Radio Oceanography Laboratory | Staff / RickLumpkin

Physical Oceanography Division
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Miami, FL USA
Rick.Lumpkin -at- noaa.gov

Education

1998: Ph.D. in Oceanography, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
1995: M.S. in Oceanography, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
1991: B.S. in Physics (Mathematics minor), North Carolina State University

Dissertation

"Eddies and currents of the Hawaiian islands", pp. 1-281 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawai'i, 1998; advisor: P. Flament).

"Resonant coastal waves and super-inertial oscillations", pp. 1-112 (M.Sc. thesis, University of Hawai'i, 1995).

Positions held

2004-: oceanographer, NOAA/AOML/PhOD
2002-2004: assistant scientist, CIMAS (Univ. of Miami/NOAA)
2000-2002: assistant in research (research faculty), Department of Oceanography, Florida State University
1998-2000: postdoctoral fellow (Chateaubriand), Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, IFREMER/CNRS
1991-1998: research assistant, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i
1995-1996: teaching assistant, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i

Research interests

Upper ocean dynamics, mesoscale to basin-scale circulation, inertial and tidal energy input at the ocean surface, pathways and physics of the global thermohaline circulation, interannual to decadal variations in ocean climate.

Current projects

AOML Director of NOAA's Global Drifter Program; principal investigator, PIRATA Northeast Extension (PNE).