CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

Name:              Harry Leonard Bryden

 

Birthplace:      Providence, Rhode Island

 

Position:          Professor of Oceanography, FRS

 

Address:         National Oceanography Centre

                           School of Ocean and Earth Science

                           University of Southampton

                           Southampton SO14 3ZH

                           United Kingdom

                           International       Tel:  44 2380 596437            Fax:    44 2380 596204

 

Qualifications:

 

1968                  A.B., Dartmouth College (mathematics)

 

1975                  Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program (oceanography)

 

Main Research Interests:

 

Ocean climate change;  Monitoring  the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation;  Role of ocean heat and freshwater transports in maintaining the global climate system;  Structure and energetics of western boundary currents;   Dynamics of the flow through the Strait of Gibraltar and its control of the circulation in the Mediterranean Sea

 

Experience:

 

1968                  Summer Student Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

                           Teaching Assistant, University of Washington

1969-70            Mathematician, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, Suitland

1970                  Mathematician, U.S. Naval Underwater Sound Laboratory, New London

1970-71            Graduate Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1971-75            Graduate Research Assistant, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1975-77            Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Oceanography, Oregon State University

1977-80            Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1980-88            Associate Scientist

1983                  Tenure awarded

1988-92            Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1993-95            Physical Oceanographer, Institute of Oceanographic Sciences,

1995-2000       Physical Oceanographer, Southampton Oceanography Centre

2000-present   Professor of Oceanography, Southampton Oceanography Centre

 

Honours and Additional Experience:

 

8/81-7/82          Visiting Scientist, School of Oceanography, University of Washington

 

5/88-8/89          Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University

 

1988-92            Henry Bryant Bigelow Chair for Excellence in Oceanography,  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

 

1994-2000       Individual Merit Promotion to Grade 6, Institute of Oceanographic Sciences and Southampton Oceanography Centre

 

1999-present   Personal Chair, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton

 

2003                  Awarded the Henry Stommel Research Medal by the American Meteorological Society "for fundamental and elegant observationsl contributions to understanding the oceanic general circulation"

 

                           Elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society

 

2005                  Elected Fellow, Royal Society "for the outstanding contributions he has made through careful observation and innovative analysis and interpretation of data to the study of the meridional transport of heat in the ocean"

 

2009                  Awarded Prince Albert I Medal by the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to understanding the ocean's role in the global climate system"

 

Publications:   Author or co-author of about 85 refereed scientific publications

 

Professional Service

 

           International

 

2005-2008        Member, Scientific Committee 5, Royal Society

2006                   Member, Search Committee for Editors of Geophysical Research Letters

2006-present           Member Climate Advisory Network, Royal Society

2007-2009        Chair, Oceanographic Research Awards Panel, American Meteorological Society

2008-2009        Member, Awards Oversight Committee, American Meteorological Society

2008                   Member, Review Panel for Netherlands Programme for Sea and Coastal Research

2009- present   President elect, Challenger Society for Marine Science

 

                        National

 

2002-2005        Member of NERC's Peer Review Committee (2002-2003) and subsequently of NERC's Peer Review College (2003-2005).

2006                   Member of NERC's Strategy Development Panel on "Climate Systems"

2008-present    Member of NERCÕs Programme Advisory Group for Rapid-WATCH

 

                        Local

 

2007-present    Head, Graduate School, National Oceanography Centre Southampton