In Memory of Seymour Laxon

1963-2013

This is a place where we can remember Seymour. A place where family, friends, colleagues, drinking partners, sparring partners and anyone else he touched or influenced can remember, celebrate or toast him.

Funeral arrangements - details

Seymour was a much loved partner, daddy and friend, a polar professor, space scientist, would-be airline pilot, lego lover, mountain man and proficient plumber. A man with friends all over the world, with a love of life and of living it up.
Also a UCL man to his core.

He was funny, infuriating, great company, irascible, wise, wild, loveable, loving, and softer as a dad than any of us ever thought he could be.

Seymour

I only met Seymour a few years ago at my first NCEO board meeting. Quiet, but he was there when the discussions strayed off in areas wild to put them back on track. We discussed sea-ice data-assimilation during breaks (with his cigaret) and finally put a proposal together in Nov last year. I really admired his attention for detail and quality: “This is not the UCL standard for a proposal, we should do better!” was his standard phrase to me. He was a very amiable person, will miss him deeply.

Peter Jan