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The world’s rapidly increasing population is pressing daily into arid areas whose capacity to support such growth is limited by present technology and resources. The search for new solutions to the urgent problems thus created is the major effort of the new Desert Research Institute. The great potential of the University’s research program lies in the long-range, systematic study of these problems. The Institute will take a broad view of its obligations to serve the community. It will not only try to discover how to make available resources supply the physical requirements of an increasing population, but also will help to find for the Photograph by Russ Kiune WENDELL A. MORDY, Edgar J. Marston Research Professor of Atmospheric Physics and Director of the Institute, is a graduate of Pomona College, Cali­fornia. He has done postgraduate work at the University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley, as well as the University of Stockholm from which he was granted the degree of Filosofie Licenciate. Professor Mordy has broad expe­rience in the field of atmospheric physics and meteorology. He has served as head of the Department of Meteorology of the Pineapple Research Institute and the Experiment Station, Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, first Chairman of the organizing group for the Hawaii Geophysical Institute, and meteorologist for the air lines and the Air Force. He has traveled and lectured extensively abroad.