Staff Profile

John Whitehead

Preferred Name: John A Whitehead

SCIENTIST EMERITUS

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: jwhitehead@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2793

Office: CLARK 359B 

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

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Website: http://www.whoi.edu:80/hpb/Site.do?id=2553

Lab/Group Site: http://www.whoi.edu/science/PO/gfd/

Education

B.S. Tufts University, 1963, Mechanical Engineering
M.S. Yale University, 1965, Engineering /Applied Science
Ph.D. Yale University, 1968, Engineering/Applied Science

Research Statement

I seek problems in fluid mechanics relevant to ocean or earth, and in this quest have enjoyed cruises, field trips, and lectures; all in close association with colleagues and students.

Research Interests

Physics of continuous media; laboratory and theoretical modeling of geophysical flows, especially buoyancy-driven flows in the ocean and in the earth.

Awards

Henry M. Stommel Research Award by the American Meteorological Society, 2007.

Maurice Ewing Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2014