Show Vern Hales Pioneers School J. Vern is one of the pioneer founders of the university's department of He was first appointed a member of the faculty in 1946 in the school of mineral Hales was born July 1917 in Utah where he attended Provo high He majored in physics at Brigham Young university and was graduated with an AB degree in He received his master's degree in meteorology at the California Institute of Technology in His master's thesis dealt with the daily distribution of and its relation uses various weather forecasting With U.S. Weather Bureau He worked for the U.S. weather bureau from and forecasted conditions for the Pan American-Grace airways in In South America he lived at Peru and While he was at he studied and reported the meteorological conditions causing a dangerous type of fog in Hales served in the U.S. army air force from as an officer of the Air Weather Stationed At Cal Tech During most of his he was assigned to American Air and was stationed at the California Institute of Technology for weather research work and long range At the California Institute of he drew the first synoptic weather map of the entire made the first day by day long range forecasts for various tropical including developed a new type of composite weather and supervised the application of a new statistical matching technique for Maps Successful Flight Hales was responsible for the weather forecasting for the first successful Hokkaido Washington flight that was made by four under the command of Frank Armstrong in early He also supervised weather forecasting for the first record breaking non-stop Guam-Washington flight made by the commanded by C. S. in late A Colonel In late 1946 he was discharged from the air force with the rank of Lieutenant Taking active interest in fraternal Hales is a member of the Salt Lake Chapter of Air Reserve is also a member of the Viking social at Brigham Young Blue national honorary Sigma Pi National physics and American Meteorological |