James Moum

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James Moum

Professor Emeritus

Burt Hall 432A
2651 SW Orchard Avenue
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

Brief Research Interests
Turbulence dynamics; small-scale ocean physics; upper-ocean dynamics; equatorial oceanography; ocean mixing

Website: Ocean Mixing Group - Profile

Research Interests

Turbulence dynamics; small-scale ocean physics; nonlinear interanl waves; upper-ocean dynamics; equatorial oceanography; instrumentation; abyssal mixing; boundary mixing; coastal mixing.

Current Research

  • Turbulence and mixing in the ocean
  • Small-scale ocean physics
  • Nonlinear internal waves
  • Abyssal mixing
  • Boundary mixing
  • Small-scale processes in the coastal ocean
  • Upper ocean dynamics
  • Bottom boundary layers
  • Developing the instrumentation necessary to get new and detailed observations of small-scale fluid processes

Go to the Ocean Mixing website to see more of what we do.

Education

BAS, University of Toronto (Engineering), 1978
MAS, University of Toronto (Engineering), 1979
PhD, University of British Columbia (Physics), 1984

Publications

See Publications at Ocean Mixing Group.