Staff Profile

Albert Williams

SCIENTIST EMERITUS

Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering

Email: awilliams@whoi.edu

Phone: +1 508 289 2725

Education

B.A. Swarthmore College, 1962, Physics
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1969, Physics

Research Statement

My office work involves conferences, symposia, and workshops for OES/IEEE; soliciting abstracts, reviewing them, organizing the meetings, and publishing the papers. I present about four papers a year on current measurments at these myself. I also continue to develop current measuring instrumentation and occasionally deploy my instruments for local water observations.

Research Interests

Ocean mixing processes; boundary layer measurements and modeling; sediment/fluid interaction; oceanographic instrumentation.

Affiliations

Oceanic Engineering Society of IEEE
American Meteorology Society
American Geophysical Union
Oceanography Society

Awards

IEEE Fellow 2005
IEEE Senior Member 2003
OES/IEEE Distinguished Technical Achievement Award 2000