Staff Profile

Young-Oh Kwon

Preferred Name: Young-Oh Kwon

DEPARTMENT CHAIR

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: ykwon@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2901

Office: CLARK 3 

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

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

Education

B.Sc. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1996, Oceanography
M.Sc. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1998, Physical Oceanography
Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle, 2003, Physical Oceanography

Research Interests

Ocean’s Role in Climate, Climate Variability, Large-scale Circulation, Mode Water, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Arctic-midlatitude interaction, Earth system predictability