John Woods (oceanographer)

Professor John Woods, CBE (born 1939) is a British oceanographer.
He studied physics at Imperial College, London (1958-66), after which he worked at the Meteorological Office (1966-72), and then joined NERC as Director of Marine and Atmospheric Science. He held professorships at Southampton University (1972-77), Kiel University (1977-86) and Imperial College London (1994- ), carrying out research into the seasonal boundary layer of the ocean and plankton ecosystem models.
Woods has served on the EuroGOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) international project committees. He was a lead author of the first report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organisation which was later awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Al Gore.
He is now (2015) Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London.

• 1968 Back Award of the Royal Geographical Society
• 1991 Awarded CBE
• 1992 Gaskell Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society
• 1996 Founder’s Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society

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