- Date Of Birth: October 14, 1942
- Date Of Death: February 12, 2018
- State: Colorado
Thomas Dunning Newbury, 75, died at Rose Hospital in Denver on Monday, February 12, 2018. The cause of death was interstitial lung disease. Tom was born Thomas Kellogg Newbury on October 14, 1942 in San Francisco, California. He was predeceased by his parents, Allan Howe Newbury and Louise Blymyer Newbury. He is survived by Abigail Dunning Newbury, to whom he was married for the last twenty years, and by his previous wife, Ann Little Newbury; by his two sons, Peter Allan Chase Newbury and Samuel Payson Newbury (spouse Katherine Nicoll Newbury); his sister, Meredith (Molly) Newbury Harris, (spouse Robert Harris); and his brother, George Adams Newbury (spouse Mary Hudson Newbury). During his childhood, Tom lived in Riverside, Illinois and Oak Hill, West Virginia. Tom was an Arctic Oceanographer. He earned a Doctorate in Marine Sciences from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1971); and a BA degree in Biology, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio (1965). From 1970 to 1978, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Manoa, and a Library Researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. From 1978 to 2009, he was an Oceanographer with the U.S.