David McNiven Garner (born 26 November 1928, in
Wanganui,
New Zealand) is notable as a published research
physicist, with a focus in
physical oceanography and
ocean circulation. Dr. Garner attended
New York University from 1959 to 1962, where he graduated with a
PhD in
Physics on 22 October 1962. Dr. Garner returned to
New Zealand in 1962, joining a team of scientists that founded the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute of the
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (today known as
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), then located in Hobson Street,
Wellington,
New Zealand.
Dr. Garner immigrated with his family to
Canada in 1968, as a physical oceanographer in the
ocean circulation department at the
Bedford Institute of Oceanography in
Nova Scotia,
Canada from February 1968 to July 1971, where his topics of research included effects around the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge. He worked extensively on the oceanographic
research vessels CSS Dawson and CSS Hudson (Canadian Scientific Ship, painted Survey Ship white, and run by the
Bedford Institute of Oceanography), which today is the
CCGS Hudson. His voyages included a portion of the first ever
circumnavigation of
North and
South America by the
CSS Hudson in 1970, on which he was a watch keeper, not a scientist.
David Garner returned with his family to
New Zealand in 1971, where he was a senior lecturer at the
University of Auckland Physics Department from approximately July 1971 to...
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