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Rhodes Whitmore Fairbridge (21 May 1914–8 November 2006) was an Australian geologist and expert on climate change. Born in Pinjarra, Western Australia, Fairbridge graduated from Queen’s University in Ontario and earned his master’s degree from Oxford. In 1941, he earned a doctorate in geology from the University of Western Australia. He taught at Columbia University from 1955 until his 1982 retirement. While there, he was supervising editor for the ''Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences''. In the early 1960s, he developed the so-called "Fairbridge Curve",〔http://www.unc.edu/~aneumann/GeolOcn_sp05/lecture11_sealevelchange/lecture11_sealevelchange-Pages/Image28.html〕〔15 October 2003 Classification of Coasts. ''Journal of Coastal Research'' pp. 155–165〕 a record of changes in sea levels over the last 10,000 years.〔(The “Solar Jerk”, The King-Hele Cycle, and the Challenge to Climate Science )〕 Fairbridge died in 2006 in Amagansett, New York of a brain tumor.〔Pearce, Jeremy ( 27 November 2006). Rhodes W. Fairbridge, 92, Early Expert on Climate Change, Dies. ''New York Times''〕 ==Bibliography== * ''The Encyclopedia of Oceanography'' edited (Reinhold Pub. Co., 1966) * ''The Encyclopedia of Geochemistry and Environmental Sciences'' edited (Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1967) * ''The Encyclopedia of Geomorphology'' edited (Reinhold Book Corp., c1968) * ''Climate : History, Periodicity, and Predictability'' (Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1987) * ''The Encyclopedia of Climatology'' edited with John E. Oliver (Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1987) * ''The Physiographic Regions of Australia'' co-written with J. Gentilli (University of Western Australia, 19--) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rhodes Fairbridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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