Roman E.Glazman

75th Birthday Anniversary | 6/26/1948 - 4/24/2006

As the most humble man, my dad was modest about his discoveries. He was one of the five founders of the Oceanography team at National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA). My dad joined NASA/JPL as a Research Scientist in 1985, when the team was in its infancy with Bill Patzert, also a Research Scientist, and Lee-Lueng Fu, a Satellite Project Scientist. Joining the same year, with David Halpern and Victor Zlotnicki, together they comprised the five pillars of the team that led Oceanography for the next 20 years- the span of time in science that proved to be the most pivotal not only for Oceanography, but for humanity, with developments in Ocean and Atmosphere that are termed as climate viability, change, turbulence, dynamics, variation, vorticity and the terms for describing the colossal and at times cataclysmic phenomena of our Oceans and Atmosphere.

Pioneering the Oceanography, my dad traversed Oceans, from taking measurements in the Arctic Ocean and off the coast of Kamchatka in the 1970s to performing observations in satellite imaging, and ocean measuring technology at NASA, on missions including Topex-Poseidon, Seasat, OST-Jason. He invented and shaped the field of Oceanography, trailblazing the depths of the unknown and defining and calculating the properties of the Oceans and their interdependencies with the Atmosphere, setting the scientific foundation and trends. His early research included Wind theory, which is at the foundation of Wind Energy development today.

It's not just my dad's brilliant mind and his dedication to Oceanography that I'm proud of. It's his being the most awesome dad, the most fun grandpa, the best friend to his colleagues, the strongest and the toughest, fair and real.

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