| Activity | Education:
Heysham, Hampstead (1932-1936); Abinger Hill School, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey (1936-1940); Marlborough College, Wiltshire (1940-1945); King's College, University of Cambridge, Naval Short Course in Moral Sciences; National Service, Royal Navy (1945-1948); King's College, Cambridge, MA in Natural Sciences (1948-1954); John Murray Studentship at Lamont Geological Observatory, Columbia University (1954-1955); University of Cambridge PhD (1955)
Career:
National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Senior Scientific Officer (1955-1957), Principal Scientific Officer (1961-1962), Senior Principal Scientific Officer (1966-1972), Group Leader, Marine Geology and Geophysics Group (1972-1977); Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOS, formerly NIO) Deputy Chief Scientific Officer (1977-1978), Director and Chief Scientific Officer (1978-1988); retired from Director IOS Deacon Laboratory (IOSDL) (1988); Consultant in marine science and oceanography (1988-2019); Consultant, Buro Happold Environmental Assessment, (1989); IOSDL, Visiting Research Fellow (1989), Senior Visiting Research Fellow (1991); Visiting Research Fellow, Southampton Oceanography Centre, (1995-2019); Fellow in the School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton University, (1999-2002).
Honours:
Kt 1987
Memberships:
Challenger Society for Marine Sciences, President (1988-1990); Society for Underwater Technology (1991), President (1995-1997); President of Hydrographic Society (1997-1999)
Medals and Awards:
Cuthbert Peake Grant of the Royal Geographical Society for investigations of the sea floor of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; Prince Albert 1st of Monaco Gold Medal for Oceanography (1980); Founders Medal, Royal Geographical Society (1987); Murchison Medal, Geological Society of London (1989) |