John Woods#
| Membership Number: | 42 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/earthscienceandengineering/people/emeritusandvisiting/woodsjd |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present CNR (Italia National Research Council) Associate
- 1996 - present Plymouth Marine Laboratory Research fellow
- Research fellow, Southampton Oceanography Centre
- 1994 - present University of Southampton
- Emeritus prof. oceanography & complex systems (since 2005)
- 2001 - 2004 Head, Container World research project
- 2002 - 2006 Head, Complex System Modelling research group
- 1994 - 1997 Dean of the Graduate School of Environment
- 1994 - 1996 Head of Earth Resources Engineering Dept
- 1994 - present Imperial College London Professor of Oceanography (1994-2005)
- 1993 - now Oxford University Fellow Linacre College
- Director Marine & Atmospheric Sciences (Grade 3)
- 1989 - 1994 NERC (UK Natural Environment Research Council)
- Kultusministerium, Beamter H4 (civil servant for life)
- Institut für Meereskunde, Director, Regional Oceanography
- 1977 - 1986 University of Kiel, Germany, Ordinarius in Oceanography
- 1972 - 1977 Southampton University, Professor of Physical Oceanography
- 1966 - 1972 Meteorological Office, Senior/Principal Research Fellow
- 1964 - 1966 Imperial College, Post-doctoral research assistant
Fields of Scholarship
- Oceanography
- Meteorology
- Climatology
- Physics
- Plankton ecology
- Modelling
Honours and Awards
- 1968 L.G.Groves prize, Meteorological Office, Ministry of Defence
- 1968 Back Prize, Royal Geographical Society
- 1980 Hon D.Sc., University of Liège, Belgium
- 1982 Silver medal, University of Helsinki
- 1988 Elected foundation member Academia Euopæa
- 1991 Hon. D.Sc., University of Plymouth
- 1991 C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
- 1992 Gaskell medal, Royal Meteorological Society
- 1993 Silver medal, Plymouth Marine Sciences
- 1996 Founder’s Gold Medal, Royal Geographical Society
- 1998 Research fellow of Plymouth Marine Laboratory
- 2004 Hon. D.Sc., University of Southampton
- 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (share, as lead author IPCC)
- 2011 British Library, Oral history, Voices of Science
