Bruce Schwoegler, a former WBZ-TV meteorologist, died on August 4. His relatives learned the news the next day. Bruce was known for covering the station’s famous Blizzard of 1978. His funeral is still being completed. Bruce Schwoegler died of aphasia, it has been determined. His family said the disease made it difficult for others to communicate with him, but his understanding, laughter and larger-than-life personality remained unchanged. However, it is not certain how long Schwoegler had the disease and whether he was hospitalized at the time of his death. It was not revealed if he had any other health problems in the past.
Schwoegler received several awards during his career.
Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Bruce Schwoegler was 80 years old when he died, and nothing is known about his youth. Bruce was a famous scientist, businessman, writer and educator. He was the co-founder and chief meteorologist of MySky.com, as well as a top meteorologist and science reporter for NBC and CBS. He was one of the longest serving announcers on Boston television. Schwoegler has received multiple honors, including the Ohio State Award for Primetime Greenhouse Effect Show and the American Meteorological Society Award for National Outstanding Service by a Broadcast Meteorologist.
Schwoegler began his career as a lieutenant in the United States Navy, working in meteorology and oceanography in Alaska, the North Pacific, Florida, and the Caribbean. He got to do storm modification research with Hurricane Hunters and already had a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a double emphasis in meteorology and nautical studies.
Bruce’s first book was Time and Energy and he was recognized as an authority on energy education. He has also written for print media and spent three years as an environmental writer for United Press International. He also worked for The Associated Press, and his Weatherwise and Otherwhyse columns were known around the world.
He was a member of the AMS Committee on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education and helped develop the school science curriculum at Boston University. He was selected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Boston Museum of Science for six years and has presented various environmental programs at Harvard University, as well as in elementary and secondary schools. Bruce Schwoegler created and presented Borson’s first summer science series for the city’s youth and coordinated environmental education efforts with Botanicals Nursery, a green building and landscaping company.
Other works
He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show and CNN Network News and has performed with several orchestras. The National Geographic Society, Weather Services Corporation, Thermo Electron Corporation and Weather Services International have hired Schwoegler as a consultant. He was the first broadcaster to report on acid rain and a member of Icecap’s global climate change collaboration. He was an ambassador and spokesperson for the Massachusetts Environmental Trust.
He collaborated with experts who studied the impact of the Soufriere Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat and the surrounding ecosystem. In 2010, he led a group of scientists on a trip from Tahiti to other isolated islands and atolls around Pitcairn Island.
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