Staff Profile

Nelson Hogg

Preferred Name: Nelson Hogg

SCIENTIST EMERITUS

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: nhogg@whoi.edu

Phone:

Office: CLARK 301A 

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

Education

B.A.Sc. University of Toronto, Canada, 1967, Engineering Science
Ph.D. MIT/WHOI Joint Program, 1971, Physical Oceanography

Research Interests

The general circulation with special emphasis on the deep flow beneath the thermocline; dynamics of low frequency motions and their relation to the mean circulation; effects of topography, wave motions, and mixing processes on abyssal flows.