This video contains 1989 interviews with Raymond Falconer, Vincent Schaefer, Duncan Blanchard, and Bernard Vonnegut discussing the early days of cloud seeding and the development of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, SUNY. Schaefer helped found ASRC in 1960 and served as its Director of Research until 1966 when he became Director. Schaefer brought highly qualified atmospheric science researchers to ASRC, many of whom he had met through his work at GE and Munitalp. Bernard Vonnegut, Raymond Falconer and Duncan Blanchard were all veterans of Project Cirrus who joined Schaefer at ASRC during the 1960s. It also includesd footage and images of cloud seeding and ASRC.
Louis T. Benezet, President of the State University of New York at Albany from July 1, 1970-June 30, 1975, and Raymond Falconer of the Atmospheric Science Research Center at the State University of New York at Albany speaking into a microphone during Community-University Day 1973.
New York Mayor Erastus Corning, and Raymond Falconer of the Atmospheric Science Research Center at the State University of New York at Albany speaking into a microphone during Community-University Day 1973.
Yellowstone fields research, in the back row is Vincent Schaefer, Larry Proctor, Dr. Dale Hartlieb, August Auer, Griffith Morgen, John Stockner, and Austin Morgen. On the bottom row is Dr. Richard Layton, Charles Robertson, Thomas Henderson, John Hirsch, and Robert Smith Johnson.
Yellowstone fields research, in the back row is Vincent Schaefer, Larry Proctor, Dr. Dale Hartlieb, August Auer, Griffith Morgen, John Stockner, and Austin Morgen. On the bottom row is Dr. Richard Layton, Charles Robertson, Thomas Henderson, John Hirsch, and Robert Smith Johnson.