Nainoa Thompson, Hōkūleʻa navigator - Ocean Sciences 2020 plenary lecture (begins at 00:13:30 of video)
BS, Stanford University (Physics), 1981
MS, Oregon State University (Mathematics), 1987
PhD, Oregon State University (Physical Oceanography), 1987
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)