John Blair-Fish's CV
Degrees
- Lincoln College, Oxford, 1969-1972, M.A. Hons Physics
- Meteorology Department, University of Edinburgh, 1972-1976
Ph.D. Thesis: "Some studies of rainfall variations over the British Isles"
Current Position
Senior Computing Officer, Edinburgh University Computing Service(EUCS).
This position is a continuation of other appointments since 1976
supporting Computing in the University of Edinburgh.
Current duties
- Liasion between members of the Edinburgh Computing and Data Facility project
team and potential users
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Consultant on Scientific Graphics, Visualisation,
numerical libraries and language teaching
Previous duties and activities
- 1994-2004 EUCS Graphics and Multimedia team
- Graphics and Visualisation consultant
- Chair of UK AVS plus Uniras User Group committee (high end
Visualisation sofware)
- General duties in running the Graphics and Media Resource Centre
and guiding users principally in producing presentations, posters
and videos
- Computers in Teaching
- Certificate in On Line Education 2002-2003
- 1997-98 VLDTK (Virtual Laboratories Developer's Toolkit)
virtual fieldwork project and production of virtual flythroughs
funded by JISC
- 1986-1987 Computers in Teaching Project in Meteorology,
- 1982-95 Support for Parallel and High Performance Computing
- 1993-97 Allocation committee for use of Edinburgh Cray time
- 1998-94 Member of national British Computing Society Parallel Processing
Specialist Group committee and 1991-94 Secretary
- 1976-96 General User Support Activities supporting a wide range of
users to make use of a diverse range of facilities, analysing users'
problems, and consultating with other experts on their behavoir
- 1987 attended 1 week LBMS Project Management course
Publications
- An Investigation into Spells of Wet and Dry Days by Region and Season for
Great Britain. Met. Mag Vol 104 (1975) pp360-378
- Crop Simulations Modelling Using a Transputer-based Parallel Computer
P.K.Thornton, J.A.Blair-Fish, &S.M.D.Wilson Agricultural System 35 321-337 (1991)
- Parallel Lagrangian Relaxation in Power Scheduling P.Olivera, J.Blair-Fish,
S.McKee, C.Coles Computing Systems in Engineering 1992
- Quadrupole Coupling Assignments in Inorganic Periodic Systems by ad inition
Calculations of Electric Field Gradients Z Naturforsch 49a 137-145 (1994)
- Halogen Nucleur Quadropole Coupling Constants in Non-axially symmetric
Molecules; Ab initial Calculations which Include Correaltion, Compared with
Experiment Michael H.Palner and John A, Blair-Fish Z Naturforsch 53a 370-382(1998)
- Large Scale Applications of Transputers in HEP: The Edinburgh Concurrent
Supercomputer Project.
S.P.Booth,K.C.Bowler,D.J.Candlin,R.D>Kenway,B.J.Pendleton, A.M.Thornton,
D.J.Wallace,J.Blair-Fish,D.Roweth Computer Physics Communications 57 (1989)
101-107
Outside Activities
- Scottish Green Party
- Council Member 2001-2002, 2004-2006
- Committee Lothian Green Party 2001-2004
- Westminster Candidate for Edinburgh South West 2005
- Prospective Holyrood List candidate and agent for South of Scotland 2007
- Holyrood list candidate and agent for South of Scotland 2003
- World Development Movement
- Chair of Edinburgh and Lothians 2000-2006, now committee member
- Scottish Steering Committee from 2000
- A WDM representative at the International Development group of Scottish
Parliament
- Council member and company director from 2006
- Planning group for Edinburgh Human Chain event 1999
- Christian Socialist Movement
- Chairman of the Edinburgh branch 1997-2001
- National Executive 1997-2000
- Scottish Representative 1999-2000
- Labour Party Member 1996-99
- Church - St Columbas by the Castle
- Member from 1974
- Vestry member 1979-82, 1990-93
- Patronage committee 1980, 1982, 1992
- International Mountain Runner
- formally represented Scotland 1982
- Over 50 Scottish Champion 2002-2005
- 5th over 50 British championship 2005
- festured in the Times newspaper August 1986 after Davos Alpine Marathon
- Numerous other achievements
- Carnethy Hill Runners
- 1983 founder member
- Committee 1983-1999
- Captain 1983-86 1990-1992
- Secretary 1988-1990
- Moffat Race Organiser 1992-1997
- Fell Runners Association
- committee most of 1974-96
- Editor Fell Runner 1987-90
- Press Officer 1985-87
- Statistican 1974-76
- Secretary Scottish Athletics Federation Hill Running Commission 1992-96