Rob Gell

He was one of the few Australian weather presenters on free-to-air television with a degree in science,[1] along with David Brown and Magdalena Roze.

Gell, who attended Koonung Secondary College, is a trained coastal geomorphologist and geography teacher.

He began his television career in 1979, moving from Melbourne University to work with Ten News.

Moving to the Nine Network in 1988, Gell was innovative as a designer and producer of television weather presentations for 15 years until 2003, when he was replaced by Livinia Nixon.

[3] In 1996, Gell became the first Patron of the Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria, for which he takes an active role in lobbying and chairing conferences and forums.