Roger Samelson

Professor
roger.samelson@oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-4752

Burt Hall

Burt Hall 306

2651 SW Orchard Avenue

2651 SW Orchard Avenue
Corvallis, OR 97331

Profile Field Tabs

At OSU
Brief Research Interests: 

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

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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)