Allyn Clarke:
CLASS OF 1961
North Toronto Collegiate InstituteClass of 1961
Toronto, ON
University of Toronto - Victoria CollegeClass of 1965
Toronto, ON
Allyn's Story
Left NTCI todo Physics and Chemistry then Applied Math at U or T then a PhD in Physical Oceanography at UBC. Joined the Bedford Institute of Oceanography for the next 35 years. Meet Sandra, the love of my life at a Frosh Dance at Victoria College.
After a long court ship, we married in August 1968. We have 3 daughters, two doctors and one teacher and 6 grandkids. Sandra died in Dec 2019 leaving me to face the attach of the virus in an empty house.
I had a varied and exciting career. My rhesus was very mathematical of ocean planetary waves which eventually was picked up by people studying the red spot on Jupiter. My true love was making observations of ocean circulation. I have spent about 4 years at sea, mostly in winter and mostly in the Labrador a...Expand for more
nd Greenland seas. I am known as the guy who observed deep convection in the Labrador Sea.
My work has been very collaborative, working with the Germans, French, Brits, Soviets and the Americans.. As part of these collaborations led to extended visits to Germany and France
My work is directly related to the global climate system. Because I was an English speaker and not an American or a European I have chaired a number of international steering committees. These include the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and the Climate Variability and predictability Program (CLIVAR). I was also a reviewer or a lead author of the first 3 volumes of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I guess that I have a small part of a Nobel Peace Prize.
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