Roger Samelson

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Roger Samelson

Professor

Burt Hall 306
2651 SW Orchard Avenue
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

Brief Research Interests
Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of the ocean and atmosphere, coastal and arctic meteorology, nonlinear dynamics of geophysical fluids

Website: Roger Samelson

General Interest Links

Nainoa Thompson, Hōkūleʻa navigator - Ocean Sciences 2020 plenary lecture (begins at 00:13:30 of video)

Education

BS, Stanford University (Physics), 1981
MS, Oregon State University (Mathematics), 1987
PhD, Oregon State University (Physical Oceanography), 1987

Experience

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: GFD Summer Fellow, 1983; Postdoctoral Investigator, 1987-89; Assistant Scientist, 1989-93; Associate Scientist, 1993-97; Associate Scientist w/ tenure, 1997

Oregon State University: Associate Professor, 1997-2001; Professor, 2001-

Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2015), the American Meteorological Society (2016), and The Oceanography Society (2019)