https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gazettetimes/name/james-deardorff-obituary?id=13512161 https://obits.oregonlive.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/james-deardorff-obituary?id=22518220 https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/james-deardorff-obituary?pid=173759299 James Deardorff Obituary Aug. 28, 1928 – Dec. 28, 2014 On Dec. 28, Jim, a 30-year Corvallis resident, lost his battle with cancer and died peacefully in his sleep. He had a brilliant, scientific mind and spent his lifetime searching for the truth. His work was very inspirational to many. He is survived by his daughters, Ellen Smiley, Laila Deardorff and Dana Deardorff; and two grandchildren. For the full obituary and to leave condolences, visit anewtradition.com. To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store. Published by Corvallis Gazette-Times on Jan. 6, 2015. // I met Jim on a BEAM team bulleting board about the Truth in the Talmud of Jmmanuel book he wrote, Celestial Teachings and we 7 shared many insights. He flew to the east coast to attend a lecture on the information of BEAM in 1996 with me and we had dinner. He was a great mind and friend in Truth, which is effective reality free of belief. I miss out chats. Thank you Deardorff family. David Hurlburt June 09, 2024 | Friend https://www.facebook.com/David.Lee.Hurlbert.5/ --- https://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/memory James W. Deardorff 1928–2014 Jim was the middle of three children born in Seattle to Ralph and Mary Deardorff. He was raised in Portland and graduated from Lincoln High School, after which he completed his freshman year at Reed College and then transferred to Stanford to participate in an NROTC scholarship. He spent his fourth year at UCLA studying all the prerequisites for graduate meteorology. After serving 3 years in the Navy he studied graduate meteorology courses at University of Washington, where he received his Ph.D. in 1959. After working on an air-sea interaction project at U of W, he obtained a job at the newly established National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO in 1962. In 1978 he left NCAR with his family for the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, where he was a research professor until taking early retirement in 1986. See James W. Deardorff to read more. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10546-015-0057-1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10546-015-0057-1#:~:text=980%20Accesses-,James%20W.,graduated%20from%20Lincoln%20High%20School. James W. Deardorff, a well-known meteorological researcher and educator, died on 28 December 2014, at age 86. The cause of his death was lung cancer, although he had not been a smoker. Jim was born in Seattle and raised in Portland, where he graduated from Lincoln High School. He attended Reed College for one year and then transferred to Stanford University, where he was awarded an NROTC Scholarship. After graduating he spent three years in the Navy, and then enrolled in Meteorology at the University of Washington and received his Ph.D. in 1959. In 1962 he accepted a position at the new National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Jim’s NCAR career extended over 16 years and was marked by unusually creative research that was increasingly recognized and appreciated. The research was of two main types: pioneering work in the numerical modelling technique now known as large-eddy simulation, and laboratory studies of turbulent free convection. The large-eddy simulation work was inspired by the earlier work of Jim’s senior NCAR colleague, Douglas Lilly, who developed its theoretical outlines some years earlier at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey. Under Lilly’s tutelage at NCAR, Jim developed the code for and carried out what was probably the first three-dimensional, time-dependent numerical simulations of turbulent flow with spatial and temporal resolution adequate to resolve the dynamics and evolution of the energy-containing eddies. That work attracted wide recognition, and began to be adopted in other research centres, including the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford that soon gave the semantically precise name, large-eddy simulation. Jim’s work on free convection used a 1-m square convection tank, with water heated from the bottom, to study the dispersion of effluents from sources towed through the tank. Despite the huge differences in Reynolds numbers between the tank turbulence and that in the atmosphere, Jim exploited the emerging concept of Reynolds number independence of turbulent flows to make parametrizations of turbulent diffusion that have been very useful in atmospheric boundary-layer applications. This free-convection tank was located in the second basement of the NCAR Mesa Laboratory, which overlooks the city of Boulder. At the time there were two interpretations of his reason for choosing that remote location. Jim’s stated reason was that its placement just above the stable bedrock minimized the possibility that external vibrations would affect the convection. The other interpretation, if less plausible, is sociologically more interesting. NCAR at that time had a relatively new and very energetic director who had been charged with reassessing, reorganizing, and revitalizing its science programs and activities. He took that charge very seriously, and little escaped his notice. In this interpretation of history, Jim chose the remote location to minimize the risk of having his unusual and not obviously atmospherically relevant experimental facility discovered by a disapproving new regime. In 1978 Jim took a position as a research professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the Oregon State University, Corvallis and remained there until he retired in 1986. John C. Wyngaard https://www.facebook.com/groups/345981512163730/posts/729982270430317/ James W. Deardorff passed away on Dec 28, 2014 Read more: http://ufoprophet.blogspot.com/.../announcement-james... Date of birth August 28 1928 Date of death December 28 2014 James W. Deardorff (Jim) died on 12/28/14 of lung cancer at the age of 86, despite never having smoked. Jim was born on 8/28/28, the middle of three children to Ralph and Mary Deardorff in Seattle. He was raised in Portland and graduated from Lincoln High School. He spent his freshman year at Reed College then transferred to Stanford to participate in an NROTC scholarship. He spent his fourth year at UCLA studying all the prerequisites for graduate meteorology. After serving 3 years in the Navy he studied graduate meteorology courses at University of Washington, where he received his PhD in 1959. After working on an air-sea interaction project at U of W, he obtained a job at the newly established National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO in 1962. It was at UCLA where he first became involved with folk dancing, and at a dance at the U of W he met his wife, Leona. They were soon married and raised 3 daughters. Over the next 54 years they enjoyed folk dancing and hiking. Leona preceded him in death in 2010. Jim spent a rewarding 16 years at NCAR as a senior scientist specializing in thermal convection, turbulence and diffusion within the planetary boundary layer. In 1978 he left NCAR with his family for the Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, where he was a research professor until taking early retirement in 1986. This freed up his time to pursue frontier topics such as the UFO phenomenon, which led to his further interest in biblical and reincarnation studies. He published numerous papers and books related to his research of these subjects. His work in these fields can be viewed at his principal website: www.tjresearch.info. His brother Don, sister Valerie, three daughters Ellen, Laila, Dana, grandchildren Michael and Kristine, survive him.Per his wishes there will be no memorial service.