John Woods (oceanographer)
Professor John David Woods, CBE (born 1939) is a British oceanographer. [1]
He studied physics at Imperial College, London (1958-66), after which he was appointed principal research fellow at the Meteorological Office (1966-72), while leading the RN Operation Thermocline in which he pioneered underwater flow visualisation. Later he joined NERC as Director of Marine and Atmospheric Science (1986-1994), where he created the National Oceanography Centre at Southampton. He held professorships at Southampton University (1972-77), Kiel University (1977-86) and Imperial College London (1994- ), carrying out research into the seasonal boundary layer of the ocean and plankton ecosystem models, and modelling global container freight.[1]
Woods has served on a number of international project committees, including GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Programme), WCRP (World Climate Research Programme0, IGBP (International GeoSphere-Biosphere Programme), EuroGOOS (European Global Ocean Observing System). He was co-chairman of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment. He was a lead author of the first report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organisation which was later awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Al Gore. [1]
He is now (2015) Emeritus Professor of Oceanography & Complex Systems in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London. He is Adjunct Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford (1994- ), and Emeritus Researcher of the CNR (Italian National Research Council).
Honours and awards[2]
- 1968 Back Award of the Royal Geographical Society
- 1968 L.G.Groves prize, Ministry of Defence.
- 1980 Hon D.Sc., University of Liège, Belgium
- 1982 Silver medal, University of Helsinki
- 1988 Foundation member, Academia Euopæa
- 1991 Hon D.Sc., University of Plymouth
- 1991 Awarded CBE
- 1992 William Gaskell Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society
- 1993 Silver medal, Plymouth Marine Sciences
- 1996 Founder’s Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society
- 2004 Hon D.Sc., University of Southampton
- 2011 British Library, Oral history, Voices of Science
Books
- 1971 Underwater science [with J.N.Lythgoe]
- 1976 Underwater Research [E.Drew & J.N.Lythgoe)
- 2002 Ocean forecasting [with N.Pinardi ]
- 2006 Benguela: Predicting a Large Marine Ecosystem [with V.Shannon, G.Hempel, P.Malanotte-Rizzoli, C.Moloney]
References
- 1 2 3 "Professor John Woods". National Oceanographic Laboratory. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ↑ "Emeritus Professor JohnWoods-Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering". Imperial College London. Retrieved 18 August 2015.