Keith R. Thompson

Last updated

Keith Thompson (1951 - 2022) was a professor at Dalhousie University with a joint appointment in the Department of Oceanography and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.[ when? ]

Contents

Thompson was trained in the UK and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool in 1979. His research interests focused on ocean and shelf circulation, 4D data assimilation, extremal analysis and applied time series analysis. [1]

Prof. Thompson was awarded a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Marine Prediction and Environmental Statistics. [2] The Canada Research Chairs Program is part of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world’s top five countries for research and development. Chair holders are recognized leaders in their fields and are selected in order to advance the frontiers of knowledge, not only through research, but also by teaching and supervising students and coordinating the work of other researchers. Prof. Thompson has been awarded a Tier I chair, which is the highest level. (For more information on the Canada Research Chairs program see http://www.chairs.gc.ca/).

Prof. Thompson was also awarded the President’s Prize of the Canadian Oceanographic and Meteorological Society in 1990, and Reviewer of the Year by the same organization. He has written over 50 scientific publications and sits on international committees including the Coastal Ocean Observations Panel of the Global Ocean Observing System. Thompson was awarded the J.P. Tully Medal in Oceanography from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society in 2016. [3] Thompson died aged 71 on 11 July 2022. [4]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer)</span> Norwegian oceanographer (1888–1957)

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist. He served as director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Norwegian Polar Institute.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Scully-Power</span> Australian-American oceanographer and astronaut (born 1944)

Paul Desmond Scully-Power, AM GOSE FRAeS is an Australian-American oceanographer, technology expert and business executive. In 1984, while a civilian employee of the United States Naval Undersea Warfare Center, he flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-41-G as a Payload Specialist. He was the first Australian-born person to journey into space, and the first astronaut with a beard.

The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society is the national society of individuals and organisations dedicated to advancing atmospheric and oceanic sciences and related environmental disciplines in Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matthew England</span>

Matthew England is a physical oceanographer and climate scientist. He is currently Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Edward C. Carmack is a senior research scientist emeritus for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Sidney, British Columbia. He also worked with the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, British Columbia and as an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia.

Sverdrup Gold Medal Award – is the American Meteorological Society's award granted to researchers who make outstanding contributions to the scientific knowledge of interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere.

Lynne Talley is a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography known for her research into the large-scale circulation of water masses in the global ocean.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prem Chand Pandey</span> Indian scientist

Prem Chand Pandey is an Indian space scientist, planetary scientist, and academic in the fields of satellite oceanography, remote sensing, atmospheric science, the Antarctic and climate change, and also he is the founding director of the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR).

Klaus Wyrtki was an American physical oceanographer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Fasham</span> British oceanographer and ecosystem modeller

Michael John Robert Fasham, FRS was a British oceanographer and ecosystem modeller. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of open ocean plankton ecosystem models.

Harry Leonard Bryden, FRS is an American physical oceanographer, professor at University of Southampton, and staff at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He is best known for his work in ocean circulation and in the role of the ocean in the Earth's climate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere</span> Former Unit of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere (O&A) (2014–2022) was one of the then 8 Business Units of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's largest government-supported science research agency. In December 2022 it was merged with CSIRO Land and Water to form a single, larger Business Unit called simply, "CSIRO Environment".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trevor McDougall</span>

Trevor John McDougallFAGU is a physical oceanographer specialising in ocean mixing and the thermodynamics of seawater. He is Emeritus Scientia Professor of Ocean Physics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and is Past President of the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.

William Li is a Canadian biological oceanographer who did research on marine picoplankton, marine macroecology, ocean surveys of plankton from measurements of flow cytometry, and detection of multi-annual ecological change in marine phytoplankton.

Katja Fennel is an oceanographer studying the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems. She is a full professor in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University, a former Canada Research Chair in marine prediction, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Biogeosciences.

Monika Rhein is a physical oceanographer and Professor of Oceanography at University of Bremen. Rhein has led the authorship of over 29 peer reviewed publications, and is an author of over 100 peer reviewed publications. Rhein has broad ranging interests across oceanography, specialising in understanding the water masses in the oceans and their circulation, ocean mixing and the role of oceans in climate. Rhein's expertise has led to her authoring chapters of the "Technical Summary" and "Summary for Policymakers" of the 5th International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) report and acting as president of the Ocean Science Division of the European Geoscience Union.

Amy Bower is an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She is known for her research on ocean circulation and for being one of the few blind oceanographers.

Julie LaRoche is a Canadian marine biologist. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Marine Microbial Genomics and Biogeochemistry at Dalhousie University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anya Waite</span> Biological oceanographer

Dr. Anya Waite is a Canadian biological oceanographer working at the Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie University.

References

  1. ↑ "Keith R. Thompson". Dalhousie University . Archived from the original on 22 June 2007.
  2. ↑ "REMEMBERING DR. KEITH THOMPSON, ONE OF MEOPAR'S FOUNDERS". Meopar . 26 July 2022. Archived from the original on 15 February 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  3. ↑ "J.P. Tully Medal in Oceanography 2016 Médaille de J.P. Tully en océanographie". Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society . Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  4. ↑ "Dr. Keith Richard THOMPSON — Halifax". SaltWire Network . 22 July 2022. Archived from the original on 5 December 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.