Staff Profile

Amy Bower

Preferred Name: Amy Bower

Preferred Pronouns: she/her

SENIOR SCIENTIST

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: abower@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2781

Office: CLARK 325A 

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 21
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Website: https://www2.whoi.edu/site/clark325a/

Education

B.S. Tufts University, 1981, Physics
Ph.D. University of Rhode Island, 1988, Oceanography

Research Interests

Observation and analysis of large- and meso-scale ocean circulation; structure and dynamics of western boundary currents; inter-gyre exchange processes; structure and dynamics of isolated vortices and their role in the distribution of water properties; marginal sea circulation and overflows; pathways and fluxes of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; Lagrangian methods.