{"id":10233,"date":"2011-05-26T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10233"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:33:20","slug":"alumnus-named-president-of-un-climate-change-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/05\/alumnus-named-president-of-un-climate-change-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus named president of UN climate change organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10235\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10235\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10235\" title=\"David Grimes\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/davidgrimes2.jpg\" alt=\"David Grimes\" width=\"216\" height=\"251\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Grimes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Brock alumnus has been named the head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmo.int\/pages\/index_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Meteorological Organization<\/a> (WMO), a scientific body that researches climate issues.<\/p>\n<p>David Grimes (BSc &#8217;75), a career meteorologist, has been named president of the United Nations agency. The WMO shapes the world&#8217;s agenda for research and services related to climate change, weather and water issues. Its membership includes 188 countries and territories.<\/p>\n<p>Grimes was elected during the 16th World Meteorological Congress in Geneva today. He will start his four-year term on June 6.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am honoured to have been elected by my colleagues,&#8221; Grimes said in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/May2011\/25\/c7241.html\" target=\"_blank\">a media release<\/a>. &#8220;It will be a privilege to serve the international meteorological and hydrological communities in this capacity, particularly starting this year as Canada&#8217;s meteorological service celebrates 140 years of service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He studied mathematics, nuclear and quantum physics at Brock. He has been the head of Environment Canada&#8217;s Meteorological Service since July 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Achievements like Grimes&#8217; are a boost to the University, said Rick Cheel, Interim Dean of Mathematics and Science.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you see people like David, who have gone on to become world leaders in their fields, it just goes to show where a Brock degree can take you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are no limits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The WMO calls itself &#8220;the official United Nations authoritative voice on weather, climate and water.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Grimes has been named the head of the World Meteorological Organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,1],"tags":[91,3328,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35537,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions\/35537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}