Norman Latham Canfield

1922 - 2022

CANFIELD

NORMAN LATHAM CANFIELD (Age 100)

Norman Latham Canfield of Woodbury, MN, previously of Potomac, MD, was born April 1922 in New London, CT to Charles Leroy Canfield and Phyllis Latham Canfield. Norm died in April 29, 2022, at age 100, surrounded by family and will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery next to his wife, Virginia. They had three children: Susan, Marsha (Adnan Adou), and Roy (Cathy), three grandchildren: Alea Adou, Emily Adou, and Margaret Canfield Lund (Payton), two step-grandchildren, and seven step-great-grandchildren. Norm's sister Loraine Fischer (Robert) also had three children: Lynne Fischer Yash, Anne Fischer, and A. Robert Fischer.



His education included University of New Hampshire, B.S. Mathematics; MIT graduate programs; University of Michigan, M.S. Meteorology. Three months after Pearl Harbor, he was commissioned as a Naval Reserve Officer and served as the Aerology (weather) Officer-in-Charge and/or Forecaster in the United States, Bermuda, and Plymouth, England (alongside RAF Coastal Command). His work in Bermuda and England supported WW2 FAW7 antisubmarine patrols.



After the Navy, Norman worked for the Weather Bureau/National Weather Service (NWS) and held positions in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, and Maryland. His position titles over the decades included Aviation Forecaster; Chief, Marine Section; Chief, Climatic Analysis; Regional Climatologist, NWS Eastern Region (supervising 11 state climatologists serving 16 states); Chief, Data Acquisition Division, then at NOAA headquarters: Physical Scientist/senior staff climatologist, Director NOAA Climate Office. He was the managing editor and principal author of the first edition of the seven volume U.S. Navy Marine Climate Atlas of the World; a compilation of tens of millions of weather records from Dutch, German, English, and U.S. ships. He received numerous Navy and Weather Bureau commendations and awards including, for example, US Department of Commerce Bronze Medal in 1966.



He retired from NOAA in 1982 and began working and volunteering as a Research Associate for the University of Maryland and collaborated with Helmut Landsburg until fully retiring in 2017. He published a variety of scientific, aviation, military articles; the latest published in 2016.



His memberships included American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of State Climatologists, American Meteorological Society (former Chairman, Asheville, NC and New York City Chapters), Air and Waste Management Association, National Weather Association, Naval Weather Service Association, New York Academy of Sciences (He was a Fellow, Chairman of the Atmospheric Sciences and Planetary Sciences sections, and N-35 Climatology Technical Committee.) Fair winds and following seas.

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