Geneva Conference was adequate. Their report, written in only three months, was the blueprint for seismology during the ensuing twenty-five years. Only recently, aided by instruments that give much more complete coverage of the seismic frequencies, have we gone beyond its original vision of processes within the Earth and what can be found out about them. Berkner's role on this panel was described to me by one of the participants: "Berkner had a larger vision of what was needed to make seismology into a modern science than many of the [other committee] members;" and by another: "Lloyd's contribution was to put things into perspective."

Berkner became a member of the Academy in 1948 and was involved in its affairs until his death in 1967. He worked through the Academy in all of his activities in international science. In 1960 he became treasurer and, according to NAS President Frederick Seitz, "revamped the Academy's investment and business operations."²¹

One of Berkner's Academy activities in the 1950s was to serve as co-chairman of the National Committee for Meteorology. Convinced of the need for a national center for atmospheric research, he and others made the case that led to the creation of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, supported by the National Science Foundation, in Boulder, Colorado.

From 1956 to 1959 Berkner served on President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee. In 1958 he returned to Antarctica, revisited the 1928-30 Byrd expedition base at Little America, and wrote a report for President Eisenhower. This report was a factor in the President's decision to continue a U.S. Antarctic program after the end of the IGY. An island in the Weddell Sea was named Berkner Island in recognition of his contributions to the development of research in the Antarctic.