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Eric A. D’Asaro
Eric A. D'Asaro is an American physical oceanographer at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory who developed the Lagrangian float and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Gail Kineke
Gail C. Kineke is an American coastal oceanographer at Boston College who studies fine-sediment transport and fluid muds, and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 1996.
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741–1788) was a French naval officer who led a round-the-world voyage of discovery and vanished with both ships in the South Pacific in 1788.
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Jean-Michel Cousteau, born in 1938 in Toulon, France, is a French ocean explorer and environmentalist, eldest son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and founder of the Ocean Futures Society.
Jeffrey W. Book
Jeffrey W. Book is an American physical oceanographer at the Naval Research Laboratory in Mississippi, known for shallow-sea and strait circulation research and a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.
Lee-Lueng Fu
Lee-Lueng Fu is a Taiwanese-American physical oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led satellite altimetry missions measuring sea level, including TOPEX/Poseidon and SWOT, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.
List of oceanographers
The list of oceanographers covers notable scientists who study the ocean, spanning pioneers like Matthew Fontaine Maury to modern figures like Marie Tharp and Dean Roemmich.
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Matthew Fontaine Maury, also called Matthew F. Maury, was an American naval officer and oceanographer, known as the Father of Modern Oceanography for his wind and current charts.
National traditions in oceanography
National traditions in oceanography are the characteristic ways countries organize the study of the sea through institutions, expeditions, funding, and training, compared across the United States, the Soviet Union, India, and France.
Oceanographer
An oceanographer is a scientist who studies the ocean, including its processes, seawater, seafloor, and marine life. The field divides into biological, chemical, geological, and physical branches.
Oliver Fringer
Oliver Fringer is a Stanford professor who develops numerical models of coastal ocean, river, lake, and estuary dynamics, and received a PECASE award in 2008.
Patricia Dalyander
Patricia ("Soupy") Dalyander is an American physical oceanographer known for modeling how waves and currents move sand, oil, and barrier islands along the Gulf of Mexico coast, and a 2019 PECASE recipient.
Philippe Cousteau
Philippe Cousteau, also known as Philippe Pierre Cousteau, is an American ocean advocate and television producer born in 1980, son of Philippe Cousteau Sr. and grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who co-founded EarthEcho International.
Victor Hensen
Victor Hensen (Christian Andreas Victor Hensen, 1835–1924) was a German physiologist at the University of Kiel who coined the term "plankton" and founded quantitative plankton research.
William Dampier
William Dampier (1651–1715) was an English buccaneer, navigator, and naturalist who circumnavigated the world three times and led the 1699 Roebuck voyage to chart Australia's northwest coast.
Women in oceanography
Women in oceanography is the study of women's participation and barriers in ocean science, where research ships stayed closed to women at major institutions into the 1960s.