IAMAS is sorry to announce the passing on 26 January 2019 of Prof. Roland List, the distinguished cloud physicist and former Secretary General of IAMAS. Roland had a long and highly successful career in the atmospheric sciences and also contributed to international cooperation and coordination of meteorology through his service to IAMAS and via the World Meteorological Organisation, where he was Deputy Secretary General in the 1980s.

Roland was born in Frauenfeld, Switzerland in 1929 and graduated from ETH Zurich before working for the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos. In 1963 he moved to the University of Toronto where he established a world-leading cloud physics group that thrived under his leadership. During his time at the University of Toronto he supervised 44 Masters and 33 PhD students, many of whom have gone on to have distinguished careers of their own in the atmospheric sciences. Roland was Secretary General of IAMAS from 1995 to 2007, during which time he was the IUGG representative to the WMO and the World Climate Research Program. He had a long association with the IAMAS International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation, of which he was an honorary member.

On behalf of IAMAS and the atmospheric sciences community, we extend our condolences to his family.

John Turner, President of IAMAS (2015-2019)

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Message from Michael MacCracken, Past President of IAMAS (2003-2007)

One of the IAMAS tasks that Roland took great pride in carrying through was offering funding and assistance for young scientists with limited funding to come to the IAMAS assemblies and IUGG congresses, building the global scientific community. He really enjoyed bringing people together and arranging times for the newly and long-graduated to mix and learn from each other.