| Re: Farewell to Paul van Delst [message #93074 is a reply to message #93060] |
Wed, 20 April 2016 15:40   |
Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006
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On 4/18/16 10:50 AM, liam.gumley@ssec.wisc.edu wrote:
> Dear IDL Colleagues,
>
> It is with deep regret that I must tell you of the passing of Paul
> van Delst, a long time user of IDL and contributor to this forum. He
> suffered a heart attack while biking with friends in Washington DC
> yesterday and did not survive.
>
> Paul and I were undergraduates at Curtin University in Western
> Australia in the late 1980's, and we both started using this new
> system known as "Interactive Data Language" when we moved to the USA
> in 1991. He went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I went
> to NASA GSFC. When I moved to Madison in 1994 to start working at UW
> with Paul, we fell into a habit of getting coffee every morning and
> discussing the latest programming tasks we had been tackling in IDL.
> Paul was the first person who told me "You should write a book on
> IDL". A few years later, with his encouragement, I did so and he was
> the first reviewer. Paul was a very careful programmer, and no detail
> escaped his attention.
>
> Paul was a researcher at the Space Science and Engineering Center at
> the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1994 to 2007, and from 2007
> he was a scientist at the NOAA National Center for Weather and
> Climate Prediction (NCWCP) in College Park, Maryland. During his time
> at NCWCP he was the lead developer of the Community Radiative
> Transfer Model, a Fortran software system for computing the radiative
> properties of the atmosphere, that is used in the operational
> numerical weather prediction models run by NOAA. He was always a keen
> user of IDL for visualizing and analyzing results from CRTM, and he
> was never able resist chiming in on a discussion in the IDL
> discussion group when an interesting post caught his eye.
>
> Paul had numerous interactions with the US and international
> atmospheric radiative transfer communities, and he will be missed by
> many colleagues and friends.
>
> Sincerely, Liam Gumley SSEC, UW-Madison.
>
Though I never met Paul in person, I truly appreciated his presence in
this newsgroup and the IDL community. His knowledge, helpfulness, and
wit will be greatly missed.
Mike
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Michael Galloy
www.michaelgalloy.com
Modern IDL: A Guide to IDL Programming (http://modernidl.idldev.com)
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