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MUNK, WALTER

Research Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus

Degrees:

  • B.S., California Institute of Technology
  • M.S., California Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D., UCLA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

  • Global acoustics
  • Greenhouse warming
  • Tides
  • Air-sea boundary

Honors and Awards:

  • Honorary Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2004
  • Albert A. Michelson Award, Navy League of the United States, 2001
  • Prince Albert l Medal, 2001
  • Roger Revelle Award, 2000
  • Kyoto Prize, 1999
  • Honorary Member, American Meteorological Society, 1998
  • The Oceanography Society Walter Munk Award, 1993
  • Vetlesen Prize, 1993
  • Ricketts Award, 1991
  • William Bowie Medal, 1989
  • United States Secretary of the Navy Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair, 1986
  • National Medal of Science, 1983
  • Associate, Royal Astronomical Society, 1983
  • Fulbright Scholarship, 1981
  • Outstanding Alumnus Award, UCSD Alumni Association, 1978 and 1992
  • Maurice Ewing Medal, 1976
  • Alexander Agassiz Medal, 1976
  • Elected Foreign Fellow, Royal Society of London, 1976
  • Lockheed Martin Award, 1970
  • California Scientist of the Year, 1969
  • Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, 1968
  • Elected Fellow, Geological Society of America, 1966
  • Elected Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 1966
  • Harald U. Sverdrup Gold Medal, 1966
  • Arthur L. Day Medal, 1965
  • Elected Member, American Philosophical Society, 1965
  • Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1957
  • Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1956
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1948, 1953 and 1962
  • Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1943

Mentoring:

  • Dushaw, Brian (Graduate; 1987-1992)
  • Morawitz, Werner (Graduate; 1987-1995)
  • Howe, Bruce (Graduate; 1981-1986)
  • Nystuen, Jeffrey (Graduate; 1979-1985)
  • Brown, Michael (Graduate; 1977-1982)
  • Spiesberger, John (Graduate; 1976-1980)
  • Altman, Donald (Graduate; 1975-1985)
  • Worcester, Peter (Graduate; 1972-1977)
  • Williams, Gordon (Graduate; 1970-1975)
  • Cairns, James (Graduate; 1969-1974)
  • Irish, James (Graduate; 1967-1971)
  • Wimbush, A.H. (Graduate; 1964-1969)
  • Gallagher, Brent (Graduate; 1962-1965)
  • Miller, Gaylord (Graduate; 1957-1964)
  • Knauss, John (Graduate; 1951-1959)
  • Gossard, Earl (Graduate; 1950-1956)
  • Hicks, Steacy (Undergrad; 1950-1952)
  • Zarnowitz, Richard (Graduate; 1950-1952)
  • Groves, Gordon (Graduate; 1949-1955)
  • Maxwell, Arthur (Graduate; 1949-1959)
  • Pattullo, June (Graduate; 1949-1957)
  • Cox, Charles (Graduate; 1948-1955)
  • Scanlon, Thomas (Undergrad; 1948-1950)
  • Iglesias, Hector (Undergrad; 1947-1949)
  • Van Dorn, William (Graduate; 1947-1953)

Home Department:
IGPP

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0225

Email: wmunk@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/wmunk

Publications:

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1997, Gliding mechanism in the Late Permian reptile Coelurosauravus, Science, 275, 5305, 1450-1452

1997, Once again: Once again - tidal friction, Progress in Oceanography, 40, 1-4, 7-35

1997, Preliminary estimates of North Pacific circulation from combined altimetry, acoustic tomography, and a general circulation model, International WOCE Newsletter, 25, 7-10, and 21

1997, The Moon, of course, Oceanography, 10, 132-134

1997, Tribute to Roger Revelle and his contribution to studies of carbon dioxide and climate change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 94, 16, 8275-8279

1998, Abyssal recipes II: energetics of tidal and wind mixing, Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 45, 12, 1977-2010

1998, Ocean climate change: Comparison of acoustic tomography, satellite altimetry, and modeling, Science, 281, 5381, 1327-1332

1998, Roger Randall Dougan Revelle 1909-1991, Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences, 75, 1-23

1998, State switched transducers: A new approach to high-power, low-frequency, underwater projectors, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103, 3, 1428-1441

1999, A review of recent results on ocean acoustic wave propagation in random media: Basin scales, I.E.E.E. J. Oceanic Eng., 24, 138-155

1999, A Review of Recent Results on Ocean Acoustic Wave Propagation in Random Media: Basin Scales, IEEE J. of Ocean Engineering, 24, 138-155

1999, A test of basin-scale acoustic thermometry using a large-aperture vertical array at 3250-km range in the eastern North Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105, 6, 3185-3201

1999, Comparisons of measured and predicted acoustic fluctuations for a 3250-km propagation experiment in the eastern North Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105, 6, 3202-3218

1999, Modeled radar surface signature of deep ocean convection, Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 37, 4, 2050-2067

1999, Reply to ÔHeat content changes in the Pacific Ocean,Õ by K. Kelly et al., Science, 284, 1735a

2000, Long-Term Observations in Acoustics Ð the Ocean Acoustic Observatory Federation, Oceanography, 13, 2, 57-63

2000, Ocean Mixing Studied Near Hawaiian Ridge, EOS, 81, 545, 553

2000, Oceanography before, and after, the advent of satellites, Elsevier oceanography series, 63, 1-4

2000, Spirals on the sea, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series a-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 456, 1997, 1217-1280

2000, The Luck of Walter Munk, Kyoto Prizes & Inamori Grants 1999, 127-153

2000, Tides: A scientific history, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 54, 1, 116-119

2001, Harald Ulrik Sverdup (1888-1957): celebrating the return of the Maud 75 years ago, Polar Research, 20, 2, 129-137

2001, Spirals on the sea, Scientia Marina, 65, 193-198

2001, Spirals on the Sea: A Manifestation of Upper-Ocean Stirring, 12th Proceedings ÔAha HulikoÕa: From Stirring to Mixing in a Stratified Ocean, 81-86

2001, Turning point filters: Analysis of sound propagation on a gyre-scale, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 1, 135-149

2001, William Aaron Nierenberg - Obituaries, Physics Today, 54, 6, 74-75

2002, A skull fragment of Bubalus murrensis (BERCKHEMER, 1927) (Mammalia, Bovinae) from the Pleistocene of Bruchsal-Buchenau (NE-Karlsruhe, SW-Germany), Neues Jahrbuch Fur Geologie Und Palaontologie-Monatshefte, 12, 737-748

2002, Harald U. Sverdrup and the War Years, Oceanography, 15, 4, 7-29

2002, Millennial climate variability: Is there a tidal connection?, Journal of Climate, 15, 4, 370-385

2002, The Evolution of Physical Oceanography in the Last Hundred Years, Oceanography, 15, 1, 135-141

2002, Twentieth century sea level: An enigma, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 99, 10, 6550-6555

2002, What Does a Bunch of Sailors Know about Starting a University?, Chronicles (UCSD Emeriti Association), February 2002, 3-4

2002, William A. Nierenberg, In Memoriam 2001, 179-182

2003, Ocean freshening, sea level rising, Science, 300, 5628, 2041-2043

2003, The Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), Oceanography, 16, 3, 34-44

2004, The propagation of sound through a spicy ocean; the SOFAR overture. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116(3): 1447-1462.

2006, Scattering from the mixed layer base into the sound shadow. J. Acous. Soc. Am. 120(5): 2580-2594.

2006, Tales of the Venerable Honolulu Tide Gauge. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36(6): 967-996.

2008, What do deep sea pressure fluctuations tell about short surface waves?. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L19605, doi:10.1029/2008GL035008.

2008, An Inconvenient Sea-Truth: Spread, Steepness and Skewness of Surface Slopes. Annual Review of Marine Science. in press.


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