| Abarbanel, Henry D. I. |
Director, Institute for Nonlinear Science; Professor, Physics and Research |
UCSD |
(858)534-5590 |
Model Building on strange attractors for geophysical fluid dynamics |
| Armi, Laurence |
Professor of Oceanography, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics |
UCSD |
(858)534-6843 |
Coherent vortices (meddies; Oceanic mixing and circulation; Stratified flows in the ocean, atmosphere, laboratory, and engineering applications. |
| Auad, Guillermo |
Assistant Professor |
UCSD |
(858) 822-1564 |
Decadal to centennial climate variability. Observed and modeled air-sea feedbacks. Effects of climate change on productivity and species distribution. |
| Buckingham, Michael J. |
Professor, Ocean Acoustics |
UCSD |
(858) 534-7977 |
Ocean acoustic propagation; ambient noise inversions; acoustic imaging; volcano acoustics; bubble dynamics; sediment acoustics. |
| Carnevale, George F. |
Research Oceanographer |
UCSD |
(858) 534-4775 |
Vortex dynamics; turbulence; vortex stability. |
| Cayan, Daniel R. |
Research Meteorologist |
UCSD |
(858) 534-4507 |
Links between global-regional climate variability and hydrologic flucuations in North America;impacts of climate variability and climate change on California; large-scale exchange of heat and water between the ocean and the atmosphere. |
| Cessi, Paola |
Professor/Research Scientist PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-0622 |
Models of the oceanic general circulation; convection in geophysical fluids; models of climate dynamics. |
| Chadwick, Oliver A. |
Professor, Geography & Environmental Studies |
UCSB |
(805)893-4223 |
Pedology, soil geomorphology, soil geochemistry, Quaternary geology, organic and mineral fluxes during soil, atmosphere, water and vegetation interaction. |
| Chereskin, Teresa |
Research Oceanographer/Senior Lecturer |
UCSD |
(858)534-6368 |
Eastern boundary currents; acoustic Doppler techniques for direct measurement of velocity; wind driven circulation; Southern Ocean. |
| Cornuelle, Bruce |
Research Oceanographer/Director, PORD |
UCSD |
(858) 534-4021 |
Large scale circulation; inverse methods / numerical modeling; ocean tomography. |
| Cox, Charles S. |
Professor of Oceanography, Emeritus SIO |
UCSD |
(858) 534-3235 |
Roughness of sea surface; growth of wind waves; sea-surface turbulence; electrical conductivity of the ocean lithosphere; electric fields generated by oceanic motions. |
| Davis, Russ E. |
Professor of Oceanography PORD |
UCSD |
(858) 534-4415 |
Lagrangian observation of ocean currents; ocean instrumentation; ocean\'s role in climate. |
| Deane, Grant B |
Researcher Oceanographer |
UCSD |
(858) 534-0536 |
The study of oceanic ambient noise in coastal regions and the surf zone with a particular interest in the sound generated by surf and open ocean breaking waves; the physics and acoustics of air entrainment by breaking waves; the propagation and absorption of sound in marine sediments; three-dimensional ocean acoustic propagation. |
| Dickey, Tommy D. |
Professor, Geography |
UCSB |
(805)893-7354 |
Atmosphere-ocean interactions and upper ocean mixing, turbulence and internal waves, bio-optics, biogeochemistry, and biological-physical interactions. |
| Dorman, Clive E. |
Research Oceanographer |
UCSD |
(858) 534-7863 |
Marine meteorology; coastal meteorology; air-sea interaction. |
| Faloona, Ian |
Asst. Professor, Land, Air, Water Resources, BML |
UCD |
(530)752-2044 |
The nexus of chemistry and turbulent mixing in the atmosphere; developing fast, sensitive spectroscopic detection techniques for the measurement of biogeochemical trace gases and their fluxes; airborne instrumental studies of chemistry and mixing; understanding the exchange of anthropogenic pollution with terrestrial and marine ecosystems and conversely, the influence of biogenic emissions on the composition of the atmosphere. |
| Filloux, Jean H. |
Research Oceanographer, Rtad PORD |
UCSD |
(858) 534-2075 |
Electromagnetic exploration of the oceanic lithosphere and mantle; electromagnetic studies of large scale oceanic motions, ocean and earth tides. |
| Flatau, Piotr J. |
Assistant Research Meteorologist CSI/CAS |
UCSD |
(858) 534-1025 |
Marine optics; remote sensing of ocean color; cloud physics and light scattering; clouds and climate. |
| Flatté, Stanley M. |
Professor, Physics |
UCSC |
(831)459-2090 |
Wave propagation in random media; character of random variations in the earth, ocean, and atmosphere from observations of wave fluctuations. |
| Friehe, Carl |
Professor of Earth System Science |
UCI |
(949)824-6159 |
Physical oceanography; air-sea interaction, atmospheric turbulence and instrumentation for the measurement of turbulence and air-sea fluxes; statistical and spectral analyses of turbulence data. |
| Frieman, Edward A. |
Director Emeritus/Research Professor of Physics |
UCSD |
(858) 822-1510 |
Turbulent phenomena in fluids and plasmas; global change; sustainability. |
| Gaylord, Brian |
Assistant Professor, Evolution and Ecology, BML |
UCD |
707-875-1940 |
Ecological biomechanics and biological-physical coupling in coastal marine ecosystems; general patterns in biology arising from physiologically or environmentally imposed physical constraints. This research vein represents a fusion of organismal biology with population ecology, and also links with fields of physics, solid and fluid mechanics, and nearshore oceanography. |
| Gerstoft, Peter |
Associate Scientist |
UCSD |
(858) 534-7768 |
Inverse problems; ocean acoustics; estimation of refractivity from radar clutter. |
| Ghil, Michael |
Professor, Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physical/Atmospheric Science |
UCLA |
(310)206-1651 |
Physical oceanography; low frequency variability of the oceans' wind-driven and thermohaline circulation, from months to millennia; oceanic fronts and eddies; model assimilation of satellite and in situ data. |
| Gibson, Carl H. |
Professor of Engineering Physics/ Oceanography |
UCSD |
(858)534-3184 |
Theory and laboratory measurements of turbulent properties; measurement of fluxes of heat, momentum, and moisture over the open ocean from FLIP and aircraft; theory of turbulent mixing; studies of mixed layer development and oceanic diffusive phenomena by towed small-scale sensors; fluid dynamics of hot/cold/fresh water discharges into the coastal ocean; analysis of towed microstucture data; development of fossil turbulence theory; laboratory studies of stratified turbulence. |
| Gille, Sarah |
Assistant Professor of Oceanography and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineerin |
UCSD |
(858) 822-4425 |
Southern Ocean dynamics; satellite oceanography; ocean response to bathymetry. |
| Graham, Nicholas E. |
Associate Research Meteorologist |
UCSD |
(858) 794-2396 |
El Niño/Southern Oscillation; low-frequency climate variability; climate forecasting. |
| Halpern, David |
Adjunct Professor of Atmospheric Science |
UCLA |
(310)825-1217 |
Physical oceanography and ocean-atmosphere interactions, emphasizing how physical and biological ocean dynamics respond to wind forcing. |
| Hendershott, Myrl C. |
Professor of Oceanography CCS/Pord |
UCSD |
(858) 534-5705 |
Solution of Laplace\'s tidal equations for deep-sea tides including solid Earth loading; mean circulation of the Adriatic Sea; continental-shelf circulation; two-dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence; internal waves and fine structure; tides and ocean normal modes; large-scale ocean circulation. |
| Iacobellis, Sam F. |
Assistant Research Meteorologist/Project CRD/CSI |
UCSD |
(858) 534-3126 |
Air-sea interactions; climate modeling; cloud-radiation interactions. |
| Inamdar, Anand K. |
Specialist |
UCSD |
(858) 534-9894 |
Radiation-convection interactions, atmospheric greenhouse effect and water vapor feedback; cloud-radiative forcing; surface radiation budget estimates from satellites. |
| Jaehne, Bernd |
Research Marine Physicist PORD |
UCSD |
(858) 534-6860 |
Air-gas exchange; small-scale water surface waves; digital image processing. |
| Kalmijn, Adrianus J. |
Research Oceanographer PORD |
UCSD |
(858) 534-4670 |
Physics approach to sensory biology; electric and magnetic field detection; hydrodynamic and acoustic field detection; mathematical-physical principles of sensory systems; behavioral, electrophysiological, and biophysical experiments. |
| Keeling, Charles D. |
Professor of Oceanography GRD |
UCSD |
(858) 534-4230 |
Carbon cycle in nature with emphasis on interaction of atmospheric carbon dioxide with oceanic and terrestrial nutrient cycles; global changes brought about by the burning of fossil fuels; geochemical modeling, including steady-state and time-dependent nonlinear relationships and isotopic variations. |
| Keeling, Ralph |
Assistant Professor MRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-7582 |
Air-sea gas exchange measurements of variations in atmospheric oxygen; recent perturbations to the global carbon cycle; detection of ocean heat storage using atmospheric inert gases. |
| Kennel, Charles F. |
Director SIO/Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences DO/SIO |
UCSD |
(858)534-2826 |
Space plasma physics; astrophysics; global environmental science. |
| Knox, Robert A. |
Research Oceanographer/Lecturer/Associate Director SIO Pord/SOMTS |
UCSD |
(858)534-4729 |
Equatorial ocean circulation and dynamics; acoustic remote sensing of ocean circulation |
| Kuperman, William A. |
Professor of Oceanography MPL |
UCSD |
(858)534-1803 |
Ocean acoustics; signal processing; inverse methods. |
| Largier, John |
Professor, Environmental Science & Policy, BML |
UCD |
707-875-1930 |
Coastal oceanography and ecology, field-based study of water motion and the associated transport of water-borne material. This includes oceanographic study of bays in upwelling regions, small "west coast" estuaries characterized by arid summers, bar-built mouths and pulsed winter inflow, and nearshore circulation (e.g., outflow from rivers, shoaling internal tides, and wind/wave-driven flows). Larval/juvenile dispersal, coastal water quality (e.g., beach pollution), and primary productivity (including harmful algal blooms). |
| Longuet-Higgins, Michael S. |
Adjunct Professor SIO, lnls |
UCSD |
(858)534-3936 |
Sea surface dynamics; microstructure of the ocean surface; heat and gas exchange; free-surface dynamics; breaking waves; bubble dynamics; natural sources of underwater sound; sonoluminescence. |
| Maclntyre, Sally J. |
Professor, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology |
UCSB |
(805)893-3951 |
Physical limnology and oceanography; physical-biological coupling; turbulence and other physical processes and their effects on flocculation, gas flux, nutrient supply, circulation of particulates, and primary productivity of aquatic ecosystems. |
| Mason, Simon James |
Assistant Research Meteorologist MPL |
UCSD |
(858)882-2574 |
Climate modeling and prediction; seasonal forecasting; interannual climate variability; statistical methods in climatology. |
| Mcgowan, John A. |
Research Professor of Oceanography MLRG |
UCSD |
(858)534-2074 |
Biogeography; water mass analysis; multiple stable states in the community of the North and South Pacific central water masses; large scale patterns in space and time and the Californian El Niño; diversity maintenance; time-series in coastal California. |
| McWilliams, James C. |
Professor of Earth Sciences |
UCLA |
(310)206-2829 |
Physical oceanography: the theory and computational modeling of the earth's oceans and atmosphere. |
| Melville, W. Kendall |
Professor of Oceanography MPL/PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-0478 |
Wave dynamics; nonlinear surface and internal waves; air-sea interaction; surface wave breaking; acoustic and microwave remote sensing. |
| Michealsen, Joel |
Professor Geography |
UCSB |
(805)893-2296 |
Climatology, meteorology, and marine resources. |
| Miles, John W. |
Research Professor of Applied Mechanics And Geophysics IGPP |
UCSD |
(858)534-2885 |
Wave dynamics; wave generation; nonlinear waves; wave diffraction; hydrodynamic stability. |
| Miller, Arthur J. |
Research Oceanographer CRD/CSI |
UCSD |
(858)534-8033 |
Ocean modeling and prediction; coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling; predictability of climate variations. |
| Munk, Walter |
Research Professor of Geophysics IGPP |
UCSD |
(858)534-2877 |
Global acoustics; greenhouse; warming; tides. |
| Niiler, Peter P. |
Professor of Oceanography MLRG/PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-4100 |
Ocean circulation; measurements of flow and theory of variability of Eastern Boundary Current systems; relationship of heat flux to global SST variability; remote satellite sensing of ocean; lagrangian circulation measurements in mixed layers of the world ocean; response of upper ocean to strong storms; tropical upper ocean circulation. |
| Peterson, Ray G. |
Associate Researcher PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-1872 |
Large-scale ocean circulation; the southern ocean; climate variability in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system; history of oceanography. |
| Pinkel, Rob |
Professor of Oceanography MPL/PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-2056 |
Physical oceanography; small-scale mixing in the ocean; oceanic internal waves; arctic oceanography; tropical oceanography. |
| Primeau, Francois W. |
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth System Science |
UCI |
(949) 824-9435 |
Dynamics of the ocean circulation, climate dynamics, global-scale modeling of ocean transport and biogeochemical cycles. |
| Ramanathan, Veerabhadran |
Professor of Ocean Sciences CSI/CAS/CRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-8815 |
Physical oceanography; Indian Ocean experiment (INDOEX); air-sea interactions; clouds, aerosols, greenhouse gases, and climate; earth radiation budget measurements. |
| Randerson, James T. |
Professor, Department of Earth System Science |
UCI |
(949) 824-9030 |
The global carbon cycle. Partitioning ocean and land carbon sinks using geochemical tracers. Using radiocarbon and other isotopes to constrain regional patterns of air-sea trace gas exchange. |
| Reid, Joseph L. |
Professor Emeritus MLRG |
UCSD |
(858)534-2055 |
General circulation of world oceans and distribution of temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, and isotopes; zooplankton; geostrophic shear and isopycnal extensions. |
| Roads, John O. |
Research Meteorologist CRD/CSI |
UCSD |
(858)534-2099 |
Atmospheric modeling; predictability; large-scale models; large-scale diagnostics. |
| Robbins, Paul E. |
Assistant Professor of Oceanography |
UCSD |
(858)534-6366 |
General circulation of the oceans; transport and distribution of tracers; role of the oceans in climate; oceanic carbon cycle. |
| Roemmich, Dean H. |
Professor MLRG/PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-2307 |
General circulation of the oceans; role of the oceans climate and climate variability; the California current system. |
| Rudnick, Daniel |
Associate Professor of Physical Oceanography PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-7669 |
Air-sea interactions; dynamics of the upper ocean; oceanic fronts; abyssal flow in the Pacific Ocean |
| Salmon, Richard L. |
Professor of Oceanography PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-2090 |
Geophysical fluid dynamics; theory of the ocean's general circulation. |
| Schneider, Niklas |
Assistant Research Oceanographer CRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-4218 |
Coupled ocean-atmosphere models; Indonesian throughflow; tropical dynamics; decadal climate variability. |
| Seymour, Richard J. |
Research Engineer/Senior Lecturer CCS |
UCSD |
(858)534-2561 |
Ocean technology; wave measurement instrumentation; wave mechanics, generation and climatology; seasonal spatial and long term variability in North Pacific Basin wave climate; nearshore processes; sediment transport mechanisms. |
| Shapiro, Vitlali |
Research Physicist CSI/PHYS/ECE |
UCSD |
(858)534-8266 |
Collective interaction in space and laboratory plasmas; plasma and fluid turbulence. |
| Siegel, David |
Professor, Geography |
UCSB |
(805)893-4547 |
Interdisciplinary oceanography investigating physical, biological, optical and biogeochemical couplings on micro to ocean basin scales. |
| Simpson, James J. |
Research Oceanographer MLRG |
UCSD |
(858)534-2789 |
Remote sensing/ clouds, climate, and relation to remote sensing estimates of feedback loops; biological/physical interactions; land-atmosphere hydrologic interactions; remote sensing of polar regions. |
| Smith, Jerome A. |
Associate Research Oceanographer MPL/PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-4229 |
Kinematics and dynamics of rip currents; generation of langmuir circulation (mixed layer dynamics); interactions between waves, currents, and bottom topography; mutual influences between wind stress and directional surface wave characteristics. |
| Somerville, Richard C.J. |
Professor of Meteorology CRD/CAS |
UCSD |
(858)534-4644 |
Geophysical fluid dynamics; atmosphere-ocean interactions; climate theory. |
| Sprintall, Janet |
Assistant Research Oceanographer PORD |
UCSD |
(858)882-0589 |
Marine climatology; upper ocean heat transport; mixed layer dynamics; climate variability. |
| Stammer, Detlef |
Associate Professor/Research Scientist PORD |
UCSD |
(858)822-3376 |
Ocean circulation dynamics; models of the oceanic general circulation; data assimilation; satellite oceanography/remote sensing. |
| Stramski, Dariusz |
Associate Professor of Oceanography, MPL |
UCSD |
(858)534-3353 |
Ocean optics; absorption and scattering properties of marine particles; satellite remote sensing of ocean color. |
| Swift, James H. |
Associate Research Oceanographer PORD/MLRG/STS |
UCSD |
(858)534-3387 |
Arctic physical oceanography; global thermohaline circulation; ocean measurement and interpretation. |
| Talley, Lynne D. |
Professor/ Research Oceanographer PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-6610 |
General circulation; hydrography; theory of wind-driven circulation.
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| Tsuchiya, Mizuki |
Research Oceanographer MRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-3236 |
Large-scale ocean circulation:Atlantic general circulation; mid-depth and deep circulation of the eastern Pacific; western equatorial Pacific ocean circulation. |
| Valero, Francisco P.J. |
Research Scientist CSI/CAS |
UCSD |
(858)534-8099 |
Climate atmospheric radiative transfer; solar system exploration. |
| Washburn, Libe |
Professor, Geography |
UCSB |
(805)893-7367 |
Physical oceanography; coastal ocean processes, physical-biological interactions in oceanography, bio-optics, air-sea interaction and marine pollution. |
| Weiss, Ray F. |
Professor of Geochemistry GRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-2598 |
Distributions of trace gases in the atmosphere and in the sea, with emphasis on halocarbons, nitrous oxide, and methane; geochemical tracers of ocean circulation and mixing; chemical limnology. |
| Werner, Brad |
Associate Professor IGPP |
UCSD |
(858)534-0583 |
Nonlinear dynamics, complex systems and self-organized geophysical pattern formation; nearshore and sediment transport and geomorphology: theory, modeling, and field tests; mechanics of granular materials; computer simulation |
| White, Warren B. |
Research Oceanographer PORD/CRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-4826 |
Planetary wave dynamics; global climate change; coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction. |
| Winant, Clinton D. |
Research of Oceanography CCS |
UCSD |
(858)534-2067 |
Descriptions of coastal circulation; wind-forced coastal circulation; buoyancy-forced coastal circulation; mixing and dispersion over the continental shelf; circulation in hypersaline lagoons. |
| Worcester, Peter F. |
Research Oceanographer/Senior Lecturer IGPP/MPL/PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-4688 |
Application of acoustic remote sensing techniques to studying large-scale ocean circulation and temperature structure. |
| Yeung, Ronald W. |
Professor of Hydromechanics & Ocean Engrg., Dept of Mech Engrg. |
UCB |
(510)642-8347 |
Marine fluid mechanics & vehicle dynamics: ocean waves, hydrodynamical modeling, computational methods, offshore mechanics, ship wakes, wave-vorticity interaction, wave drift, internal waves, hydroelastic structures, "green ship" by design, marine renewable energy. |
| Young, Wiiliam R. |
Professor of Physical Oceanography IGPP/PORD |
UCSD |
(858)534-1380 |
General circulation of the ocean; tracer dispersion in disordered flows; granular dynamics. |
| Yu, Jin-Yi |
Associate Professor, Department of Earth System Science |
UCI |
(949) 824-3878 |
Coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling; El Nino and its global impacts; tropical climate variability from months to decades; atmospheric jetstream dynamics and its interactions with weather systems. |
| Zhang, Guang J. |
Associate Research Meteorologist CSI/CAS |
UCSD |
(858)534-7535 |
Global climate modeling; convection and cloud parameterization; atmosphere-ocean interaction. |
| Zhang, Xin |
Assistant Research Oceanographer |
UCSD |
(858)534-7153 |
Microstructure of ocean surface; air-sea exchange boundary layer dynamics remote sensing. |
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