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Gill, Adrian Edmund (1937 - 1986)

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Meteorologist and Oceanographer
Born: 22 February 1937  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.  Died: 19 April 1986.
Adrian Edmund Gill worked on dynamical oceanography at Cambridge, first as Assistant Director of Research and then as Senior Research Fellow 1963-84. 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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1959Master of Arts (MA) completed at the University of Melbourne
1963Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
1963Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Cambridge, UK
1963 - 1979Assistant Director of Research in Dynamical Oceanography at the University of Cambridge
1979 - 1984Royal Society (ESSO) Senior Research Fellow in Dynamical Oceanography, Cambridge
1984 - 1986Meteorologist in the Oceanography Unit of the Robert Hooke Institute for Cooperative Atmospheric Research, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University (part of the Meteorological Office)

 
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Created: 30 June 1997
Modified: 6 September 2006
Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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