John Monteith
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John Lennox Monteith DSc, FRS, born September 3, 1929 in Ayrshire, Scotland, is a leading authority in the related fields of water management for agricultural production, soil physics, micrometeorology, transpiration, and the influence of the natural environment on field crops, horticultural crops, forestry, and animal production.[1]
His pioneering work, with Howard Penman, in evapotranspiration, is applied worldwide as the "Penman-Monteith" equation. Their model for predicting evapotranspiration is recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Monteith's research on the role of the environment in agriculture, the physics of crop microclimate, physiology of crop growth and yield, radiation climatology heat balance in animals, and instrumentation for measuring physical and physiological variables in agriculture has been published in journals throughout the world. He was President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1978 to 1980.
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[edit] Career
- 1954 Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts, UK
- 1967 University of Nottingham, School of Agriculture, UK
- 1986 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad, India
[edit] Awards
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1971
- Awarded Rank Prize for Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry, 1989
- Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Edinburgh, 1989
[edit] Publications
- Principles of Environmental Physics; JL Monteith, M Unsworth ISBN 0-7131-2931-X
[edit] References
- ^ Waring, Richard H.; Running, S. W. (2007). Forest ecosystems: analysis at multiple scales. Elsevier. pp. 94–. ISBN 9780123706058. http://books.google.com/books?id=6YjhssXQ2AUC&pg=PA94. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
