May 3, 1917 - July 6, 2013

Contents

1)
Personal Identity

2)
Family

3)
College

4)
Major Employment

5)
Military Service

6)
Public Offices Held

7)
Memberships

8)
Awards/Honors

9)
Accomplishments/Activities

10)
Selected Books and Articles

11)
Comments by Colleagues

12)
Resources

(1) Personal Identity and (2) Family

Name: Thomas F. Malone, NAS 1968, Sects. 64, 16

Year of Birth: 1917

Place of birth: Iowa

Spouse: Rosalie

Children: six

Grandchildren: seventeen

Great-grandchildren: four


(3) College: Name of School - Year Graduated - Degree

South Dakota School of Mines - 1940 - S.B.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 1946 - Sc. D.


(4) Major Employment: Name and Location - Position

June 1941 - Feb. 1955: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Res. Asst. to Assoc. Prof.

Feb. 1955 - Apr.1970: Travelers Insurance Companies - Dir., Travelers Res. Ctr to Sen. VP & Dir. of Res.

Apr. 1970 - Jun. 1973: University of Connecticut Professor of Physics - Dean of the Graduate Sch.

Jun. 1973 - Jun. 1983: Butler University - Dir., Holcomb Res. Ctr.

Sept. 1983 - Sept.1984: Resources for the Future - Nat. Sci. Fellow

Sept. 1984 - Aug 1991: St Joseph College - Scholar in Residence

Sept. 1984 - Aug 1991: Conn. Acad. of Sci. & Engr. - Executive Scientist

Aug. 1991 - Jun. 1997: N. Carolina State University - Univ. Distinguished Scholar

Aug. 1992 - Feb. 1995: Sigma Xi, The Sci. Res. Honor Soc. - Dir., Sigma Xi Center

July 1997 - Jun. 2001: Conn. Acad. of Sci. & Engr. - Executive Scientist


(5) Military Service

During World War II, Malone was engaged in a special program at MIT to train Naval and Air Force officers to provide weather forecasts for military operations.

From June 1945 to October 1945, he served as a consultant (simulated rank of major) to the Air Force’s Air Weather Service, assigned to the 19th Weather Squadron in Cairo, Egypt, and charged with establishing an upper-air forecasting center at Payne Field to support the Red Ball Express as an alternative supply route to the Pacific Theater.

For these two services Malone was presented in 1946 with a Special Citation from the War Department in “appreciation for patriotic service in a position of trust and responsibility.”


(6) Public Offices Held

Special Consultant – Office of Naval Research, Geophysics Branch, 1954-60.

Member – Geophysics Panel, Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 1954-60.

Chairman – Advisory Panel for Atmospheric Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1958-59; Member, 1955-59.

Member - Panel on Science and Technology, Committee on Science and Astronautics, U. S. House of Representatives,1960-70.

Member - National Advisory Committee on Air Pollution, US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1962-66.

Member - Scientific Information Council, National Science Foundation, 1962-66.

Member – Special Commission on Weather Modification, National Science Foundation, 1964-66.

Member - Connecticut Research Commission, State of Connecticut, 1965-71.

Member – Advisory Panel on the International Decade of Ocean Exploration, National Science Foundation, 1969-75.

Member – Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1966-68.

Member - Panel on Atmospheric Sciences, Executive Office of the President, 1961-65.

Chairman - U. S. National commission for UNESCO, 1965-67;

Member, 1963-73 (Presidential Appointment).

Chairman – Committee on Meteorology of the National Citizens’ Committee on the International Cooperation Year, Executive Office of the President, 1965.

Member - National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere (Presidential Appointment), US Department of Commerce, 1972-75.

Member - Committee on Applications of Science and Technology, New England Council, 1965-70.

Chairman – National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisory Council, US Department of Transportation,(Presidential Appointment),1967-69.

Chairman – 100-Member Connecticut Clean Water Task Force, State of Connecticut, 1965-66.

Vice Chairman – Environmental Policy Task Force, State of Connecticut, 1969-71.

Member – Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, US Department of State, 1970-72.

Member – National Science Advisory Council, National Science Foundation, 1977-78.

Member – US Delegation to the UN Conference on Application of Science and Technology to Development, Vienna, Austria, 1979; US. Department of State.

Member – Group of Consultants on Climatic and Other Global Consequences of Nuclear War,United Nations, 1987-88.

Member – Scientific Advisory Committee on Climate Impact Assessment and Response, United Nations Environment Program, 1992-98.

Member - Oversight Review Board, National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President. 1990-96.

Member – Advisory Committee on Accreditation, Department of Higher Education, State of Connecticut, 2001-03 .


(7) Memberships

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Alumni Organization
President, 1959-60
Academic Advisory Board, 1991-

National Academy of Sciences
Elected a Member, 1968
Elected Foreign Secretary, 1978-82
Member, Committee on Meteorology, 1957-61
Chairman, Committee on Atmospheric Sciences, 1962-68
Chairman, Geophysics Research Board, 1969-73
Chairman, Committee on International Organizations and Programs, 1969-76
Member, Environmental Studies Board, 1969-74
Chairman, Bicentennial Symposium Steering Committee, 1975-76
Chairman, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, 1982-84
Member, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Natural Resources, 1984-6.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Elected a Fellow, 1979
Member, Committee on the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, 1982-91

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research [Honor] Society
Elected a Member, 1943
Chairman, International Committee, 1982-86
Board of Directors, 1982-95
President, 1988-89
Chairman, Long-Range Planning Committee, 1992-95

New York Academy of Sciences
Elected a Fellow in 1970

Royal Irish Academy
Elected an Honorary Member, Section of Science, 1989

Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Elected a Member in 1984

International Council of Science (ICSU)
Vice President, 1970-72
Chairman, Finance Committee 1972-78
Treasurer, 1978-84
Secretary General, Committee on Atmospheric Sciences, 1964-68.
Liaison to the World Meteorological Organization for the Global Atmospheric Research Program and the World Climate Research Program, 1968-84
Founding Secretary General, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, International Council of Scientific Unions, 1970-76.
ICSU Representative on the Panel of Experts on Climate Change for the World Meteorological Organization, 1964-78
Chairman, Symposium on the Application of Science and Technology to Development, Singapore,1979

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Elected a Fellow, 1960
Chairman, Consortium of Affiliates with International Programs, 1990-92

Phi Kappa Phi
Elected a Member, 1984

American Geophysical Union
President, Section of Meteorology, 1957-59
Vice President, 1960-61
President, 1962-64
Secretary for International Participation, 1964-72

American Meteorological Society
Secretary, 1957-59
President, 1960-61
Honorary Member, 1987-

Institute of Ecology
Trustee, 1971-77
President, 1977-82

Engineers Joint Council
Board of Trustees, 1968-70

American Geographical Society
Councilor, 1971-77

Connecticut Academy for Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Board of Directors, 2001-03

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Staff Planning Coordinator, 1958-59
Board of Trustees, 1961-65
Chairman, Board of Trustees, 1973-76

Travelers Research Center
Chairman, Board of Directors, 1958-69

Center for Environment and Man
Chairman, Board of Directors, 1969-71

Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors, 1968-71
Economic Analyst, 1960-69
Moderator, Annual Business Outlook, 1965-69

Harvard University
Visiting Committee, School of Applied Science, 1966-68

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alumni Organization, Board of Directors, 1969-71
Visiting Committee, Department of Meteorology, 1965-67
Visiting Committee, Earth Sciences, 1967-68

Resources for the Future
Natural Sciences Fellow, 1983-84

Cosmos Club
Member


(8) Awards, Honors

John Oliver LaGorce Prize, So. Dak. Sch. of Mines - 1938

Graduated with High Honors, So. Dak. Sch. of Mines - 1940

Full Tuition Scholarship, MIT – 1940-41

US Department of Defense, special award in “appreciation for patriotic service in a position of trust and responsibility” - 1946

Losey Award “for outstanding contributions to the science of meteorology as applied to aeronautics,” Institute of Aerospace Sciences - 1960

Honorary Doctorate of Engineering, So. Dak. Sch. of Mines & Tech. -1962

Charles Franklin Brooks Award “for playing an important part in framing the society’s response to the technological, social, and scientific changes of our times” American Meteorological Society – 1964

Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Saint Joseph College - 1965

Connecticut Conservationist of the Year “for leadership of the 100-member Clean Water Task Force” – State of Connecticut – 1968.

Cleveland Abbe Award “for innumerable contributions to meteorology as teacher, as scientific investigator, as editor, as committee member, as administrator, and always as innovator,” American Meteorological Society – 1968

First Guy E. March Medal “For his scientific contributions to atmospheric physics, his vision in weather and climate modification, his leadership in developing truly global cooperation atmospheric sciences, and his efforts both at home and abroad, to assure that benefits from science and technology are shared by all mankind and throughout the world” South Dakota School of Mines and Technology – 1976

International Meteorological Organization Prize “for scientific eminence and a record of work done in the field of international meteorological organizations,” World Meteorological Organization - 1984

Waldo E. Smith Award “for extraordinary service to geophysics,” American Geophysical Union - 1986

Honorary Doctorate of Science, Bates College - 1988

South Dakota State Centennial Alumni award “in recognition of significant achievements,” South Dakota Board of Regents - 1988

International Saint Francis Prize for Environment “for his role as initiator of major international and interdisciplinary environmental research programs in the framework of both the United Nations and the International Council of Scientific Unions,” selected by a jury of twelve scientists from eight countries – 1991

Philip (SD) High School Hall of Fame – 1986The Harrelson Lecture, “New Dimension of the Environmental Problematique: Implications for Higher Education,” North Carolina State University – 1993

AAAS International Prize “for contributions to international research programs,” American Association for the Advancement of Science – 1994

American Academy of Arts and Science - Special Citation, “for consistency, perseverance,creativity, and inspiration in helping guide the United States’support for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis” - 1995

Irving Award “for contributions to distance education,” American Distance Education Consortium – 1997

So. Dak. School of Mines and Technology -- Distinguished Alumni Award – 1998

No. Carolina State University -- University Distinguished Scholar Emeritus, - 1999

National Center for Atmospheric Research -- Induction into Founders’ Circle, - 2000

Dedication in book, Global-Regional Linkages in the Earth System, edited by Peter Tyson et al and published by Springer (Berlin), 2002, 198 pp., “To Tom Malone, who inspired so many...”

Entovation International Ltd., (121 scientists from 52 countries, specializing in the role of knowledge in ENtrepreneurial innovation) -- “KEN Practitioner of the Year 2003 for decades of knowledge leadership creating the opportunity to shape collaborative advantage” presented in Monterrey, Mexico – 2003

South Dakota Hall of Fame - 2003

Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering – “Lifetime Distinguished Service Award for Leadership, Service, and Dedication” – presented in June 2004

St. Joseph College (Hartford) – Living Legend Award – 2006

Wesleyan University – honorary doctor of science – at its 175th Commencement in 2007 (Malone’s 90th year) – “your tireless efforts as a steward of Mother Earth are manifestations of your personal commitment, as a man of science and as a man of deep faith, to making life on the planet sustainable for all people and for all time. As an initiator of international and interdisciplinary research programs, you have been recognized as a world leader in building the human capacity to endow future generations with a better world – and a better place to live. Multiple commendations for “scientific eminence and leadership” on the global scale understate the magnitude of your contributions to science and to humanity. You have been a paragon of unbounded energy even to the most productive among us. We are honored to recognize you as a true friend of Wesleyan and one of the best friends the planet has ever had.”

Triangle Fraternity – inducted into “Men of the Century” – 2007


(9) Accomplishments and Activities

Reared on the Haakon County ranch of his homesteading parents, Malone’s education began in a one-room (4 students) schoolhouse under the tutelage of Emma L. Bierwagen. He starred in debate, oratory, and journalism at Philip High School where he was graduated in 1936 and elected to that school’s Hall of Fame in 1986.

Impressed with the impact of weather and climate on the economy and quality of life in Haakon County, he enrolled in the South Dakota State School of Mines to prepare for a career in meteorology. He was graduated with High Honors in 1936 after serving as a student assistant in the Department of Physics, president of the student honor society, Sigma Tau, and editor of the Black Hills Engineer.

Awarded a graduate scholarship at MIT in 1940, he was selected to train naval and air force officers in a special program of weather forecasting for military operations at MIT, culminating in service with the 19th Weather Squadron at Payne Field in Cairo, Egypt. He earned his doctorate at MIT in 1946 and was appointed an assistant professor and subsequently an associate professor with tenure.

Malone’s selection in 1949 to be editor of the Compendium of Meteorology (a 1300-page assessment of the “… present position of meteorology …and … the avenues of further study and research to be explored in order to extend the frontiers of our knowledge. … ”) led in 1955 to his appointment to the National Academy of Sciences’ (NAS) Committee on Meteorology. Malone played a key role in the NAS Committee’s recommendations to expand meteorological education and research and to create an interdisciplinary research center under the auspices of the National Science Foundation. Meteorological education and research expanded enormously in the second half of the twentieth century as a result.

As Staff Planning Coordinator for the University Committee on Atmospheric Research, Malone was deeply involved in developing NCAR’s “Blue Book” -- an agenda to pursue the “avenues of study and research” outlined in the Compendium of Meteorology and in the recommendations of the NAS Committee on Meteorology. He served on the founding Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and, subsequently, as chairman of that Board He was inducted into NC AR’s “Founders’ Circle” in 2000.

Malone’s overlapping presidency of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union, and chair of the NAS Committee on Atmospheric Sciences, deepened his involvement in the international dimensions of these fields. He had already teamed with MIT’s Jule Charney, Harvard’s Richard Goody, and others to encourage President Kennedy in his UN Address to propose a global program to improve weather forecasting and study climate change. With Assistant Secretary of Commerce J. Herbert Hollomon he laid the groundwork to ensure the creative participation of the nongovernmental scientific community in the program proposed by the President.

By virtue of role in the American Geophysical Union, Malone led the organizing committee for the General Assembly of the International Union of Geophysics and Geodesy in 1963 at the University of California, Berkeley. At a related meeting in Los Angeles celebrating the accomplishments of the International Geophysical Year, Malone outlined a program responsive to President Kennedy’s proposal. The Berkeley meeting provided a green light for pursuit of governmental and nongovernmental collaboration. A timely grant Malone obtained from the Ford Foundation made it possible to convene a series of meetings that led to the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) and, ultimately, to the World Climate Research Program now actively under way.

These activities thrust Malone into a prominent role in the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). He was elected founding Secretary General of the ICSU’s Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) in 1970. In that role, and as a Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Connecticut he was the lead-off speaker in a conference on “Technological Changes and the Human Environment” at the California Institute of Technology in October of that year in preparation for the UN Conference on the Human Environment to be held in Stockholm in 1972.. He called for a three-pronged effort to (a) expand our knowledge base, (b) examine human values and attitudes, and (c) create new, flexible diverse, and sophisticated institutions to ensure “the survival of the human species.” (manuscript on file in the archives of the American Meteorological Society). He also warned, “Continued burning of fossil fuels will cause the earth’s temperature to rise and create grave climate changes.” He said, “The immediate future is fraught with dangers. … today we are poised on the threshold of an era that is a threat to the human prospect. These threats demand intensive study if life, as we know it, is to continue.”(reported in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, October 19, 1970, p. A-13).

This warning was repeated in the 1977 NAS report, Energy and Climate by Geophysics Research Board that Malone chaired. It warned that our industrial civilization him faces a “major decision …continued reliance on fossil fuel as principal sources of energy or invest the research and engineering effort, and the capital, that will make it possible to substitute other energy sources.” A New York Times editorial on July 28, 1977 commented on this report, “If the industrialized nations continue to burn significant amounts of any fossil fuel for the next 200 years, the consequences could be catastrophic.” The editorial also cited “the lively sense of urgency” with which Malone had summarized the sense of the report in an interview with David Hartman of ABC’s Good Morning America national television program on July 25th.

Seven years later, as chairman of the NAS Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, he testified on February 28, 1984 before the U.S. House of Representatives on the NAS report Changing Climate and called for “the existence of an international network of scientists conversant with the issues and of broad international consensus on the facts and their reliability.” He maintained, “climate change could well be a divisive rather than a unifying actor in world affairs.” An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created in 1988 to develop that consensus.

In 2004, he organized a national symposium at Connecticut’s Wesleyan University to honor Maurice Strong, convener of both the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and the 1992 UN “Earth Summit: in Rio de Janeiro. Malone had nominated Strong for the National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Medal (the Academy’s highest honor) awarded to Strong in April 2004. One result of this symposium was a letter from speakers to President Bush pointing out that recent analyses of the in Arctic regions of the impact of the release of greenhouse gases carried global implications constituting a “smoking gun” confirming the earlier warnings of global warming. The letter was very much in the spirit of fostering a “consensus” on the facts and their reliability that he had urged on Congress in 1984.

Malone participated in the seminal 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. He and Soviet Professor Victor Kovda organized a scientific conference in Nairobi, Kenya in 1974 to explore the linkage between environmental quality and economic development. Over the subsequent thirty years SCOPE published a major series of scholarly reports on the environment and on economic development, including assessments of the hazards of global warming and of nuclear weaponry.

As Chair of the Academy’s Board on International Organizations and Programs as well as being Chair of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, Malone was selected to lead the NAS’s Steering Committee for the U. S. Bicentennial Symposium in1976. The Symposium was combined with a General Assembly of ICSU.

In the Proceedings of that symposium, Science: A Resource for Humankind, Malone remarked “Much of the hope and a great deal of the apprehension over the prospects for world society during the next two centuries are rooted deeply in the interaction of science and societal affairs.” NAS President Handler’s expressed his hope in those Proceedings “…that some fraction of the scientific community will heed such a call…and work on these vital problems….” had a profound influence on Malone’s subsequent career.

Malone’s global activities led to his election as Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences in 1978. There his interests broadened to embrace issues such as nuclear warfare and the role of science and technology in alleviating poverty and distress in under-developed countries. He convened a symposium in Singapore to prepare for the 1979 UN Conference on Science and Technology for Economic Development in Vienna where he served on the US delegation. Malone was instrumental in the initiation of a grants program in the NAS’s Board on Science and Technology in Development and in creation of a Committee on International Security and Arms Control in the NAS. He arranged for an exchange of views with a counterpart group in the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. NAS President Philip Handler remarked on the significance of that initiative in his annual address to members in 1982.

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl and the near-accident the Three Mile Island generated a three-hour, satellite-based teleconference in 1983 between scientists in the United States and the Soviet Union. The exchange of views was moderated by Malone in the USA and Yevgeny Velikhov, Vice President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Russia.

Upon completion of four years as the Academy’s Foreign Secretary, Malone accepted the chairmanship of the International Committee of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research [Honor] Society. He continued his advocacy for the voice of science in issues of nuclear warfare. He persuaded ICSU to establish a Steering Committee to organize an international study on the environmental impact of nuclear war. He enlisted UK’s Sir Frederick Warner to chair the Committee and George Skryabin, Scientific Secretary of the Soviet Academy of Sciences to participate in its deliberations.

The Committee’s two major reports on the Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War contributed significantly to the restraint exercised by the nuclear powers. These reports also prompted the 1989 Study on the Climatic and Other Global Effects of Nuclear War by the Department of Disarmament Affairs in the United Nations. Malone and Soviet Academician George Golitsyn played major roles in the conduct of that study. In transmitting the report to the UN General Assembly, the UN Secretary-General remarked, “For the first time in the history of the human race, humanity is taking actions that, within the life-span of a single generation, are affecting the global environment in fundamental ways.”

Meanwhile, with Malone’s encouragement, Notre Dame President Theodore M. Hesburgh had begun to convene “scientific and religious leaders to make common cause against the nuclear threat to humanity.” A meeting organized by Hesburgh and Malone at the Rockefeller Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, in November 1985 brought together astronomer Carl Sagan, Nobel Laureates Charles Townes and Paul Crutzen, Soviet Academician George Skryabin, Director of the Soviet Space Agency Raold Sagdeev, Sir FrederickWamer from UK, Archbishop Kirill from Leningrad, Bishop (and now Cardinal) Roger Mahoney from California, and Muslim, Protestant, and Jewish religious leaders as well as scientists from around the world. Their unanimous statement concludeded, “Science and religion can and must continue mutually to support the quest for a just and peaceful world. It is hard and necessary work to which we commit ourselves with conviction and hope.”

In parallel with this effort, Malone persuaded ICSU to act on a suggestion by Canadian George Garland at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Geophysical Year in 1982 that the interaction of the physical and biological (and human) world presented an attractive challenge to the world scientific community. At meetings Malone arranged in Beijing, Moscow, Paris, and at NAS’s Conference Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, plans were made for a Symposium in Ottawa in 1984 that led to the creation in1986 of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP). That initiative has turned out to be a constructive and unifying endeavor of the world scientific community. As one of the offshoots of IGBP, a workshop chaired by Malone was convened in Bellagio, Italy, in Decembe3 1990 to develop the concept of a global System of regional networks for Analysis, Research, and Training (START). It has been notably successful in bringing together activities on this topics in industrialized and developing countries. A parallel program, Human Dimensions of Global Change, now interacts productively with IGPP.

Malone played a prominent part in the Sigma Xi’s Centennial Observance in 1986 and was elected national president in 1988. With a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, he convened representatives from several disciplines drawn from both public and private sectors to reflect on Global Change and the Human Prospect: Issues in Population, Science, Technology, and Equity. This effort was in support of the Earth Summit organized by the United Nations and held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to address the interrelated issues of sustainable development and environmental quality His foreword to the proceedings of the symposium reflected the evolution of his thinking on these issues:

“The overarching need is to bring to bear on these [issues] the expanding storehouse of knowledge about the world in which we live and our role in that world. This requires a balance among the tasks of extending, integrating, disseminating and applying this knowledge. … The world has not yet addressed the potential of knowledge … as a vital contributor to enhancement of the human prospect.”

He participated in the Rio meeting and was then invited to prepare a “White Paper” for the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC). In the presentation of his paper at the Annual Meeting of NASULGC in Chicago in 1984, Malone proposed a Century 21 World Forum on Knowledge and Sustainable Human Development that would bring together educators, and scholars in the physical, biological, mathematical, and social sciences, engineering, and the humanities to formulate a Global Knowledge Strategy for the twenty-first century.

This proposal was then repeated in an invited address at the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation in Seoul in June 1997. On that occasion, he set before the world a vision of a world in which all of the basic human needs and an equitable share of life’s amenities and human “wants” can be met by every individual in present and succeeding generations while maintaining a healthy, physically attractive, and biologically productive environment.

The Strategy for pursuit of that vision involves the discovery, integration, dissemination, and wise use of knowledge concerning matter, living organisms, energy, information, and human behavior -- and their interaction. Malone called attention to World Bank’s proposal for “…partnerships of public and private organizations and individuals … to build and mobilize knowledge capital… to achieve …sustained and equitable growth…” to be considered at a World Bank conference in Canada later in 1997. Such partnerships would be an integral part of a Knowledge Strategy. Malone also advocated this approach in an invited address at a bilateral US/China Symposium in Beijing in 1999. The forums on Knowledge Management that have emerged in recent years reflect the potential power of this approach.

In 2000, Malone proposed that Western Hemisphere Knowledge Partnerships (WHKP) could be a prototype for a global endeavor. With economist Gary Yohe, he outlined in a paper in the Journal of Knowledge Management in 2002 an agenda that embedded WHKP in the pursuit of a sustainable, equitable, and stable world society. Their paper concluded:

“First of all, a comprehensive agenda must be addressed with vigor and a keen sense of urgency by an array of knowledge partnerships involving all disciplines and all sectors of society in both industrialized and developing nations. E. O. Wilson’s prescriptions of “unified learning, universally shared” and “the fundamental principle that ethics is everything” are central to the activities of those partnerships. Coordinated regional programs, such as the proposed Western Hemisphere Knowledge Partnerships and similar initiatives in other parts of the world, offer attractive opportunities for creating pilot projects in an endeavor that ultimately must be global in scope.

“Secondly, a new paradigm that frames the interactions between human and natural systems on planet Earth and within human systems is equally imperative. The principles included in the Earth Charter provide the bases for this paradigm by making it clear that a sustainable, prosperous and equitable future will not be the product of business as usual. A fractious world is poised on the brink of an era of terrorism, so we have no time to lose.”

The Type II “partnerships” between governmental and nongovernmental organizations that emerged at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in August 2002 hold promise that the pursuit of a “sustainable, equitable, and stable world society” is within reach. In 2002 and 2003, Malone convened Earth Charter Cities symposia at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford to discuss the implications of the Charter for the pursuit of this new vision for society -- now within reach. In the autumn years of his professional career, Malone is revisiting a finding at the Wesleyan University symposium in 2004: the fundamental importance to the human future of fostering human values, attitudes, and behavior among individuals in local communities.


(10) Selected Books and Articles

Malone TF. (ed.) 1951. Compendium of Meteorology, Boston, American Meteorological Society

Malone TF. 1956. “Application of Statistical Methods to Weather Prediction.” Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 41(11)

Malone TF. 1958. “A National Institute for Atmospheric Research.” Transactions, American Geophysical Union 40 (2)

Malone TF. 1964. “International Cooperation in Meteorology and the Atmospheric Sciences.” In Research in Geophysics, Vol. 1, MIT Press

Malone TF. 1968. “New Dimensions of International Cooperation in Weather
Analysis and Prediction.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, pp.1134-1140, December

Malone TF, Roederer JG. (eds.) 1985. Global Change. Cambridge University Press

Malone TF, Corell R, 1989 “Mission to Planet Earth Revisited. Environment 31 (3)

Malone TF. 1991. “Global Change and the Human Prospect.” Science and Public Affairs, The Royal Society, London, 6 (2)

Malone TF. 1995. “Reflections on the Human Prospect”, in Socolow, R. H. (ed.), Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, pp.1-19

Malone T. F. (1997), “Building on the Legacies of the International Geophysical Year”, Eos Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 78 No. 18, 187-191.

Malone T. F. (1998), “A New Agenda for Science and Technology for the Twenty-First Century”, Proceedings of The KOSEF’s 20th Anniversary Symposium on Issues of Science and Technology in the 21st Century, June 2-6,1997, KOSEF and East-West Center, pp. 67-90

Malone TF. 2000. “Towards a Knowledge Society in the Americas.” INTERCIENCIA. 25 (2).

Malone TF and Yohe G. 2002 “Knowledge Partnerships for a Sustainable, Equitable, and Stable Society.” Journal of Knowledge Management. 6 (4)


11) Comments by colleagues

Roger Revelle (Past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), "You have done many things on the world scientific stage – creation of the Global Atmospheric Research Program and of SCOPE are two memorable ones. Your part in establishing the NAS Research Grants Program is another. But your foresighted action several years ago in turning the Academy’s attention to the problem of avoiding a nuclear holocaust may in the long run be the achievement you find most satisfying. … all American scientists owe you a debt of gratitude, above all for showing them how science and technology can work for the welfare of the world’s human beings.” - June 21, 1982 (upon retirement as For. Sec., NAS)

G. O. P. Obasi (Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization), “Professor Malone’s long and distinguished scientific careen has been characterized by outstanding service to his profession, his country, and to the scientific community. …Perhaps his crowning achievement in international science was the development of the Global Atmospheric Program. The great advances in space technology achieved by the United States and the Soviet Union in the early 1960’s clearly set the stage for similar advances in the Earth Sciences…. Professor Malone, in collaboration with the late Professor Jule Charney, a previous winner of the I.M.O. Prize, and Professor Goody, developed preliminary concepts for an international program. Shortly thereafter, Professor Malone convened a larger group of scientists to prepare a specific suggestion for President Kennedy’s scientific advisory committee. As a direct result, a reference to the atmospheric sciences was included in President Kennedy’s annual message to Congress in 1961, and a specific suggestion for ‘further co-operative efforts between all nations in weather prediction and eventually in weather control’ was issued by President Kennedy in his September 1961 address to the United Nations General Assembly. This call to action was followed by intensive planning activities on the part of many U.N. bodies and scientific groups in many countries. This process, which Professor Malone continued to guide, led to the creation of the World Weather Watch, to the highly successful organization and execution of the Global Atmospheric Research Program, and laid the groundwork for the World Climate Research Programme now being pursued by WMO and ICSU. Professor Malone’s contributions were particularly vital in successfully negotiating the innovative and highly successful organizational l and institutional arrangements for both programmes. This partnership between the nongovernmental scientific community represented by ICSU and the intergovernmental community represented by WMO, has stood the test of time and remains as an enduring monument to Professor Malone’s wisdom.” – November 8, 1984 (WMO Award Cer.)

Bice Clemow (Editor, West Hartford News), “Tom Malone is fascinated by the continuing and accelerating exploration of the new frontiers in geoscience. He is dedicated to improving public understanding of the earth and its seemingly infinite resources, the interactions of the earth and its sun, the shifts in climate and the movements of the vast plates of world surface which spawn earthquakes and release the molten innards of the globe. ‘Planet Earth’ becomes the graphic visual extension of Tom Malone’s preoccupation with the fate of earth and of the stars. [He] is one of the international scientists who helped shepherd the TV series.”– January 23, 1986.

Harold A. Mooney, (Professor of Biology, Stanford University and (Japan’s) Blue Planet Medallist in 2002),“Pioneer in international environmental research, Tom Malone served as a leader for the development of a number of international programs, including SCOPE, GARP, and the IGBP. A tireless and dedicated scientist whose powers of persuasion relating to important international issues always managed to mobilize the best scientists of the world to those causes. Without his inspiration and dogged persistence, many important issues would simply not have received attention and a call to action by the scientific community.” – December 11, 1990 (Acceptance address upon being awarded the 1990 Ecology Institute Prize in Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany)

William Carey, (Carnegie Corporation of New York and retired Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science) “A day or two ago I discovered, with great delight, that you now hold the Saint Francis Environmental Prize. What a compliment! Well deserved!” - April 9, 1992 (on Award occasion)

C. Peter Magrath (President, National Association of State Universities and Land Grand Colleges) “The path of sustainable human development leads to a social goal that Dr. Malone has described succinctly and elegantly. It is a vision to be pursued during the twenty-first century, with the potential of unifying and galvanizing a troubled but hopeful world.” – November 6, 1994 [in Foreword to the Report Sustainable Human Development: A Paradigm for the 21st Century]

Robert M. White (President Emeritus, National Academy of Engineering), “Your achievements over the many years your have served science and the nation are indeed memorable. The National Center for Atmospheric Research would not exist without your efforts. The pioneering work you did in bringing together ICSU and the world Meteorological Organization in undertaking the Global Atmospheric Research Program, the promotion of the international program of the National Academy of Sciences in your tenure as foreign secretary, all stand as a remarkable testimony to your work.” - April 7, 1997 (on observance of his 80th birthday)

Robert G. Fleagle (Professor Emeritus and a Past President of the American Meteorological Society), “Tom Malone’s career is living proof that individual efforts can be crucial determinants in events of historical significance. His scientific insights, commitment to humanitarian purposes, strength of character, and determination stimulated and guided a long series of efforts leading from the unity of the geophysical sciences to promotion of sustainable human development. His vision and his quiet voice were instrumental in creating the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the International Global Atmospheric Research Program, and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. Throughout his career he has been successful in forging productive links between science and institutions of public policy.”– April 10, 1997.

John G. Rowland (Governor of Connecticut), “We must always base environmental action on the footing of scientific evaluation and ethical principles. Few men have so clearly combined these factors for the betterment of the citizens of our State, our country and all nations. It is therefore, an honor, to award this letter of commendation for Dr. Malone and thank him for his work on our behalf.” – April 24, 1997 (On the 30th anniversary of Connecticut’s Clean Water Act initiated by the Clean Water Task Force chaired by Dr. Malone).

Robert W. Corell (Assistant Director, National Science Foundation), “[Y}our major contributions to the conception and execution of the Global Atmospheric Program (GARP) allowed that seminal atmospheric program to occur. Without your actions, it is unlikely that President Kennedy would have made the pronouncement at the United Nations in 1961 that led to GARP. More recently, you were one of the principal architects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. Especially as co-editor of the book “Global Change.” Your terms as president of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society are among the many indicators of the high regard that you are held by your colleagues. … You have been one of the prominent international scientists of this century. Among your most notable efforts were your tenure as Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences and Vice President of the International Council of Scientific Unions, as well as President of Sigma Xi.” – April 25, 1997 (oh observance of his 80th birthday)

Richard Anthes (President, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research), “Dr. Malone has played a key role in expanding our horizons to look at the entire global change picture and to use the influence of our research toward achieving the goals of environmental sustainability and social equality and stability.” – October 10. 2000 (on induction to Founders’ Circle)


(12) Resources

Who’s Who in America – 58th Edition, 2002

Who’s Who in America, Science and Engineering – 6th Edition, 2002-2003

The International Who’s Who – 66th Edition, 2003

Who’s Who in American Education – 5th Edition

American Men and Women in Science – 2002

Malone TF. 1995. “Reflections on the Human Prospect”, in Socolow, R. H. (ed.), Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, pp.1-19

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner “Warns of Peril in Fossil Fuel Burning” Oct. 17, 1970, p. A-13

Profile and article in The Saturday Review, October 3, 1956.

Photograph of American Meteorological Society President Tom Malone awarding Associate Membership in the Society to the Honorable Harry S. Truman, former President of the United States (Weatherwise, Vol. 14, No. 6, Dec. 1961).

The BULLETIN Interviews Professor Tom Malone in World Meteorological
Organization Bulletin, Vol. 41, No.4, October 1992.

AGU Celebrates 80 Years of Leadership – 1919-1999. American
Geophysical Union, Washington, DC. 1999.

“Renewing the Earth” - A Pastoral Statement of the United States Catholic
Conference.” November 14, 1991, in which five interrelated issues facing humanity are cited from a presentation by “eminent scientist Dr. Thomas F. Malone.”

Malone TF. 1993. “Ferment and Change; Science, Technology and Society.” Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 27, No. 8. pp. 1026-31.

Malone TF. 1993. “Is there hope for Humanity?” Keynote address as the Fifth President’s Symposium on World Issues, September 23, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (manuscript).

Malone TF. 1992. Global Change: The Human and International Dimensions of Science – View of the Possible.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vo. 17, No. 2, 137-142.

Pittock AB et al. (eds.) 1986. Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War.
Volume I, Physical and Atmospheric Effects: Harwell MA and Hutchison, HD.(eds.) Volume II, Ecological and Agricultural Effects. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester

Department of Disarmament Affairs, Report of the Secretary-General. 1989. Study on the Climatic and Other Effects of Nuclear War, Study Series 18, United Nations, New York, NY

Memorandum on March 17, 1995 in the files of Notre Dame President Emeritus Theodore M. Hesburgh

President Handler’s Address to Members of the National Academy of
Sciences,April 1982

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, A New Agenda for Science. A
report to Members at the centennial observance of the Society, 1987

Compendium of Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 1951

“Preliminary Plans for A National Institute for Atmospheric Research”
prepared for the National Science Foundation by the University Committee on Atmospheric Research – the “bible” for the first ten years of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, February 1959, 92 pp. and Appendices.

“12 Universities Set on Weather Plans,” New York Times, February 19, 1959.

Sigma Xi (1992), Global Change and the Human Prospect: Issues in
Population, Science,Technology and Equity, Proceedings of a Forum, Nov. 16-18, 199l, Sigma Xi, Research Triangle Park, NC, 294 pp.

Records of the So. Dakota Sch. of Mines & Technology Alumni Association

Personal files of Thomas F. Malone

The Watauga Seminar during the Spring Semester, 1991, “Global Change and the Human Prospect: An Exploration with Thomas F. Malone, Sc. D.” North Carolina State University, (Editor, Quentin Lindsey)

“Science: A Resource for Humankind,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Bicentennial Symposium, Thomas F. Malone, October 10-14, 1976.

www.earthcharter.org

www.wesleyan.edu/escp :Video of 2004 Symposium honoring Maurice Strong