Meredith Grant Gross

Background

Gross, Meredith Grant was born on January 5, 1933 in Childress, Texas, United States. Son of Meredith Grant and Mary Elizabeth (Stevens) Gross.

Education

AB, Princeton University, 1954; Master of Science, California Institute Technology, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute Technology, 1961.

Career

Associate-assistant professor oceanography, U. Washington, Seattle, 1961; associate curator, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, 1966-1968; professor marine science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1968-1972; head ocean science section, National Science Foundation, Washington, 1972-1974; director Chesapeake Bay Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974-1978; director division ocean science, National Science Foundation, Ballston, Virginia, 1978-1994; executive director, Chesapeake Research Consortium, Edgewater, Maryland., since 1994.

Achievements

• Meredith Grant Gross has been listed as a noteworthy Oceanographer, science administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Principles of Oceanography (The Prentice Hall Earth Science Series) by M. Grant Gross (1995-02-15)
  • Principles of Oceanography (The Prentice Hall Earth Science Series)

Membership

First lieutenant United States Army, 1955-1957. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society American. Member American Geophysical Union, Oceanography Society, Estuarine Research Federation, Sigma Xi. M C.

Connections

Married Nancy Hayward, August 15, 1954 (divorced June 1978). Children: Alison Mary, Jeffrey Grant, Evelyn Anne. Married Elizabeth Rosemary Bulleid Tidmarsh, November 30, 1991.

Father:

Meredith Grant Gross

Mother:

Mary Elizabeth (Stevens) Gross

Spouse:

Elizabeth Rosemary Bulleid Tidmarsh

Spouse:

Nancy Hayward

child:

Jeffrey Grant Gross

child:

Alison Mary Gross

child:

Evelyn Anne Gross