Obituaries: DEEPAK KANTA RAJOPADHYAYA

Obituaries

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December 3, 1998

DEEPAK KANTA RAJOPADHYAYA

CU-Boulder researcher Deepak Kanta Rajopadhyaya of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences died Nov. 21 in Boulder in a drowning accident. He was 43.

Dr. Rajopadhyaya was born on April 25, 1955, in Pimbahal, Lalitpur, Nepal, the son of Shri Chandra Kanta Dev Sharmana and Shiva Laxmi.

He received a master's degree in atmospheric physics in 1979 from Tribhuvan University in Katmandu, Nepal. He was a lecturer in the departments of physics and meteorology at Tribhuvan University for 10 years, before earning his doctoral degree in atmospheric physics in 1994 from the University of Adelaide in Australia.

He joined CIRES in 1995 as a postdoctoral research associate. He also had been a visitor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder since January 1998. He recently returned from a three-month stay in Australia. His research interests included work on different methods to study precipitation patterns.

Dr. Rajopadhyaya was known as a dedicated worker, who sometimes worked into the early hours of the morning, and was described by his co-workers as very frank, friendly, helpful and polite.

He is survived by his wife Laxmi of Boulder; a daughter, Kanchani; a son, Brajesh; a brother; and three sisters.

A memorial service will be held Saturday at 4 p.m. at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 3700 Baseline Rd., in Boulder. The body was cremated.

A fund has been established to help his family. Checks may be sent to the fund, made payable to Susan Avery, CIRES Director, at Campus Box 216, CU-Boulder, 80309.