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John Shepherd (scientist)

December 20, 2023

This article is about the British scientist. For other people, see John Shepherd.

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]

John Shepherd
Born
John Graham Shepherd

(1946-08-24) 24 August 1946 (age 77)
Croydon, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical oceanographer
Institutions
ThesisThe proximity effect in superconducting/normal sandwiches (1971)
Doctoral advisorBrian Pippard
Website
  • jgshepherd.com
  • www.southampton.ac.uk/oes/about/staff/jgs1.page

Early life and education edit

Shepherd was born in 1946[2] in Croydon in south London, and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School, a grammar school in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. He studied Natural Sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge, initially taking physics, mathematics, chemistry and crystallography before specialising and graduating in theoretical physics in 1967. He remained at Cambridge for doctoral studies in the Cavendish Laboratory supervised by Brian Pippard on superconductivity.[12][13][14] He completed his doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on superconductivity.[12] During his time at Cambridge, Shepherd also competed for Pembroke College on the British quiz show University Challenge as part of a team that included the Australian essayist, Clive James.[15]

Career edit

Immediately following his doctoral studies, Shepherd took a research position with the Central Electricity Generating Board to study atmospheric physics and air pollution.[5] In 1974, he moved to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) to undertake research into the marine disposal of radioactive waste.[6][16] In 1976, his research within MAFF changed direction towards mathematical modelling of fishing fleet operations[7][17][18] and fish population dynamics,[19][20][21] a focus which continued until the 1990s. During 1978–1979, Shepherd first became a visiting researcher at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University, a sabbatical activity that he later returned to in 1999.[22] Through the 1980s, he rose through the ranks of MAFF, ultimately reaching the position of deputy director in 1989, a role in which he was tasked with the assessment and management of fish stocks, and directly provided advice to MAFF Ministers. During this period, Shepherd also served in a succession of International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) working groups and advisory committees on fisheries matters.[23][24]

In 1994, Shepherd left MAFF to become the first director of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, then known as the Southampton Oceanography Centre, in the Hampshire city of Southampton.[25] The creation of this centre brought together the Natural Environment Research Council's National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) into a single, purpose-built facility, located within the dock area of the city. During his tenure as director, 1994–1999, Shepherd served, in part, to bring together these two formerly separate organisations into a single collaborative institution. At the conclusion of his term as director, Shepherd became Professor of Marine Sciences within the University of Southampton as well as director of the Earth System Modelling Initiative (1999–2006). From 2006, he assumed a part-time role as a professorial research fellow in Earth System Science at Southampton. In parallel, Shepherd became deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (2000–2010), and began annual visits to LDEO as an adjunct senior research scientist (1999–).[22]

Shepherd has served as the member or chair of a number of committees for organisations including NERC, DEFRA, Cefas, DECC and IFREMER.[26] These have largely centred on fisheries, but a number have concerned off-shore operation of oil and gas infrastructures, in particular technology, decommissioning and regulation. Shepherd is a current board member of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, formed in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[27] From 2000 to 2002, Shepherd served as president of the Challenger Society for Marine Science.[28]

Awards and honours edit

In 1999, Shepherd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society,[1] and subsequently served as member of its study into ocean acidification (2005)[29][30] and as the chair of its study into geoengineering (2009).[9][10] He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), as well as a Chartered Mathematician (1991). In 2010 was awarded Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to science.[31]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Anon (1999). . London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ a b "SHEPHERD, Prof. John Graham". Who's Who. Vol. 1998 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "John Shepherd MA, PhD, CBE, FRS". University of Southampton. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  4. ^ "Homepage: Professor John Shepherd". National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  5. ^ a b Shepherd, J.G. (1974). "Measurements of the direct deposition of sulphur dioxide onto grass and water by the profile method". Atmospheric Environment. 8 (1): 69–74. Bibcode:1974AtmEn...8...69S. doi:10.1016/0004-6981(74)90114-0.
  6. ^ a b Shepherd, J.G. (1978). "A simple model for the dispersion of radioactive wastes dumped on the deep-sea bed". Mar. Sci. Communic. 4: 293–327.
  7. ^ a b May, R.M.; Beddington, J.R.; Horwood, J.W.; Shepherd, J.G. (1978). "Exploiting natural populations in an uncertain world". Math. Biosciences. 42 (3–4): 219–252. doi:10.1016/0025-5564(78)90097-4.
  8. ^ Edwards, N.R.; Shepherd, J.G. (2002). "Bifurcations of the thermohaline circulation in a simplified three-dimensional model of the world ocean and the effects of inter-basin connectivity". Climate Dynamics. 19 (1): 31–42. Bibcode:2002ClDy...19...31E. doi:10.1007/s00382-001-0207-7. S2CID 129729452.
  9. ^ a b "Geoengineering the climate: science, governance and uncertainty". Royal Society. 1 September 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  10. ^ a b Shepherd, J.G.; Working Group on Geoengineering the Climate (2009). Geoengineering the climate: Science, governance and uncertainty (PDF) (Report). Royal Society. p. 98. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  11. ^ . noc.ac.uk. National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  12. ^ a b Shepherd, John Graham (1971). The proximity effect in superconducting/normal sandwiches (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  13. ^ Pippard, A.B.; Shepherd, J.G.; Tindall, D.A. (1971). "Resistance of Superconducting-Normal Interfaces". Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 324 (1556): 17–35. Bibcode:1971RSPSA.324...17P. doi:10.1098/rspa.1971.0125. S2CID 202574485.
  14. ^ Shepherd, J.G. (1972). "Supercurrents through thick clean S-N-S sandwiches". Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 326 (1566): 421–430. Bibcode:1972RSPSA.326..421S. doi:10.1098/rspa.1972.0018. S2CID 136973359.
  15. ^ McCrum, Robert (15 March 2015). "Clive James: 'I've got a lot done since my death'". OurDailyRead. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  16. ^ Shepherd, J.G. (1975). "A simplified expression for the contributions of radioactive daughters to the effective decay energies of chains". Health Physics. 29 (5): 805–808. PMID 1193905.
  17. ^ Shepherd, J.G. (1981). "Cautious management of marine resources". Math. Biosciences. 55 (3–4): 179–189. doi:10.1016/0025-5564(81)90094-8.
  18. ^ Rosenberg, A.A.; Fogarty, M.J.; Sissenwine, M.P.; Beddington, J.R.; Shepherd, J.G. (1993). "Achievable sustainable use of renewable resources". Science. 262 (5135): 828–829. doi:10.1126/science.262.5135.828. PMID 17757341.
  19. ^ Shepherd, J.G.; Horwood, J.W. (1979). "The sensitivity of exploited populations to environmental noise, and the implications for management". J. Cons. Int. Explor. Mer. 38 (3): 318–323. doi:10.1093/icesjms/38.3.318.
  20. ^ Shepherd, J.G.; Cushing, D.H. (1980). "A mechanism for density-dependent survival of larval fish as the basis of a stock-recruitment relationship". J. Cons. Int. Explor. Mer. 39 (2): 160–167. doi:10.1093/icesjms/39.2.160.
  21. ^ Shepherd, J.G.; Pope, J.G.; Cousens, R.D. (1984). "Variations in fish stocks and hypotheses concerning their links with climate". Rapp. P.-v. Reun. Cons. Int. Explor. Mer. 185: 255–267.
  22. ^ a b "JOHN G. SHEPHERD, Adjunct Senior Research Scientist". Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory. 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  23. ^ Report of the Working Group on Methods of Fish Stock Assessments, Copenhagen, 9–16 June 1987 (PDF) (Report). ICES. 1987. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  24. ^ Report of the Multispecies Assessment Working Group, Copenhagen, 1–8 June 1988 (PDF) (Report). ICES. 1988. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  25. ^ . National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. 2013. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  26. ^ Shepherd, John. "Biography, John Shepherd". jgshepherd.com. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  27. ^ "John Shepherd, PhD". Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  28. ^ "Past presidents of the Challenger Society". Challenger Society for Marine Science. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  29. ^ "Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide". Royal Society. 30 June 2005. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  30. ^ Raven, J.A.; Working Group on Ocean Acidification (2005). Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (PDF) (Report). Royal Society. p. 68. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  31. ^ . Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. 2010. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.

External links edit

  • University of Southampton homepage
  • Biography, personal webpage

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This article is about the British scientist For other people see John Shepherd 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 John ShepherdBornJohn Graham Shepherd 1946 08 24 24 August 1946 age 77 Croydon United KingdomNationalityBritishAlma materUniversity of Cambridge BA PhD AwardsFellow of the IMA 1989 Chartered Mathematician of the IMA 1991 Fellow of the Royal Society 1999 1 Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 2010 Scientific careerFieldsPhysical oceanographerInstitutionsNational Oceanography Centre Southampton NOCS Cavendish LaboratoryThesisThe proximity effect in superconducting normal sandwiches 1971 Doctoral advisorBrian PippardWebsitejgshepherd wbr com www wbr southampton wbr ac wbr uk wbr oes wbr about wbr staff wbr jgs1 wbr page Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Awards and honours 4 References 5 External linksEarly life and education editShepherd was born in 1946 2 in Croydon in south London and attended Dr Challoner s Grammar School a grammar school in Amersham Buckinghamshire He studied Natural Sciences at Pembroke College Cambridge initially taking physics mathematics chemistry and crystallography before specialising and graduating in theoretical physics in 1967 He remained at Cambridge for doctoral studies in the Cavendish Laboratory supervised by Brian Pippard on superconductivity 12 13 14 He completed his doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on superconductivity 12 During his time at Cambridge Shepherd also competed for Pembroke College on the British quiz show University Challenge as part of a team that included the Australian essayist Clive James 15 Career editImmediately following his doctoral studies Shepherd took a research position with the Central Electricity Generating Board to study atmospheric physics and air pollution 5 In 1974 he moved to the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food MAFF to undertake research into the marine disposal of radioactive waste 6 16 In 1976 his research within MAFF changed direction towards mathematical modelling of fishing fleet operations 7 17 18 and fish population dynamics 19 20 21 a focus which continued until the 1990s During 1978 1979 Shepherd first became a visiting researcher at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory LDEO of Columbia University a sabbatical activity that he later returned to in 1999 22 Through the 1980s he rose through the ranks of MAFF ultimately reaching the position of deputy director in 1989 a role in which he was tasked with the assessment and management of fish stocks and directly provided advice to MAFF Ministers During this period Shepherd also served in a succession of International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ICES working groups and advisory committees on fisheries matters 23 24 In 1994 Shepherd left MAFF to become the first director of the National Oceanography Centre Southampton then known as the Southampton Oceanography Centre in the Hampshire city of Southampton 25 The creation of this centre brought together the Natural Environment Research Council s National Institute of Oceanography NIO and the University of Southampton s School of Ocean and Earth Science SOES into a single purpose built facility located within the dock area of the city During his tenure as director 1994 1999 Shepherd served in part to bring together these two formerly separate organisations into a single collaborative institution At the conclusion of his term as director Shepherd became Professor of Marine Sciences within the University of Southampton as well as director of the Earth System Modelling Initiative 1999 2006 From 2006 he assumed a part time role as a professorial research fellow in Earth System Science at Southampton In parallel Shepherd became deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research 2000 2010 and began annual visits to LDEO as an adjunct senior research scientist 1999 22 Shepherd has served as the member or chair of a number of committees for organisations including NERC DEFRA Cefas DECC and IFREMER 26 These have largely centred on fisheries but a number have concerned off shore operation of oil and gas infrastructures in particular technology decommissioning and regulation Shepherd is a current board member of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative formed in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill 27 From 2000 to 2002 Shepherd served as president of the Challenger Society for Marine Science 28 Awards and honours editIn 1999 Shepherd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1 and subsequently served as member of its study into ocean acidification 2005 29 30 and as the chair of its study into geoengineering 2009 9 10 He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications IMA as well as a Chartered Mathematician 1991 In 2010 was awarded Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire CBE for services to science 31 References edit a b c Anon 1999 Professor John Shepherd CBE FRS London royalsociety org Archived from the original on 11 October 2016 One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety org website where All text published under the heading Biography on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4 0 International License Royal Society Terms conditions and policies Archived from the original on 25 September 2015 Retrieved 9 March 2016 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link a b SHEPHERD Prof John Graham Who s Who Vol 1998 online Oxford University Press ed Oxford A amp C Black Subscription or UK public library membership required John Shepherd MA PhD CBE FRS University of Southampton Retrieved 5 September 2013 Homepage Professor John Shepherd National Oceanography Centre Southampton Retrieved 5 September 2013 a b Shepherd J G 1974 Measurements of the direct deposition of sulphur dioxide onto grass and water by the profile method Atmospheric Environment 8 1 69 74 Bibcode 1974AtmEn 8 69S doi 10 1016 0004 6981 74 90114 0 a b Shepherd J G 1978 A simple model for the dispersion of radioactive wastes dumped on the deep sea bed Mar Sci Communic 4 293 327 a b May R M Beddington J R Horwood J W Shepherd J G 1978 Exploiting natural populations in an uncertain world Math Biosciences 42 3 4 219 252 doi 10 1016 0025 5564 78 90097 4 Edwards N R Shepherd J G 2002 Bifurcations of the thermohaline circulation in a simplified three dimensional model of the world ocean and the effects of inter basin connectivity Climate Dynamics 19 1 31 42 Bibcode 2002ClDy 19 31E doi 10 1007 s00382 001 0207 7 S2CID 129729452 a b Geoengineering the climate science governance and uncertainty Royal Society 1 September 2009 Retrieved 6 September 2013 a b Shepherd J G Working Group on Geoengineering the Climate 2009 Geoengineering the climate Science governance and uncertainty PDF Report Royal Society p 98 Retrieved 6 September 2013 John Shepherd Biography noc ac uk National Oceanography Centre Southampton Archived from the original on 8 December 2013 Retrieved 5 September 2013 a b Shepherd John Graham 1971 The proximity effect in superconducting normal sandwiches PhD thesis University of Cambridge Pippard A B Shepherd J G Tindall D A 1971 Resistance of Superconducting Normal Interfaces Proceedings of the Royal Society A 324 1556 17 35 Bibcode 1971RSPSA 324 17P doi 10 1098 rspa 1971 0125 S2CID 202574485 Shepherd J G 1972 Supercurrents through thick clean S N S sandwiches Proceedings of the Royal Society A 326 1566 421 430 Bibcode 1972RSPSA 326 421S doi 10 1098 rspa 1972 0018 S2CID 136973359 McCrum Robert 15 March 2015 Clive James I ve got a lot done since my death OurDailyRead Retrieved 8 September 2015 Shepherd J G 1975 A simplified expression for the contributions of radioactive daughters to the effective decay energies of chains Health Physics 29 5 805 808 PMID 1193905 Shepherd J G 1981 Cautious management of marine resources Math Biosciences 55 3 4 179 189 doi 10 1016 0025 5564 81 90094 8 Rosenberg A A Fogarty M J Sissenwine M P Beddington J R Shepherd J G 1993 Achievable sustainable use of renewable resources Science 262 5135 828 829 doi 10 1126 science 262 5135 828 PMID 17757341 Shepherd J G Horwood J W 1979 The sensitivity of exploited populations to environmental noise and the implications for management J Cons Int Explor Mer 38 3 318 323 doi 10 1093 icesjms 38 3 318 Shepherd J G Cushing D H 1980 A mechanism for density dependent survival of larval fish as the basis of a stock recruitment relationship J Cons Int Explor Mer 39 2 160 167 doi 10 1093 icesjms 39 2 160 Shepherd J G Pope J G Cousens R D 1984 Variations in fish stocks and hypotheses concerning their links with climate Rapp P v Reun Cons Int Explor Mer 185 255 267 a b JOHN G SHEPHERD Adjunct Senior Research Scientist Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory 2013 Retrieved 11 September 2013 Report of the Working Group on Methods of Fish Stock Assessments Copenhagen 9 16 June 1987 PDF Report ICES 1987 Retrieved 9 October 2013 Report of the Multispecies Assessment Working Group Copenhagen 1 8 June 1988 PDF Report ICES 1988 Retrieved 9 October 2013 Influential Scientists Professor John Shepherd FRS National Oceanography Centre Southampton 2013 Archived from the original on 8 December 2013 Retrieved 11 September 2013 Shepherd John Biography John Shepherd jgshepherd com Retrieved 28 October 2013 John Shepherd PhD Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative 2013 Retrieved 28 October 2013 Past presidents of the Challenger Society Challenger Society for Marine Science Retrieved 28 October 2013 Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide Royal Society 30 June 2005 Retrieved 16 October 2013 Raven J A Working Group on Ocean Acidification 2005 Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide PDF Report Royal Society p 68 Retrieved 16 October 2013 John Shepherd receives CBE for services to science Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research 2010 Archived from the original on 29 October 2013 Retrieved 28 October 2013 External links editUniversity of Southampton homepage Biography personal webpage Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title John Shepherd scientist amp oldid 1170234428, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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