Jonathan Whitefield

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Jonathan Whitefield

Faculty Research Assistant

Ocean Observing Center
126 SW McKenzie Avenue
Corvallis, OR 97333
United States

Technician, OOI

Jonathan arrived at the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) in March 2016 after completing his second Master's degree at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where he ran model simulations to analyze freshwater content in the Pacific-Arctic nearshore region. He earned his first Master's in 2004 from the University of Otago in New Zealand, and was awarded a BSc (Hons.) from the University of Wales, Bangor in the UK in 2000. He has extensive ship time, working off-shore on many projects and regions, including the tropical waters of Bermuda and Brazil, and the Arctic waters of Russia and Alaska. He currently assists with building, programming and maintaining the OOI moorings, and also works with the coastal glider operations team.