Staff Profile

Jim Price

Preferred Name: James F Price

SCIENTIST EMERITUS

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: jprice@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2526

Office: CLARK 308A MS21 

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

Website: http://www.whoi.edu/sites/jprice

Education

B.S. University of Oklahoma, 1970, Physics
M.S. University of Miami, 1972, Physics
Ph.D. University of Miami, 1977, Physical Oceanography

Research Interests

Dynamics of the upper ocean, especially modeling the surface mixed-layer and generation of inertial-internal motions; description of the North Atlantic general circulation and mesoscale eddies, using SOFAR float technology; development of surface meteorological instrumentation and SOFAR floats to study subduction density-tracking.