High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David McNiven Garner (born 26 November 1928, in Wanganui, New Zealand) is notable as a published research physicist, with a focus in physical oceanography and ocean circulation. Dr. Garner attended New York University from 1959 to 1962, where he graduated with a PhD in Physics on 22 October 1962. Dr. Garner returned to New Zealand in 1962, joining a team of scientists that founded the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (today known as National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), then located in Hobson Street, Wellington, New Zealand.