Person
Gill, Adrian Edmund (1937 - 1986)
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- Born
- 22 February 1937
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 19 April 1986
- Occupation
- Meteorologist and Oceanographer
Summary
Adrian Gill worked on dynamical oceanography at Cambridge, first as Assistant Director of Research and then as Senior Research Fellow 1963-1984. At the time of his death he was Individual Merit Senior Principal Scientific Officer of the Meteorological Office. His international activities included being a founder member of the Committee for Climate Change and the Ocean (CCCO) and serving as chairman of the scientific steering group of TOGA (Tropical Oceans Global Atmosphere), an important component of the World Climate Research Programme.
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Chronology
- 1959
- Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Melbourne
- 1963
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge, UK
- 1963
- Career position - Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- 1963 - 1979
- Career position - Assistant Director of Research in Dynamical Oceanography, University of Cambridge
- 1979 - 1984
- Career position - Royal Society (ESSO) Senior Research Fellow in Dynamical Oceanography, Cambridge
- 1984 - 1986
- Career position - Meteorologist in the Oceanography Unit of the Robert Hooke Institute for Cooperative Atmospheric Research, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University (part of the Meteorological Office)
Published resources
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4685050. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94855993. Details
- 'Gill, Adrian E (19370222-19860419)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1287946. Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 2 March 2018