 From 1926 to 1928 he was a lecturer at University College of Wales in Aberystwyth before joining the UK Meteorological Office as an assistant.He was seconded to Shoeburyness to work on the meteorological 
effects on gunnery practices and then transferred to Porton Down.There he undertook a project on atmospheric turbulence and diffusion which quantified the effect of meteorological conditions on the distribution of gas at ground level, findings which could not be released until after the war.