Roger Graham Barry (13 November 1935 – 19 March 2018) was a British-born American

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and

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. He earned a doctorate from the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

in 1965 and began teaching at the

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three years later. While leading the National Snow and Ice Data Center from 1976 to 2008, Barry received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, was granted a fellowship of the

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in 1999, and taught at

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

as a Fulbright Scholar in 2001. Before leaving Russia, Barry was named a foreign member of the

Russian Academy of Natural Sciences The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences ( Russian: Российская академия естественных наук) is a Russian non-governmental organization founded on August 31 1990 in Moscow in the former Soviet Union, following a de ...

. In 2007, Barry was awarded a Founder's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society. He retired in 2010, and died on 19 March 2018, aged 82.

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1935 births 2018 deaths Alumni of the University of Southampton American climatologists American geographers British climatologists British emigrants to the United States British geographers University of Colorado faculty Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Fellows of the American Geophysical Union Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Founder's Medal Fulbright alumni {{climate-change-stub