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INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Chair-person IOC 2003-2005; re-elected 2005-2007 Past-Chair and IOC Bureau member 2007-2011. UK Delegation to IOC Assembly and Executive Council meetings, 1985-2009 Head of UK Delegation, 1990-2003 UK Member, IOC Executive Council, 1989-2003. Vice-Chairman IOC 1999-2003. Chairman of IOC Sessional Programme and Budget Committee, 1999-2003. Scientific or advisory missions to many countries including: China, India, Japan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Seychelles, Mauritius, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, USA and Canada
Interests include tides, surges, mean sea level, coastal management and climate change, flooding risk management, the economics of marine activities related to GDP, and the history of sea level measurements.
EMPLOYMENT 2003- Independent Marine Science Consultant 1992-2003 Secretary, United Kingdom Government Committee on Marine Science and Technology. IACMST reports to the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on cross-Department co-ordination. There are Sub-Groups on Marine Data, Marine Observations (including GOOS), Marketing Liaison, and Education and Training. The International Sub-Committee advises on input to the IOC. 1987-1992 Head of Information and Scientific Services, Institute of Oceanographic Sciences. ISSG included external advisory services, marketing and public relations. 1984-1987 Head of Oceanography, Hydrology and Meteorology, Science Division, UK Natural Environment Research Council. 1970-1984 Research Scientist, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Merseyside. 1968-1969 Royal Naval Scientific Service. 1964-1968 PhD in Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Cambridge
AWARDS Fellow, Institute of Physics, 1985 Fellow, International Association of Geodesy, 1991 Fellow, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, 2002 Chartered Marine Scientist; Chartered Marine Technologist.; 2002 Chartered Scientist (honorary appointment) 2004 Society for Underwater Technology President’s Award 2003 Officer, Order of the British Empire, (OBE), Queen’s Birthday Honours, June 2003 Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, 2009
ACADEMIC PARTICIPATION Visiting Lecturer: Liverpool University, Southampton University (Civil Engineering, and Oceanography). PHD Examiner: Cambridge, Liverpool (2), Southampton (3; latest in 2009), Bristol, Portsmouth, Swansea, Guildford. PhD supervisor: Southamplon (2)
APPOINTMENTS Director, IAPSO Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level, 1976-1987. Founding Chairman, IOC Global Sea Level Network (GLOSS), 1987-1995. President, IAPSO Commission on Mean Sea Level and Tides, 1987-1995. Member, UK Society for Underwater Technology Research and Technology Policy Committee, 1997- Trustee and Board Member, UK Marine Conservation Society, 1999-2005 Secretary, ICSU Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services, 1992-1996. President, ICSU Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services, 2002-06 Vice-President, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology. From March 2003- IMarEST Board of Trustees Member 2005- United Kingdom Delegation Member, UN Oceans Informal Consultative Process, 2000-2002, New York. United Kingdom Delegate to IOC ABE-LOS, 2001-2003. Chair and IOC Representative, UN Group of Experts on a Global Marine Assessment, March 2004 Visiting Professor, University of Liverpool 2003- Visiting Fellow, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory. 2006-2012 Member UNESCO Commission on the Ethics of the application of science and technology. 2003-2007
RECENT PUBLICATIONS and REPORTS INCLUDE: BOOK Tides, Surges and Mean Sea Level, a Handbook for Engineers and Scientists, John Wiley, 472pp, reprinted 1996. A New Analysis of Marine Related Activities in the UK Economy and Supporting Science and Technology (with L M Skinner), IACMST Publication, 2002. Sea Level Change: Meeting the Challenge. UNESCO Nature and Resources, 33, 1997. International Year of the Ocean 1998 – Ocean Policy and Activities in the United Kingdom (with M Angel), IACMST Publication, 1998. Coastal Sea Level Prediction for Climate Change (with G A Maul), in, Coastal Ocean Prediction, American Geophysical Union, Ed C K N Mooers, 1999. Geothermal Heat Flow in Two Deep Patagonian Lakes (with R E Murdie and P Styles), Geo-Marine Letters (1999), 18, 315-320. Towards an implementation of Article 251 of UNCLOS. Report to IOC/ABE-LOS/7. Paris June 2001 Comparison of Historical and Recent Sea Level Measurements at Port Arthur, Tasmania (with John Hunter, Richard Coleman and Chris Watson), International Hydrographic Review, November 2002. Also in different form in Geophysical Research Letters, April 2003. UK Marine Science at the millennium. Chapter 2 (pp 20-36) in Managing Britain’s Marine and Coastal Environment Ed. H D Smith and J S Potts. Routledge pp 309.2005 BOOK Changing Sea Levels: Effects of Tides, Weather and Climate. Cambridge University Press, March 2004. Reprinted 2005. Woodworth, P. L., D. L. Blackman, D. T. Pugh and J. M. Vassie (2005). "On the role of diurnal tides in contributing to asymmetries in tidal probability distribution functions in areas of predominantly semi-diurnal tide." Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 64(2-3): 235-240. Woodworth, P. L., D. T. Pugh, M. P. Meredith and D. L. Blackman (2005). "Sea level changes at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands." Journal of Geophysical Research, 110(C6): art. no. C06013. Some indications of the socio-economic benefits of improved marine-monitoring instrumentation. Journal of marine Science and Environment part C4, pp 13-20. 2006. Pugh D. T. (2008) Socio-economic Indicators of Marine-related Activities in the UK Economy. Published by The Crown Estates. ISBN 978-1-906410-01-8 Araujo I.B. and Pugh D. T. (2008) Sea levels at Newlyn 1915-2005: analysis of future flooding risks. Journal of Coastal Research 24:203–212. Araujo I. B., Dias J.M. and Pugh D.T. ( 2008) Model simulations of tidal changes in a coastal lagoon, the Ria Aveiro (Portugal). Continental Shelf Research, 28, 1010-1025. Lowry R., Pugh D.T. and Wijeratne E.S.M. (2008) Observations of seiching and tides around the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues. Western Indian Ocean J. Mar. Sci., 7, 1-14
RECENT INVITED PRESENTATIONS October 2004 “The Sir William Harris’ Lecture”, Institution of Civil Engineers (PIANC). “Time and Tide…” October 2004 Chairman, and invited presentation to Marine Economics Working Group of APEC countries. Easter Island, Chile. February 2005 Keynote invited lecture on Wealth from the Oceans to Indian Ocean environment Conference. February 2005 Queensland., Lecture series sponsored by IMarEST, on sea levels, and ocean economics. University of Brisbane Queensland branch of Engineering Society of Australia AIMS, Townsville James Cook University. June 2005 Opening Address to Oceanography Society Annual Conference, UNESCO, Paris. October 2005 IFREMER, Brest. Invited presentation on socio-economic influences of improved marine monitoring (BRIMOM) November 2005 Helsinki, Invited address at the Presidential opening of the new Finnish Meteorology and Oceanography Centre. September October 2006 Lecture series sponsored by IMarEST and IOC Solomon Islands University of the South Pacific Universities of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. Marine Activities in the UK Economy, Ottawa, February 2009
RECENT CONSULTANCY WORK Sea level monitoring requirements assessment for the South Coast (SCOPAC). 1993 Membership of Steering Group for the DEFRA “Integrated Assessment of the State of the UK Seas” published March, 2005. Guest lecturing Southampton University Civil Engineering. 2003 and 2004. Assessment of Venice flooding risk publications, for University of Arizona on behalf of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova. 2005 Investigation of the socio-economic impacts of improved marine monitoring techniques for Glasgow University as part of EU BRIMOM Project. 2005 Reports for The Crown Estates on flooding risks and climate change for Portsmouth harbour, Outer Hebrides, Upper Severn Estuary. (2006/7), and five east coast sites (2008). Also seven west coast sites (2009). Changing flooding risks and nodal tides in the Humber Estuary. ABPMer and the Environment Agency, 2008.
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