FLORIDA, USA — The ashes of a longtime radar scientist and researcher were placed in the eye of Hurricane Milton Tuesday night.
Peter Dodge died March 3, 2023.
According to the NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Dodge’s research interest was in radar meteorology and observations of tropical cyclones. He often collaborated with the National Hurricane Center and Aircraft Operations Center on both land-based and airborne radar research.
He spent 44 years in federal service. Dodge was the recipient of a Department of Commerce Bronze Medal, two NOAA Administrator Awards, and the Army Corp of Engineers Patriotic Civilian Service Award. He also received a Department of Commerce Gold Medal as part of a Hurricane Research Division group award and an Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference Public Service Award for distinguished service to the state of Mississippi and the nation during the 1998 hurricane season.
"Despite his progressive visual limitations, Peter continued to play a role in the AOML’s annual hurricane field program by designing flight modules for the Hurricanes at Landfall experiments and coordinating with research landfall teams to gather data with mobile weather platforms. Peter was a friend to many at AOML and enjoyed discussions of current events, books, music, and radar technology. He will be dearly missed by those in the various work, aikido, bamboo, mindfulness and wellness, and blindness communities he cultivated," an AOML newsletter from early 2023 stated.
