Staff Profile

Sylvia Cole

Preferred Name: Sylvia Cole

ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST W/TENURE

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: scole@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3805

Office: CLARK 307A 

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

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Website: https://www2.whoi.edu/staff/scole/

Education

  • Ph.D., Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, 2010
  • B.S., Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2004

Research Interests

I am a physical oceanographer focused on understanding Arctic Ocean dynamics, and mechanisms that control the distribution and variability of energy and tracers throughout the global ocean (e.g., eddy stirring and diffusivity, internal wave dynamics, atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions). I collect and utilize observations in the global ocean, and in particular, the Arctic Ocean. My goal is to understand key processes, interactions between these processes, and their net effects on the ocean and climate system.