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J' 1 <br />and ending dates: number of months professional experience, and employers name, address and <br />telephone.) <br />All weather modification experience was attained and performed at North American Weather Consultants <br />(NAWC), first in Santa Barbara, CA from approximately July, 1962 until the company relocated to Salt <br />Lake City, UT in July, 1980. Thereafter, I continued to work there (and at various field locations) in the <br />weather mod., field until my retirement from NAWC in September, 1995. However, I was subsequently <br />called back during the next two years to conduct additional cloud seeding activities in Santa Barbara <br />during the two winter seasons. <br />I began my employment at NAWC as the chief forecaster supplying weather data and forecasts to several <br />field meteorologists who were working on cloud seeding programs NAWC was conducting from British <br />Columbia southward to southern California. In addition I supplied daily weather forecasts to clients such <br />as Southern California Edison Co. and Los Angeles County Flood Control. <br />As I began to learn about cloud seeding technology my interest in that field grew and in 1962 I became a <br />field meteorologist and analyst on the Santa Barbara U cloud seeding research program conducted by <br />NAWC for the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake, CA. This was a research project designed to <br />investigate the efficacy of using high output silver iodide flares to seed a specific portion of a storm system. <br />Seeding was randomized with the project meteorologist not knowing whether actual seed was done or not. <br />This project was conducted in two phases. The first phase, from July, 1967 through the 1969 -70 winter <br />season, involved using high output AgI flares that were released from a mountain top location into <br />convective storm bands (identified by radar and tracked by remotely telemetered rain gauges) as they <br />passed over the seeding site. The second phase (again with randomized seeding) was conducted during the <br />winter seasons beginning in 1970 -71 through the 1973 -74 years. In this phase of the program cloud <br />seeding was conducted from an aircraft, again seeding convective bands within the storm systems only this <br />time the seeding took place off the California coast near Vandenberg Air Force Base. During the storms <br />the VBG radar was used by the NAWC project meteorologist (me) to identify the portions to be seeded (or <br />not), with the Vandenberg aircraft controllers vectoring the aircraft into the convective bands. I was also <br />highly involved in the analysis and evaluation of the effects from seeding the convective bands. <br />Following this project, I began an extended period (about 20 years) of being the project director for the <br />cloud seeding conducted by NAWC for the State of Utah during the winter seasons. This program utilized <br />ground-based seeding generators throughout the period and is still on going today. In a couple of summers <br />and at least one winter season aircraft were also used to seed the clouds. The program was designed to <br />enhance winter snow pack over several Utah mountain ranges and seeding was not randomized. <br />My activity with the Utah cloud seeding program was interrupted twice during this twenty year period, <br />once from February, 1985 to December, 1987. This was on a project in which NAWC as a sub - contractor <br />provided a cloud seeding meteorologist to the Bureau of Reclamation who conducted a research program <br />over the Grand Mesa in Colorado. This project had the goal of acquiring physical measurements within <br />seeded clouds from ground based generators and cloud seeding was limited to those times when those <br />activities could be performed. This program, initially intended to be run for five years was terminated early <br />due to monetary constraints within the BuRec. The second time I temporarily left the Utah seeding program <br />was during the winter o €1990 -91 when I conducted the cloud seed program in Santa Barbara County. This <br />was an operational (non randomized) seeding program designed to enhance the water supply into Cachuma <br />Reservoir. <br />(4) Weather modification publications and reports: <br />Seeding Convective Bands in Winter Storms and Their Large Scale Effects. (co- author) Papers presented <br />at the Second WMO Scientific Conference on Weather Modification. Publication WMO - No. 443. World <br />Meteorological Organization. Geneva, p 465 -472, <br />