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Dick Stern
Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University PO Box 30, State College, Pennsylvania 16804
Steven F. Clifford
1943 • 2007
Steven F. Clifford was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 4 January 1943. He received a B.S. from Northeastern University in Boston in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire in 1969 in studies related to laser and microwave propagation in ran- dom media.
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
Dr. Clifford published extensively in atmospheric optics, atmospheric and ocean acoustics, and electromagnetic wave propa- gation and scattering in random geophysi- cal media, with more than 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals. In acoustics, his major contributions were in studies of sound propagation in random media and development of atmospheric and ocean remote sensing techniques. Under his lead- ership and scientific expertise, ETL devel- oped theoretical and technical foundations for sodars which are widely used for remote sensing of the atmosphere.
Steve was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the Optical Society of America. His friendship, outstand- ing leadership, and technical skills will be sorely missed.
William Neff
Richard Lataitis Vladimir Ostashev Alexander Voronovich.
Steve went to Boulder, Colorado in
1969 for postdoctoral work with the Wave
Propagation Laboratory (WPL) of the U.S.
Environmental Science Services
Administration, a precursor of the U.S.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA). From 1969–1982
he was a physicist with the Optical Remote
Sensing Group, and from 1982–1986 he
Propagation Studies Program Area. Dr. Clifford led the reor- ganized Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL, former- ly WPL) from 1986 until his retirement from NOAA in 2001. ETL had a staff of about 130, with more than 50 Ph.D.s con- ducting research in atmospheric and ocean sciences with a view toward developing novel geophysical remote sensing tech- niques. Most recently Steve served as a Research Scientist Emeritus with the University of Colorado’s Cooperative
was Chief of the
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