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PINKEL, ROBERT

Professor of Oceanography/

Associate Director, MPL

Degrees:

• B.A., University of Michigan
• M.S., UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Ph.D., UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

• The energy cascade in the ocean
• The space-time geography of ocean mixing
• Oceanic internal waves, wave generation and wave breaking
• Arctic oceanography
• Tropical oceanography
• Ocean observation techniques, instrumentation, sensors
• Zooplankton interaction with the physical environment

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO208: Seminar/Applied Ocean Sciences
• SIO221A: Anlys/Physicl Oceanograph Data

Honors and Awards:

• Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
• Recipient: The Walter Munk Award- The Oceanography Society

Mentoring:

• Lynch, Stephen (Graduate; 2001-)
• Pompa, Jonathan (Masters; 2001-2005)
• Rainville, Luc (Graduate; 1998-2004)
• Halle, Chris (Graduate; 1994-2002)
• Alford, Matthew (Graduate; 1993-1998)
• Hamilton, Megan (Masters; 1993-1996)
• Ramm, Hans (Masters; 1988-1995)
• Anderson, Steven (Graduate; 1987-1992)
• Sherman, Jeffrey (Graduate; 1983-1989)
• Williams, Robin (Graduate; 1981-1985)
• Plueddemann, Al (Graduate; 1980-1987)
• Greenblatt, Paul (Graduate; 1974-1980)
• Klymak, Jody (Post Doc; -)

Price, J.F., R.A. Weller and R. Pinkel. Diurnal cycling: Observations and models of the upper ocean response to diurnal heating, cooling, and wind mixing. J. Geophys. Res. 91(C7):8411-8427. (1986).

Plueddemann, A. and R. Pinkel. Characterization of the patterns of diel migration using a Doppler sonar.Deep Sea Res. 36:509-530. (1989).

Sherman, J. and R. Pinkel. Estimates of the vertical wavenumber-frequency spectra of vertical shear and strain. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 21(2):292-303. (1991).

Pinkel, R. and J.A. Smith. Repeat-sequence coding for improved precision of Doppler sonar and sodar. J. Atmos. & Oceanic Tech. 9(2):149-163. (1992).

Pinkel, R. and S. Anderson. Shear, strain and Richardson number variations in the thermocline: part 1, statistical description. J. of Phys. Oceanogr. 27(No. 2)pp. 264-281. (1997).

Pinkel, R. and S. Anderson. Shear, strain and Richardson number variations in the thermocline: part 2, modeling mixing. Journal of Physical Oceanography 27 (No. 2) pp. 282-290. (1997)

Pinkel, R. and M. Merrifield, M. McPhaden, J. Picaut, S. Rutledge, D. Siegel, and L. Washburn. Solitary waves in the western Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Geophys Res. Let., 24, 1603-1606.

Pinkel, R. et al. Ocean mixing studies near the Hawaiian Ridge. EOS, Transactions, American Geophys. Union. No. 81. Vol. 46: 545,553. (2000).

Alford, M. H. and R. Pinkel. Observations of overturning in the thermocline: the context of ocean mixing. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30 (5): 805-832. (2000).

Rainville, L. and R. Pinkel. Wirewalker: An autonomous wave-powered vertical profiler.Journal Atmospheric and Oceanic Tech., 18 (6): 1048-1051. (2001).

Pinkel, R., and D. Rudnick, Editorial: The Hawaii Ocean Mixing Experiment, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 36, 6, 965-966. (2006).

Rainville, L and R. Pinkel, Propagation of low mode internal waves through the ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36, 6, 1220-1236. (2006).

Klymak, J. M. , R. Pinkel, C.T. Liu, A.K. Liu, and L. David. Prototypical solitons in the South China Sea. Geophys. Res. Letters, 33 L11607. (2006).

Pinkel, R., The wavenumber-frequency spectrum of vortical and internal wave shear in the Western Arctic. J.Phys. Oceanogr. 30, 2, 277-290. (2008).

Pinkel, R., Advection, phase distortion and the spectrum of fine scale fields in the sea. J.Phys. Oceanogr. 30, 2, 291-313. (2008).