David Kear (geologist)

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David Kear
CMG
Born(1923-10-29)29 October 1923
London, England
Died5 March 2019(2019-03-05) (aged 95)
Auckland, New Zealand
Alma materUniversity of London
Spouse
Joan Bridges
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(m. 1948; died 2013)​
Scientific career
Fields
New Zealand Geological Survey
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Thesis Geology of the Te Akau District, West Auckland, New Zealand, and its regional implications  (1963)

David Kear

CMG (29 October 1923 – 5 March 2019) was a New Zealand geologist and science administrator. He served as director-general of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
from 1980 to 1983.

Early life and education

Born in

PhD from the University of London in 1963.[1] The title of his doctoral thesis was Geology of the Te Akau District, West Auckland, New Zealand, and its regional implications.[2]

In 1948, Kear married Joan Kathleen Rose Bridges in Maidstone, Kent, and the couple went on to have three children.[1][3]

Career

Kear worked at the

New Zealand Geological Survey (NZGS) from 1948 to 1974. He was district geologist at Ngāruawāhia between 1949 and 1958, and at Auckland from 1958 to 1965.[citation needed] He served as chief economics geologist from 1963 and 1967, and was director of the NZGS from 1967 to 1974.[1]

In 1974, Kear was appointed assistant director-general of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research from 1974, and as director general from 1980 to 1983, when he retired.[1][4]

Kear wrote more than 125 scientific papers and books on New Zealand and Western Samoan geology and volcanology.

Royal Society of New Zealand from 1975 to 1979, and president of the Geological Society of New Zealand from 1959 to 1960.[1]

Honours

Kear was elected a Fellow of the

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.[6]

Later life and death

In retirement, Kear lived in

UNFCC and the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference to provide further evidence to support the scientific consensus on climate change.[7]

Kear died in Auckland on 5 March 2019,[8] having been predeceased by his wife, Joan, in 2013.[9]

References

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  2. ^ "Thesis: Geology of the Te Akau District, West Auckland, New Zealand, and its regional implications". University of London. 1963. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Marriages Sep 1948". FreeBMD. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  4. ^ "New D-G for DSIR" (PDF). Chemistry in New Zealand. 47 (5): 109. October 1983. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  5. ^ "List of all Fellows with surnames J–L". Royal Society Te Apārangi. 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  6. ^ "No. 49376". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 11 June 1983. p. 33.
  7. ^ "NZ scientists among 141 who challenge UN". Scoop Independent News. 9 December 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Dr David Kear death notice". The New Zealand Herald. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Joan Kear death notice". The New Zealand Herald. 22 May 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
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