Person

Maher, John Vincent ( - 1993)

Born
Australia
Died
1993
Occupation
Meteorologist
Alternative Names
  • Maher, Jack

Summary

Jack Maher worked for the Bureau of Meteorology for 45 years, joining in 1934 as a Junior Meteorological Assistant and moving to Head Office in 1942. He worked in Research and Training, Central Analysis, Climatology and finally in Weather Records and Statistics, where he worked for 21 years until his retirement in 1979. At the time of his retirement he was Acting Assistant Director (Services).

Skip to

Published resources

Resources

See also

Helen Morgan

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

EOAS ID: biogs/P003278b.htm

This Edition: 2026 February - 1926 Centenaries
Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar - Late summer: late January to late March - season of eels
Reference: https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars/gariwerd-calendar#bom-anchor-list__item-kooyang-season-of-eels

Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology.

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?

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/P003278b.htm

For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

"... 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