Person

Crowder, Robert Bernard (1930 - 2006)

Born
31 October 1930
Yarra Junction, Victoria, Australia
Died
3 January 2006
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Meteorologist

Summary

Robert Crowder worked for the Bureau of Meteorology for 37 years, retiring in 1988 as Deputy Director (Services). He authored the Bureau of Meteorology publication The Wonders of the Weather, 1995.

Skip to

Details

Born 31 October 1930. Educated BSc, University of Melbourne 1950. Joined the Bureau of Meteorology in 1951, working as a climatologist, weather analyst and weather forecaster. One of the first TV weather meteorologists, 1958-1962, on Channels 2 and 7. Spent three years at Woomera providing forecasts and consultancy services for the rocket range, 1965-1967. Spent 1968-1976 in various management positions in the Bureau's Head Office in Melbourne, and was appointed Regional Director, Victoria in 1976. Member, secretariat for the Committee of Inquiry into the Bureau of Meteorology in 1976. Assistant Director, Services, 1979-1983, and Deputy Director (Services), 1983-1988. Retired in 1988. Chairman, Royal Meteorological Society (Australian Branch), 1985-1986.

Published resources

Newspaper Articles

  • Falls, Rex; Mottram, John, 'Weather man shone regardless of conditions', The Age (2006), 22. Details

Resources

See also

Helen Morgan

Created: 10 May 2001, Last modified: 9 March 2018

EOAS ID: biogs/P003239b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003239b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260