John Joseph Kelley (1933-2022)

An obituary for John Joseph Kelley, who died on Feb 11, 2022, is presented. After graduating high school in 1951, John served in the US Army (1953 - 55), after which he earned a BSc in geophysics and geochemistry from Pennsylvania State University in 1958. He then worked in several capacities for the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, from which he was sent to the US Navy's Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL) near Barrow in 1959 to study the movement of carbon dioxide and trace gases in the atmosphere, tundra, lakes, and ocean. In 1968, Don Hood, Director of the University of Alaska's Institute of Marine Science, recruited John as a graduate student and staff scientist.