Smythe Scientific Software

Charles M. Smythe

-Environmental Scientist, Climber, River Rat, Ski Bum

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."

--Matt Cartmill

Links of Interest:

Proprietor of Smythe Scientific Software
Past Chair, Colorado Mountain Club, Boulder Group
Boulder Bach Festival Chorus
E-Mail:bolderbach@aol.com
Cantabile Singers
Rocky Mountain Masters Ski Racing League
Married to Esther Graw egraw@webaccess.net

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While Kayaking in Echo Park, Yampa River,
Dinosaur National Park, Colorado

19 Year History Working With Conservation-Oriented Software:

In 1979 I wintered over at the South Pole as engineer for the NOAA Clean Air Laboratory. I collected long-term measurements of climate and air pollution in one of the earth's cleanest environments. This program helps to document the effects of human impact on the global environment.

I worked for twelve years with a group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research that builds satellite instruments to study ozone chemistry in the middle atmosphere. My most interesting contribution was to measure the effects of sunspot radiation on ozone chemistry. Many things can destroy ozone, but only solar ultraviolet radiation can create it. This was the first direct measurement of this creation process.

Sample map of the ozone distribution in the northern hemisphere.
It was generated by data provided by the LIMS infrared spectrometer on the Nimbus-7 satellite.