Apollonia on My Mind: The Memoir of a Paraplegic Ocean Scientist

ISBN-13: 9789464260335 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 550 str.

Nicholas C. Flemming

O autorze

Flemming, Nicholas C.Dr Nic Flemming was employed by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, and the European Office of the Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS). He learned to dive breathing pure oxygen in the Royal Marines Special Boat Service in 1956. During study for an undergraduate degree at Cambridge University, followed by a PhD research project, Nic used his military diving experience and the skills of flying light aircraft to improve scientific research under water by diving and submersibles. He joined the National Institute of Oceanography. He has published more than 300 scientific and technical articles and several books, as selected below. From 1996 to 2001 he was Director of the European Global Ocean Observing System. From 2009 to 2013 he was a UK delegate to Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology and Landscapes of the Continental Shelf (SPLASHCOS) and edited one of the final books from that Project. Nic has been a member of many national British government bodies, international bodies and voluntary organizations.