Staff Profile

Michael Spall

Preferred Name: Michael A Spall

SENIOR SCIENTIST

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: mspall@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3342

Office: CLARK 323A 

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

Website: http://www.whoi.edu/science/PO/people/mspall/index.html

Education

B.S. Clarkson College of Technology, 1980, Mechanical Engineering
M.S. Clarkson College of Technology, 1982, Mechanical Engineering
S.M. Harvard University, 1984, Applied Mathematics
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1988, Applied Mathematics

Research Interests

Dynamics of mid-latitude subtropical and subpolar gyres, frontal dynamics and mesoscale variability, thermohaline circulation, water mass transformation in marginal seas.