What is David McNiven Garner?
{{Infobox scientist |name = David McNiven Garner |image = David-McNiven-Garner.jpg |image_size = |caption = David McNiven Garner, taken at Pancake Rocks, near Punakaiki, Westland, New Zealand, 19 November 2008 |birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|11|26|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Wanganui]], New Zealand |death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|5|13|1928|11|26|df=y}} |death_place = [[Dunedin]], New Zealand |citizenship = New Zealand |nationality = New Zealand |fields = [[Physical oceanography]] |workplaces = [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)|Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]], New Zealand<br />[[Bedford Institute of Oceanography]]<br>[[University of Auckland]] |alma_mater = [[Victoria University of Wellington|Victoria University]]<br>[[New York University]] |doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |awards = |signature = |footnotes = }} '''David McNiven Garner''' (26 November 1928 – 13 May 2016<ref name=davidmcnivengarnerdeath>{{cite web|url= http://www.lawrence.co.nz/files/1986/file/190516-pdf|title= The Tuapeka Times (Vol 13 Issue 20)<!-- Bot generated title -->|access-date= 2016-06-01|archive-date= 2016-08-03|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160803112419/http://www.lawrence.co.nz/files/1986/file/190516-pdf|url-status= dead}}</ref>), was a [[New Zealand]] [[oceanographer]]. He worked as a published research [[physicist]]. He worked with a focus in [[physical oceanography]] and [[ocean circulation]]. In 1962, he founded the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute of the [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)|Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (today known as [[National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research]]), then located in Hobson Street, [[Wellington]], New Zeal