WADE R. MCGILLIS
Associate Scientist Email: wmcgillis@whoi.edu
Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Dept. Tel: (508) 289-3325
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Fax: (508) 457-2194
Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
EDUCATION:
1988 B.S., (magna cum laude), Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
1990 M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1993 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA.RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Air-water carbon dioxide fluxes; coupled atmosphere-ocean processes; interfacial hydrodynamics
and boundary layer turbulence.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2000 - present Associate Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.
1996 - 2000 Assistant Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.
1993 - 1996 Postdoctoral Scholar/Investigator, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.
1988 - 1993 Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1991 - 1992 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1990 - 1993 Research Fellow, Two-Phase Heat and Mass Exchange, Western Research
Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto, CA.
1986 - 1987 Intern in Heat Transfer Research and Interferometry, Heat Dissipation of High
Powered Processors, Digital Equipment Corporation, Marlborough, MA.
1985 - 1986 Intern in Thermodynamic Processes, New England Power Company, Salem, MA.
1984 - 1985 Intern in Plastic Injection Development, Pixley-Richards, Plymouth, MA.RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Hara, T., E. J. Bock, J. B. Edson, and W. R. McGillis, 1998. Observations of short wind-waves
in coastal waters. Journal of Physical Oceanography, July, 1425-1438.Wanninkhof, R., and W. R. McGillis, 1999. A cubic relationship between air-sea CO2
exchange and windspeed. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 26, No. 13, 1889-1892.Anderson, E. J., A. Techet, W. R. McGillis, M. A. Grosenbaugh, and M. Triantafyllou, 1999.
Visualization and analysis of boundary layer flow in swimming fish. In: Turbulence and Shear
Flow 1, (Eds. S. Banerjee and J. Eaton), Begell House, 945-949.Bock, E. J., J. W. H. Dacey, J. B. Edson, N. M. Frew, T. Hara, and W. R McGillis, 1999. Air-
sea gas exchange in coastal waters. AMS Boundary Layer Turbulence, 417-420.Dacey, J. W. H., J. B. Edson, P. H. Holland, and W. R. McGillis, 1999. In situ estimation of
air-sea gas transfer using DMS. AMS Boundary Layer Turbulence, 425-426.Edson, J. B., W. R. McGillis, and N. M. Frew, 1999. Atmospheric forcing and energy
exchange during the 1997 CoOP gas exchange experiment. AMS Boundary Layer Turbulence,
351-354.McKenna, S. P., W. R. McGillis, and E. J. Bock, 1999. Free-surface turbulence and air-water
gas transfer. In: Turbulence and Shear Flow 1, (Eds. S. Banerjee and J. Eaton), Begell House,
455-460.McGillis, W.R., E.J. Bock, J.B. Edson, N.M. Frew, and T. Hara, 1999. Near sub-surface shear
and dissipation observations in the coastal ocean. AMS Boundary Layer Turbulence, 355-358.McGillis, W. R., J. B. Edson, and R. Wanninkhof, 1999. Direct air-sea flux measurement of
CO2 over the North Atlantic ocean and the comparison to indirect methods. CO2 in the Oceans,
CGER report, editor Y. Nojiri, 367-377.Asher, W. E., T. M. Litchendorf, J. B. Edson, W. R. McGillis, R. Wanninkhof, and D. T. Ho,
2000. Fractional area whitecap coverage and air-sea gas transfer velocities measured during
GasEx-98. In: Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, (Eds. M. Donelan and E. Saltzman).Dacey, J. W. H., W. R. McGillis, P. M. Holland, J. B. Edson, 2000. Estimates of gas transfer
velocity at the air-sea interface using atmospheric profiles of DMS. In: Gas Transfer at Water
Surfaces, (Eds. M. Donelan and E. Saltzman).Edson, J. B., R. C. Beardsley, W. R. McGillis, J. E. Hare, and C. W. Fairall, 2000. Downward
flux of moisture over the ocean. AMS Boundary Layer Turbulence.Fairall, C. W., J. E. Hare, J. B. Edson, and W. R. McGillis, 2000. Parameterization and
micrometeorological measurements of air-sea gas transfer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 96,
63-105.Frew, N. M., E. J. Bock, R. K. Nelson, W. R. McGillis, J. B. Edson, and T. Hara, 2000. Spatial
variations in surface microlayer surfactants and their role in modulation air-sea exchange. In:
Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, (Eds. M. Donelan and E. Saltzman).Hare, J., C. W. Fairall, J. D. Ware, and W. R. McGillis, 2000. Shipboard observations of
carbon dioxide flux in the tropical western pacific. In: Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, (Eds. M.
Donelan and E. Saltzman).McGillis, W. R., J. W. H. Dacey, N. M. Frew, E. J. Bock, and B. K. Nelson, 2000. Water-air
flux of dimethylsulfide. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 105, No. C1, 1187-1193.McGillis, W. R. and M. D. DeGrandpre, 2000. Dissolved Carbon Dioxide in Coastal Waters.
Coastal Research, V4, N1:3-4.McGillis, W. R., J. B. Edson, J. Hare, C. W. Fairall, 2000. Recent advances in air-water CO2
flux techniques. In: Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, (Eds. M. Donelan and E. Saltzman).McKenna, S. P., and W. R. McGillis, 2000. Surface divergence and air-water gas transfer. In:
Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, (Eds. M. Donelan and E. Saltzman).Soloviev, A., J. B. Edson, W. R. McGillis, P. Schluessel, and R. Wanninkhof, 2000. Fine
thermohaline structure and gas exchange in the near-surface layer of the ocean during GasEx-98.
In: Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, (Eds. M. Donelan and E. Saltzman).Wanninkhof, R., W. R. McGillis, and T. Takahashi, 2000. The sensitivity of global oceanic CO2
uptake to the relationship between gas exchange and wind speed. In: Gas Transfer at Water
Surfaces, (Eds. M. Donelan and E. Saltzman).