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Robert Beardsley Robert Beardsley
Scientist Emeritus
Physical Oceanography

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rbeardsley@whoi.edu


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Education

B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964, Nuclear Physics
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968, Physical Oceanography

Research Interests

Observational and theoretical studies of continental shelf circulation and processes, including wind- and buoyancy-driven currents; shelf tides and tidal phenomena, including tidal mixing fronts, the tidal boundary layer, secondary circulation, internal tides and solitary wave generation, and dissipation; coastal air-sea interaction, surface momentum and heat fluxes, and orographic influences; the effects of physical processes on plankton ecology, including plankton aggregation and patchiness.

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