Staff Profile

Paula Fratantoni

Preferred Name: Paula S Fratantoni

ADJUNCT SCIENTIST

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: pfratantoni@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2631

Office: CLARK 354A

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

Website: http://www.whoi.edu/people/pfratantoni

Education

B.S. Mary Washington College, 1992, Physics
Ph.D. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 1998, Physical Oceanography

Research Interests

Variability, forcing, and dynamics of shelfbreak currents and fronts and their impact on cross-shelf exchange; dynamic coupling between shelf and slope circulation; dynamics of frontal eddies and their influence on biological communities.