Oceanographers

Dr Charles David Keeling ( April 20 1928 - June 20 2005) professor of oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is best known for his work on the Keeling Curve of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. At a White House ceremony held in July 1997, Dr. Keeling was presented with a "special achievement award" from Vice President Al Gore. Dr. Keeling was honored "for 40 years of outstanding scientific research associated with monitoring of atmospheric carbon dioxide in connection with Mauna Loa Observatory." President George W. Bush selected Keeling to receive the National Medal of Science in 2002, the highest US award for scientific research lifetime achievement. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles David Keeling"

Charles Dwight Sigsbee ( January 16, 1845 - July 13, 1923) was an admiral in the United States Navy. He is well known as captain of USS Maine, which exploded in Havana harbor, Cuba, in 1898. The explosion set off the Spanish American War. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Dwight Sigsbee"

Evan B. Forde is an American oceanographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Evan Forde"

Gotthilf Hempel (b. March 8, 1929) is a retired German marine biologist and oceanographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gotthilf Hempel"

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper ( December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an early computer pioneer. She was the first programmer for the Mark I Calculator and the developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grace Hopper"

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup ( November 15, 1888 – August 21, 1957) was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist who made a number of important theoretical discoveries in these fields. Having first worked in Bergen and Leipzig he was involved in the North Polar expedition of Roald Amundsen between 1917 and 1925, before taking the chair in meteorology at Bergen, where his primary interest slowly became oceanography. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harald Sverdrup"

Henry Melson Stommel ( September 27, 1920 - January 17, 1992) was a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography. Beginning in the 1940s, he advanced theories about global ocean circulation patterns and the behavior of the Gulf Stream that form the basis of physical oceanography today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Stommel" shortopedia, the smart choice. shortopedia

Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( June 11, 1910 – June 25, 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. Cousteau was born in Saint André de Cubzac, France and died in Paris, France. Cousteau is generally known in France as le commandant Cousteau ("Commander Cousteau"). Worldwide, he was commonly known as Jacques Cousteau. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacques-Yves Cousteau"

James Ephraim Lovelock (born July 26, 1919), FRS, is an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who lives in Cornwall, in the south west of Great Britain. He is most famous for proposing and popularizing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism (a term coined by Lynn Margulis). ...more on Wikipedia about "James Lovelock"

Johan Sandström was a Swedish oceanographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Johan Sandström"

Matthew Fontaine Maury ( January 14, 1806 – February 1, 1873), was an American oceanographer. He was nicknamed Pathfinder of the Seas and Father of Naval Oceanography due to the publication of his extensive work in his books, especially Physical Geography of the Sea and it's Meteorology -- who made many important new contributions to charting wind and ocean currents, including path-ways for ships at sea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Matthew Fontaine Maury"

Oceanography (from Ocean + Greek γράφειν = write), also called oceanology or marine science is the study of the Earth's oceans and seas. Oceanographers study a wide range of topics such as plate tectonics to ocean currents to marine organisms. These diverse topics reflect multiple disciplines that oceanographers blend to help us understand Earth's interdependencies: biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology and physics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oceanography"

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, USN ( October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was a pioneering American polar explorer and famous aviator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Richard E. Byrd"

Dr. Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is a famous oceanographer most noted for his work in underwater archaeology. He is most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985 and the battleship Bismarck in 1989. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Ballard" Don't hesitate to contact stuff on shortopedia Oceanographers

Robert Sinclair Dietz ( September 14, 1914 – May 19, 1995) was Professor of Geology at Arizona State University. Dietz was a geophysicist and oceanographer who conducted pioneering research along with Harry Hess concerning seafloor spreading as early as 1960 - 1961. While at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography he observed the nature of "the Emperor chain of seamounts that extended from the northwest end of the Hawaiian Island- Midway chain and speculated over lunch with Robert Fisher in 1953 that something must be carrying these old volcanic mountains northward like a conveyer belt. " ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert S. Dietz"

Roger Revelle ( March 7, 1909 – July 15, 1991) was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of earth's tectonic plates. The six-foot-one Revelle was often referred to as a "scientific giant," both literally and figuratively. UC San Diego's first college was named Roger Revelle College in his honor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roger Revelle"

Stefan Rahmstorf (born February 22, 1960) is a German oceanographer and climatologist. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University. He holds a PhD in oceanography from Victoria University of Wellington ( 1990). His work focuses on the role of ocean currents in climate change. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stefan Rahmstorf"

Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935) is an American oceanographer. She is sometimes called "Her Deepness" or "The Sturgeon General". ...more on Wikipedia about "Sylvia Earle"

Tad Murty is an Indian- Canadian oceanographer and expert on tsunamis. He is the former president of the Tsunami Society. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tad Murty"

Townsend Cromwell is an oceanographer who discovered the Cromwell current whilst researching drifting in the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean. He died in 1958 when his plane crashed while he was en route to an oceanography expedition. ...more on Wikipedia about "Townsend Cromwell"

Uwe Kils (born July 10, 1951 ) is a German marine biologist specializing in planktology. He received a Habilitation and the venia legendi in marine and fisheries biology from the University of Kiel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Uwe Kils"

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Vagn Walfrid Ekman ( May 3, 1874 – March 9, 1954) was a Swedish oceanographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "V. Walfrid Ekman"

Vice Admiral William Wohlsen Behrens, Jr. ( September 14, 1922- January 24, 1986) was born at Newport, Rhode Island, the son of Rear Admiral (then Lieutenant) William W. Behrens Sr. and Nellie Vasey Behrens. ...more on Wikipedia about "W. W. Behrens, Jr."

Walter Heinrich Munk (born October 19, 1917) was a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography and geophysics. At present, he is professor of geophysics emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Walter Munk"

Warren White is a Research Oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ...more on Wikipedia about "Warren White"

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