G. StanhillBorn in London, UK 1929, G. Stanhill was educated in Llandudno, N. Wales, and worked in agriculture and horticulture 1945-1949. He graduated (B.Sc.) in Horticulture in 1953 and (Ph.D.) in Horticultural Climatology in 1956 from University of Reading, K and worked as a Scientific Officer at the Irrigation Division, National Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne, UK 1954-1958. Since 1958 he has been a scientist at the Institute of Soils and Water, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel, working in the following roles: Head of Department of Agricultural Meteorology, 1956-1977; Director of Institute 1977-1980; Full research Professor since 1970, Emeritus since 1994. G. Stanhill took Sabbatical leaves at the Ecology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenessee, USA, 1968-1969; Lord Marks Fellow at Botany School, University of Cambridge and Overseas Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge, UK 1975-1976; Visiting Professor at Soil and Water Science Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 1986; Sir Frederick Master Fellow, C.S.I.R.O. Division of Water Resources, Canberra and Griffith, Australia 1993; Visiting scholar Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK 1994.
He is the author of 145 scientific publications in agricultural meteorology, agricultural radiation and energy balance and climatic change, and is married with three children. Read More Read Less