Albert J. (Sandy) Williams 3rd

    Senior Scientist
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 
Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering 
Coastal Ocean Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.


 A.B., Swarthmore College, Physics, 1962
 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1969

Research Interests

Ocean microstructure, mixing and thermohaline convection; benthic boundary layer flows and sediment transport; surface shear and the wave boundary layer; acoustic and optical sensors; microprocessor based instrumentation, in-situ data processing and recording, data telemetry.

Research Projects

Ten Selected Publications:

  • Williams, A.J. 3rd , Benthic “Weather” Current Meter Array, Proc. of IEEE Sixth Working Conference on Current Measurements, IEEE Cat. No. 99CH36331, pp. 236-240, 1999.
  • Thwaites, F.T., and A.J. Williams 3rd, 1999, BASS Measurements of Currents, Waves, Stress, and Turbulence in the North Sea Bottom–Boundary Layer, Proc. of IEEE Sixth Working Conference on Current Measurements, IEEE Cat. No. 99CH36331, pp. 230-235, 1999.
  • Dickey, T.D., G.C. Chang, Y.C. Agrawal, A.J. Williams 3rd, and P.S. Hill, Sediment Resuspension in the Wakes of Hurricanes Edouard and Hortense, Geophys. Res. Let., 25(8), pp. 3533-3536, 1998.
  • Williams, A.J. 3rd, and F.T. Thwaites, Earth Coordinate 3-D Currents from a Modular Acoustic Velocity Sensor, IEEE Catalog No. 98Ch36259, Oceans 98, pp. 244-247, 1998.
  • Williams, A.J. 3rd. B. Peters, A.G. Gordon, and J.H. Trowbridge, SuperBASS Tripod for Benthic Turbulence Measurement, Oceans 97, pp. 524-527, 1997.


    • Current support:

    Measurement of turbulent fluxes and dissipation rates in the coastal bottom boundary layer. J. H. Trowbridge and A. J. Williams. (ONR)












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