John Shepherd (scientist)

John Shepherd
John Shepherd
Born	John Graham Shepherd; 24 August 1946; Croydon, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Awards	Fellow of the IMA (1989); Chartered Mathematician of the IMA (1991); Fellow of the Royal Society (1999); Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2010);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physical oceanographer
Institutions	National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS); Cavendish Laboratory;
Thesis	The proximity effect in superconducting/normal sandwiches (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Brian Pippard
Website	jgshepherd.com; www.southampton.ac.uk/oes/about/staff/jgs1.page;

John Graham Shepherd (born 1946) CBE FRS is a British Earth system scientist, Emeritus Professor at University of Southampton, and a former director of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He has worked on a wide range of environment-related topics, including the transport of chemical tracers in the atmospheric boundary layer and in the deep ocean, the management of marine fish stocks, and the dynamics of the Earth system. More recently he led a comprehensive review of geoengineering for the Royal Society.

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