Staff Profile

Robert Beardsley

Preferred Name: Robert C Beardsley

SCIENTIST EMERITUS

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: rbeardsley@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2536

Office: CLARK 343B 

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

Education

B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964, Nuclear Physics
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968, Physical Oceanography

Research Interests

Observational and numerical model studies of wind-, tidal-, and buoyancy-driven currents, mixing, and air-sea forcing on the continental shelf and marginal seas. Impact of physical processes on biological processes and ecosystem dynamics.