James Rodger Fleming is Professor of Science, Technology and Society@Colby College, Maine. He is the founder and first president of the International Commission on History of Meteorology, editor-in-chief of History of Meteorology, domain editor for Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews on Climate and a series editor for Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. In addition to listings in the bibliography, his books include Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control and Meteorology in America, 1800–1870.