Staff Profile

Lawrence Pratt

Preferred Name: Lawrence J Pratt

SENIOR SCIENTIST

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: lpratt@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2540

Office: CLARK 322A 

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

Website: http://www.whoi.edu/larrypratt/

Education

B.S. University of Wisconsin, 1975, Civil Engineering
M.S. University of Wisconsin, 1977, Civil Engineering
Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, 1982, Physical Oceanography

Research Interests

The physics and climate of deep ocean circulation, with emphasis on overflows, boundary currents and canyons; circulation processes in marginal seas, including exchange flows in shallow straits, such as the Strait of Gibraltar; mixing and stirring in the ocean from the standpoint of chaos theory and dynamical systems; circulation around island and in archipelagos; wind jets and dust storms.