| RefNo | EC/1975/23 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIX, 171 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Rainey, Reginald Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his elucidation of the relation between synoptic weather patters and the migrations and breeding of desert locusts and other insect pests, and for his development on that basis of new methods of pest forecasting and control. Rainey's hypothesis that locust swarm displacements are always downwind toward and with zones of convergent low-level wind flow, was comprehensively tested and confirmed with the aid of the World Meteorological Organisation, and FAO set up an effect forecasting service based on it and headed by Rainey. He has since helped set up a similar, successful service covering armyworm in East Africa. He has made major contributions to the technique, logistics and costing of locust control, especially by aircraft; to the assessment of the results of control measures both locally and for whole populations; and to the detection and characterization, by means of airborne Doppler-radar equipment, of wind convergences where flying insects become concentrated and invite air-to-air attack. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2049 | Rainey; Reginald Charles (1913 - 1990) | 1913 - 1990 |