Open AccessCirculation in the Gulf of Mexico: Observations and Models
Author(s) -
Kumar Mohi
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2006eo090006
Subject(s) - ocean gyre , oceanography , circulation (fluid dynamics) , current (fluid) , physical oceanography , ocean current , geology , geography , engineering , fishery , subtropics , aerospace engineering , biology
A new AGU book, Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico: Observations and Models, edited by Wilton Sturges III and Alexis Lugo‐Fernandez, compiles the current state of knowledge about physical oceanography in this region. Through 22 papers authored by more than 50 scientists, the book highlights the technologies and methodologies that have revolutionized the field since the last such publication more than 30 years ago, and stresses the importance of fundamental science in understanding and mitigating environmental problems. In this interview, Eos talks with Sturges, a physical oceanographer who has studied circulation in the Gulf of Mexico for more than 30 years. Sturges is a professor emeritus at Florida State University, Tallahassee. He received his Ph.D. in physical oceanography from John Hopkins University in 1966. Though retired, Sturges continues to do research, focusing on deep flows in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea and their connection to the open Atlantic, as well as on the strange mechanism of ring shedding from the Loop Current, a gyre that drives surface currents in that area.