
7Photo Albums (2)- Field Expeditions IV and VI; Also Unidentified YFRE Photos, 1964 1966 Undated
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1937Photo- Experimental Balloon at Old Faithful, Undated
38Photo Negatives- Field Expeditions, 1960-1963
39Photo Negatives- Field Expeditions, 1964-1966
40Photos- Field Expedition #1, 1961
41Photos- Field Expedition #2, 1962
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201Photos- Field Expedition #3, 1963
2Photos- Field Expedition #4, 1964
3Photos- Field Expedition #5, 1965
4Photos- Field Expedition #6, 1966
5Photos- Field Expedition #7, 1967
6Photos- Field Expedition #8, 1968
7Photos- Field Expedition #11, 1971
8Photos- Field Expedition, Undated
9Planning Materials for Field Expedition #3, 1962-1963
10Publishing Notes for Expedition #3, February 3, 1963
11Reviews in Geophysics- Meteorological Support to Project Yellowstone, Tank & Makela, May 1962
12Schaefer Field Notebook, 1960-1961
13Schaefer Field Notebook, 1965
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20A1Schaefer Field Notebook, Undated
2Science Teachers World, 1st & 2nd Editions, March 15, 1961
3Sixth Yellowstone Field Research Expedition- Feature in State University Newsletter, February 7, 1966
4Snow Measurement Charts, 1966 Undated
5Summary of Yellowstone Expeditions and the Expansion to Northern Arizona and Southern Utah- Manuscripts, Undated
6United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation…. Report on Participation at Yellowstone Field Research Seminar, March 5, 1962
7Yellowstone Maps, c.1971
8Yellowstone National Park- Accommodations, Norris Junction, Undated
9Yellowstone Reminiscence by Schaefer, January 4, 1973
10"Yellowstone Turns White", Westways Article with Photo of Schaefer, January 1966
Subseries 6: Subject Files, 1953-1992, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
The subject files contain documents with enduring value that do not necessarily fit the other ASRC subseries. Researchers will find brochures and schedules from conferences, newsletters from other organizations, and updates on research projects that the ASRC was not officially collaborating with but still held interest for Schaefer.
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211The Flagstaff Cloud Seeding Program: A Preliminary Report (With photo slides), 1965
2Aerovironment, Inc. Proposal for Increasing Summer Rainfall over the Navajo Lands, March 23, 1972
3Adirondack Conference on Silver Iodide Phenomena, November 13, 1962-November 16, 1962
4African Hail Program and Atmospherics, Inc., August 1967
5Air Pollution Control Association (APCA) Directory, September 1959 November 1964
6American Geophysical Union, EOS Vol.61, #43- Mistaken Honor to Schaefer, October 1980
7American Meteorological Society- Conferences, membership forms and memos, 1953-1982
8American Society of Civil Engineers, meetings on water Resources Engineering, 1967
9"Are You Having Any Fun?", Remarks Made by Schaefer at the Commencement of the Ravena-Selkirk Central School, June 20, 1981
10Arthur D. Little, Inc., Industrial Bulletin #426, January 1965
11Association Nationale D'Etude Et De Lutte Contre les Fleaux Atmospheriques, Programme de Prevention Contre le Grele de la Association Nationale d'Etude et de lutte Contre Fleaux Atmospheriques Campagne (With note attached in English), 1987
12Atmospheric Sciences Research Center- Overview Brochure about Staff and Facilities, Undated
13Attendance Roster: Western Snow Conference Yosemite National Park, April 17, 1963-April 19, 1963
14B.C. Comic Strips- Snowflakes, Undated
15Bechtel corporation Status Report: Environmental Planning for the Generating Station, San Francisco, California, 1970
16Belfort Instrument Company Brochure, Undated
17Biological and Chemical Defense Planning, 1959-1960
18Black Mesa Defense Fund, 1971-1972
19"Blighted Empire: the Visual Environment of New York State", Report with Note by Schaefer Regarding Principle Investigator H.K. Flad, September 1974-1974-09
20Blodgett, Katherine Burr-Obituary, 1979-1979
21"Cooling Tower Plume Rise", Brown, D.H. & Sneck, H.J. Enery and Environmental Programs Corporate Research and Development General Electric Company - Presented to the American Power Conference 33rd Annual Meeting, April 22, 1971-1971-04-22
22Bureau of Reclamation- Advisory Committee on Atmospheric Water Resources, May 17, 1965-May 18, 1965
23Bureau of Reclamation, Region 4, Bank Storage: Lake Powell, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 1969
24The Capital Partnership the University Foundation at Albany, 1980
25Bibliography-Cheng, Roger, Undated
26Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, December 21, 1971 Undated
27"Cloud Physics and Rainmaking", Booklet, University of Chicago, 1957
28Cloud Seeding: Entry for Grolier Encyclopedia, April 13, 1960
29Cloud Seeding Photos, Undated
30Capitol [sic] District "Cesspool" Publicity-Commentary by Schaefer, September 2, 1967
31Conference on Atmospheric Science, State University of New York, College of Education at Albany, December 20, 1960
32Conference Emerging Environmental Problems, the Institute on Man and Science, Rensselaerville, New York, May 19, 1975-May 20, 1975
33Conference on Physics of Precipitation at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, June 3, 1959-June 5, 1959
34Duchess Community College Evening and Extension Division, Certificate of Appreciation, October 30, 1965
35E. Bollay Associates Inc.- Atmospheric Water Resources Research, Bureau of Revolution, Monthly Progress Report #9, April 15, 1966
36E. Bollay Associates Inc.- Park Range Atmospheric Water Resources Program, Monthly Progress Reports #25, #26, #27, 1967
37Eastern New York Chemist Directory Issue, Vol.8, #4, January 1964
38Ecology House, SUNY New Paltz, 1972
39Electrostatic Society of America, 1970 1977 1989 Undated
40Emergency Conservation Committee- Brochure, Undated
41"Energy and the Environment: A Challenge to Technology and Lawmaking in New York State", Conference Materials, January 21, 1974-January 23, 1974
42Environmental Advisory Council, 1972 1975
43Environmental Protection Agency- Memos, 1970-1972
44The Explorers Club- Newsletters, 1979
45Fifth Annual Summer Conference on the Adirondacks, June 12, 1975-June 14, 1975
46Fiji Trip- Schaefer Memo to ASRC Staff, October 1972
47First National Symposium on Hail Suppression, Dillon, Colorado, 1965
48-49For Spacious Skies: A National Effort to Increase Sky Awareness and Concern, National Conference, 1981
50Foster, Catherine O. "All are Guilty of Air Pollution; Only a New Attitude Can Change It", , December 1, 1970
51General Electric Monogram- Silver Anniversary of Training Program,
52Guest Book from Schaefer's ASRC/SUNY Retirement Party, June 9, 1976
53Hearings of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee for Water/Power Resources- Statements by Vincent J. Schaefer,
54Highlands Study, North Greenbush- Newsletter Article, December 14, 1970
55"History of the Experimental College" Transcription of Tapes 1,2, and 4, 1970
56Georgia Institute of Technology: "Atomic Technology and Humanity"- Commencement Address, June 13, 1955
57IBP, Aerobiology Newsletter, November 1971
58Inadvertent Weather Modification Conference (Lists of possible participants and activities), October 21, 1974-October 25, 1974
59Institute for Storm Research, "The Daving Project", Houston, Texas, April 26, 1972
60International Cloud Condensation Nuclei Workshop 6 to 17, October 6, 1980-October 17, 1980
61International Conference on Cloud Physics, May 1965-June 1965
62International Conference on Condensation Nuclei, May 9, 1966-May 10, 1966
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417Kiwanis Komments Newsletter with Notice About Schaefer Lecture, March 31, 1981
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2163Lecture: Comments on Accelerating Particle Growth Rate in Stacks, i.e. Pollution Reduction, May 28, 1969
64Lecture: "Things in the Air," 10th Annual Faculty Lecture, State University of New York at Albany, November 1967
65Lecture: University of Rochester, and Earth Week at SUNY Albany, Spring 1973
66Lee, P.G.- "They're Doing Something about the Weather", May 1963-June 1963
67Letter to the Editor of the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (manuscript by Schaefer),
68Manuscript Reviews by Schaefer -Correspondence, 1975-1976
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218Maps: Japan, Southern Hokkaido- From Lake Effect Snow/Japanese-American Research, c.1960s
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2169McLaren, Eugene- Retirement from SUNY Albany, 1963
70Memo-Weather Modification in the Northeast, Especially New York State, October 19, 1967
71"Mining Coal on Black Mesa- Peabody Coal Company" and Newsletters for Colorado Plateau Environmental Advisory Council, 1970-1973
72Mount Washington Observatory News Bulletin, Spring 1983 Winter 1992
73Museum of Northern Arizona-Correspondence, meeting minutes, brochures, 1956-1984
74Museum of Northern Arizona-Correspondence, meeting minutes, brochures, 1964-1978
75Museum of Northern Arizona-Correspondence, meeting minutes, brochures, articles, 1971-1976
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221Museum of Northern Arizona-Correspondence, meeting minutes, brochures, articles, 1971-1976
2National Conference on the Physics and Dynamics of Clouds, March 24, 1964-March 26, 1964
3National Science Foundation- Weather Modification Ninth Annual Report, 1968
4Natural and Artificial Mists-Photos, 1964
5New York Power Pool- Brochures and Booklets, 1974
6New York State Action for Clean air Committee, 1972
7New York State Air Pollution Control laws- Air Pollution Control Board, State of New York, 1966
8New York State Council of Environmental Advisers-minutes and memos, 1970
9News Clippings, 1961-1966 1971-1976 1982 1986 Undated
10News Letter- Colorado Plateau Environmental Advisory Council, 1970-1974
11Ninth International Conference on Atmospheric Aerosols, Condensation, and Ice Nuclei- Galway, IRE, September 21, 1977-September 27, 1977
12Ninth Sagamore Ordinance Materials Research, 1962
13North Eastern Environmental Council: Improving Environmental Quality: the Community's Role, Albany, New York, October 9,1970
14Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art (correspondence, Museum of Northern Arizona annual reports, brochure and quarterly, minutes of board meeting), 1960-1972
15Notes: Backup Info. on Fog Facility and Langmuir Institute for Geotechnology, 1967 Undated
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231Notes Correspondence and Typescript Relating to "Snow Crystals Formed on Silver Iodide Nuclei in the Free Atmosphere" by VJ Schaefer, 1960-1961
2Nuclear Power and the U.S Environment(Fact Sheet), 1970
3Odencrantz Electrical Effects, 1967-1968
4Panel on Weather and Climate Modification National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council Weather and Climate modification Problems and Prospects, Vol. I Summary and Recommendations,
5Photo of Schaefer with Unidentified Colleagues, Undated
6Press Release and Supplementary materials, re: Schaefer Research on Ice Nuclei form Auto Exhaust, 1966
7"The Problem of Acid Rain"- Schaefer Presentation to Acid Rain Forum, Adirondack Community College, January 20, 1981
8Proceedings of The First National Conference on Weather Modification April 28, 1968, May 1, 1968
9Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Measuring and Monitoring of Air Contaminant Emissions", State Technical Services Program Newsletter, March 1970
10Royal Meteorological Society- List of Members, August 1960
11Rural Radio Foundation, The Weather, Ithaca, New York(brochure), Undated
12Schaefer at Cinder lake Station near Flagstaff, AZ- photo, Summer 1962
13Schaefer Testimony to be presented to Joint Legislature Committee on the Environment- The Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution,
14Serendipity Hall/ Lansing Manor, 1973-1979
15Special Commission on Weather Modification-Weather and Climate Modification, National Science Foundation, 1965
16State of New York Joint Legislative Committee on Environmental Management and Natural Resources- Bills, Memos, Correspondence, Resolutions, 1969-1971
17State of Washington Weather Modification Board Monthly Progress Reports #16, March 1, 1967-April 1, 1967 April 1, 1967-May 1, 1967
18State of Washington Weather Modification Board Monthly Progress Reports #17, May 1, 1967-June 1, 167
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23a1State University of New York(Albany) News Clippings, 1968
2State University Water Sources Center, State University College of Forestry, Syracuse, New York, Annual Report #3, with commentary, 1969
3SUNY Albany: Construction of Uptown Campus, 1967
4Swidler, J.C and Speckhard, R.A, Agriculture Task Force Meeting, Institute for Public Policy Alternatives, SUNYA, Undated
5Swiss Federal Commission for Hail Formation and Prevention, 1957-1958
6Symposium Photos, Undated
7Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference, Tallahassee, Florida, March 22, 1973-March 23, 1973
8Taubenfelf, H.J. Weather Modification: Law Controls, Operations, Undated
9Testimony of Peter M. Sullivan, Chairman, to Water Resources Subcommittee of Public works and Transportation Committee of U.S. Congress, March 23, 1981
10Testimony to be Presented to Joint Legislative Committee on the Environment, Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution- Presented by VJ Schaefer, March 16, 1970
11Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Materials, 1972-1973 1976
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418Ti Estin Special Edition, June 1970
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23a12Travelers Research Center, Inc. The Environment and Man, Hartford, Connecticut, 1964-1965
13Tribute to Dr. Narayan Gokhale- Remarks by Schaefer, November 29, 1979
14United nations university and International Mountain Society, Mountain Research and Development 2.2, 1982
15University of California, Riverside, Office of Educational Services, Statewide Air Pollution Research Center, 1971-1972
16Water Survey Currents, Illinois State Water Survey, March 1987-April 1987
17Weather Modification Association- Preliminary Program for Fall Meeting, Undated
18Weather Modification Association- Proposed Draft Statement on Standards and Ethnics for Weather Modification Operators, September 1977
19Weather Modification Association, Weather Modification: Sore Facts about Seeding Clouds, August 1977
20White House Conference on International Cooperation, November 28, 1965-December 1, 1965
Subseries 7: Reports & Publications, 1948-1992, Undated
Arranged chronologically
This subseries includes reports and publications by Schaefer, his colleagues at the ASRC, and colleagues from other institutions who worked closely with Schaefer and occasionally collaborated with the ASRC. Names from the latter group will sound familiar from Schaefer’s consulting materials, such as Wendell Mordy and Paul MacCready. Topics range from annual ASRC reports, to solar energy work, to particle studies and more. Some documents are official reprints of articles while others are handwritten manuscripts or typescripts.
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241"Why be a Spelunker?" V.J. Schaefer- manuscript & correspondence, July 9, 1948
2Reason & Philosophy of the Proposed Natural Science Institute, V.J. Schaefer, c.1948
3"When Rain Falls from the Sky, V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, April 19, 1949
4"The Under Water House Builders", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript & correspondence, 1949
5"At the Bottom of the Ancient Seas", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, May 10, 1950
6"Acres of Crystal Diamonds", V.J. Schaefer- typescript, 1950
7Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, 1951
8"Continuous Cloud Chamber for Studying Small Particles in the Atmosphere", V.J. Schaefer, 1952
9"Formation of Ice-Crystals in Ordinary and Nuclei-Free Air", V.J. Schaefer, 1952
10"Ice Nuclei Concentrations at Mt. Washington," V.J. Schaefer, 1952
11"Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics," V.J. Schaefer, April 1955
12"Atmospheric Studies from a Moving Weather Observatory", V.J. Schaefer, March 1957
13"The Museum of the Atmosphere", V.J. Schaefer, December 1957
14"Studies at Atmospheric Phenomena in a Natural Outdoor Laboratory", V.J. Schaefer-manuscript, 1957-1958
15"The Scientific Utilization of Whiteface Mountain," Scientific Advisory Committee, June 1958
16"Cloud Explorations over Africa," V.J. Schaefer, 1958
17"An Adventure in Atmospheric Science", V.J. Schaefer- with Supplementary Materials, August 1959 October 1959
18"Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting- Western Snow Conference," April 1959, September 1959
19"The Scientific Atmosphere", Aiken S., July 26, 1959
20"The Boy who Learned to Grow Salt", Schaefer V.J., December 12, 1959
21AMS Committee on Cloud Physics, V.J. Schaefer, 1959-1965
22"The Electrification of Oil and Water Clouds", V.J. Schaefer, 1959
23"Journal of the Irrigation and Drainage Division Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers", V.J. Schaefer, March 1960
24"Hailstorms and Hailstones of the Western Great Plains", V.J. Schaefer- Includes Black and White Photographs found with Journal, 1960
25"Snow Crystals Formed on Silver Iodide Nuclei on the Free Atmosphere", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished manuscript and typescript, 1960
26"Atmospheric Studies in Yellowstone National Park," V.J. Schaefer, January 1961
27"Suggestions Relative to Improvement of Activity in the Atmospheric Sciences," V.J. Schaefer, July 2, 1961
28"Atmospheric Sciences Programs for High Ability Students," V.J. Schaefer, October 1961
29ASRC Annual Report, December 1961
30"The Cold Chamber as an Aid for Teaching and Conducting Research", V.J. Schaefer, 1961
31Fire Retardant Chemical Tests (Rough Draft), V.J. Schaefer, 1961
32"Vapor Method for Making Replicas of Liquid & Solid Aerosols," V.J. Schaefer, January 8, 1962
33"ASRC Scientific Conference on Hail Storms", V.J. Schaefer, March 27, 1962-March 30, 1962
34"Wilson Cloud Chamber Effect Under Natural Conditions", Vonnegut B., March 1962
35"Partial Answer to the Scientific Manpower Problem in the United States," V.J. Schaefer, May 1, 1962
36Scientific Memo #1, V.J. Schaefer, May 1962
37"Careers in Expanding Industrial Field," V.J Schaefer, July 2, 1962
38"The Vapor Method for Making Replicas of Liquid and Solid Aerosols", V.J. Schaefer, September 1962
39"The Amateur Scientist- An Apparatus for Studying Crystallization in Solutions Frozen on a Mercury Surface", C.L. Stong, December 1962
40"Condensed Water in the Free Atmosphere in Air Colder than- 40 °C", V.J. Schaefer, December 1962
41Committee on Atmospheric Sciences National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, 1962
42Committee on Atmospheric Sciences National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, 1962
43Committee on Atmospheric Sciences National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, 1962
44"Electric-Field Perturbations Caused by Eruption of Yellowstone Geyser," V.J Schaefer, 1962
45Review of "Snow Crystals", V.J. Schaefer, c.1962
46"Studies of Cirrus Type Clouds," V.J. Schaefer, 1962
47"Electric-Field Perturbations Caused by Eruption of Yellowstone's Geysers," V.J. Schaefer, March 1963
48"Pilot Project in Atmospheric Sciences for Young Students," V.J. Schaefer, Spring 1963
49Report of Whiteface Mountain Activities of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, June 1, 1963
50"Adirondack Conference on Silver Iodide Phenomena," V.J. Schaefer, July 1963
51"Studies of Atmospheric Nuclei in a Yellowstone Park", V.J. Schaefer, July 1963-September 1963
52"The Amateur Scientist- How to Make and Investigate Vortexes in Water and Flame", C.L. Stong, October 1963
53"Research Interests in the Hawaiian Islands," V.J. Schaefer, October 1963
54"Analysis and Recommendations Relative to Potential use of CN Meter for Atmospheric Studies", V.J Schaefer- manuscript, November 27, 1963
55"A Pilot Project in the Atmospheric Sciences for Young Students", V.J. Schaefer, 1963
56"Some Problems Concerning Weather Control", V.J. Schaefer- manuscripts and correspondence, 1963
57ASRC Whiteface Mountain Field Station Summer Program, Summer 1964
58ASRC Publication List, September 1964
59"Long Range Cloud Seeding Program for the Western States," V.J Schaefer, c.1964
60"Massive Glaciation of Cumulus Clouds: Proposal", V.J. Schaefer, 1964
61"Preparation of Permanent Replicas of Snow Frost and Ice", V.J. Schaefer, 1964
62"The Amateur Scientist-How to measure Raindrops, make Snowflakes and stimulate Subatomic Particle Scattering", C.L. Strong, August 1965
63"Final Report Research Support of 1965 Flagstaff Field Operations", V.J. Schaefer, September 10, 1965
64"The Concentration of Silver in Snow," V.J. Schaefer, October 18, 1965-October 22, 1965
65"The Detection of Silver Iodide in Snow by Neutron Activation Analysis," V.J. Schaefer, 1965
66Memorandum #3 on the 1965 Flagstaff Weather Modification Program, Paul B. MacCready, Jr., 1965
67"A Simple Method for Obtaining a Continuous Record of the Presence and Type of Clouds in the Sky during the Day", R.E. Falconer, 1965
68"Small Ion Concentrations in and Near Clouds and Fogs", A. W. Hogan, 1965
69"Statement Hearings to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs", V.J. Schaefer, c.1965
70"The Amateur Scientist- On Preserving the Shapes of Snow Crystals by Catching Snowflakes in Dissolved Plastic", C.L. Stong, March 1966
71"Ion-Nuclei and Air Trajectories Mobile Laboratories Prepared for U.S Army Element Joint Operations Group," V.J. Schaefer, June 10, 1966
72"Research Support of 1966 Flagstaff Field Operations", V.J. Schaefer, August 28, 1966
73"Exploratory In-Flight Survey of the Continental United States," V.J. Schaefer, December 1, 1966
74"Ice Nuclei from Automobile Exhaust and Iodine Vapor", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, December 23, 1966
75"The Detection of Surface Nuclei Active Molecules on Airborne Particulates", V.J. Schaefer, 1966
76"Exploratory In-Flight Survey of the Continental Unites States", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1966
77"Fine Particle Survey," V.J. Schaefer- maps measurements, photos), 1966-1976
78"Formation of Ice Nuclei from Automobile Exhaust and Iodine Vapor," V.J. Schaefer, 1966
79"Needed- A Better Energy Sink", V.J. Schaefer, 1966
80"Studies of Cirrus Type Clouds at Ground Level", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript and correspondence, 1966
81"Air as a Natural Resource- Constitutional Issue", V.J. Schaefer, January 4, 1967
82"Plan to Develop Technology for Increasing Water Yield from Atmospheric Sources," V.J. Schaefer, March 28, 1967
83"Field Observation of the Inadvertent Modification of the Weather by Air Pollution," V.J. Schaefer, May 17, 1967
84"Ice Nuclei Form Auto Exhaust and Organic Vapors," V.J. Schaefer, July 11, 1967-September 11, 1967
85"Sewer in the Sky", F. Rivett, July 1967
86"An Ultrasensitive Method for Detecting Silver or Lead Iodide in Falling Snow," V.J. Schaefer, October 9, 1967
87"Project Air Sample II", T.J. Henderson and D.W. Duckering, 1967
88Project Themis, United States Department of Defense- With report by Blanchard, Cormegut and Cudner, 1967-1968
89"The Old Maids' Woods", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript and correspondence, 1967 1970
90"Snowflakes: ID and Preservation" (Information Leaflet), 1967
91"Something in the Air," V.J. Schaefer, 1967
92"Some thoughts on Ice Nuclei," V.J. Schaefer, c.1967
93"Weather Modification," V.J. Schaefer, 1967
94"The Role of Atmospheric Sciences Research Center in International Research and Education," V.J. Schaefer, February 21, 1968
95"Ice Nuclei from Auto Exhaust and Organic Vapors," V.J. Schaefer, February 1968
96"New Field Evidence: Inadvertent Modification of the Atmosphere," V.J. Schaefer, February 1968
97"Project Air Sample III: General Narrative Comments", April 1968-May 7, 1968
98"The Early History of Weather Modification," V.J. Schaefer, April 1968
99"The Effect of the Nucleus on Ice Crystal Structure," V.J. Schaefer, April 1968
100"Fire and Wildlife Grazing on an African Plateau", P.C. Lemon, May 14, 1968-May 15, 1968
101"Freezing Nuclei Measurements along the Green River, Ouray to Mineral Canyon," T.J. Henderson, June 1968
102"The Generation of Large Numbers of Ice Crystals in an Electric Field", V.J. Schaefer, June 1968
103"Project Air Sample III: A Nucleus Measurement," T.J. Henderson and D.W. Duckering, June 1, 1968
104"What about the Next Twenty Years", V.J. Schaefer, June 1968
105The Times Independent of Moab, Utah, V.J. Schaefer, July 8, 1968
106"Snow"- As Printed in the Encyclopedia Britannica, V.J. Schaefer, September 17, 1968
107"Project Air Sample IV: A Nuclei Measurement," T.J. Henderson and D.W. Duckering, December 1, 1968
108"Serendipity in Science", V.J. Schaefer, December 1968
109"Air Pollution Simulation Chamber", V.J. Schaefer, c.1968 c.1970
110"The Effect of a Trace of Iodine on Ice Nucleation Measurements," V.J. Schaefer, 1968
111"Ice Crystals Aggregation- Field Observations and Laboratory Studies," V.J. Schaefer, c.1968
112"Ice Nuclei Climatology of the Northeastern U.S.", 1968
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251Proposal- "The Effects of Air Pollution on Precipitation Mechanisms", submitted by ASRC, c.1968
2"Interim Report to New York State Department of Health Air Resources Division", V.J. Schaefer, January 6, 1969
3Plans for a Clear Air Paper, V.J. Schaefer- Notes, measurements, charts, photos, 1968-1969
4"Simple Equipment Research," V.J. Schaefer, 1968
5"Windchill," ASRC Publication No.57, R. Falconer, 1968
6"After a Quarter of a Century", V.J. Schaefer, March 1969
7"The Inadvertent Modification of the Atmosphere by Air Pollution", V.J. Schaefer, April 1969
8"Conference Summary: Adirondack Conference on Electrostatistics", B. Vonnegut, June 1969
9"The Formation of Ice Crystals Under Electrical Stress", V.J. Schaefer, September 1969
10"Some Effects of Air Pollution on Our Environment," V.J. Schaefer, October 1969
11"Theory of Hail Growth", N.R. Gokhale and K.M. Rao, October 1969-December 1969
12"After a Quarter Century," V.J. Schaefer, 1969
13"ASRC Aerosol Detector Calibration", T.W. Norton- unpublished typescript, 1969
14The Effect of the Nucleus on Ice Crystal Structure, V.J. Schaefer, 1969
15"Global Effects of Environmental Pollution", V.J. Schaefer, 1969
16"Some Effects of Air Pollution on our Environment", V.J. Schaefer, 1969
17"Escape from Pollution- The Adirondacks", V.J. Schaefer, February 1970-March 1970
18Testimony to be presented to Joint Legislative Committee on Environment. The Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution, V.J. Schaefer, March 16, 1970
19"The Measurement of Aerosol particles on a Global Scale, V.J. Schaefer", July 1970
20"The Adirondacks as a Sanctuary from Pollution", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, August 10, 1970
21"Time Lapse Photography of Clouds", V.J. Schaefer, August 1970
22"Proposal to Federal Aviation Authority", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, September 23,1970
23ASRC Informational for Tower Tribune, V.J. Schaefer, September 1970
24"Auto Exhaust Pollution and Weather Patterns," V.J, Schaefer, October 1970
25"Condensation Nuclei: Production of Very Large Numbers in Country Air", November 20, 1970
26"What You Can Do About Air Pollution", V.J. Schaefer, December 1970
27"A Call for Action", V.J. Schaefer, 1970
28"The Adirondacks as a Sanctuary from Pollution", V.J. Schaefer- Article and Presentation Script with Correspondence, 1970
29"Comments on The Possible Influence of Air Pollution on Cloud Physics and Precipitation", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, typescript, calculations, correspondence, 1970
30"Escape from Pollution- The Adirondacks", V.J. Schaefer- with correspondence, 1970
31"Escape from Pollution- The Adirondacks", V.J. Schaefer- with correspondence, 1970
32"Five Rivers", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript and correspondence, 1970
33"Looking to the 70s," V.J. Schaefer, 1970
34ASRC Annual Report, July 1970
35Public Hearing Proposals, Amendment to Part 501 and Adoption of Part 502 of Air Pollution Control Rules Concerning Air Quality Standards and Classification, D.L. McClenahan, November 24, 1970
36Atmospheric Science Research Center State University, Albany, New York and U.S Geological Survey, Snow Cover Surveys, December 1970
37"Wilson Bentley, The Snowflake Man", D.C. Blanchard, December 1970
38"Electron Microprobe Studies of Cosmic Dust Impact Craters", O.K. Griffith, T.S. Renzema, D.S. Hallgren and C.L. Hemenway, 1970
39"The Problems of Small Particles", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished notes and typescript, 1970
40"Relationship of Small Particle Count to Pollution", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript of scientific memo, 1970
41"Time Lapse Photography of Clouds", V.J. Schaefer- applied optics, 1970
42"Studies in the Early History of Surface Chemistry", C.H Giles and S.D. Forrester, January 9, 1971
43"Lake Effect Storm Study" Final Report, V.J. Schaefer, February 1971
44"The Threat of the Unseen", V.J, Schaefer, February 6, 1971
45Manuscript and Correspondence, V.J. Schaefer, December 1970 March 29, 1971
46ASRC Fourth Annual Report, March 1971
47"Relationship of Cloud Nuclei Spectra to Aerosol Size Distribution and Composition", C. Junge and E. McLaren, April 1971
48Second International Workshop on Condensation and Ice Nuclei, May 1971
49"A Bill of Particulates," V.J. Schaefer, June 1971
50"Observation of an Early Morning Cup of Coffee," V.J. Schaefer, September 1971-October 1971
51"A Call for Action," V.J. Schaefer, November 15, 1971
52"Ice Nucleation by Coprecipitated Silver Iodide and Silver Bromide", H. Chessin, November 1971
53ASRC Annual Report, 1971
54"Condensation Nuclei from Molecular Clusters in Global Air", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished manuscript, 1971
55"Lattice Parameters of the Pseudobinary Solid Solutions of ASBR and ASI", H. Chessin and B. Vonnegut, 1971
56"Needed- A Better Energy Sink", V.J. Schaefer, with correspondence and supplementary materials, 1971
57"Observations of an Early Morning Cup of Coffee", V.J. Schaefer, 1971
58"The Production of Ice Crystals Fragments by Sublimation & Electrification", V.J. Schaefer and R.J. Cheng, 1971
59"Relationship of Cloud Nuclei Spectra to Aerosol Size Distribution and Composition", C. Junge and E. McLaren, 1971
60"Sampling Methods, Functional Associations and Galton's Problem: A Replicatives Assessment", J.M. Schaefer, M. Antoine, H. Carroll, J. Devitt, T. Haberman, B. Herda, M. Moyer, R. Bechlin, and L. Ward, 1971
61"The Sources and Concentrations of Ice nuclei in the Atmosphere", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1971
62"Study of the Influence of Diffusion and Thermophoresis on the Binding of Aerosol Particles on Cloud Elements", J. Podzimek- unpublished typescript, 1974
63"The Threat of the Unseen", V.J, Schaefer- with correspondence and supplementary materials, 1971
64"Air Quality of American Homes", V.J. Schaefer, V.A. Mohnen and V.R. Veirs, January 1972
65"Fine Particle Measurements in the Air Over the North Atlantic Ocean", V.J. Schaefer", January 1972-September 1972
66"A New Method for the Detection of Very Small Amounts of Ozone", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript and correspondence, May 1972
67"Climatic Modification Utilizing the Thermal Discharge from an Electricity Generating Station," R. Stewart and J.G. Droppo, June 1972
68"A Change in the Weather", A.W. Hogan and R. Falconer, October 1972-November 1972
69"Climatic Change on a Local Scale", A.W. Hogan and R. Falconer, October 1972-November 1972
70Bentley and Lenar: Pioneers in Cloud Physics, Duncan C. Blanchard, November 1972-December 1972
71"Interior Report : Fine Particle Concentration in the Southwest II," V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, December 1, 1972
72"Suggestions for the Development of Environmental Information Center in the Adirondack Mountains", V.J. Schaefer, December 28, 1972
73ASRC- Annual Report, 1972
74"Background Levels of Fine Particles in the Southwest I", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1972
75"Electrostatics- Selected Classified Bibliography," J.J. Bulloff and J. Davis, June 1973
76"The Fine Particle Index as an Air Quality Measure", V.J Schaefer- unpublished typescript and manuscript, 1972
77"Fine Particle Measurements in the Air Over the North Atlantic Ocean", V.J. Schaefer, 1972
78"Fine Particle Measurements in the Vicinity of Missoula Montana," V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1972 1974
79"Ice Nucleation by Solid Solutions of Silver-Copper Iodide", R.E. Jr. Passarelli, H. Chessin and B. Vonnegut, August 10, 1973
80"Ideal Weather Conditions for Experiments", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, 1972
81"Land Use factors Controlling Air and Water Pollution", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1972
82"Memo on Air Pollution and Man", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1972
83"The Quality of Air on the Global Scale," V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1972
84"Needle Crystals," V.J. Schaefer- unpublished manuscript, 1972
85"Interior Report: Fine Particle Concentrations in the Southwest III," V.J. Schaefer, January 30, 1973
86"Some Physics Relationships of Fine Particle Smoke", V.J. Schaefer, March 1973
87"Final Report: Fine Particle Concentrations in the Southwest IV, V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, April 23, 1973-May 1, 1973
88"High Concentrations of Condensation Nuclei in the Lower Stratosphere, V.J. Schaefer, July 1973-September 1973
89"Highly Concentrations of Condensation Nuclei in the Lower Stratosphere", V.J. Schaefer, August 20, 1973
90"Procedure for measuring Cn, CCn, O3 and NO2 With the Gardener Small Particle Detector," V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, November 28, 1973
91"Project Sunshine," V.J. Schaefer, December 13, 1973
92"Atmospheric Particulates: NSF Grant," J.E. Jiusto- unpublished typescript, December 1973
93ASRC- Aspects, 1973
94"Background Levels of Fine Particles in the Southwest ", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1973
95"The Detection of Very Small Amounts of Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide Using a Gas to Particle Reaction", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1973
96Evaluation of New York State Assembly Scientific Staff- with letter to Schaefer, 1973
97"The Field Detection of Distant Sources of Gases and Fine Particles", V.J. Schaefer- typescript, charts, diagrams, measurements, 1973-1978
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261"Forest-Type Emissions to the Atmosphere and Ozone. Their influence on Air Quality in the Northeastern Part of New York State", V.A. Mohnen and H.H. Hovey- research proposal, 1973
2"High Condensations of Condensation Nuclei in the Lower Stratosphere", V.J. Schaefer, 1973
3"Inadvertent Effects in Weather Modification", V.J. Schaefer- typescript, 1973
4"A Technique for Measuring Relative Threshold Nucleation Temperatures for Active Nucleation Catalysts", R.E. Passarelli, Jr.; H. Chessin and B. Vonnegut, 1973
5"Wilson Bentley, Pioneer in Snowflake Photomicrography," D. Blanchard, 1973
6"Aitken Nuclei vs. Cloud Condensation Nuclei", J.E. Jiusto and T. F. D. Lee, April 5, 1974
7"Ice Nucleation by Miersite", R.E. Jr. Passarelli, H. Chessin and B. Vonnegut, August 1974
8"Ice Nucleation in a Supercooled Cloud by CUI-3ASI and ASI Aerosols", R.E. Passarelli, Jr.; H. Chessin and B. Vonnegut, December 1974
9ASRC Report, 1974
10"New York State Cave Survey Information Part I: Gallupville Quad, Schoharie Quad, Voorheesville Quad," A. Hulstrunk and W.E. Peer, 1974
11"New York State Cave Survey Part II: Cobleskill Quad," A. Hulstrunk and W.E. Peer, 1974
12"Kaiparowits Survey of Air Quality," V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript and measurements, 1973-1975
13Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, 1973
14"New York City Air Pollution Proposal," V.J. Schaefer, 1973
15"The Production of Fine Particle Smoke by Forest Fires", V.J. Schaefer- typed abstract, 1973
16"Two Examples of Fascination in Northern Arizona", V.J. Schaefer- with photos, 1973
17"Wonderings," V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, 1973
18"Water for Electricity- A Swap That Benefits All", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1973
19The Effect of Ozone Lead & Silver Iodide, V.J. Schaefer, April 1974
20"Observations of Gas to Particle Reactions and Other Measurements", V.J. Schaefer- draft, August 19, 1974
21"Observation, Serendipity, and Climate Change", V.J. Schaefer, September 1974
22"Comment on 'Oceanic Aerosol Levels Deduced from Measurements of the Electrical Conductivity of Atmosphere'", A.W. Hogan, V.A. Mohnen and V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1974
23"The Detection of Atmospheric Trace Gases by Conversion to Fine Particles", V.J. Schaefer- typescript, measurements, 1974
24"The Effect of a Trace of Iodine on Ice Nucleation Measurements", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished manuscript, 1974
25"More Heat From Your Fireplace", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, 1974
26New York State Cave Survey Information Part III: Altamont Quad, Clarksville Quad, Delmar Quad , A. Hulstrunk and W.E. Peer, 1974
27"New York State Cave Survey Information Part IV: Miscellaneous, Extra Capital Caves Adirondack Region Watertown Area," A. Hulstrunk and W.E. Peer, 1974
28"The Environmental Impact of Weather Modification- Strategy for Implementation", V.A. Mohnen, 1975
29"Catalyst: What's in a Cup of Coffee? Lots of Ideas for Science Experiments", V. Marteka (edited), January 31, 1975
30"Air Quality Observations in the Shawangunk Mountains," V.J. Schaefer, February 14, 1975
31"Solar Energy Experiments for Secondary School Students", Thomas W. Norton, Donald Hunter and Roger Cheng, February 1975
32"Preliminary Report of Air Quality Conditions in Capitol and Legislative Office Building Albany, New York," V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, March 26, 1975
33"Scientific Adventures," V.J. Schaefer, March 1975
34"The Question of Acid Rain," V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, May 16, 1975
35"Particulate Measurements in the Office Area of Dr. Alfred Zamm", V.J. Schaefer- with letter, June 25, 1975 June 30, 1975
36"Antarctic Aerosols", Hogan, A.W, June 1975
37"Minimum Energy Building Solar Heated, Solar Energy for New York State," D.L. McClenahan, June 1975
38"A Trip on the Colorado Through The Grand Canyon," V.J. Schaefer, September 22, 1975-October 8, 1975
39"The Developmental of Small Solar Heated Greenhouses in Regions Having Short Growing Seasons and Limited Water Supplies", V.J. Schaefer, October 1, 1975
40"More Heat From Your Fireplace", V.J. Schaefer- With supplementary materials, October 1975 November 1975
41"Atmospheric Sciences Research Center SO2 Oxidation Rate in Plumes from Oil-Fired Power Plants- A Laboratory Study,"- Final Report, 1975
42"Air Quality in the Grand Canyon", V.J. Schaefer, 1975
43"The Effect on Air Quality of Wood Burning", V.J. Schaefer, 1975
44"Eighth Air Quality Reconnaissance Study of Northern Arizona and Southern Utah", V.J. Schaefer- typescript, 1975
45"Energy for Survival: The Alternative to Extinction", V.J. Schaefer, 1975
46"The Inadvertent Modification of the Atmosphere by Air Pollution," V.J. Schaefer, 1975
47"Investigation of the Pseudobinary Solid Solutions of AgI-CuI by Means of X-Ray Diffraction", H. Chession, R.E. Passarelli Jr. and B. Vonnegut, 1975
48"Preparation of a Position Paper on Inadvertent Weather Modification in Relation to the Space Shuttle Exhaust Products," V.A. Mohnen- Grant Proposals, 1975
49"The Foam Volcanos of the Bozenkill in the Helderhills," V.J. Schaefer, January 30, 1976
50"Atmospheric Sciences Research Center SO2 Oxidation Rate in Plumes from Oil-Fired Power Plants- A Laboratory Study", February 1976
51ASRC Report, D.C. Blanchard, L. Sikorowski, V.A. Mohnen and B. Vonnegut, September 1976
52"Physical Properties of the Atmospheric Aerosol," A. Hogan, September 1976
53"Minimum Energy Building: The First Winter's Operation," D.L. McClenahan, December 1976
54ASRC Report, 1976
55Final Report: "The Air Quality Patterns of Aerosols on the Global Scale," V.J. Schaefer- text, charts, measurements, figures, 1976
56"Global Patterns in Size and Number of Airborne Particles," V.J. Schaefer, c.1976
57"A New Method for Measuring Particle Concentration in a Cloud", V.J. Schaefer- with outline measurements, 1976
58"Routine Measurement of Submicroscopic Lead Particles in the Atmosphere and their Possible Role in Inadvertent Weather Modification", V.J. Schaefer, October 1977
59"Is Something Happening to Our Supply of Supercooled Clouds?" V.J. Schaefer, 1977
60"GASP Cabin Ozone Study," R. Falconer, 1977
61"Production of Air Bubbles of a Specified Size", D. Blanchard and L.D. Syzdek, 1977
62"Trace Gas and Fine Particle Measurements in Ireland", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, 1977
63"A Trip on the Colorado Through the Grand Canyon", V.J. Schaefer- MNA/ASRC, September 22, 1978-October 8, 1978
64ASRC Report, September 1978
65"Dry Ice=Antarctica", A.W. Hogan, Autumn 1978
66"The Air Quality of Northwestern Montana", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished manuscript and typescript with map and measurements, 1978
67"The Presence of Ozone, Nitric Acid, Nitrogen Dioxide and Ammonia in the Atmosphere", V.J. Schaefer, 1978
68"The Use of Trace Gases and Submicroscopic Particles to Establish the Quality of the Global Atmosphere", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, chart, article, measurements, 1978
69"Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics," V.J. Schaefer, June 1979
70"Notes on a Visit to Splot Pond and Mink Pond", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, August 23, 1981
71"Twenty-Nine Days on Top of the Shawangunks: A Study and Measurement of Air Quality", V.J. Schaefer, November 10, 1981
72"Global Patterns in Size and Number of Airborne Particles", V.J. Schaefer and Atmospheric Aerosols and Nuclei, A.F. Roddy and T.C. O'Conner, 1981
73"The Problem of Acid Rain", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript and correspondence, 1981
74"Record of Some Experiments on Chemical Precipitation," A.W. Hogan, 1981
75"Twenty- Nine Days on Top of the Shawangunks: A Study and Measurement if Air Quality", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished manuscript and measurements, 1981
76"The Human Environment- Action or Disaster", V.A. Mohnen, June 1982
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271"Investigation of Marble Deterioration of City Hall of Schenectady, New York," R.J. Cheng and R. Castillo, August 15, 1982
2"Estimation of Sulfate Deposition", A.W. Hogan, 1982
3"A Proposal for a Field Program for the N.Y.S. Museum and Science Service", V.J. Schaefer- typescript and draft, May 20, 1983
4"Thoughts Relative to the Need for a Training Program to Develop Competent Field Observers", V.J. Schaefer- typescripts and manuscript, June 1, 1983
536th Annual Gaseous Electrons Conference, October 11, 1983-October 14, 1983
6"The Effect on Air Quality of Wood Burning," V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, 1983
7"Some Characteristics of Chemical Precipitation", A.W. Hogan, 1983
8"Atmospheric Sciences: 25 Years Young," M. Fiess, Spring 1986-Summer 1986
9"Ubiquitous Geometry: Some Examples Showing the Significance of Size and Shape in the Works of Man and Nature", C.H. Bachman, September 1988
10"Serendipity and the Innovation", V.J. Schaefer, Fall 1991
11"The Modification of a Hurricane", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished manuscript, 1992
12"Air as a Natural Resource", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, Undated
13"Airborne Carbon Particles and Marble Determination," M. Del Monte, C. Sabbioni and O. Vittori, Undated
14"Air Quality Considerations for Land Use Planning", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, Undated
15"The Bounce Effect," K. Loomis, Undated
16"Can Vegetable Productivity be Economically Increased in the Northeastern U.S.," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
17China Lake Proposal/ China Lake, California- V.J. Schaefer (With photos), Undated
18"A Classification for Gas to Aerosol Conversions," E.G. Walther- unpublished typescript, Undated
19"The Cold Chamber as in Aid for Teaching and Conducting Research"- V.J. Schaefer, Undated
20"Come in….Rain or Shine " Multiple Authors, Tributes to W.R. Whitney, Undated
21"Contribution to the Growth of Ice Crystals Falling in Supercooled Water Cloud", J. Podzimek, Undated
22"The Detection of Silver Iodide Nuclei by Their Effect on Ice Crystal Formation," V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, Undated
23"The Detection of Very Small Amounts of Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide Using a Gas-to-Particle Reaction", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript and correspondence, Undated
24"The Development of Small Solar Heated Greenhouses and Related Techniques for Supplementary Food Supplies in Areas Having Short Seasons and Limited Water Supplies", V.J. Schaefer- correspondence, Undated
25"The Discovery of a Practical Method for Producing Large Numbers of Ice Nuclei"- V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, Undated
26"Energy Needs and the Atmosphere", W. Mordy, Undated
27"Environment," V.J. Schaefer- manuscripts, Undated
28"The Field Detection of Distant Sources of Gases and Fine Particles", V.J. Schaefer, Undated
29"Field Observations of Thunderstorms," V.J. Schaefer- unpublished typescript, Undated
30"Fiji," V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, Undated
31"Fires," V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, Undated
32"The Formation of Ice Crystals", U. Nakaya, Undated
33"Forms of Water in the Winter Time", V.J. Schaefer- unpublished manuscript, Undated
34"Growth and Development of Helogeistic Cross-Cultural Research," J.M. Schaefer, Undated
35"The History of the Production of Artificial Fog", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript with calculations and photocopies), Undated
36"How I Happened to be on the Canyon Trip", V.J. Schaefer- manuscript, Undated
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281"Ice Nuclei Concentrations at Mount Washington During Thirteen Years," Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer and H.G.S. Langford, Undated
2"Ice Nuclei Studies in Historical Perspective," Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
3"Ice River Relics," Typescript and Photos, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
4"The Inadvertent Modification of the Atmosphere by Air Pollution," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
5"Lead Particles," Manuscript Fragment, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
6"Long Park Concept," Manuscript, A. Hulstrunk, Undated
7"The Magic Paint of an Invisible Artist," Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
8Manuscript-- Untitled, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
9Manuscript-- Untitled, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
10Manuscript-- Untitled, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
11Manuscript-- Untitled, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
12Manuscript-- Untitled, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
13"Misconception About Cloud Seeding With Dry Ice," Typescript, Anonymous, Undated
14"New Field Evidence of Inadvertent Modification of the Atmosphere," Typescript and Measurements, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
15"Northwestern Montana Observations," Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
16"Optimal Supplementary Research Program," Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
17"The Particulate Spectrum of Remote Areas," Reviewer's Abstract-- V.J. Schaefer, Undated
18"The Presence of Certain Trace Gases in Global Air," Typescript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
19"The Presence of Ozone, Nitric Acid, and Nitrogen Dioxide in the Atmosphere," Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
20"Programs, Objectives, and Accomplishments of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center," Typescript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
21"The Quiet Revolution," Manuscript, Anonymous, Undated
22"The Region Where the Ground Trembles," Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
23"The Relationship of Trees to Atmospheric Pollution," Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
24"Research Studies at the Mount Washington Observatory," Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
25"Scientific Adventures," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
26"Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
27"Snow Crystals in Fossil Form," Typescript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
28"Snowflakes: How to Identify and Preserve Them," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
29"Types of Frozen Precipitation," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
30Unfinished Manuscript, V.J. Schaefer, Undated
31"The Vapor Method for Making Replicas of Liquid and Solid Aerosols," V.J. Schaefer, Undated
Subseries 8: Photographs, 1946-1988, Undated
Arranged alphabetically
In addition to traditional photos, the photographs subseries also contains negatives and photo slides. Topics include the environment, chemistry, electrostatics, ice and snow, and world travel. While some of the images in this subseries are directly related to Schaefer’s professional work, others are likely derived from extracurricular activities he engaged in while taking photographs for business purposes. Schaefer never did like to let an opportunity go by to explore things that were of interest to him. Some topics, like the Yellowstone Field Expedition, exist as their own subseries elsewhere. In the interests of preserving original order, however, those images were not pulled from this subseries.
Researchers might note that the dates of this subseries span far more than Schaefer's ASRC years. Although some of the photos, slides, and negatives are from G.E., Munitalp, and consulting jobs, Schaefer certainly drew upon his past resources while working for the University at Albany/ASRC. He also stayed on in an advisory capacity after his official retirement, which is why there are images that post-date 1976.
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291AAAS Chautauqua- Photo Slides, 1952-1972
2AAAS Chautauqua- Photo Slides, 1972
3AAAS Chautauqua- Photo Slides, 1971-1972
4AAAS- Negatives, 1972
5AAAS Chautauqua- Photo Slides, 1971-1972
6Adirondacks- Negatives, Undated
7Adirondacks- Negatives, Undated
8Adventures Ahead- Photos, Undated
9Adventures Ahead- Photo Slides, 1963-1972
10Air in Homes- Photo Slides, 1971-1976
11Air Quality- Photos, Undated
12Air Quality- Photo Slides, 1950-1974
13Air Quality- Photo Slides, 1963-1972
14Air Quality- Photo Slides, 1965-1972
15Air Quality- Photo Slides, 1967-1971
16Air Quality Lecture- Photo Slides, 1966-1973
17Air Quality Station- Photos, Undated
18Alaska- Photo Slides, 1973
19Along Beall Trail, Little Colorado River- Negatives, Undated
20Apparati- Photos, 1975
21Arizona Expeditions- Photos, 1976
22-23ASRC Activities, notes, 1971
24ASRC Early Days- Negatives, 1966
25ASRC Faculty and Students- Photos, Undated
26ASRC Hangar- Negatives, Undated
27ASRC Hangar- Photos, 1962
28-29ASRC Hangar- Photos, Undated
30ASRC LES- Negatives, Undated
31ASRC Lake George- Negatives, Undated
32ASRC New Facilities- Negatives, Undated
33ASRC Research Center- Negatives and Prints, Undated
34Atmospheric Optics- Photo Slides, 1948-1968
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301Atmospheric Optics- Photo Slides, 1948-1976
2Atmospheric Optics- Photo Slides, 1961-1973
3Atmospheric Phenomena- Photo Slides, 1952-1964
4Atmospheric Phenomena-Photo Slides, 1952-1972
5Atmospheric Quality- Photo Slides, 1955-1972
6-10Atmospheric Sciences Program-ARS- Loomis-Photo Slides, 1961
11Atmospherics- Slides, 1947-1973
12Atmospherics- Slides, 1954-1977
13Atmospherics- Slides, 1956-1976
14Atmospherics- Early Negatives, Undated
15Atmospherics- Waterfall Electricity Slides, 1965-1973
16-17Australia- Photo Slides and Cloud Seeding Photos, 1961 Undated
18Bailey Colorado- Postcard, Undated
19Banff- Alberta Canada- Photo Slides, 1971
20Banff Alberta- Canada- Slides, 1979
21Beale Expedition- Flagstaff Arizona, Undated
22-25Bechtel Project- Negatives, Undated
26-34Bechtel- Photos, 1972-1974
35Bechtel- Photos, Undated
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311-3Bechtel- Photos, Undated
4Bechtel Study-Photo Slides, 1972
5Bechtel Survey- Photo Slides, 1972-1976
6-10Bechtel I-Photos, Undated
11Bechtel II- Negatives, Undated
12-13Bechtel III Photo Slides, 1973
14-19Bechtel IV- Negatives, Undated
20Bechtel IV- Photo Slides, 1973
21-25Bechtel V- Negatives, Undated
26Bechtel V- Photo Slides, 1973
27Bechtel V- Photo Slides, 1974
28Bechtel VI- Photo Slides, 1955-1974
29Bechtel VI- Photo Slides, 1974
30Southwest Bechtel VI, Photo Slides, 1974
31Bechtel VII- Photo Slides, 1960-1975
32Bechtel VII- Photo Slides, 1975
33-34Bechtel VII- Photos, Undated
35Bechtel VIII- Photo Slides, 1967-1975
36Bechtel VIII- Photo Slides, 1974-1975
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321Bernard Cells- Photos, Undated
2Bernard Cells- Photo Slides, 1978
3Bennett Peters- "Some Notes on the Vegetation of the Inner Gorge- "Grand Canyon-" *Four Corners Geological Society, Guidebook*- Durango-Colorado- Photos, 1955
4Blitzblau "Bubble Jets in Viscous Media", August 1, 1966
5-6California- Photos, Undated
7California Vandenberg Air Force Base- Photo Slides, 1979
8Case Francis- Senator Troy- South Dakota- Photo- with Vincent J. Schaefer, 1979
9Cheny- Photos, Undated
10Chaco Canyon, Negatives, Undated
11Clark Fred- Negatives, Undated
12Cloud Formations- Photo Slides, 1952-1973
13Cloud Formations- Photo Slides, 1963-1975
14Cloud Formations, Monsoon, Photos, Undated
15Cloud Seeding- Negatives, 1958
16Cloud Seeding- Negatives, 1961-1966
17-19Cloud Seeding- Negatives, Undated
20Cloud Seeding- Photos, 1968
21-22Cloud Seeding- Photos, Undated
23Cloud Seeding- Chlor- Sulfonic Seed. USAE- RDC- Negatives, 1963
24Cloud Seeding Conference-Whiteface Mountain- Negatives, Undated
25-26Cloud Seeding- Dry Ice "Cirrus Effect" -Homogeneous Nucleation- Photos, Undated
27Cloud Seeding- Flagstaff- AZ- Negatives, 1963-1964
28Cloud Seeding- Photo Slides, 1947-1961
29Cloud Seeding- Photo Slides, 1948-1973
30Clouds- Negatives, 1964-1967
31Clouds- Negatives, Undated
32-48Clouds- Photos, Undated
49Clouds- Photo Slides, 1947-1974
50Clouds, Photo Slides, 1948-1973
51Clouds- Photo Slides, 1948-1975
52Clouds- Photo Slides, 1949-1962
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331Clouds- Photo Slides, 1949-1966
2Clouds- Photo Slides, 1949-1973
3Clouds- Photo Slides, 1949-1976
4Clouds- Photo Slides, 1951-1975
5Clouds- Photo Slides, 1952-1972
6Clouds- Photo Slides, 1957-1982
7Clouds- Photo Slides, 1959-1976
8Clouds- Photo Slides, 1962-1972
9Clouds- ALB-BUF- Photo Slides, 1972
10-13Clouds and Cloud Formations- Photos, 1946-1983
14Clouds and Cloud Formations- Photos, 1948-1977
15Class and Cloud Formations- Photo Slides, 1948-1984
16Clouds and Cloud Formations- Photo Slides, 1949-1975
17Clouds and Cloud Formations- Photo Slides, 1949-1976
18Clouds and Cloud Formations- Photo Slides, 1949-1984
19Clouds and Cloud Formations- Photo Slides, 1950-1980
20-21Clouds and Cloud Formations- Photo Slides, 1952-1971
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341-2Clouds and Cloud Formations- Photo Slides, 1952-1972
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5Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1953-1973
6-8Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1954-1973
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12Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1954-1978
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351Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1954-1978
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6Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1955-1973
7Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1955-1978
8Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1955-1981
9Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1956-1975
10Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1957-1970
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361Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1957-1973
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7Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1958-1973
8Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1959-1967
9Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1959-1970
10Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1959-1973
11Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1959-1974
12Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1959-1975
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381-2Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1959-1978
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6Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1968
7-8Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1969
9-10Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1970
11Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1971
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391-4Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1972
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6-8Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1974
9Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1975
10-12Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1976
13-14Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1977
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401-2Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1977
3Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1978
4Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1979
5-6Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1981
7Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1960-1984
8Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1964
9Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1969
10Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1970
11-13Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1971
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411-3Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1972
4-5Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1973
6Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1974
7Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1976
8-9Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1977
10Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1978
11Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1983
12Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1961-1984
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421-2Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1962-1973
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7Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1962-1978
8Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1962-1982
9-10Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1963-1970
11Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1963-1975
12Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1963-1981
13Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1964-1967
14Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1964-1968
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431-2Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1964-1972
3-4Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1964-1973
5-8Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1965-1972
9Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1965-1975
10Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1965-1976
11Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1966-1967
12Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1966-1972
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441Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1966-1981
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5-6Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1967-1973
7-8Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1967-1978
9Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1967-1982
10Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1968-1973
11Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1969-1973
12Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1969-1974
13Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1971-1974
14Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1972-1973
15Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1976-1979
16Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1982
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451-3Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1982
4-7Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1982-1983
8-11Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1982-1984
12Clouds and Cloud Formation- Photo Slides, 1983-1984
13-18Clouds and Cloud Mechanics- Photos and Captions, 1961-1988
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461-3Clouds and Cloud Mechanics- Photos and Captions, 1961-1988
4-5Clouds and Cloud Seeding- Negatives, 1950-1963
6Clouds and Cloud Seeding- Negatives, 1952-1963
7Clouds and Cloud Seeding- Negatives, 1955
8Clouds and Cloud Seeding- Negatives, 1958-1972
9Clouds and Cloud Seeding- Negatives, 1960-1966
10-11Clouds and Cloud Seeding- Negatives, 1963-1965
12Clouds- Earth to Space- Photo Slides, 1969-1970
13-14Clouds- Eclipse- Photo Slides, 1972
15-22Clouds- Eclipse- Photo Slides, 1973
23Clouds- Flagstaff-AZ- Negatives, 1958-1966
24Clouds- Flagstaff- Negatives, Undated
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471Clouds- Flagstaff-AZ- Negatives, 1969
2Clouds- FLG- SFC Peaks- Slides, 1956-1974
3Clouds- Flasdram Hall- Flagstaff- Arizona- Photos, Undated
4Clouds- Fog- Photo Slides, 1950-1970
5-8Clouds from Airplanes- photos, 27604
9-15Clouds from Airplanes- photos, Undated
16Clouds- Hail Storm- ASRC Northern Arizona Field Station- Photos, Undated
17Clouds- Jet Stream- WS- Negatives, 1958-1961
18Clouds- Jet Stream- Slides, 1952-1965
19Clouds Jet Stream CL- Slides, 1957-1964
20Clouds- Majorato CU Over Jumbo Mountain- Hellgate- Missoula- Montana- Photos, Undated
21Clouds- Middle- Photo Slides, 1949-1974
22Clouds- MNA-GLG, Photo Slides, 1949-1976
23Clouds- Shear in a Contrail- Arizona Field Station- ASRC- Photo, Undated
24Clouds- a Stormy Sky- Grand Tetons- Wyoming- Photos, Undated
25Clouds- Smoke- Photo Slides, 1957-1971
26Clouds- Socorro- New Mexico- Negatives, Undated
27Clouds- Southwest MNA- FLCE- Photo Slides, 1948-1964
28Clouds- Types- Cumulus- Slides, 1952-1969
29Clouds- Sunset- Photo Slides, 1948-1960
30Clouds- Thunderstorm- West Fork Butte- Montana- Photos, Undated
31Clouds -Types- Altocumulus- Castellanus- Photo Slides, 1971
32Clouds- Types- Cirrus- Photographs, Undated
33Clouds- Types- Cirrus-Photo Slides, 1949-1974
34Clouds- Types- Cirrus-Photo Slides, 1950-1968
35Clouds- Types-Cumulus-MA- Jetstream- New Mexico-Photos, Undated
36Clouds- Types- Condensation Tracks from Jet Aircraft in High Cirrocumulus-Photos, Undated
37Clouds- Types- Cottonwood Canyon- California- Photos, Undated
38Clouds- Types- Cumulus- Negatives, Undated
39Clouds- Types- Cumulus- Photo Slides, 1950-1971
40Clouds-Types-Cumulus-MNA-FLA- Negatives, 1961
41Clouds- Types- Cumulus Nimbus- Partially Modified by a Jet Stream- Photos, Undated
42Clouds- Types- Stratocumulus-Photos, Undated
43Clouds- Types- Towering Cumulus- Flagstaff- Arizona- Photos, Undated
44Clouds- Types- Virga in the Evening- Photos, Undated
45Clouds- Types- JS Clouds- Slides, 1954-1978
46Clouds- Types- Clouds over Dry Lake Hills- Photos, Undated
47Clouds- Types-Waves- Photo Slides, 1952-1964
48Clouds-Weather Modification-Photos, 1967
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481Cold Front- Photos, Undated
2Colorado-Negatives, Undated
3Colorado Plateau Expeditions-Photos, Undated
4Colorado River Storage Project- Photo, 1965
5Conference- Adirondack on Silver Iodide Phenomena- Whiteface Mountain Chalet- Whiteface Mountain- Wilmington- New York, November 13, 1962-November 16, 1962
6Conference Sixth Icon- ASRC-PSU Photos, 1966
7Conference on Lake Effect of New York at Fredonia- Photos, 1962
8-12Conference on Lake Effect Storms- State University of New York at Fredonia- Photos, 1962
13Continued Climate Change and Charge Negatives, 1952
14Contrails- Negatives, 1954-1961
15Crystals- Photo Slides, 1962-1975
16Crystals- Seeding- Photos, 1965
17Crystals- Ice- Photos-PB1, Undated
18Crystals- Ice-Photo Slides, 1948-1975
19Crystals- Seeded PBL2-Negatives, Undated
20Dar es Salaam- Mount Washington- Photos, Undated
21Davenport-Iowa-Pollution-Photo Slides, 1974
22Diamond Dust-Negatives, 1960
23Dickershaid-Negatives, Undated
24-26DRI-APP-Negatives, 1962
27Dudley Lake Fire- Negatives, Undated
28Electrostatics-Adirondack Conference on- Negatives, 1968
29-30Electrostatics-Adirondack Conference on-Photos, 1968
31Electrostatics-Adirondack Conference on-Photos, Undated
32Eleventh Mountain Falls-Negatives, 1967
33Elk Mountain-Negatives, Undated
34Elk Mountain-Photos, 1966
35-37Elk Mountain-Wyoming-Photos, 1966
38Embryos-Electric Charge-Photos, Undated
39England-Photos, Undated
40England-Photo Slides, 1950-1969
41Expeditions-Photograph, Undated
42Experimental-Photo Slides, 1956-1968
43Experiments-Photo Slides, 1952-1969
44Experiments-Infrared Photos-Photo Slides, 1970
45Far GD Jet-Photo Slides, 1971-1972
46Fiber-Glass-Negatives, Undated
47-48Fiji Islands-Photos, 1972
49-51Fiji-Photos, 1972
52-53Fiji-Photo Slides, 1972
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491-3Fiji-Photo Slides, 1972
4Fire-Sagebrush-Rupert-Idaho, 1984
5Fire-Forest-Photo Slides, 1977
6Firewood Incident-Negatives and Prints, 1961
7Five Rivers Rambles-Negatives, Undated
8Flagstaff-Arizona-MNA-Negatives, Undated
9Flagstaff-Arizona-Negatives, 1959-1972
10Flagstaff-Arizona-Negatives, 1960-1963
11Flagstaff-Arizona-Negatives, 1963
12Flagstaff-Arizona-Negatives, 1964
13Flagstaff-Arizona-Negatives, 1967
14Flagstaff-Arizona-Negatives, 1971
15-18Flagstaff-Arizona-Negatives, Undated
19-20Flagstaff-Arizona-NSI, 1968
21Flagstaff-Arizona-Photographs, July 1964-August 1964
22Flagstaff-Arizona-Photo Slides, 1973
23Fleischmann Hall-Negatives, 1964
24Fleischmann Hall-Flagstaff-Arizona, Ca. 1960
25Flight Phoenix-Denver-Negatives, 1964
26Flights-Pollution-Photo Slides, 1962-1973
27Foam Volcanos, Upper Bozenkill, W.W. Christman-Negatives, Undated
28Fog Studies-Negatives, 1966
29Forestry Cabin-Photo, Undated
30France-Photos and Slides, 1959-1967
31France- Photo Slides, 1963-1967
BoxFolder
501-5France-Photo Slides, 1963-1967
6Germany-Photo Slides, 1954-1969
7Grand Canyon-Negatives, Undated
8-12Grand Canyon-Photos, 1975
13Grand Canyon-Photos and Photo Slides, 1975
14Grand Canyon-Photo Slides, 1962-1965
15Grand Falls-Negatives, 1967
16Grand Tetons-Negatives, Undated
17Grand Tetons-Negatives, Undated
18Green City Area Below, Photos, Undated
19Green River Expedition-Photos, Undated
20Group Photo in Front of Cabin, Undated
21Hail-Negatives, 1963
22-23Hailstones-Photos, Undated
24Hawaii-Photo Slides, 1961-1971
25Hawaii-Photo Slides, 1961-1975
26Hawaii-Photo Slides, 1971
27Hawaii-Photo Slides, 1971-1978
28Hawaii-Photo Slides, 1971-1978
29Heterogeneous-Nucleation-Photo Slides, 1962-1967
30Henderson-Kathy-The Coexistence of the Asians and the Fijians on the Fiji Islands, December 15, 1972
31-32Hokkaido-University of-Photos, Undated
BoxFolder
511Hurricane Cross Section of Photos, Undated
2Hurricane Hugo-Photo, 1989
3Hydrophobic Soil Residue-Snow lecture Slides, 1964-1974
4ICCIN-Sixth-Negatives, Undated
5ICCN # 5-Negatives, 1962
6ICF-Anchor-Negatives, Undated
7Ice Crystal Grown on a Lead Iodide Nucleus- Photo, Undated
8Papers Ice-Brazil-Negatives, Undated
9Ice Crystals-Photo Slides, 1965-1981
10Ice Nucleus Conference-Photos, Undated
11Ice Particles, Progenitors of Homogeneous Formed from "Popper"-Photos, Undated
12Ice Storms- Negatives, Undated
13Institute on Man and Science Manse Rensselaerville-New York-Photo, May 1980
14International Conference on Cloud Physics-Photos, 1968
15Ireland-Photos and Slides, 1977
16-17Ireland-Photos Slides, 1977
18Island in the Sky-Photos, Undated
19Italy-Photo Slides, 1958-1963
20Italy-Photo Slides, 1958-1968
21Italy and Spain-Photo Slides, 1956-1961
22Jackson Hole Field Station-Negatives, 1970
23Japan- Photo Slides, 1963-1970
24-26Japan- Photo Slides, 1965-1970
27-28Japan- Photo Slides, 1970
29Johnsburg Central School-Scholarship "J" Honorees-Photo, Undated
30Kalliroscope-Photos, Undated
31Lake Effect Initial Effort-Negatives, 1962
32Lake Effect Storms-Photo Slides, 1962
33Lake George-Negatives, Undated
34Lake Powell-Photos, 1976
BoxFolder
521Lake Powell-Negatives, Undated
2Langmuir Observatory-Negatives, 1965
3Lectures, 1964-1974
4Lectures-Fasciation, 1957-1977
5Lectures-Fredonia-Chautauqua, Undated
6Lectures-Helderbergs-Photo Slides, 1954-1975
7Lectures-NSI-Photo Slides, 1972
8Lectures-YFRE-Photo Slides, 1962-1972
9Lectures-YFRE 10-Photo Slides, 1970
10Lightning-Negatives, 1974
11Lightning-Negatives, Undated
12Lightning-Photos, Undated
13Lightning-Photo-Farview-Montana, Undated
14Magazine Photos, Undated
15Meteor Expedition-Photos and Slides, 1971
16Meteor-R.S.-Photo Slides, 1971
17Miscellaneous Photo Slides, 1948-1977
18Miscellaneous Photo Slides, 1954-1974
19Miscellaneous Photo Slides, 1963-1974
20MNA-Negatives, Undated
21MNA Trenches-Negatives, Undated
22Mohnen Volker-Photo, Undated
23Montana-Photo Slides, 1953
24Montezuma Castle National Monument Postcard, 1983
25Moon-Negatives, Undated
26Moon Landing-First-Negatives, 1969
27First Moon Landing-Flagstaff-Arizona-Photos from Televisions, July 20, 1969
28Moose Field Station Global Aerosol Study, 1972
29Mount Washington-Photos, Undated
30Mount Washington-Auto Road Photos, Undated
31-32Mount Washington Observatory-Negatives, Undated
33Mount Washington Observatory-Reunion of Observers at Summit House-Photo, August 25, 1979
34MSO-Negatives, Undated
35Museum of Northern Arizona-Negatives, 1973
36Museum of Northern Arizona-Photo Slides, 1973
37Myotosis Lake-Huyck Preserve-Survey of Lake Bottom, Ca. 1962-1957
38-40NAFRE-Negatives, 1970
41-43NAFRE-Negatives, 1971
44Land Formations-Photos, Undated
BoxFolder
531-2NAFRE-Negatives, 1971
3-13NAFRE-Photos, 1970-1971
14-16NAFRE-Photos, Undated
17NAFRE-Photo Slides, 1962-1974
18Natural Science-Photo Slides, 1948-1973
19-25Navajo-Negatives, Undated
26New Raymer Hail-Negatives, Undated
27Northeast-Photo Slides, 1962-1973
28Northeast-Niagara Falls Electric Effects Photo Slides, Undated
29Northwest-Photo Slides, 1948-1966
30Northwest-USA-Photo Slides, 1948-1974
31Northwest-USA-Photo Slides, 1948-1975
32Northwest-Photo Slides, 1948-1977
33Northwest-Photo Slides, 1948-1978
34Northwest-USA-Photo Slides, 1948-1980
BoxFolder
541Northwest-Photo Slides, 1952-1969
2-3Northwest-Project Skyfire-Photo Slides, 1948-1958
4NSI-Maps, 1959-1967
5-7NSI-Negatives, 1962
8NSI-Negatives, 1962-1963
9-13NSI-Negatives, 1963
14-17NSI-Negatives, 1963-1964
18NSI-Negatives, 1963-1966
19-20NSI-Negatives, 1964-1965
21NSI-Negatives, 1966
22NSI-Negatives, 1967
23-27NSI-Photos, 1962-1970
28-29NSI-Photos, Undated
30NSI Field Trips-Negatives, Undated
31-32NSI Field Trips-Photos, 1968
33-36NSI Field Trips-Photos, Undated
37NSI Program at Whiteface Mountain-Photos, 1961
38NSI-Photo Slides, 1960-1962
BoxFolder
551NSI-Photo Slides, 1961-1965
2NSI-Photo Slides, 1961-1967
3NSI-Photo Slides, 1961-1971
4NSI-Photo Slides, 1962-1964
5NSI-Photo Slides, 1962-1965
6NSI-Photo Slides, 1962-1967
7NSI-Photo Slides, 1962-1968
8NSI-Photo Slides, 1963-1964
9NSI-Photo Slides, 1963-1965
10NSI-Blitzblau-Allan-Negatives, Undated
11NSI-Flagstaff-Negatives, 1967
12NSI-Grand Canyon-Negatives, 1963
13NSI-Helderbergs-Negatives, 1960
14-30NSI-Loomis-Negatives, 1959-1961
31-32NSI-Loomis-Negatives, 1960
33NSI-SP Crater-Negatives, 1963
BoxFolder
561NUCLEI Negatives, Undated
2O'Leary Pan-Negatives, Undated
3Optical-Photo Sides, 1961-1976
4Optical-Clouds-Photo Slides, 1954-1987
5Optical-Glory Moon-Photo Slides, 1982-1984
6Optical-Sun Eclipses-Photo Slides, 1961-1971
7Optical-Rising Sun-Questar-Photo Slides, 1961-1971
8Optics-Sunrise-Snowsun-Photo Slides, 1960-1972
9Ozone-Photo Slides, 1972
10-12Particles-Photos, 1975
13Particles-Photos Photo Slides, 1963-1975
14Particle Optics-Photo Slides, 1949-1974
15Particulates-Photo Slides, 1976
16Pentaerythritol-Negatives, Undated
17Pinhole Camera Snap-Shots-Photos, 1968
18Plumes-Photo Slides1, 1951-1972
19Polk-Nebraska-Wide Skies Farm-Negatives, Undated
20Pollution-Air-Photo Slides, 1945-1970
21Pollution-Air-Photo Slides, 1952-1974
22Pollution-Air-Photo Slides, 1957-1974
23Pollution-Air-Photo Slides, 1962-1970
24Pollution-Air-Photo Slides, 1963-1972
25Pollution-Air-Photo Slides, 1965-1972
26Pollution-Air-Photo Slides, 1965-1973
27Pollution-Air-Photo Slides, 1965-1976
28Pollution-Air-Photo Slides, 1968-1973
29Pollution-Air-Photo Slides, 1970
30Pollution Lecture-Photo Slides, 1949-1974
31Pot Chlorate-Negatives, Undated
BoxFolder
571Prague-Photos and Photo Slides, 1969
2-3Prague-Photo Slides, 1969
4Precipitation-Photo Slides, 1965-1973
5Project Air Sample-Negatives, Undated
6-11Project Air Sample-Photos, Undated
12Project Air Sample-Photo Slides, 1966-1967
13Project Air Sample 2-Negatives, Undated
14Project Cirrus-Photo Slides, 1965
15Project Cirrus-Puerto Rico-Photo Slides, 1949
16Project Hye-Photo Slides, Undated
17Project Skyfire-Negatives, 1958
18(NASA) Project Whiteface Mountain-Photograph, 1976
19-20Puerto Rico-Photo Slides, 1978
21-22PVA Replicas-Negatives, Undated
23Radioactives-Needle Probs Photos, Undated
24Rains-Misty-Negatives, Undated
25Rainbow-Photo, Undated
26Raindrop Spectrum, 1967-1968
27Raindrops-Photo, 1976-1977
28Raindrops on Lake Water-Photos, Undated
29Research Vehicle Wingless M-2 Edwards-California-Photo, 1963
30Rochester Polytechnic Institute-Letter, Undated
31Sandberg Fire-Negatives, Undated
32Sacandaga, Auger Falls- Negatives, Undated
33Schaefer Family-Negatives and Photos, Undated
34Schaefer-"An Adventure in Atmospheric Science", October 1959
35Schaefer-"Atmospheric Sciences Programs for High Ability Students, October 1961
36Schaefer-Vincent Joseph-Photos, Undated
37Schaefer-Citizen Laureate Award, 1980
38Schaefer Lecturing in Peking-Photo, 1979
39Schaefer in Conversation with Professor Wegener of Princeton at Dedication Ceremonies, August 1971
40Schaefer in Laboratory Observing Formation of Bernard Cells-Photo, Undated
BoxFolder
581Schaefer-At The Lab Knolls, 1950
2Schaefer-Receiving Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters at Siena College, May 25, 1975
3Schaefer-"Vrooman's Nose: Sky Island of Schoharie Valley", 1992
4Schaefer-Taking Photographs-Photo, Undated
5Schaefer-"A Trip to Colorado through the Grand Canyon", Undated
6Schaefer-Types of Frozen Precipitations-Photo, Undated
7Schaefer-"What is ITS?"-Manuscript, Undated
8Schaefer and Two Colleagues-Dares Salaam-Photograph, Undated
9Schenectady Area-Photo Slides, 1963-1972
10Select Committee on Environmental Conservation-Photos, 1975
11Severe Storms-Photos, 1950-1969
12Silver Snow-Photos, Undated
13-14Silver Snow-Photo Slides, 1961-1976
15Sky Optics-Photo Slides, 1948-1972
16Smoke Generation-Photos, Undated
17Smoke Generation-Vrooman's Nose-Negatives, 1942
18Snow Negatives, Undated
19-20Snow-Photographs, Undated
21Snow Crystal Replicas-Photographs, 1962
22Snow Crystal Replicas-Photo slides, 1965-1968
23-24Snow Crystals- Negatives, Undated
25Snow Crystals-Photo Slides, 1948-1976
26Snow Crystals-Electric Charge on-Negatives, Undated
27Snowflake Preservation Article, 1973
28Snowflake Replicas-Photographs, 1962
29Snowflakes, 1962-1968
30Snowflakes-Photos, 1971
31-52YFRE-Negatives, 1968-1969
53-54YFRE-Photos, 1962-1970
BoxFolder
591YFRE-Photos, 1962-1970
2YFREB-T. Henderson-Second Week-Photos, January 16, 1968-January 22, 1968
3YFRE-Photo Slides, 1956-1971
4YFRE-Photo Slides, 1960-1986
5-8YFRE-Color Slides, 19