Weather Mod Critical Issues Report

• Project Type: General OWC
• Project Name: Weather Modification
• Title: Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research
• Date: 1/1/2004
• Water Conservation - Doc Type: Final Report

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7. Appendix

Committee Member Biographies

Mr. Brnce Boe Mr. Boe has worked with clouds, cloud physics, radar, and aircraft
since 1974, and has logged hundreds of hours in aircraft studying thunderstorms and
winter storms over much of the western U.S. Prior to assuming his present position as
Director of Meteorology for Weather Modification, Inc., he was for 12 years Director of
the North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board, a division of the State Water
Commission, and previously worked for the University of Wyoming, the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation, and the State of Montana. He is an active member and past president of the
Weather Modification Association, presently serving as Association Webmaster. He is a
member of the American Meteorological Society, and past chair of the Society's
Committee on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification. He is an affiliate member
of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE). Bruce was Principal Scientist for
the State of North Dakota in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
(NOAA's) Atmospheric Modification Research Program, and coordinated two significant
thunderstorm research programs: the North Dakota Thunderstorm Project (1989), and the
North Dakota Tracer Experiment (1993).

Mr. George Bomar Mr. Bomar has devoted nearly 30 years in State of Texas service
toward the development and implementation of weather modification technologies to
enhance the state's supply offresh water. With both undergraduate and graduate degrees
in meteorology, he has worked for various Texas water agencies, administering the Texas
Weather Modification Act. He was instrumental in organizing and supervising cloud-
seeding research in Texas during the 1980s and 1990s, including the U. S. Bureau of
Reclamation's Southwest Cooperative Program in weather modification research and the
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Atmospheric Modification
Program. Mr. Bomar helped construct a statewide rain-enhancement effort in Texas
during the 1990s, which has grown from one cloud seeding project in 1994 to ten projects
in 2003. The 2003 program, the largest known rain-enhancement effort in the U. S.,
covers over 51 million acres (or nearly one-third of the land area of the state of Texas).
In administering State law governing weather modification operations, Mr. Bomar
currently is responsible for licensing and permitting cloud seeding activities. He also
oversees the administration of State grants for operational cloud seeding, whose cost in
2003 exceeded $4 million. He also heads up a new, federally funded research program in
Texas to document convective cloud processes and test new seeding materials in 2004.

Dr. William R. Cotton Dr. Cotton is a Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. He joined the staff at CSU in
December of 1974. At CSU he has received numerous awards including the Engineering
Dean's Council award for excellence in atmospheric research, the College of Engineering
Abell Faculty Research Graduate Program support Award, CSU Research Foundation
Researcher of the Year A ward and the Cermak Distinguished Graduate Advisor Award.
He also served on several National Research Council Panels. In 1999 Dr. Cotton was the
recipient of the Penn State University College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Charles L.
Hosler Alumni Scholar A ward. Dr. Cotton served as an editor for the Journal of the
Atmospheric Seiences from 1993-1995, and as a co-chief editor from 1996-2000. He is a

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