CEDAR email: Contribute stories to family of Gonzalo Hernandez

[Barbara Emery-Geiger]

This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent 19 August 2014.
CEDAR email messages are at http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/cedar_email/
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Please provide memories of Gonzalo Hernandez to his family for his memorial.
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>From barbara.emerygeiger at gmail.com and Jason Hernandez (jason at
bigfastnet.com).

Gonzalo Hernandez of the Atmospheric Sciences Department of the University
of
Washington was a valued member of the CEDAR community.  He loved designing
and making Fabry-Perot spectrometers, which were deployed all over the
world.  He
usually spent part of the Antarctic summer refurbishing his instruments
there.
Pictures of Gonzalo in his office at U WA are located under the summary
pictures
for the 2014 CEDAR Workshop at U WA at the end of
http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2014_Workshop:Pictures .  He
died suddenly on Tuesday July 15 at age 78.

His colleague Robert Holzworth praised him in his announcement to the CEDAR
community
on 18 July at
http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/cedar_email/2014-July/000481.html

Gonzalo's sons Jason and Andreas organized a small Celebration Of Life
dinner in the Seattle
area on August 8 for his local colleagues and friends that they were able
to contact.
Meanwhile, they ask that each of Gonzalo's friends contribute a story (or
more) of something
funny, risqué, silly, or amazing, that Gonzalo did in his life.  Please
write them down and
send them to Jason Hernandez (jason at bigfastnet.com).   Gonzalo's family
would very much
like to hear them. In time, they will try to compile them all and make them
available.
They have already had so many emails from so many kind folks that they
don’t have any way to truly thank everyone.

For the larger audience: In lieu of flowers, people may donate (if they
want to), in his
memory, to whichever one of the below charities they feel best in
supporting. All support
good causes.

*1)    2041.com - Preserving Antarctica. http://2041.com/get-involved/
*2)    American Red Cross. http://www.redcross.org
*3)    Save The Ta-Tas Foundation. http://www.savethetatas.org


Thank you.

Barbara Emery and

Jason and Tatyana Hernandez of Kirkland WA and
Andreas Hernandez and Daniela Montano Wilhelms of Porto Alegre, Brasil

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