Johnson Robin Cann Federal Reserve System is a British geologist.
Education
Joe Cann graduated from Street John"s College, Cambridge, with a first class Bachelor in 1959, and an Master of Arts in 1961. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences in 1962, where he studied with Cecil Edgar Tilley.
Career
His postdoctoral studies saw him remain at Street John"s College as a Research Fellow but also saw periods of study in the United States Office of Naval Research and as a Senior Scientific Officer in the Department of Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum, London. His academic teaching career began when he was appointed to a lectureship in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in 1965. He was promoted to Reader in 1973 but left shortly after to take the position of J B Simpson Professor of Geology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Following a reorganisation of Earth Sciences in British universities resulting from the 1987 University Grants Committee"s report Strengthening University Earth Sciences he moved to the University of Leeds where he was Chairman of the School of Earth Sciences from 1989 to 1995.
While Professor at Leeds he also held a visiting position as an Adjunct Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. In 1987 he instigated, and subsequently led, the Natural Environment Research Council"s British Mid-Ocean Ridge Initiative (BRIDGE), a major United Kingdom investigation of the creation of the Earth"s crust in the deep oceans.