Turbulence from Earth to Planets, Stars and Galaxies: Commemorative Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Jackson Rea Herring

This Reprint aims to honor Dr Jackson Rea Herring, who passed away on May 26th 2022 in Boulder, Colorado, after a short illness. Jack was a Senior Scientist at the Mesoscale Microscale Meteorology Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at Boulder, Colorado, a position he held since 1978. He earned his B.S. in Physics from Wake Forrest College and his M.S. and Ph.D., also in Physics, from the University of North Carolina. Jack worked as a physicist at the Theoretical Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Institute for Space Studies, New York City, N.Y. He was first a Long-Term Visitor and then a Senior Scientist at the Advanced Science Program (ASP) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at Boulder, Colorado. From 1978, he was a Senior Scientist at the Mesoscale Research Section of the Mesoscale Microscale Meteorology Division of NCAR. Jack was Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Advanced Study Program at NCAR, a Green Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, and Professeur associé à l'lnstitut de Mécanique de Grenoble. He served on the Advisory Board of Editors for Meteorology and Oceanography, World Scientific Publishing Co., was an Associate Editor of Physics of Fluids, and was an Associate of the La Jolla Institute. He also served on the Advisory Committee of the NASA-Stanford Center for Turbulence Research.