{"id":67177,"date":"2006-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/oceanography-dean-elected-fellow-of-royal-society\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T00:00:00","slug":"oceanography-dean-elected-fellow-of-royal-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/06\/oceanography-dean-elected-fellow-of-royal-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Oceanography dean elected Fellow of Royal Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tMembers have included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein<\/p>\n


\n\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 June 20, 2006 \u2013 David Farmer, dean of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the world\u2019s most distinguished scientific academy and the oldest such organization in continuous existence.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis is a highly prestigious society, and Dean Farmer\u2019s induction is a strong testimony to the quality and value of his work,\u201d said M. Beverly Swan, 溏心vlog免费B站 provost and vice president for academic affairs. \u201cWe are honored to have him at 溏心vlog免费B站’s Graduate School of Oceanography. He is a valued colleague and leader.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tFounded in 1660, the Royal Society is an independent academy promoting the natural and applied sciences. Fellows are elected for life by peer review, and have included most of the leading scientists in the world throughout history, including Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. There are currently more than 60 Nobel Laureates among the Society’s approximately 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members. <\/p>\n


\n\tA resident of South Kingstown, Farmer is one of 44 Fellows and six Foreign Members elected in May for their contributions to science. He was recognized as \u201cthe world leader in the use of acoustics to study the oceans, through both the development of instrumentation and the interpretation of data.\u201d His work has led to new insights on coastal oceanography, air-sea interaction in storms and related fields.<\/p>\n


\n\t \u201cThe Royal Society is a wonderful institution, famous for its support of excellence in science, and I am delighted to join its ranks,\u201d said Farmer. \u201cIn large measure this recognition is a tribute to the collective achievements of the many talented students and colleagues with whom I have enjoyed working over the past thirty years.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFarmer became dean of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography in 2001. Previously he had been a senior scientist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia, one of Canada\u2019s largest marine institutes, where he led an active graduate student program through the University of Victoria.<\/p>\n


\nA native of the United Kingdom, Farmer received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from oMcGill University and a doctorate from the University of British Columbia. His research interests include the study of upper ocean physics, internal waves, coastal flows, ocean acoustics, the study of lakes, sea-ice, fjord circulation, long range detection of fish populations, the impact of noise on marine mammal communication and related topics. He has a particular interest in the application of acoustical techniques to ocean research and has explored their use in topics ranging from ocean surface bubble populations to the fracturing of sea ice.<\/p>\n


\n\tHe is a recipient of the Rosenstiel Award for Marine Science, The Oceanography Society’s Walter Munk Award, and the Canadian Oceanographic and Meteorological Society’s President’s Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a life member of the Oceanography Society, a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members have included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 June 20, 2006 \u2013 David Farmer, dean of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the world\u2019s most distinguished scientific academy and the oldest such organization in continuous existence. \u201cThis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}