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This list of oceanographers is presented in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surnames This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Category. : Oceanographers. 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.
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 ...
Author abbrev. (zoology) Earle. Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large (formerly Explorer in Residence) since 1998. [1][2] Earle was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) [3] was an American physical oceanographer. [3][7] He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data. Munk worked on a wide range of topics, including surface waves, geophysical implications of variations in the Earth's rotation ...
President of the Scottish Natural History Society. Member of the Scottish Meteorological Society. Sir John Murray's grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. Sir John Murray KCB FRS FRSE FRSGS (3 March 1841 – 16 March 1914) was a pioneering Canadian-born British oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. He is considered to be the father of ...
American women oceanographers (1 C, 49 P) M. American marine biologists (3 C, 171 P) S. Scripps Institution of Oceanography faculty (50 P)
South African oceanographers (4 P) Soviet oceanographers (14 P) Spanish oceanographers (7 P) Swedish oceanographers (1 C, 7 P) Swiss oceanographers (1 P) Categories: Scientists by field and nationality. Oceanographers. Earth scientists by nationality.