Charles Henry Brian Priestley. 8 July 1915 — 18 May 1998

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 349-378
Author(s):  
J. R. Garratt ◽  
E. K. Webb ◽  
S. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Convection And Heat Transfer ◽  
Atmospheric Sciences ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Industrial Research Organization ◽  
The University

Charles Henry Brian Priestley was born and educated in England. After completing the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge, he joined the Meteorological Office in 1939. For the next seven years he was engaged mostly in wartime work, including a two-year spell in Canada (1941–43) and three years with the Meteorological Office upper-air unit at Dunstable, UK (1943–46). In 1946, aged 31 years, he took up an Australian appointment with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (later to become the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)) to establish and develop a group to undertake research in meteorological physics. Thereafter he was based in Melbourne, Australia, with his career in the CSIRO extending to 1977. Priestley’s own early research focused on large-scale atmospheric systems, including substantial work on global-scale transport, and later on small-scale atmospheric convection and heat transfer, in which he established some significant results. He had a leading role in the development of the atmospheric sciences in Australia, and was strongly involved in international meteorology.

Charles Henry Brian Priestley 1915 - 1998

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 126 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Garratt ◽  
E. K. Webb ◽  
S. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Lower Atmosphere ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Convection And Heat Transfer ◽  
Atmospheric Sciences ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University ◽  
Csiro Division

Charles Henry Brian Priestley (known as Bill) was born and educated in England. After completing the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge, he joined the Meteorological Office in 1939. In 1946, aged 31 years, he took up an Australian appointment with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, later to become CSIRO) to establish and develop a group to undertake research in meteorological physics. Thereafter he was based in Melbourne, Australia. The group earned world recognition, particularly for its investigations of turbulent transfer in the lower atmosphere, and evolved to become the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research. Priestley's own early research focused on large-scale atmospheric systems, including substantial work on global-scale transport, and later on small-scale atmospheric convection and heat transfer, in which he established some significant results. He had a leading role in the development of the atmospheric sciences in Australia, and was strongly involved in international meteorology. His career with CSIRO extended to 1977, and he finally retired from all professional commitments in the mid-1980s. After several years of declining health, he died on 18 May 1998, seven weeks before he turned 83.

ON METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO TRAINING FUTURE TEACHERS OF KAZAKHSTAN FOR UPBRINGING WORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Zh. KolumbayevaSh. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Spiritual Renewal ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree

Globalization, informatization, digitalization, led to large-scale changes that have problematized the modern process of upbringing. The modern practice of upbringing in Kazakhstan is aimed at solving the problem of forming an intellectual nation. The key figure in the upbringing process is the teacher. The modernization of public consciousness taking place in Kazakhstan, the renewal of both the content of education and the system of upbringing require understanding not only the content, but also the methodology of the professional training of teachers for the upbringing of children, for the organization of the upbringing system in educational organizations. We believe that the analysis of traditional and clarification of modern methodological foundations of professional training of future teachers of Kazakhstan for upbringing work will give us the opportunity to develop a strategy for training future teachers in the conditions of spiritual renewal of Kazakhstan's society. The article reveals the experience of Abai KazNPU. As a result of the conducted research, we came to the conclusion that the process of training a teacher in Kazakhstan, who has a high degree of ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity, requires strengthening the upbringing and socializing components of the educational process of the university. The strategy of professional training of a modern teacher should be a polyparadigmatic concept with the leading role of ideas of personality-oriented, competence paradigm.

scholarly journals Economies of Scale: Research-Driven Social Impact in the Housing Studio

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Haar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Neighborhood Development ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Design Build ◽  
The University

"How do we engage and envision “bottom-up” social change in the context of the academic design studio? What does it look like, and how is it taught? This paper shares a novel research-based studio engaged with large-scale projects in the city of Detroit that diverges from the small-scale, often design-build projects most often undertaken in community- based practice in the academy. Framed by the context of a research-intensive academic institution—the University of Michigan—the pedagogy asks how can we educate students in the potential for social impact and capacity-building at scale? In parallel, how can we leverage the research capacities of a large student body to advance the study of affordable housing and neighborhood development in the context of a city such as Detroit?"

George Stanley Rushbrooke. 19 January 1915-14 December 1995

1998 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 365-384
Author(s):  
Cyril Domb
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
World War ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

For over half a century Stanley Rushbrooke played a leading role in teaching and research in statistical mechanics. He started his academic career at the University of Cambridge as a research student of R.H. (later Sir Ralph) Fowler a few years before the start of the Second World War. After a brief spell as a research assistant at the University of Bristol, he moved to University College Dundee in 1939, where he enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with C.A. Coulson. The two became lifelong friends, sharing a deep Christian faith and a common interest in scientific problems.

Scaling Back for an "Experimental" Collection

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark F. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
General Public ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Library Services ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Digital Library Services ◽  
Mass Digitization ◽  
The University

Digital Library Services (DLS) at the University of Iowa Libraries has progressively worked toward coordinating more large-scale, “left-to-right” digitization projects both within the libraries and across campus, moving away from model of web exhibits that were often created before the department was formed in 2005. However, a variety of situations still call for small-scale projects. This chapter, describing the design and production of the “W9XK Experimental Television Digital Collection”, attempts to show that small-scale digitization projects can bridge that gap, and yield collections that rise above the level of web exhibits in their usefulness to scholars and the general public by limiting exclusive selection and promoting comprehensiveness. While mirroring this approach of mass-digitization, digital librarians can also use curatorial decisions and software functionality to further assist users of these small-scale collections.

scholarly journals Multi-instrument observations of the ionospheric counterpart of a bursty bulk flow in the near-Earth plasma sheet

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1061-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Grocott ◽  
T. K. Yeoman ◽  
R. Nakamura ◽  
S. W. H. Cowley ◽  
H. U. Frey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Sheet ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Current System ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Bulk Flow ◽  
Optical Data ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Plasma Convection ◽  
Bursty Bulk Flow ◽  
Central Plasma

Abstract. On 07 September 2001 the Cluster spacecraft observed a "bursty bulk flow" event in the near-Earth central plasma sheet. This paper presents a detailed study of the coincident ground-based observations and attempts to place them within a simple physical framework. The event in question occurs at ~22:30 UT, some 10min after a southward turning of the IMF. IMAGE and SAMNET magnetometer measurements of the ground magnetic field reveal perturbations of a few tens of nT and small amplitude Pi2 pulsations. CUTLASS radar observations of ionospheric plasma convection show enhanced flows out of the polar cap near midnight, accompanied by an elevated transpolar voltage. Optical data from the IMAGE satellite also show that there is a transient, localised ~1 kR brightening in the UV aurora. These observations are consistent with the earthward transport of plasma in the tail, but also indicate the absence of a typical "large-scale" substorm current wedge. An analysis of the field-aligned current system implied by the radar measurements does suggest the existence of a small-scale current "wedgelet", but one which lacks the global scale and high conductivities observed during substorm expansions. Key words. Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; ionospheremagnetosphere interactions; plasma convection)

scholarly journals Round table discussion of session G: MHD convection and dynamos

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (S239) ◽  
pp. 494-495
Author(s):  
Juri Toomre
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Magnetic Activity ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Round Table Discussion ◽  
Dynamo Action ◽  
Solar Convection Zone ◽  
Solar Convection ◽  
Prandtl Numbers

AbstractVigorous discussion ensued about conditions under which both small-scale and global-scale dynamo action would be realized within real stars where the flow fields are expected to be highly turbulent and the magnetic Prandtl numbers small. Our nearest star reminds us that intricate boundary-layer phenomena may have to also be considered, such as the presence of a tachocline of rotational shear at the base of the solar convection zone revealed by helioseismology, which suggests that an interface dynamo may be at work to produce the observed 22-year cycles of large-scale magnetic activity.

scholarly journals Research perspectives in ecodesign

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrison Kim ◽  
François Cluzel ◽  
Yann Leroy ◽  
Bernard Yannou ◽  
Gwenola Yannou-Le Bris
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Environmental Aspect ◽  
Industrial Systems ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Actual Design

Ecodesign has gained significant traction in recent years ranging from academic research to business applications at a global scale. Initial emphasis on the environmental aspect of design has evolved to include economic and social aspects, with projects ranging from small-scale products to large-scale industrial systems. In this paper, the authors re-analyse 10 of their major ecodesign research projects of the past ten years to identify five categories of challenges and promising future directions for ecodesign research. This paper is primarily a retrospective position paper based on the authors’ experience of actual design studies, providing also a relevant literature review and summary of design practices.

scholarly journals Behavior of compressed plasmas in magnetic fields

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurudas Ganguli ◽  
Chris Crabtree ◽  
Alex Fletcher ◽  
Bill Amatucci
Keyword(s):  
Electric Fields ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Kinetic Regime ◽  
Plasma Dynamics ◽  
Formidable Challenge ◽  
Energy And Momentum ◽  
Intense Activity ◽  
Different Characteristics

AbstractPlasma in the earth’s magnetosphere is subjected to compression during geomagnetically active periods and relaxation in subsequent quiet times. Repeated compression and relaxation is the origin of much of the plasma dynamics and intermittency in the near-earth environment. An observable manifestation of compression is the thinning of the plasma sheet resulting in magnetic reconnection when the solar wind mass, energy, and momentum floods into the magnetosphere culminating in the spectacular auroral display. This phenomenon is rich in physics at all scale sizes, which are causally interconnected. This poses a formidable challenge in accurately modeling the physics. The large-scale processes are fluid-like and are reasonably well captured in the global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models, but those in the smaller scales responsible for dissipation and relaxation that feed back to the larger scale dynamics are often in the kinetic regime. The self-consistent generation of the small-scale processes and their feedback to the global plasma dynamics remains to be fully explored. Plasma compression can lead to the generation of electromagnetic fields that distort the particle orbits and introduce new features beyond the purview of the MHD framework, such as ambipolar electric fields, unequal plasma drifts and currents among species, strong spatial and velocity gradients in gyroscale layers separating plasmas of different characteristics, etc. These boundary layers are regions of intense activity characterized by emissions that are measurable. We study the behavior of such compressed plasmas and discuss the relaxation mechanisms to understand their measurable signatures as well as their feedback to influence the global scale plasma evolution.

William Quarrier Kennedy, 30 November 1903 - 13 March 1979

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 274-303 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Average Height ◽  
Geological Maps ◽  
Successful Leadership ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Institute

William Quarrier Kennedy, one of the most farseeing geologists of this century, divided his professional service almost equally between the Geological Survey of Great Britain, of which he was a member from 1928 to 1945, and the University of Leeds where he occupied the Chair of Geology from 1945 to 1967. During most of his time with the Geological Survey, Kennedy worked in his native Scotland, but with his move to Leeds he was able to range farther afield, in particular into Africa. In that continent his remarkable ability to discern geological relations on a large scale, previously concealed by small scale complications, which had already led him to a series of major discoveries in Scotland, found ever wider scope. Quick to perceive, but with the patience to spend years marshalling evidence around a germinating idea, he had great clarity of mind and an exceptional memory. These qualities are reflected in his published work and in his successful leadership of the Research Institute of African Geology he founded at the University of Leeds in 1955 and which he directed until his retirement. A slim man of no more than average height Kennedy was always neatly dressed whether in the laboratory or in the field. This neatness was reflected in his work, for his office was well ordered as were his lectures, professional papers and geological maps. His charm of manner and sparkling intelligence won him friends throughout his career. The affection and esteem in which he was held by colleagues at Leeds, emerges particularly clearly in the book African magmatism and tectonics brought out in his honour after his retirement and which opens with an appreciation by R. M. Shackleton.

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