• 1941 Born 28 July, Sydney, Australia
• 1963 B.Sc.Hons. (1st class) in mathematics, University of Otago, New Zealand. (Robert Jack Prize, NZ Inst. of Chemistry Prize, Senior Scholarship in Science)
• 1963 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Otago,
• 1963-66 Commonwealth Scholar
• 1967 PhD in geophysical fluid dynamics, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: F.P. Bretherton. Thesis title: Convection and baroclinic instability in rotating fluids
• 1967 Summer postdoctoral fellow in geophysical fluid dynamics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 1967-69 Postdoctoral research associate with J.G. Charney and N.A. Phillips, Dept. of Meteorology, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
• 1969-72 Assistant Director of Research in Dynamical Meteorology, Dept. of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
• 1972-87 University Lecturer, same Department
• 1987-93 Reader in Atmospheric Dynamics, same Department
• 1992-2003 Co-director, Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Science
• 1993-2008 Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics, same Department
• 2008- Emeritus Professor, same Department.

Main Honours

• 1968-71 Research Fellowship, St John's College, Cambridge
• 1981 Adams Prize, University of Cambridge
• 1984 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Senior Visiting Fellow
• 1985 Stewartson Memorial Lecturer, University College London Victor P. Starr Memorial Lecturer, M.I.T.
• 1987 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal (highest award of the American Meteorological Society)
• 1989- Member of the Academia Europaea
• 1990- Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1990- Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
• 1991 Symons Memorial Lecturer of the Royal Meteorological Society
• 1992 Sectional Lecturer, IUTAM XVIIIth International Congress, Haifa
• 1992-97 SERC/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Senior Research Fellow
• 1995 Distinguished Sackler Lecturer, University of Tel Aviv
• 1999 Julius Bartels Medal of the European Geophysical Society
• 1999- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2003- Highly Cited Researcher of the Institute of Scienti¯c Information, Geosciences category
• 2011– Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
• 2013 Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer of the American Meteorological Society

Additional invited lectures
(not counting solicited lectures to the European Geophysical Society/Union)

• 1978 Invited "Distinguished Foreign Scientist" to NSFWorkshop on Atmospheric Chemistry, Boulder, Colorado.
• 1976- Various invited lectures to symposia of the American Meteorological Society, IUGG/IAMAP, EGS, NASA-Langley, etc.
• 1990 Invited lectures on fundamentals of atmospheric dynamics to the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" (published in 1992)
• 1992 ICSU/WMO Beijing Symposium on Tropical Cyclone Disasters (in connection with the UN International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.)
• 1994 Keynote Lecturer opening the inaugural Workshop on Stratospheric Ozone, Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemispheric Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, September 1994.
• 1994 Keynote Lecturer opening the Sixth Annual BMRC Workshop on Numerical Weather Prediction, Data Assimilation in Meteorology and Oceanography, Melbourne, Australia, October 1994.
• 1994 Invited Lecture to the Royal Society Discussion Meeting on the Arctic and Environmental Change, London, October 1994.
• 1994 Invited Union Symposium Lecture, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 1994.
• 1995 Invited Lecture, European Geophysical Society XVIII General Assembly, Hamburg, April 1995.
• 1995 Invited lecture to EUROMECH 339: Internal waves, turbulence and mixing in stratified fluids, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.
• 1995 Invited Opening Lecture, All-Union Symposium on 'Dynamic Complexity', IUGG XXI General Assembly, Boulder, Colorado
• 1996 Invited lecture to the International Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (Lighthill Festschrift Symposium), Tallahassee, Florida.
• 1997 Invited lecture to the 12th Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium, on 'Dynamic Organization of Fluctuations | molecular machines, powder flows, and fluid turbulence', Nishinomiya, Japan, November 1997.
• 1997 Invited lecture to open the seminar series after the launch of Japan's Frontier Research System: `What has the stratospheric surf zone got to do with wind-generated water waves?' Tokyo, Japan, November 1997.
• 1999 Two Invited Lectures, European Geophysical Society XXIV General Assembly, The Hague, April 1999.
• 1999 Invited Symposium Lecture (1 of 3 keynote lectures), 14th European Space Agency Symposium on Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, Potsdam, Germany, May-June 1999
• 1999 Two Invited Lectures, IUGG Birmingham (XXII General Assembly), July 1999.
• 1999 Invited Lecture to Cambridge-Edinburgh Workshop on Musical Perception and Cognition, July 1999.
• 1999 Invited Keynote Lecture to the 4th Symposium on Human Development, Networking of Human Intelligence: Its Possibility and Strategy held in Kobe, Japan, on 4 December
• 1999, under the auspices of the Research Center for Human Science, Faculty of Human Development, Kobe University, December 1999. (Invitation arising from the Lucidity and Science essays.)
• 2000 Invited Keynote Lecture, IUTAM/IUGG/Royal Irish Academy Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics, Limerick, Ireland, 3-7July 2000.
• 2000 Invited Lecture to 'Meteorology at the Millennium', 150th Anniversary Symposium of the Royal Meteorological Society, a major international conference at St John's College, Cambridge, 10-14 July 2000.
• 2000 Invited Lecture to the 33rd COSPAR Scienti¯c Assembly (ICSU Committee on Space Research), Warsaw, 16-23 July 2000.
• 2000 Three invited lectures as H. Burr Steinbach Visiting Scholar to theWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 8-11 August 2000.
• 2000 Invited Lecture to the celebrity symposium in honour of J. D. Mahlman, 'Understanding the Stratosphere: Challenges and Opportunities', Princeton University, 11 September 2000.
• 2001 Invited Plenary Lecture to the symposium on 'Wave Phenomena III: Waves in fluids from the microscopic to the planetary scale', at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 11-15 June 2001.
• 2001 Invited lecture to the D. O. Gough Festschrift Symposium on 'New Developments in Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics', Caussens, France, 25-29 June 2001.
• 2002 Two invited lectures as Philip D. Thompson Lecturer to the Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 25-27 September 2002.
• 2004 Invited lecture to the Isaac Newton Institute's Workshop on `The Solar Tachocline', Cambridge, UK, 8-12 November 2004.
• 2005 Invited lecture to the Edward Lorenz Symposium of the American Meteorological Society, San Diego, Calif., 13 January 2005.
• 2005 Five invited lectures as Reginald and Muriel Noble Lecturer to the Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 11-15 April 2005.
• 2006 Invited lecture to the American Geophysical Union's Chapman Conference on 'Jets and Annular Structures in Geophysical Fluids', Savannah, Georgia, 9-12 January 2006.
• 2006 Invited lecture to theWorkshop on Spontaneous Imbalance, Seattle, 7-10 August 2006.
• 2006 Invited lecture 'Music and Mathematics - the deepest connections', to the Cambridge Music Festival, 17 November 2006. (Also shorter version, 3 September 2006, in the John Innes Centre, Norwich, as part of Chamber Orchestra Anglia's opening event hosted by Radio 3's Christopher Cook in the British Association's Science Festival.)
• 2007 Invited lecture on thinking probabilistically, to the 15th 'Aha Huliko'a Winter Workshop held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, 23-26 January 2007.
• 2007 Seminar on 'Magnetic confinement in the solar interior' to the Dipartmento di Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Universitµa di Pisa, Italy, 10 July 2007, at the invitation of Professor Steven N. Shore.
• 2007 Invited lecture on fundamental aspects of probability and statistics, to the American Geophysical Union's Chapman Conf. on 'Stratosphere-Troposphere coupling', Santorini, Greece, 24-28 Sept. 2007. See http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/#thinking-probabilistically
• 2008 Invited lecture 'Climate Change and the Ozone Layer' to the Royal Geographical Society, 20 February 2008.
• 2009 Marshall Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture: opening lecture at the 5th Festival de Théorie on Rotation and Momentum Transport in Magnetised Plasmas held at Aix-en-Provence, France, July 2009.

Cambridge Summer School in Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics

I gave the core lectures on 'Fundamental concepts and processes' every September from 1991 to 2006, alongside other core and invited lectures. For each of those sixteen years, until it was shut down by the funding authorities, the Summer School ran for two weeks and provided a total- immersion experience for the lecturers and for about 70 young researchers from the atmospheric, oceanic and earth sciences. About half of the young researchers came from the UK and the rest from the international research community abroad. Something of the flavour of my lectures can be found via http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/gefd-supplem-material.html

Miscellaneous international administrative or consultative

• 1969-80 Editorial board, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
• 1970-80 Member U.K. Universities' Atmospheric Modelling Group Panel
• 1971-74 Member synoptic and dynamical meteorological research subcommittee, U.K. Met Office.
• 1976-80 Member New Violin Family Steering Committee, Royal College of Music, London
• 1978-83 Vice-President, Catgut Acoustical Society
• 1979-89 Member International Commission for Meteorology of the Upper Atmosphere (IUGG/IAMAP)
• 1981-85 Consultant, Topexpress Ltd, Cambridge
• 1985-7 Member Theory Group, Anglo-French Mesoscale Frontal Dynamics Project.
• 1985-6 Coordinator, Cambridge atmospheric chemistry and dynamics initiative
• 1987-90 Joint Principal Investigator, UK Universities' Global Atmospheric Modelling Project (and lead author of original proposal)
• 1987-8 Invited Reviewer for NASA/WMO Ozone Trends Panel.
• 1987-2002 Senior Consultant, Science and Technology Corporation, Hampton, Virginia.
• 1988-89 Member IUGG/IAMAP/ICMUA Working Group on Numerical Modelling of the Middle Atmosphere.
• 1988-2002 Co-investigator, Oxford/NCAR High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder Project, for NASA Earth Observing System.
• 1988-2002 Co-investigator, Interdisciplinary Proposal for NASA Earth Observing System, on Chemical, Dynamical and Radiative Interactions through the Middle Atmosphere and Thermosphere.
• 1988-90 Member Theory Team, Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition (NASA/NOAA/DoE).
• 1989-94 Member Atmospheric Sciences Committee, Natural Environment Research Council.
• 1990-2002 Member Scientific Steering Group, UK Universities' Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme,Natural Environment Research Council.
• 1990-2002 Project Scientist, UK Universities' Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme, Natural Environment Research Council.
• 1990-91 Member IUTAM/IUGG/ICSU Vienna Workshop on Tropical Cyclone Disasters reporting to the ICSU Special Committee for the UN International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
• 1991-2002 Senior Consultant, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
• 1992-2008 Scientific steering committee, Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Science (co-director 1992-2003)
• 1992-2002 Scientific steering committee, STRATEOLE experiment (quasi-Lagrangian tracers in the Antarctic stratospheric vortex)
• 1994 Co-author, UNEP/WMO Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone.
• 1994-2002 GravityWave Committee of theWorld Climate Research Programme Project on Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC)
• 1995-96 Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Committee of the World Climate Research Programme Project on Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC)
• 1995-97 Scientific Advisory Committee and Organizing Committee, Isaac Newton Institute Programme on the Mathematics of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics
• 1996-99 Sectional Committee 5, Royal Society