{"id":7509,"date":"2017-01-11T10:18:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7509"},"modified":"2017-05-26T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T12:28:16","slug":"obasi-dr-godwin-olu-patrick","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obasi-dr-godwin-olu-patrick\/","title":{"rendered":"OBASI, Dr. Godwin Olu Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D., meteorologist, statistician; born December 24, 1933; married; has six childdren. Edu cation: McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Massachusetts Institute ofTechnol ogy, USA. Career: Appointed Assistant Me teorological Officer, Nigerian Meteorologi cal Department, 1956;Senior Meteorologist, Research and Training, National Meteoro logicalCentre for ForecastingServices; Vis iting Research Scientist, Florida State Uni versity; Visiting Scientist,National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1973; Senior Lecturer, Meteorology, World Meteorological Organisation, United Nations Development Programme, Univer sity of Nairobi, Kenya, 1967-74; Professor\/ Chairman, Department of Meteorology; Dean, Faculty ofScience, 1974-76; Adviser, Meteorological Research and Training, Fed eral Government ofNigeria; Head, Nigerian Institute for Meteorological Research and Training, 1976-78; Director, Education and Training Department, WorldMeteorological Organisation, Secretariat, Geneva, 1978-84; Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organisation, 1984; member, British Insti tute of Statisticians. Honorary Degrees: Doctor of Letters, Philippines, 1992; Doc tor of Science, Federal University of Tech nology, Akure, 1992; Alphine Geophysics Research Institute, Natchik, 1993. Awards: recipient, Carl RossbyAward,Massachusetts Instituteof Technology, 1963;recipient,Gold Plaque Merit Award Medal, Czechoslovakian Academy ofSchiences, 1986; recipient, Gold Medal, Government ofParaguay, 1988; recipient, Medal, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Poland, 1989; Air Force Cross, Venezuela, 1989; Ogoria Merit Award, 1990; Climate Institute Award, Wash ington, 1990; Direction Nacional deAeronautica Civil Merit Award, Paraguay, 1992; Gold Medal Award, African Meteo rological Society, 1993; International Glo bal 2000 Award,Centre for Ecologyand Re search, India, 1993. Foreign Honours: Freedom of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1990; Commander, National Order, Cote d&#8217;lvoire, 1992;Niger, 1992. Home:Chemiu en Vuaracaux 1297 Founex, Vaud, Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7509","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7509"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}