One of the great figures in 20th century meteorology, Thomas F. Malone passed away at age 96 in Hartford CT on 6 July 2013. Tom played a major role in bringing attention to the likelihood of human-induced climate change. Jesse met Tom first in 1977 when Tom served as a member of the Climate Research Board of the National Research Council, and then worked a lot with him while Tom served as Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences (1978-1982) and then as chair of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. Tom also co-chaired the 1983 Woods Hole workshop (with Herb Friedman) that led to the report Toward an International Geosphere-Biosphere Program: A Study of Global Change, for which Jesse was the scribe.
In 1984 Jesse portrayed Tom in a poem, “Tom Malone here.”
For a summary of Tom’s many important roles, see
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-development/news/in-memoriam-thomas-f-malone/
Tom’s tutelage in international cooperation in science benefited Jesse greatly in the conception and conduct of the Census of Marine Life and other major programs.