Jim Salinger

Jim Salinger 

Jim Salinger's Early Life

Jim was born in 1947 in Dunedin.He went to Otago Boy's High School and Otago University.As a teenager he started observing Dunedin's changeable weather.He built his own mini-weather station in his parents' backyard.It had louvred screens,thermometer,gauges for rain and wind .He found his weather study so interesting he decided to make it his career.Today Jim is world expert on climate change 

Jim Salinger's Work

Chances are that if a newspaper or television report needs a comment on weather,especially climate change,it will be Jim you hear to see.As a climate researcher at university and later in the former New Zealand Meteorological Service,Jim has long been involved in researching and monitoring past and current climate trends.He works as a principal scientist with NIWA,The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.There he prepares climate updates and leads research projects on New Zealand's climate change.In 1975 as he began his PhD studies at Victoria University.Jim was looking through data.He worked out his part of the world was warming up.This was odd because the suggestion from scientists in the Northern Hemisphere was that the world was moving towards an ice age.