Person

Dwyer, Walter Anthony (1902 - 1981)

ISO FRMS

Born
14 November 1902
Died
16 May 1981
Occupation
Meteorologist

Summary

Walter Dwyer worked for the Bureau of Meteorology for 41 years, mainly in areas allied to aviation, retiring in December 1967 as Superintending Meteorologist, Forecasting and Information Branch. He was educated at Perth Technical College, was appointed a Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) for outstanding services to meteorology and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (FMS).

Skip to

Details

Chronology

1920 - c. 1925
Career position - Joined the Western Australia Civil Service, Taxation Department
1926 - c. 1933
Career position - Joined the Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne
1934 - 1937
Career position - Worked in the Darwin Bureau
1941 - 1946
Career position - Royal Australian Air Force Meteorological Service
1964 - 1967
Career position - President, World Meteorological Organization Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology
1967
Life event - Retired as Superintending Meteorologist, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology

Related Corporate Bodies

Published resources

Resources

See also

Helen Morgan

Created: 10 May 2001, Last modified: 6 December 2022

EOAS ID: biogs/P003244b.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/P003244b.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