Dr. Peter James Lamb, George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma; Director, NOAA Cooperative Institute of Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, died in his home in Norman, Oklahoma on May 28, 2014. He was born on June 21, 1947 in Nelson, New Zealand and arrived in the United States in 1971. He received his Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin in 1976. He is preceded in death by his father, George, a World War II veteran serving with the ANZAC corps in Northern Italy, and his mother, Dorothy. He is survived by his daughter Karen Deborah (Jeffrey Lockwood), his son Brett Timothy (Kimberly Holt), and his grandson Xavier James. A memorial service will be held in the Atrium of the National Weather Center, 120 David L. Boren Blvd, Norman, Oklahoma on June 7, 2014 at 2 pm. He will be buried alongside his parents in Nelson, New Zealand in December 2014. In lieu of flowers, the family requests a donation to be made to the Ethembeni School, a boarding school serving 300 physically disabled or visually impaired students in the Kwazulu-natal region of South Africa. Please visit www.ethembenischool.co.za to donate and reference "in honor of Peter James Lamb" in the comment section.
