| Robert 'Bob' Dolan | |
| Birth Name: | Robert Giles Dolan |
| Birth Date: | 5 April 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Charlottesville, Virginia |
Robert "Bob" Dolan (April 5, 1929 – April 24, 2016) was a Professor of Coastal Geology at the University of Virginia. Born in Los Angeles, California, he received his a BS from Southern Oregon College in 1955 (now Southern Oregon University, a MA in Zoology from Oregon State University in 1957 and a PhD from Louisiana State University. With the help of Robert E. Davis was the co-creator of the Dolan/Davis Scale for Nor'easter[1] [2] This is a scale for rating the severity of northeasters. Like the Saffir-Simpson scale for hurricanes, it classifies northeasters in five categories of intensity. The categories for northeasters are based on the combination of two factors: wave height and duration of the storm.[3]
He received a Distinguished Professor award from the University of Virginia in 1991[4] and received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Southern Oregon College[5] and the Significant Contributions to the Science Program by the Department of the Interior in 1987. He served as the associate editor, Journal of Coastal Research, and was a member of Sigma Xi, American Shore and Beach Association and the American Geophysical Union.
He died in Charlottesville, Virginia at the age of 87 on April 24, 2016.