Papers of Dr. Vincent Wickwar, physics professor at USU until 2022. Includes emails, published articles, papers, data and research files, faculty senate material, and photographs. Of note are Dr. Wickwar's work journals, which detail phone conversations, ideas, schedules and agendas, and often loose pages of work or correspondence. Also included are the many presentation materials and notes used in classes, conferences and workshops, and presentations about his extensive work with Lidar systems.

Some of the common acronyms contained in these materials include: ALO Atmospheric Lidar Observatory BLO Bear Lake Observatory CASS Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences CEDAR Coupling Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions FPI Fabry-Perot Inferometer LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NSF National Science Foundation TIMED Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite