John Woods (oceanographer)

Professor John Woods, CBE (born 1939) is a British oceanographer. [1]

He studied physics at Imperial College, London (1958-66), after which he worked at the Meteorological Office (1966-72), and then joined NERC as Director of Marine and Atmospheric Science. He held professorships at Southampton University (1972-77), Kiel University (1977-86) and Imperial College London (1994- ), carrying out research into the seasonal boundary layer of the ocean and plankton ecosystem models.[1]

Woods has served on the EuroGOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) international project committees. He was a lead author of the first report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organisation which was later awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Al Gore. [1]

He is now (2015) Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London.

Honours and awards[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Professor John Woods". National Oceanographic Laboratory. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Emeritus Professor JohnWoods-Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering". Imperial College London. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
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