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SPRINTALL, JANET

Research Oceanographer

Degrees:

• B.S., Griffith University, Australia
• M.S., University of Sydney, Australia
• Ph.D., University of Sydney, Australia

Research Interests:

• Interocean exchange of the Indonesian Throughflow and its relationship to climate.
• Southern Ocean climate and dynamics.
• Large-scale general circulation of mass and heat.
• Long-term monitoring of the heat and transport in the upper ocean.

Honors and Awards:

• National Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1991-1993

Mentoring:

• Chavez, Gabriela (Graduate; 2007-)
• Drushka, Kyla (Graduate; 2007-)
• Stephenson, Gordon (Graduate; 2007-)
• Griesel, Alexa (Post Doc; 2005-)
• Dong, Shenfu (Post Doc; 2004-2007)
• Lenn Polton, Yueng-Djern (Graduate; 2004-2006)
• Thompson, Andrew (Graduate; 2004-2006)

Sprintall, J., Long-term trends and interannual variability of temperature in Drake Passage, Prog. in Oceanogr., 77, 316-330, 2008.

Stramma, L., G.C. Johnson, J. Sprintall, and V. Mohrholz. Expanding oxygen minimum zones in the Tropical oceans. Science, 320, 655-658, doi: 10.1126/science.1153847, 2008.

Dong, S., J. Sprintall, S.T. Gille, and L. Talley. Southern Ocean mixed layer depth from Argo float profiles. J. Geophys. Res., 113, c06013, doi:10.1029/2006JC004051, 2008.

Drushka, K, J. Sprintall, S.T. Gille, and W.S. Pranowo, Observations of the 2004 and 2006 Indian Ocean tsunamis from a pressure gauge array in Indonesia. J. Geophys. Res. 113, C07038, doi:10.1029/2007JC004662, 2008

Dong, S., S.T. Gille and J. Sprintall, An assessment of the Southern Ocean mixed-layer heat budget. J. Climate, 20, 4425-4442, 2007.

Sprintall, J. and W.T. Liu, Ekman mass and heat transport in the Indonesian seas, Oceanogr., 18:4, 88-97, 2005.

Talley, L. D., and J. Sprintall, Deep expression of the Indonesian Throughflow: Indonesian Intermediate Water in the South Equatorial Current, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C10009, doi: 10.1029/2004JC002826, 2005.

Sprintall, J., S. Wijffels, A.L. Gordon, A. Ffield, R. Molcard, R.D. Susanto, I. Soesilo, J. Sopaheluwakan, Y. Surachman, H. M. van Aken, A New International Array to Measure the Indonesian Throughflow: INSTANT, EOS Transactions, 85:39, pp 369, 376. 2004.

Sprintall, J., J. Potemra, S. Hautala, N. Bray and W. Pandoe, Temperature and salinity variability in the exit passages of the Indonesian Throughflow. Deep Sea Res., 50, 2183-2204, 2003.

Sprintall, J., Seasonal to interannual upper-ocean variability in the Drake Passage, J. Marine Res., 61, 1-31, 2003.

Sprintall,J, A.L. Gordon, Murtugudde and Susanto. A semiannual Indian Ocean forced Kelvin wave observed in the Indonesian Seas in May 1997. Journal of Geophysical Research 105:17,217-17,230, 2000.