Person Sheet
NameKeith Graham MCNAUGHTON Dr 
Birth20 Dec 1943, Melbourne, "Nooralie" Private Hospital, Ulupna Road, Ormond.
OccupationResearch Scientist - Boundary-layer meteorology and Fluid Dynamics
ResidencesMelbourne; Vancouver; Christchurch; Palmerston North; Kerikeri; Edinburgh
FatherSidney Incledon MCNAUGHTON (1912-2001)
MotherMargery Phyllis ROBINSON (1911-1972)
Misc. Notes
Born at "Nooralie" Private Hospital, in Ulupna Road, Ormond, Vic when parents were living at 1 Walsh St, Ormond. 131 Attended Glen Huntly State primary school and Caulfield Grammar school. Studied sciences. Dux of school in 1961 Studied physics BSc(Hons)1966 and Economics BA 1969 at Monash University. Worked as school teacher at Chadstone High School for 2 terms in 1966 and as a technician in Monash Geography Department for two years, where he worked on climate measurements. Left to go mountaineering in Peru in 1969.
Sid and Margery used to take their family on camping and fishing holidays at Xmas and Easter. Keith caught his first fish at Peterborough. Later holidays were at Boydtown, on Twofold Bay in NSW. Rock fishing was at Green Cape. Surplus fish were sometimes frozen at the Greenseas cannery in Eden and taken back to Melbourne at the end of the holiday.
Member of 11th Caulfield Boy Scouts from 1955 to ca 1961 Foundation member of Monash Bushwalking Club. Spent summers in Tasmania 1962 (hitch-hiking tour and walk through Cradle Mountain National Park) and 1963 (South-west). Member of Australian Section on New Zealand Alpine Club. Spent summers 1964-68 in NZ Southern Alps. Member of Australian Andean Expedition to the Cordillera Vilcabamba in Peru, 1969. Highest peak climbed was Mt Lasunayoc at ca 19960 ft.
After Peru, Keith & Lesley went to Canada as immigrants looking for work. Employment was difficult so Keith took job as a research assistant in the Soil Science Department, working with Dr T. A. (Andy) Black, then became a post graduate student and eventually finished a PhD in 1974 with a thesis on the energy balance of a Douglas-fir forest.
On graduation took a job with DSIR in New Zealand, first with Crop Research Division in Lincoln, then transferred to Plant Physiology Division in Palmerston North in 1975. Later reorganizations changed this to DSIR Fruit and Trees in 1989 and The Horticultural & Food Research Institute of New Zealand in 1992. In each of these positions Keith continued to work on micro-meteorology and evaporation from vegetation. Keith was Regional Editor of the journal "Agricultural and Forest Meteorology" from 1985 to 1991 and an editorial adviser for "Climate Research" from 1990.
Spent 9 months at CSIRO Division of Environmental Mechanics in 1980/81 Canberra and a year at the Meteorology Department of Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands in 1992. This included an 8-week period in Niger working on the HAPEX-Sahel experiment as part of the Wageningen-Meteorology team.
Keith continued with mountaineering in NZ after his return in 1974. He climbed Mt Cook by the Zurbriggen route with Mike Feller and did a one-day traverse of Mts Hicks, Darwin, Vancouver and Malaspina from Empress to Plateau hut with Tony Crapper. Took up running again while at CSIRO in 1981 (having run middle distance for a year at Caulfield Grammar School) then joined the Palmerston North Harrier Club on his return to NZ, later to switch to the Kia Toa club. Ran the Hamilton Marathon in 1983 in 2h 57m 26s. Ran in numerous cross country and road events until a deteriorating hip joint forced him to desist, in 1988.
Keith and family lived in a rented house at 58 Hackthorne Road in Christchurch (1974/5) then bought house at 131 Cook Street, Palmerston North in October 1975. Lesley's parents moved in to a unit next door in 1982. In January 1996 they moved, with Lesley's mother, to Kerikeri in the far north of New Zealand. Together they bought a house at Skudders beach, 6km north east of Kerikeri. Keith continued working for Hort Research, with the transfer bringing him into closer contact with other scientists working on the same projects. At the time of the move Andrew stayed in Palmerston North. Eileen was working in S.E. Asia.
In June 1998 Keith was made redundant from HortReserach after Government funding for his work was cut back. In March 1999 joined the Biometeorology group at the Institute Nationale de la Récherche Agronomique in Bordeaux, France as a Chercher Etrangere, where he continued on with work on turbulece begun in New Zealand. Lesley joined him in April, and her mother Kathleen joined them both in May. In March 2000 they all moved on to Edinburgh where Keith had obtained a contract position working on a project with Prof. Paul Jarvis, who he had worked with previously in Palmerston North, New Zealand. They rented an appartment at 8 Jordan lane, Edinburgh EH10 4RB.
Sid and Margery used to take their family on camping and fishing holidays at Xmas and Easter. Keith caught his first fish at Peterborough. Later holidays were at Boydtown, on Twofold Bay in NSW. Rock fishing was at Green Cape. Surplus fish were sometimes frozen at the Greenseas cannery in Eden and taken back to Melbourne at the end of the holiday.
Member of 11th Caulfield Boy Scouts from 1955 to ca 1961 Foundation member of Monash Bushwalking Club. Spent summers in Tasmania 1962 (hitch-hiking tour and walk through Cradle Mountain National Park) and 1963 (South-west). Member of Australian Section on New Zealand Alpine Club. Spent summers 1964-68 in NZ Southern Alps. Member of Australian Andean Expedition to the Cordillera Vilcabamba in Peru, 1969. Highest peak climbed was Mt Lasunayoc at ca 19960 ft.
After Peru, Keith & Lesley went to Canada as immigrants looking for work. Employment was difficult so Keith took job as a research assistant in the Soil Science Department, working with Dr T. A. (Andy) Black, then became a post graduate student and eventually finished a PhD in 1974 with a thesis on the energy balance of a Douglas-fir forest.
On graduation took a job with DSIR in New Zealand, first with Crop Research Division in Lincoln, then transferred to Plant Physiology Division in Palmerston North in 1975. Later reorganizations changed this to DSIR Fruit and Trees in 1989 and The Horticultural & Food Research Institute of New Zealand in 1992. In each of these positions Keith continued to work on micro-meteorology and evaporation from vegetation. Keith was Regional Editor of the journal "Agricultural and Forest Meteorology" from 1985 to 1991 and an editorial adviser for "Climate Research" from 1990.
Spent 9 months at CSIRO Division of Environmental Mechanics in 1980/81 Canberra and a year at the Meteorology Department of Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands in 1992. This included an 8-week period in Niger working on the HAPEX-Sahel experiment as part of the Wageningen-Meteorology team.
Keith continued with mountaineering in NZ after his return in 1974. He climbed Mt Cook by the Zurbriggen route with Mike Feller and did a one-day traverse of Mts Hicks, Darwin, Vancouver and Malaspina from Empress to Plateau hut with Tony Crapper. Took up running again while at CSIRO in 1981 (having run middle distance for a year at Caulfield Grammar School) then joined the Palmerston North Harrier Club on his return to NZ, later to switch to the Kia Toa club. Ran the Hamilton Marathon in 1983 in 2h 57m 26s. Ran in numerous cross country and road events until a deteriorating hip joint forced him to desist, in 1988.
Keith and family lived in a rented house at 58 Hackthorne Road in Christchurch (1974/5) then bought house at 131 Cook Street, Palmerston North in October 1975. Lesley's parents moved in to a unit next door in 1982. In January 1996 they moved, with Lesley's mother, to Kerikeri in the far north of New Zealand. Together they bought a house at Skudders beach, 6km north east of Kerikeri. Keith continued working for Hort Research, with the transfer bringing him into closer contact with other scientists working on the same projects. At the time of the move Andrew stayed in Palmerston North. Eileen was working in S.E. Asia.
In June 1998 Keith was made redundant from HortReserach after Government funding for his work was cut back. In March 1999 joined the Biometeorology group at the Institute Nationale de la Récherche Agronomique in Bordeaux, France as a Chercher Etrangere, where he continued on with work on turbulece begun in New Zealand. Lesley joined him in April, and her mother Kathleen joined them both in May. In March 2000 they all moved on to Edinburgh where Keith had obtained a contract position working on a project with Prof. Paul Jarvis, who he had worked with previously in Palmerston North, New Zealand. They rented an appartment at 8 Jordan lane, Edinburgh EH10 4RB.
Spouses
Birth13 Jan 1946, East Melbourne, "St Andrew's" Presbyterian Hospital
Christen1946, Holy Trinity Church, East Melbourne, Victoria, Aust.
OccupationTeacher, Secondary Computing & Maths
ResidencesMelbourne; Vancouver; Christchurch; Palmerston North
FatherFrank ROWLEY (1916-1991)
MotherKathleen Nancy Woodzell AYERS (1920-)
Misc. Notes
Born in "St Andrew's" Presbyterian Hospital, East Melbourne, when parents were living at "Cardiff Grange", Avonsleigh, Vic.
She attended six different primary schools as the family moved around with her father's work. Her secondary education was entirely at Ruyton Girls' Grammar School, with tuition fees paid by the Ruyton Old Girls' Scholarship for the last two years. She was Science Dux of Ruyton in 1963 and was awarded a Commonwealth Government Tertiary Scholarship. She graduated BSc, DipEd from Monash University, Victoria in 1968.
After her marriage in 1968, she taught at Mentone Girls' High School in Melbourne for 4 terms. Then she accompanied Keith to Peru where he was climbing mountains. While Keith was climbing Lesley went travelling with twoother climber's wives, Faye Retchford and Alison Gamlen. Unfortunately she contracted hepatitis in Bolivia and spent several weeks in hospital in Cochabamba before getting well enough to return to Lima, Peru to wait for Keith's return.
They then travelled north by road, rail and, just a little bit, air to Canada, where they had papers as landed immigrants. They lived in Vancouver, B.C. where Lesley sold cosmetics in Etons depatrment store for a few weeks up to Xmas, then taught for one term at Maple Ridge School in Haney. Then they moved to Vancouver and lived on the UBC campus, first in a high-rise block, then in hut accomodation. Keith studied at Univ. B.C., Feb 1970 to Mar 1974. The two children Andrew and Eileen were born in British Columbia.
They moved to New Zealand in May 1974, first to Christchurch, then to Palmerston North in October 1975. Lesley became Head of the Computer Dept at PN Girls' High School.
In 1990 Keith and Lesley McNAUGHTON hosted Lene Müller Nørgaard, a Youth For Understanding exchange student from Randbøl, Denmark. Eileen went to denmark on exchange mid year, though not to Lene's house.
In 1992 Keith and Lesley lived in Wageningen, The Netherlands, where Keith worked at the Agricultural University. They travelled extensively in The Netherlands and visited Belgium (twice), Germany, France , Denmark (twice), England and Scotland together. Keith spent two months in Niger, Africa, and during that time Kathleen ROWLEY née AYERs visited Lesley. Lesley and Kathleen travelled in The Netherlands, Germany, England Scotland and Ireland. Lesley also spent two weeks in France with Dutch friends.
In January 1996 they moved to Kerikeri. Lesley was Head of Computing at Whangaroa College, a form 1 to 7 school in Kaeo with about 240 students, mostly Maori. Lesley enjoyed not working during the year in France but has been teaching Computing again in Edinburgh.
She attended six different primary schools as the family moved around with her father's work. Her secondary education was entirely at Ruyton Girls' Grammar School, with tuition fees paid by the Ruyton Old Girls' Scholarship for the last two years. She was Science Dux of Ruyton in 1963 and was awarded a Commonwealth Government Tertiary Scholarship. She graduated BSc, DipEd from Monash University, Victoria in 1968.
After her marriage in 1968, she taught at Mentone Girls' High School in Melbourne for 4 terms. Then she accompanied Keith to Peru where he was climbing mountains. While Keith was climbing Lesley went travelling with twoother climber's wives, Faye Retchford and Alison Gamlen. Unfortunately she contracted hepatitis in Bolivia and spent several weeks in hospital in Cochabamba before getting well enough to return to Lima, Peru to wait for Keith's return.
They then travelled north by road, rail and, just a little bit, air to Canada, where they had papers as landed immigrants. They lived in Vancouver, B.C. where Lesley sold cosmetics in Etons depatrment store for a few weeks up to Xmas, then taught for one term at Maple Ridge School in Haney. Then they moved to Vancouver and lived on the UBC campus, first in a high-rise block, then in hut accomodation. Keith studied at Univ. B.C., Feb 1970 to Mar 1974. The two children Andrew and Eileen were born in British Columbia.
They moved to New Zealand in May 1974, first to Christchurch, then to Palmerston North in October 1975. Lesley became Head of the Computer Dept at PN Girls' High School.
In 1990 Keith and Lesley McNAUGHTON hosted Lene Müller Nørgaard, a Youth For Understanding exchange student from Randbøl, Denmark. Eileen went to denmark on exchange mid year, though not to Lene's house.
In 1992 Keith and Lesley lived in Wageningen, The Netherlands, where Keith worked at the Agricultural University. They travelled extensively in The Netherlands and visited Belgium (twice), Germany, France , Denmark (twice), England and Scotland together. Keith spent two months in Niger, Africa, and during that time Kathleen ROWLEY née AYERs visited Lesley. Lesley and Kathleen travelled in The Netherlands, Germany, England Scotland and Ireland. Lesley also spent two weeks in France with Dutch friends.
In January 1996 they moved to Kerikeri. Lesley was Head of Computing at Whangaroa College, a form 1 to 7 school in Kaeo with about 240 students, mostly Maori. Lesley enjoyed not working during the year in France but has been teaching Computing again in Edinburgh.
Marriage27 Jan 1968, Boronia, Victoria, Australia
ChildrenAndrew Frank (1970-)
Eileen Linda (1973-)
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