John Shepherd (scientist)
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John Graham Shepherd (born 1946)[2] CBE FRS[1] is a British Earth system scientist, Emeritus Professor at University of Southampton,[3] and a former director of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.[4] He has worked on a wide range of environment-related topics, including the transport of chemical tracers in the atmospheric boundary layer[5] and in the deep ocean,[6] the management of marine fish stocks,[7] and the dynamics of the Earth system.[8] More recently he led a comprehensive review of geoengineering for the Royal Society.[9][10][11]
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Born | John Graham Shepherd (1946-08-24) 24 August 1946 (age 77) Croydon, United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
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Fields | Physical oceanographer |
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Thesis | The proximity effect in superconducting/normal sandwiches (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | Brian Pippard |
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