After leaving secondary school in 1946 Garner could not get into University because of a preference for World War II returned servicemen, so he got a job for a year (1946–47) on the Meteorological Sounding Team Canterbury Project on radar meteorology with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, based at the Ashburton Aerodrome.[citation needed] The New Zealand National Film Unit made a short film of the activities for its Weekly Review which showed in cinemas as a short subject.[citation needed] The film shows him getting into an Avro Anson, and working with a kite on the back of a truck, and a trawler.[2]
Garner returned with his family to New Zealand in 1971, where he was a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland Physics Department from approximately July 1971 to 1974. During his tenure, he worked on the physical oceanographic aspects of an ecological impact report by the university for Shell BP Todd Maui in their offshore drilling operations.[citation needed]
Personal
Garner was the father of three children by Edna Jean Garner: including Mary Ann Garner, John David Garner and Steven James Garner. His wife was Kirsty Garner.[6] Garner died on 13 May 2016.[1]
1953: Physical Characteristics of Inshore surface waters between Cook Strait and Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, N.Z. J. Sci. Tech. B35: 239–46.[7]
1957: Hydrology of Chatham Rise, in N.Z. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 122: 18–27[8]
1959: The Sub-tropical Convergence in New Zealand Coastal Waters. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.[9] 2: 315–37
1959: A section of Carbon-14 activities of sea water between 9 deg south and 66 deg south in the south-west Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics[10]
1960: Hydrology of New Zealand Coastal Waters 1955. N.Z. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 138.[11]
1962: Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 expedition: Part 5 Bergquist, PR; Pike, RB; Hurley, DE; Ralph, PM; Garner, DM New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir [N.Z. Oceanogr. Inst. Mem.]. no. 13, 60 pp. 1961.[12]
1962: Analysis of hydrological observations in the New Zealand region, 1874–1955.[13]
1962: The average horizontal wind driven mass transport of the Atlantic for February as obtained by numerical methods. Scientific report under contract Nonr 285(03), New York University, College of Engineering, Research Division.[14]
1962: Some Studies on the Ocean Circulation Dissertation in the Department of Meteorology and Oceanography submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at New York University.[15]
1967: The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 5. General accounts, station lists, and benthic ecology. Bullivant, JS; Dearborn, JH; Garner, DM New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir [N.Z. Oceanogr. Inst. Mem.]. no. 32, 77 pp. 1967.[20]
1969: The geopotential topography of the ocean surface around New Zealand. N.Z.J. Mar. Freshwater Res., 3, 209 219.[17]
1969: The Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 45 degrees N:(4) Water properties in the median valley. Garner, D.M., Ford, W.L. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 1969, v.6 pp. 1359–1363[21]
1969: Vertical surface acceleration in a wind-generated sea. Garner, D.M. Deutsche hydrographische zeitschrift, 1969, v.22 pp. 163–168[22]
1970: Hydrological studies in the New Zealand region 1966 and 1967. Department of Scientific Industrial Research & Foundation for Research, Science & Technology.[23]
1970: Vertical surface acceleration in a wind-generated sea. Ocean Dynamics Volume 22, Number 4 / July 1969. See also Deutsche hydrographische Zeitschrift 22(4): 163–8[24][25]
1973: The meridional distribution of silicate in the western Atlantic Ocean. Mann, C.R., Coote, A.R., Garner, D.M. Deep-Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts, 1973, v.20, pp. 791–801[27]
^Garner, D.M. (1953). "Physical Characteristics of Inshore surface waters between Cook Strait and Banks Peninsula, New Zealand". N.Z. J. Sci. Technol. B35: 239–46.
^Garner, D.M. (1957). "Hydrology of Chatham Rise". N.Z. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin. 122: 18–27.
^Garner, D.M.; Neumann, G.; Pierson, W.J. "The average horizontal wind driven mass transport of the Atlantic for February as obtained by numerical methods". Scientific Report Under Contract Nonr 285(03), New York University, College of Engineering, Research Division.
^Garner, D.M. (1962). "Some Studies on the Ocean Circulation"(PDF). Dissertation in the Department of Meteorology and Oceanography Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Science in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at New York University. Bibcode:1962PhDT........39G.
^Garner, D.M. (1967). "The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 5. General accounts, station lists, and benthic ecology". New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 32: 77.
^Garner, D.M. (1969). "The Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 45 degrees N:(4) Water properties in the median valley". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 6 (6): 1359–1363. Bibcode:1969CaJES...6.1359G. doi:10.1139/e69-138.
^Garner, D.M. (1972). "Flow through the Charlie-Gibbs fracture zone, Mid-Atlantic Ridge". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 9 (1): 116–121. Bibcode:1972CaJES...9..116G. doi:10.1139/e72-010.
^Garner, D.M.; Coote, A; Garner, D (1973). "The meridional distribution of silicate in the western Atlantic Ocean". Deep-Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 20 (9): 791–801. Bibcode:1973DSRA...20..791M. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(73)90002-8.
