Staff Profile

Dan Torres

Preferred Name: Daniel Torres

Research Specialist

Physical Oceanography

Email: dtorres@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2845

Office: Clark South Laboratory-1st Floor

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Mail Stop 30
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Website: http://www.whoi.edu/science/PO/people/pickart/new_Danpersonal.htm

Education

B.S. Tulane University, 1988, Physics

Research Interests

Dynamics of deep ocean circulation, primarily in mid to high latitudes; current measurement using ADCP’s including lowered, shipboard, and moored instruments; calculating transports by combining geostrophic estimates and direct measurements; Ekman transport from direct wind measurements, instrumentation and software development.