David McCann, 1938-2019

摘要

Dr Dave McCann was born on 1st April 1938 and died of cancer on 8th July 2019 after a long illness. Dave followed an unusual career path, from an industrial apprenticeship to research of international importance and high level management in the British Geological Survey. He left school in 1954 for an electrical engineering apprenticeship with the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Whilst he was an apprentice he achieved a B.Eng. from the University of Bath. After taking a D.I.C. and an M.Sc. in Control Engineering at Imperial College, Dave became a Research Assistant in Marine Geophysics at the (then) University College of North Wales, Bangor, investigating the transmission of sound waves in sea floor sediments. During that work he devised original techniques for determining the ultrasonic properties of deep-sea cores and sediment samples. Dave successfully defended his PhD thesis in 1968.