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ANNUAL REVIEW OF MARINE SCIENCE, VOL 13, 2021
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages 1-21Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-021320-125821
Keywords
physical oceanography; oceanographic history; ocean circulation and interior processes; autobiography
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- National Science Foundation
- ONR
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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The field of oceanography has undergone a significant transformation, transitioning from mechanical instruments to modern electronic technologies. It is now understood that the ocean is a highly turbulent fluid system interacting globally. Research in oceanography requires large teams and diverse research instruments.
My career spanned the revolution in understanding of the large-scale fluid ocean, as modern electronics produced vast new capabilities. I started in the days of almost purely mechanical instruments operated by seagoing scientists, ones not so different from those used more than a century earlier. Elegant theories existed of hypothetical steady-state oceans. Today, we understand that the ocean is a highly turbulent fluid, interacting over global scales, and it is now studied by large teams using spacecraft and diverse sets of self-contained in situ instrumentation. Mine was an accidental career: I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
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