OBITUARY

Angus McEwan died on 9/5/2018.

Dr Angus McEwan FTSE was Chief of the CSIRO Division of Oceanography from 1981 to 1995 and served as the sixth President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) from 1998-99.

He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1982 and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 1994.

Born in Scotland, he immigrated to Melbourne with his mother and brothers in 1947, gaining a diploma in engineering at Caufield Technical School. After his National Service, he got a job at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne.

A cadetship enabled him to extend his studies at the University of Melbourne where he graduated with a BEMech (Hons) (1960). He was then awarded a Vacuum Oil Scholarship to complete his masters, MEngSc (1962). He again went to work for the Aeronautical Research Laboratories on heat transfer problems.

Thanks to a CSIRO Fellowship and later a Public Service Board Scholarship, he attended Cambridge, graduating with a PhD in 1966 for his work on the distortion changes in turbulence as flow goes over a step.

Dr McEwan then returned to Australia and the Aeronautical Research Laboratories to work on hypersonic re-entry problems (1966-1969). He then joined the CSIRO Division of Meteorological Physics (later Atmospheric Research) supported by a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship (1969-71).

In 1971, Dr McEwan was appointed a senior research scientist with the task of creating a geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory within this Division. During this period, in 1975, he was invited as a Rossby Fellow to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA.

In 1981 Dr McEwan was appointed chief of the new CSIRO Division of Oceanography in Hobart. He then served as senior science advisor to the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology. It was during this time that Dr McEwan served as President of AMOS.

In addition to his research, and several roles in the advancement of Australian marine science, Dr McEwan was active in the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, culminating in becoming chair of the Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy group (2001-02).

Dr McEwan died in Hobart on 5 September 2018, aged 81.