Rhodes Whitmore Fairbridge (21 May 1914 – 8 November 2006) was an Australian geologist and expert on climate change.
[1] Born in Pinjarra, Western Australia, Fairbridge graduated from Queen's University in Ontario and earned his master's degree from Oxford.
In the early 1960s, he developed the so-called "Fairbridge Curve",[2][3] a record of changes in sea levels over the last 10,000 years.
[4] In the 1980s Fairbridge wrote about climate's impact on the long-term evolution of shields and peneplains.
[5][6] Fairbridge died in 2006 in Amagansett, New York of a brain tumor.