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Pages in category "American oceanographers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 222 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Curtis Ebbesmeyer. Curtis Charles Ebbesmeyer (born April 24, 1943) is an American oceanographer based in Seattle, Washington. In retirement, he has studied the movement of flotsam to track ocean currents. He gained public attention by his reporting of studies of the movement and distribution of a consignment of rubber bath toys, which were ...
Henry Melson Stommel (September 27, 1920 – January 17, 1992) was a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography. Beginning in the 1940s, he advanced theories about global ocean circulation patterns and the behavior of the Gulf Stream that form the basis of physical oceanography today. Widely recognized as one of the most ...
Oceanography (from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós) ' ocean ' and γραφή (graphḗ) ' writing '), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and ...
Harald Sverdrup would be awarded the medal 3 years later, beginning a long history of Scripps oceanographers being awarded the prize (Johnson in 1959, Revelle in 1963, and many more). In November, 1936, the research vessel Scripps was sunk when there was an explosion in the galley, killing the cook and injuring the captain. [19]
Oceanographers direct or influence interdisciplinary oceanography research. This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:Women oceanographers. The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oceanographers. Oceans portal.
Johannes Schmidt medal in 1946 for contributions to marine research and Navy oceanography during WWII. Other work. co-founding editor of the journal Deep-Sea Research, founding editor of the journal Progress in Oceanography. Mary Sears (July 18, 1905 – September 2, 1997) was a commander in the United States Naval Reserve and an oceanographer ...