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James P. Lodge, Jr.: a tribute to a friend
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benefited from Jim’s care and concern. Back in the early 1980s, John Freiberg and I had written a paper identifying the several mass-transport processes involved in the dissolution and aqueous-phase reaction of gases in cloud droplets, developing expressions to determine the conditions under which mass transport limits the overall rate, and quantifying the decrease in uptake due to mass-transport limitation. We felt that this work was an important contribution, but to our dismay the reviews came back mixed. While one of the referees was enthusiastic, the other had written that the paper was ‘‘very long and doesn’t really seem to say anything which isn’t already well known to workers in the field,’’ a review which was hardly encouraging to us as authors and which clearly gave Jim some concern. In his letter to us he wrote ‘‘here I am faced with a rather difficult situation. The favorable reviewer is of my own selection. The one who says it is ‘‘uninteresting’’ is a reviewer selected by a fellow editor, D.J. Moore. In each case, of course, it is necessary to keep our reviewers happy so that there is some hope that they will serve again.’’
Fortunately Jim decided to keep the favorable reviewer happy at the risk of losing the other referee. As it turned out, the paper became a bit of a hit, widely cited, with its findings later reproduced in textbooks. Years later, when I encountered Jim at a meeting, I took the opportunity to call this to his attention. I vividly recall his pleasure at this outcome. I am thus pleased to have the opportunity not only to acknowledge Jim’s critical support to my own career as a young scientist but more broadly to highlight the key role that he played in the furtherance of our discipline.
Stephen E. Schwartz Department of Applied Science Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA November 2002
doi:10.1016/S1352-2310(02)01006-3
James P. Lodge, Jr.: a tribute to a friend When discussing James Piatt Lodge, Jr., most people will talk first of his professional accomplishments and his extensive and eclectic education. It will be my pleasure instead to relate some aspects more personal, which may serve to illustrate the character of the man. When I first came to what was then the Taft Center to join the Center for Air Pollution Control, a part of the US Public Health Service, Jim had already left for The National Center For Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to head their chemistry group. It had fallen my lot to reactivate the nationwide precipitation network, which was nonfunctional since Jim’s departure. It was neither his duty nor it was required that Jim put the newcomer at ease, but he went out of his way, befitting his natural graciousness, in teaching me the ins and outs of the ground rules and do’s and don’ts. It is more complex than it may seem but while I was in the USPHS, the actual sampling was to be done by the National Weather Service under the Aegis of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), overseen by Dr. John Miller under the authority of Dr. Les Machta, Director of NOAA. Without Jim actually explaining and greasing the machinations and the intricate and delicate interactions between the NOAA sampling sites and the laboratory, it may have been many years before such a project ever got underway. Equally importantly, he was instrumental in establishing the procedures that the analytical laboratories followed for many years.
I taught at the University of Alabama, Birmingham for many years after relocating there from US Environmental Protection Agency at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. I taught a class on various aspects of air pollution and Jim accepted my invitation to come and lecture to my class. Without notes and without any other aids, he gave a lecture on the history of air monitoring in the US that not only completely captivated the students, it amazed me, a veteran professional in the field then, that such a succinct summary of the entire field is possible in an hour’s time without omission of any important areas or without oversimplification, and in such colorful manner. It is well known of course that Jim served as the US editor of Atmospheric Environment. It was standard practice for him to copy letters that he wrote to the authors, to the reviewers. Like many of my professional colleagues, I reviewed manuscripts not only for Atmospheric Environment, but for many other journals. The most notable difference was that the Atmospheric Environment reviewing activity taught me through Jim’s correspondence, to what a great extent he mentored the authors, giving guidance and encouragement. Nurturing was one of Jim’s outstanding character traits. He did not lower his standards; instead he managed to bring the authors to meet his high standards. Jim’s professional activities did not cease with his retiring from activities related to Atmospheric Environ-
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ment. He took over the job of editing the volume ‘‘Methods of Air Sampling and Analysis’’ published under the auspices of the Intersociety committee (ISC). The third edition was published in 1988. Jim has been tirelessly working on a completely revised 4th edition of this volume for the last several years. As the executive secretary of the ISC, it was my pleasure to provide him support for this activity. Jim did not live long enough to see this massive task fully completed but this forthcoming volume will bear both his spirit and name. Many of his friends are very well aware of the fact that Jim was a noted gourmand. Indeed, for a significant period, he was the part owner of a restaurant in the Denver metropolitan area, which had a most eclectic menu, including wild game. Many of my contemporaries attending particular sessions/symposia at Air pollution Control Association (later Air and Waste Management Association) meetings would remember that Jim would doi:10.1016/S1352-2310(02)01005-1
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arrange for unforgettable dinners (banquets would be a more proper description) in selected restaurants. In one of such memorable occasions in New York, the venue was a Chinese restaurant and it was clear that our group constituted the only occidentals there. There were innumerable tasty dishes, most of them unidentified. This was pretty typical of the Lodge-arranged gastronomical experiences! Jim was a friend and mentor to many. To many he bequeathed the gifts of his wisdom, integrity and charm. He was deeply religious without being offensive and overpowering in his beliefs. This world is poorer, bereft of James P. Lodge, Jr. Richard J. Thompson Harwood, TX, USA July, 2002
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benefited from Jim’s care and concern. Back in the early 1980s, John Freiberg and I had written a paper identifying the several mass-transport processes involved in the dissolution and aqueous-phase reaction of gases in cloud droplets, developing expressions to determine the conditions under which mass transport limits the overall rate, and quantifying the decrease in uptake due to mass-transport limitation. We felt that this work was an important contribution, but to our dismay the reviews came back mixed. While one of the referees was enthusiastic, the other had written that the paper was ‘‘very long and doesn’t really seem to say anything which isn’t already well known to workers in the field,’’ a review which was hardly encouraging to us as authors and which clearly gave Jim some concern. In his letter to us he wrote ‘‘here I am faced with a rather difficult situation. The favorable reviewer is of my own selection. The one who says it is ‘‘uninteresting’’ is a reviewer selected by a fellow editor, D.J. Moore. In each case, of course, it is necessary to keep our reviewers happy so that there is some hope that they will serve again.’’
Fortunately Jim decided to keep the favorable reviewer happy at the risk of losing the other referee. As it turned out, the paper became a bit of a hit, widely cited, with its findings later reproduced in textbooks. Years later, when I encountered Jim at a meeting, I took the opportunity to call this to his attention. I vividly recall his pleasure at this outcome. I am thus pleased to have the opportunity not only to acknowledge Jim’s critical support to my own career as a young scientist but more broadly to highlight the key role that he played in the furtherance of our discipline.
Stephen E. Schwartz Department of Applied Science Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA November 2002
doi:10.1016/S1352-2310(02)01006-3
James P. Lodge, Jr.: a tribute to a friend When discussing James Piatt Lodge, Jr., most people will talk first of his professional accomplishments and his extensive and eclectic education. It will be my pleasure instead to relate some aspects more personal, which may serve to illustrate the character of the man. When I first came to what was then the Taft Center to join the Center for Air Pollution Control, a part of the US Public Health Service, Jim had already left for The National Center For Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to head their chemistry group. It had fallen my lot to reactivate the nationwide precipitation network, which was nonfunctional since Jim’s departure. It was neither his duty nor it was required that Jim put the newcomer at ease, but he went out of his way, befitting his natural graciousness, in teaching me the ins and outs of the ground rules and do’s and don’ts. It is more complex than it may seem but while I was in the USPHS, the actual sampling was to be done by the National Weather Service under the Aegis of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), overseen by Dr. John Miller under the authority of Dr. Les Machta, Director of NOAA. Without Jim actually explaining and greasing the machinations and the intricate and delicate interactions between the NOAA sampling sites and the laboratory, it may have been many years before such a project ever got underway. Equally importantly, he was instrumental in establishing the procedures that the analytical laboratories followed for many years.
I taught at the University of Alabama, Birmingham for many years after relocating there from US Environmental Protection Agency at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. I taught a class on various aspects of air pollution and Jim accepted my invitation to come and lecture to my class. Without notes and without any other aids, he gave a lecture on the history of air monitoring in the US that not only completely captivated the students, it amazed me, a veteran professional in the field then, that such a succinct summary of the entire field is possible in an hour’s time without omission of any important areas or without oversimplification, and in such colorful manner. It is well known of course that Jim served as the US editor of Atmospheric Environment. It was standard practice for him to copy letters that he wrote to the authors, to the reviewers. Like many of my professional colleagues, I reviewed manuscripts not only for Atmospheric Environment, but for many other journals. The most notable difference was that the Atmospheric Environment reviewing activity taught me through Jim’s correspondence, to what a great extent he mentored the authors, giving guidance and encouragement. Nurturing was one of Jim’s outstanding character traits. He did not lower his standards; instead he managed to bring the authors to meet his high standards. Jim’s professional activities did not cease with his retiring from activities related to Atmospheric Environ-
Editorial / Atmospheric Environment 37 (2003) 1155–1161
ment. He took over the job of editing the volume ‘‘Methods of Air Sampling and Analysis’’ published under the auspices of the Intersociety committee (ISC). The third edition was published in 1988. Jim has been tirelessly working on a completely revised 4th edition of this volume for the last several years. As the executive secretary of the ISC, it was my pleasure to provide him support for this activity. Jim did not live long enough to see this massive task fully completed but this forthcoming volume will bear both his spirit and name. Many of his friends are very well aware of the fact that Jim was a noted gourmand. Indeed, for a significant period, he was the part owner of a restaurant in the Denver metropolitan area, which had a most eclectic menu, including wild game. Many of my contemporaries attending particular sessions/symposia at Air pollution Control Association (later Air and Waste Management Association) meetings would remember that Jim would doi:10.1016/S1352-2310(02)01005-1
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arrange for unforgettable dinners (banquets would be a more proper description) in selected restaurants. In one of such memorable occasions in New York, the venue was a Chinese restaurant and it was clear that our group constituted the only occidentals there. There were innumerable tasty dishes, most of them unidentified. This was pretty typical of the Lodge-arranged gastronomical experiences! Jim was a friend and mentor to many. To many he bequeathed the gifts of his wisdom, integrity and charm. He was deeply religious without being offensive and overpowering in his beliefs. This world is poorer, bereft of James P. Lodge, Jr. Richard J. Thompson Harwood, TX, USA July, 2002