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Pierre FlamentProfessor of Oceanography Education Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, University of California San Diego (1986). Dissertation "Finestructure and subduction associated with upwelling filaments, pp. 1-123 (Ph.D. dissertation, 1986; advisor: L. Armi).
"L'anomalie de conductivité des Pyrénées", pp. 1-69 (M.Sc. thesis, 1980; advisor: P. Mechler)
Positions held 1988-present: assistant, associate and professor, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
2007-present: adjunct professor, Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines Diliman.
2004-2006: program director in the Physical Oceanography Program, National Science Foundation.
1997-2001: senior scientist and director, Département d’Océanographie Spatiale, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer.
1987-1988: post-doctoral fellow, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
1982-1986: research assistant, Ocean Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
1983: summer fellow, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics program, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
1981: fellow, Belgian American Educational Foundation and David and Alice Van Buuren Foundation.
1980: visiting researcher, Laboratoire de Geomagnétisme, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Course taught
Research interests Dynamics of the surface layer and air-sea interactions; coastal, equatorial and island upwelling; fronts and submesoscale structures; radar remote sensing; instrument development. Research activities I head the Radio Oceanography Laboratory. |