He won a Rockefeller Fellowship which allowed him to explore a vocation for the church, at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. Spence attended Princeton with the Class of 1961, majoring in religion. He grew up on ranches in Cora and Big Piney, Wyoming, then went “back east” to South Kent School in Connecticut. Spence was born in Providence, RI, but returned as an infant to the cattle ranch in Wyoming where his mother and her close friends from Providence had met and married cowboys a few years before. Spencer Reynolds Sr., of Princeton, died peacefully November 28, 2021, following complications of vascular dementia. He loved cooking, good wine, and played a mean game of cribbage.Įric is survived by his siblings John, Elizabeth, and Peter former spouse Katharine children Alex and Emily and grandchildren Clementine, August, Elliott, and Silas.ĭonations in Eric’s memory may be made to the American Geophysical Union, Hydrology Section Fund. He regularly traveled back to British Columbia, Canada, for annual salmon fishing trips with friends and ski trips at Whistler and enjoyed deer hunting in upstate New York. When not working on his research or traveling around the world to conferences or to collaborate with international colleagues, Eric was an avid fisherman, hunter, and skier. Eric was a member of the National Academy of Engineering as well as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Canada, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Charney Award of the American Meteorological Society. Horton Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the Alfred Wegener Medal and the John Dalton Medal of the European Geosciences Union, and the Jule G. students and a similar number of postdocs and research staff.Įric won 17 major awards for research scholarship, including the Robert E.
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His impact was felt not only through his research but also through his professional service to the global scientific community and through his mentoring of more than 30 Ph.D. Eric was committed to developing better climate data for parts of the world that had been historically overlooked such as sub-Saharan Africa and South America. He contributed pioneering work to the development of hydrologic modeling, the use of satellite remote sensing data, and the creation of continental and global climate models. Eric’s early research was in systems analysis as applied to hydrology, and he worked for two years in Austria at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) before joining the faculty at Princeton University in 1976, where he would spend his entire academic career.Įric is known for his enormous impact in the field of hydrology. He was 74.īorn in Vancouver, Canada, Eric received a BS in civil engineering at the University of British Columbia before coming to the United States where he earned his doctorate from MIT in 1974. Eric Franklin Wood, of Princeton, NJ, died on Novemafter a multi-year battle with cancer.
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